Okay, I just found an Easter Egg in the NES version of Family Feud.

The game has 0x12 different screens it will try to load at various points. But if you make it load screen number 0x13, you get THIS instead:

https://i.imgur.com/weTR8vw.png

You can see it for yourself on an Actual NES by using the game genie code LPLKYY. The title screen will be replaced with the Easter Egg image.

So yes, that picture was sitting on those cartridges all along for 30 years, unnoticed.

How I found it:

Was looking through the CHR, and noticed this bank:

https://i.imgur.com/ahS58BD.png

The only text you can see here is "Knockmedw!" "MrSays:", and you can't tell how the tiles are assembled together.

Then I fired up my old copy of XLATE to see if there was any nametable data for that CHR bank, then saw this:

https://i.imgur.com/Wwqjqik.png

First time I saw the "Mr Swanky" and "Knock Me Down" text, and saw that the speech bubble clearly said "Beer". But it was compressed, looked like RLE. Still didn't have the correct colors then.

Then was messing around with a debugger to see how the game loads the nametables out of CHR-ROM, then later realized you could just request different screen numbers, and the game would load them.

The loader function is at 0xA307, put a breakpoint there, then change the value of Register A to make it load a different screen.

Other interesting bits:

If you request screen 0x02, you get this: https://i.imgur.com/gRaaLqM.png It's the answer board in its default state. Every time the game loads that screen, it puts all that dummy text in there, then overwrites it with its intended content.

Request screen 0x10 and you get the blank version of the Tax Considerations screen: https://i.imgur.com/L7eoyqm.png

Then when you request screen 0x13, you get the easter egg screen. I bet NOA would not have been happy about the alcohol-related content.

There is no code in the game itself that will make it request screen 0x13.

Can't edit TCRF at the moment (Database issues).

EDIT: Now that the wiki is editable now, I've created an article at https://tcrf.net/Family_Feud_(NES)

Your eyes do not deceive you. There have been leaks over the past couple of days involving historical data from Nintendo. The most interesting material found thus far is from the SNES and N64 eras, which happen to include lots of old source code, asset back-ups, and even e-mail listings of yore (that last one, we can't post).

Notable stuff found so far includes, but is definitely not limited to:

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Super_Mario_Kart

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Super_Mario_World_2:_Yoshi%27s_Island

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Star_Fox

We've also found a few other versions of Star Fox 2, including the one shown at CES 1995.

People also finally found the proper model for Luigi in Super Mario 64's source

There's also raw graphics files for a number of SNES and N64 games. Not only this, but raw sound files have been found for Star Fox 64 and Super Mario 64.

A complete Star Fox 64 voice file archive, in the crispiest quality possible

Source code for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl has also been leaked, complete with a commit history dating back to March 2006. It even contains early sprites for much of the Gen 4 Pokemon.

More will be posted here and on the TCRF Discord as new materials are uncovered.

Would've been nice to see the unused content get slowly documented in real time

our host, linode, has turned on some ddos mitigation because of the traffic we're seeing. unfortunately, this mitigation also turns off normal traffic.

i'm talking to linode support to see what we can do about this but unfortunately there's not much we can do while the attack persists. this isn't like the previous kinds where we could mitigate it ourselves; this caused the host's router to drop packets, not us

follow our bsky for more information. hopefully we'll be back soon. https://bsky.app/profile/tcrf.net

(the data is safe, a full text backup is shared among a few trusted contacts and the data is replicated)

I found some prototypes of Papers, Please. They are:

Alpha 0.1.1 (1st February 2013)

Beta 0.5.5 (12th March 2013)

Beta 0.5.13 (27th April 2013)

The all can be downloaded here (don't worry about piracy, all pre-release versions are free): https://www.mediafire.com/folder/wbztijnhyi8ob/Papers,+Please+Found+Prototypes

I also found a few other builds that predate Alpha 0.1.1 here (non functional): https://web.archive.org/web/20130209210303/http://dukope.com/

I also discovered these builds as well, albeit I couldn't find them anywhere:

Beta 0.5.7 (14th April 2013)

Beta 0.5.11 (April 2013, Exact Date Unknown)

I’ve been a casual visitor to the TCRF site for years now and it feels like I’ve probably read most of the pages on the site by now - one thing, I’ve noticed, however, is that the pace of new games being added to the site has slowed remarkably in the past few years, to the point that we’re almost halfway through 2026 and there are only 9 new entries for this calendar year, whereas many years in the past decade had 100+ new entries.

I’m not complaining about this or anything, I’m just curious about what’s been going on, especially since in the last 6 months it’s also been a lot more common for the site to be inaccessible to me thanks to seemingly-random IP address blocks on TCRF that had never happened to me before.

Encountered this odd page when trying to access the site on my phone. I’m in a regular tab, and have never really done anything but read articles. I can access it just fine on my desktop, but I get this blocking page on my phone.

sometimes we see content from video games which is left unused in code, and to see it for the first time leads us to think what the originally planned storyline woulda been for the product.

thank you tcrf.

The other day I was looking around on my old flash drive and found two Unreal Tournament 2003 prototypes. One of them still goes under the name Unreal Tournament 2. I tried looking around online for any information about these prototypes but all I could find were some old forum discussions about them and a brief mention of the later prototype on the Unreal Tournament 2003 wiki page. I couldn't find any downloads and there is nothing about them on TCRF. Does anyone else out there have these prototypes? Why is there so little about them online?