Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Prototypes

This page is a list of all pre-release and betas of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. There are many YouTube videos on the beta games, which are posted onto this page. Many of the levels have bugs and glitches which prevent the player from completing the levels. All of these apart from Mr. Gimmicks prototype he got from an Argonaut employee can still be downloaded and played today (see further down the page for instructions).

Tech Demo

File:Croc Legend of the Gobbos Tech Demo (08 11 96) PSX

Not to be confused with the later released Demos.

Level Loading scene.

This was released on 8th November 1996 and is the earliest release of the game. The tech demo and the released game have many differences, including other Croc sounds, including jumping, running and climbing. The demo does have a few levels similar to some of the retail ones. To complete a level, you need to get ALL Gobbos, and there are 3 in a level. This is different from the final game, where you can advance without collecting all the Gobbos hidden throughout the level. See the table below for the main differences:

Differences

Element	Tech Demo	Final game
Booting the game	Copyright notice (blue text), different Argonaut logo animation, different "Press Start" screen	Animated Fox Interactive logo, Gobbos inflating Argonaut Software Limited, "All Rights Reserved" screen. Interactive and full Main Menu.
Introduction	Aftter waiting about a minute, a book-style introduction shows how Croc learns to move, fight, swim etc.	Plays automatically, much more detailed and graphical.
Islands and Level Select	Island 1 - Nice and Easy, cannot change levels. Can only go to next level upon completion. Islands are called 1, 2, 3 etc. Levels have different titles (see below). Level layouts are similar to final game.	Forest Island - And so the Adventure Begins, can change levels upon completion
Saving and Loading	None.	Can save in Level Select Mode. Can Load on Main Menu
When Croc loses all lives....	Must start the game from the first level.	Can choose to replay the level with 2 Lives or quit to the Main Menu.
Sound and Music	None, apart from sound affects during gameplay. Sound affects without music. Whoosh sound is heard when jumping. When stomping, he always says "Woo-ho!" When approaching a Gobbo, he will say "Hey!". When rescued, he says "Hooray". When tail-attacking, only a "Whoosh" sound is heard.	Sound and music throughout. 'Bounce'-like sound is heard when jumping. Says "Wahay", "Shazay", "Yazoo!" when stomping.
Loading	Takes longer. Different screen, not animated.	Shows Croc walking along with a black background.
Common glitches/graphical bugs	Camera glitch in first level "Nice and Easy". When hanging on a moving Platform, he may climb up onto thin air, then fall down. In Dangerous Sports, Croc can fall in the sides of the tunnels.	Few.
Bonus Areas/secrets	None.	Bonus Areas, Mini-Games, Crystal Door Challenges etc.
Guardian/Boss Levels	None.	2 per island, 9 total.
Controls	Croc jumps like a leap and moves forward slightly. Monkey Bars - must hold X the whole time to avoid letting go. Also takes longer to climb. Running on surfaces are slightly slidy, like on ice in the final version. When stopping, will do a slight skid. Camera - Not very auto-adjustable. No buttons for it. O - Makes Croc crouch. Triangle - Flip 180 degrees, like O in final game. L2 and R2 buttons have no function.	Monkey Bars - no need to hold X, faster climb. No sliding, apart from on ice. Camera usually adjusts correctly. L2, R2 and Triangle adjusts.
HUD	Always shows Crystal count and three Gobbos. Lives replace Crystals when affected (gained or lost). Gobbos carry white flags when rescued. Lives show when entering a new area.	Shows items when affected. Can be all seen when pausing the game.
Interactive Elements	Doors - Few in number, replaced by simple cave entrances. Final level ending door at the end, requiring all three Gobbos to be saved. Buttons - some unlock (and remove) cages without a key. Boxes - Smash Boxes are larger, grey with no ? on them. Crystals are spread out when opened. Push Boxes are brown and stripy. Pushing them are slower. No coloured crystals, and therefore no Crystal Door. When hurt, Croc flashes for approx. 5 seconds. Crystals do not dissapear, making it possible to stay in a deadly pit for as long as he wants. Wells look more like tree stumps. Does not have corks on. Contains bricks like the Red/Grey Bricks in final game. Lives appear as coloured bags. Platforms usually move faster. Breaking ones animate similar to in Croc 2.	Doors - open when approached. Buttons - usually for platforms. Boxes - Smash Boxes are different per level, with ? and can get all crystals in one smash. Push Boxes are brownish with white arrows painted on them. Coloured Crystals - 5 in each level, used to unlock the Crystal Door. When hurt by enemy or hazard, will flash for approx. 3 seconds. Crystals dissapear after approx. 5 seconds. 2 touches on pits w/without crystals means losing a life.
Animations in gameplay	Crystals not animated but will float slightly. Longer animation when climbing up from hanging on a ledge. Slightly different animation when defeating enemies. Climbs up faster on Climbable Walls. Pressing Triangle while moving to flip 180 degrees will delay for a short time.	All animated.
Ending levels/Beany Gongs	No gongs, but has a final door at the end, requiring all three Gobbos to be saved. Will show a Crystal count screen upon completion.	Beany Gong at the end, usually two, including one through Crystal Door.
Enemies	No Dantinis. Red creature similar to Firepoppers without fireballs. (See below). One Guardian on the last level Dangerous Sports: Flibby.	Many: Dantinis, Guardians etc.

Levels

There are only four levels in the game. The last level, Dangerous Sports contains a Flibby prototype Guardian fight. The levels are modeled with the Final version, so Nice and Easy is And so the Adventure Begins etc.

Nice and Easy

• Crystals: 73
• Enemies: Pelican

Enter the Jumpy

• Crystals: 55+
• 1x Bag of Life
• Enemies: 10x Popper

Feet First

• Crystals:
• Enemies: 2x Dragonfly. 1x Popper

Dangerous Sports

• Crystals:
• Enemies:
• Guardian: Flibby

Enemies

Enemy in TD	In Final game
Pelican ("Nice and Easy")	Replaced with Giant Bee
Poppers ("Enter the Jumpy")	Replaced with Firepopper
Dragonfly ("Feet First")	Replaced with Rats
Flibby (Guardian) ("Dangerous Sports")	Fought in Fight Night with Flibby.

0.12 Version

File:Croc - Legend of the Gobbos PSX Beta v0.12 Gameplay

This version was released as a gift in a magazine but only a few people still own it. This was likely given to a game magazine for reviewing the game, although this isn't certain. The level select menu differs significantly to the final version. See below for the full list:

• The boot screens are similar to the Tech Demo.
• The Main Menu depicts a blue and white checked rectangle against a silhouette with the message Press Start.
• The Main Menu has Start Game, Options, Load Game and Passworbbd.
• The music is similar to the Final Game.
• The level select menus are different to the Tech Demo and the Final. It starts with 10 0, meaning the first level of the 1st Island, named Forest - Nice and Easy. The last number represents the area of the level. When replaying the game or if Croc loses all lives, he can resume to the start of the area he last played, however he will start with no BONUS letter, Gobbos or Crystals.
• The loading screen for levels actually depicts a silhouette of Croc staring into the sunset.
• Instead of Coloured Crystals, there are actually letters B O N U and S which have the same colours to unlock the Bonus (later Crystal) Door at the end.
• There are red Poppers,
• The HUD shows the x symbol, along with x/6 Gobbos.
• At the bottom of the screen are debug information and coordinates.
• Lives are actually coloured bags.
• Wells look more like Tree Stumps.
• Red coloured crystals give 5 crystals.
• The Giant Bee appears twice.
• The sound affects for collecting Gobbos are different.
• There is no sound for climbing up off a ledge.
• Worms in Wells can be killed.
• Breaking Platforms has different animation.
• Only the Gong outside of the Bonus (later Crystal) Door is shown. It depicts the word 'GOAL' on its face instead of Beany, and Croc is actually able to stand on it.
• Upon completion of a level, a screen shows the crystals collected and lives, as well as how long it took to complete.
• Players cannot change levels within an Island, but can change islands.
• Climbable Walls sound slightly different.
• Smashing boxes animations are slightly different. Holding down X will not change anything.
• Enemies do not respawn.
• Levels are modeled on levels in the Final Game, with some differences.
• There are blue springs instead of Jellies.
• There are stilled disguised crystals as Bonus Letters, but this may be the reason why Coloured Crystals were eventually used to unlock the Bonus (later Crystal) Door.
• The Box Shuffling Mini-Game is slightly different to the final game. Croc can move around the whole time during the shuffling of the boxes, he can attempt to smash one but nothing will happen, and Beany the Bird (or so it seems) is responsible for the shuffling of the boxes. As a result, Croc may stand on or hang from a box while the boxes are shuffled, which easily causes glitches. This is most likely the reason that Croc was made unable to move during the shuffling in the final game.
• The Popping Mini-Game instead has three yellow buttons which look like the buttons from the Crystal Catching Mini-Game.

Video 2

Video 3 (part 1)

Video 3 (part 2)

Video 3 (part 3)

File:Croc Legend Of The Gobbos- Beta Theme

The theme on the Beta version

Controls

To select levels on the Map Screen, use the SELECT, L1, R1 and R2 buttons. SELECT will choose islands 10-70, L1 and R1 will choose previous and next levels, and L2 and R2 will select a part of a level.

While underwater, Croc attacks similar to the 180 degree flip.

Levels

The first three levels have the same level titles as the Tech Demo. The levels in brackets are the 'minics' of the levels in the final game.

Code and Island	Levels	Contains
0 - (Testing Island)	0 0 - Forest - Nice and Easy	A beta of And so the Adventure Begins, with a green Frog and Rhino running around Croc (removed). They will not hurt Croc and cannot be touched or attacked. Going through the Well (altered) will end the level and bring up 10 3 on the Map Screen. Going through the door will end the level and bring up 10 1 on the Map Screen.
	0 1 - Ice Slide - Default New Map	Contains an ice slide (removed). Croc can slide down the slide, but it is difficult to get off at the end. The cave exit doesn't function.
	0 2 - Ice Slide - Default New Map	This level does not have a level within it, so it will cause Croc to fall instantly and the game is over.
	0 3 - Forest - Default Blank Map	This just has an area of Forest land with Trees (removed), mushrooms and rocks.
	0 4 - Forest - Nice and Easy	Contains the layout for Nice and Easy, except there is a strange electric blue circular thing (removed) in the beginning which doesn't harm Croc, and a giant Red Popper (removed) which will hop through the wall out of the level. It contains a non-interacting Well (altered) and Door, and a strange rectangular glowing item, suspected to be what was a Jigsaw Piece in the Tech Demo. Croc can pick it up but nothing will happen.
	1 0 - No Level - No Map	As the title suggests, attempting to press START or X will do nothing, although it will sometimes crash the game.
	2 0 - Forest - Default Blank Map	Contains a remote piece of Forest Land, with a Burrowing Wom, Worm in Well (altered, can be killed), Lava pits, crystals, a Well (altered), an a spaceship which will hover over Croc and drop bombs on him! it cannot be killed.
	2 1 - Cave - Ooooh Dark	Contains a dark cave (removed) with two torches similar to in the Tech Demo, which only resemble floating orange circles. There are platforms and a Lava pit, and the cave exits don't lead anywhere.
	2 2 - Desert - Default New Map	Contains a desert area with platforms leading to a higher part of the area.
	2 3 - Water - Default Blank Map	Crashes when loading the level.
	2 4 - Forest - Big Cogs	Set on remote pieces of greenland with a dark background, there are four cogs spinning.
	2 5 - Forest - Push Me	A square piece of Forest land with a stack of Metal Crates in the middle. Despite the title, pushing the blocks will not do anything.
	2 6 - Ice Imp Test	A square piece of Ice land.
	2 7 - Dungeon - Default Blank Map	A series of corridors within a dungeon.
	2 8 - Forest - Intro Test Map	Croc will keep falling into greenness until death.
	2 9 - Desert - Default New Map	A piece of Desert land with a climbable wall, which ironically can't be climbed on.
	3 0 - Water - Water Test Map	Just an area underwater.
	4 0 - Castle - Small Hero's Gym	A square piece of Castle flooring.
	4 1 - Swipe Swiftly's Oojo	Contains another square piece of Castle flooring with Swipe Swiftly standing in the center. Approaching him will make him react, but nether character can hurt the other.
	4 2- Desert - Water Spout Test	Crashes at loading screen.
	4 3 - Castle - Simon Says	The same as 4 0
	4 4 - Castle - Paul Test 4	A square piece of Castle with an incompletely textured platform and a Ghost floating in the air.
	4 5 - Castle - Nat's Plat	Another Castle square. There are three rotating platforms. When Croc stands on one, it will rotate in a circle.
	4 6 - Water - Water Test	An underwater area with two hammerhead sharks.
	4 7 - Water - Fan Test	An underwater area with a Hammerhead Shark and four Fans. They do not harm Croc.
	4 8 - Castle - Fjelo Test	The same as 4 0.
	5 0 - Ice - Default New Map	An ice and snow area with several non-functioning cave exits.
	5 1 - Cave - Default New Map	A cave with an exit, which will cause Croc to fall when entering.
	5 2 - Water - Default New Map	Crashes on loading screen.
	5 3 - Castle - Test Boss Flibby	A castle themed arena with a beta of the Guardian Flibby. You can attack Flibby and she can attack you, but the sides of the arena are not solid and can cause Croc to fall off the edge. When defeating Flibby, the level ends and 10 0 loads on the Map Screen.
	5 4 - Castle - Test Boss Ice	The same arena as before but without Flibby.
	5 5 - Castle - Test Boss Water	Same as previous.
	5 6 - Castle - Test Boss Crystal	Same as previous.
	6 0 - Forest - Nice and Easy	Contains the same layout for Nice and Easy, except there is a third platform which when stood on, sparkling stars appear, the platform shrinks and Croc falls to the ground. The well and door doies not function.
	7 0 - No Level - No Map	As the title suggests, pressing START or X does nothing.
	8 0 - No Level - No Map	As the title suggests, pressing START or X does nothing.
	9 0 -	Croc falls continuously.
10 - Island 1	10 - No Level - Default New Map	What seems to be the final revision of Nice and Easy. The level can be completed with all six Gobbos and all five BONUS letters. It models And so the Adventure Begins.
	11 - Cave - Enter the Jumpy	Models Underground Overground.
	12 -  Feet First	Models Shoutin' Lava Lava Lava.
	13 - All Together Now	Models Darkness Descends, the Bonus Door Challenge (later Crystal) doesn't contain an underwater area.
	14 - Boss 1 Flibby	Contains only one area similar to the final version, but with Crystals around the arena.
	15 - Cave - Multiple Choice	Models Cave Fear. Contains a gold Key in a cage which never happened in the final version. There is no silver key (needs citation), but standing on the cage will allow getting the gold Key. This may be why this never was included in the final game. In the Locked Door, there is a unfinished rectangular piece which can be picked up but does nothing. There are no gongs in the level.
	16 - Dangerous Sports	This level slightly models The Tumbling Dantini.
	17 0 - Forest - Default Blank Map	From this level on they contain unfinished levels. This one contains greenland and rotating platforms.
	18 0 - Forest - Ahhhh Push It	Croc falls continuously.
	19 0 - Dungeon - Default New Map	Contains a dungeon with a button. Pressing it activates a Box Shuffling Game. The exit does not function.
	19 1 - Dungeon - Default New Map	The same as before but entering the cave results in Croc falling continuously.
	19 2 - Desert - Default New Map	Contains a desert area with a Box Chasing Game. This mini-game never made it on the Desert Island in the final game. Entering the cave results in Croc falling continuously.
	19 3 - Dungeon - Default New Map	Contains a dungeon with the Crystal Catching Game. Instead of a cauldron, a platform is moved to catch the crystals.
	19 4 - Forest - Default Blank Map	Contains the Sheep Popping Game. The exit does not function.
	20 0 - No Level - Default Blank Map	Models The Ice of Life. The Bonus Door challenge has a glitch where riding the first balloon makes Croc fall.
	21 - Ice - Polar Playtime	Models Be Wheely Careful, but cannot be completed as entering the third entrance results in Croc falling continuously.
	22 - No Level - Default New Map	When pressing START or X on the Map Screen, the level doesn't load.
	23 0 - No Level - No Map	Cannot be played on Map Screen
	24 0 - No Level - No Map
	25 0 - No Level - No Map
	26 0 - Ice - Tricky Treat	Croc falls continuously.
	27 0 - Ice - Slippery Secret	Contains an ice area with icy pools, crystals and a Bag of Life. It contains many exits. The one behind Croc at the start lead nowhere. One leads to 27 1 Slippery Secret Slide, one makes Croc continuously fall, one takes Croc to the bottom of the slide (27 1) and one leads to a second slide (27 2).
	28 - No Level - No Map	Cannot be played.
	29 0 - No Level - Default New Map	Cannot be played.
	30 0 - Water - Inside Water Tower	A desert area resembling Lights, Camel, Action! and containing strange looking archers throwing arrows.
	30 1 -	Croc will fall continuously.
	30 2 -	A desert area containing platforms which lead to a water pool. Touching it will bring up a never ending loading screen.
	30 3 -	Croc falls continuously.
	30 4 - Water - Inside Water Tower	Loading screen sticks.
	31 0 - Desert - Mud Pit	Contains a leaning (removed) Desert Well with a cork. Models Mud Pit Mania. Also contains tornadoes, a Large Push Box (never large in final game), and a Gong to end the level.
	32 0 - Desert - Needle Point	Contains a Desert area outside, with green poison pools, tornadoes and platforms. The Well (32 1) contains an underwater area with purple fish (removed), piranahs, oysters containing crystals (removed), Fans (non-moving and harmless), spikes on the roof which do not harm Croc, a hole which causes the game to crash,

Playing the Hidden Test Levels

File:Croc Legend of the Gobbos Beta Levels

This uses a script file to load secretly hidden testing levels in the final game. It is only available for the PC version. For example, some levels are unable to complete and some have areas never included in the final game. The video shows that if some levels are played, Croc is able to walk on the actual islands shown in the level select menus. The uploader of the video has said that someone called Andre from the defunct website Croc Fan Forums created these levels. The level select will look the same as the final game. To quit a level, press Esc and select Quit. All levels up to Arabian Heights are test levels, although all Desert Island levels have different variations of the ski slide. See the table below for the main structure of the test levels:

Level	Contains
And so the Adventure Begins	Tree stump (removed), Running Dantini (which actually doesn't run), lava, Gobbo, twos Trees (removed). It seems to mimic an area used in the introduction to the final game.
Underground Overground	Strange-looking plant thing which does notihing (removed), crystals, Jigsaw Piece which ends the level, open tree stump with no entrance (removed), unreachable crystal, unescapable entrance.
Shoutin' Lava Lava Lava	Underwater and dark (never seen in final game) with uninteracting swimming red fish (removed), with one Swimming Dantini, a Jellyfish and a strange looking cone-shaped creature (removed).
Lair of the Feeble	A dark cave with a two Torches, lava, platforms and fireballs, with two exits which have edges and bottomless pits after them.
The Curvy Caverns	Starts in a corner of a Forest level which mimics one of the Loading screens in the final game. There are four Fireballs bouncing along the ground, along with a Gobbo inside a cage which there is no Key.
The Tumbling Dantini	An underwater area with four deadly vents (removed) and a Shark.
Cave Fear	Contains a square of green land with a strange looking pink monkey (removed) which will hurt Croc when touched, can be killed for good, or will dissapear eventually.
Darkness Descends	Also contains a green square of land, but instead of a Monkey it has a Blue Whale (removed) which Croc can only walk through. For some unknown reason, when you touch a certain part of the Whale, the game loads the third part of Trial on the Nile from the final release, which can be played to the end. After completing, the level select will select the Fight Night with Flibby level.
Fight Night with Flibby	Croc can interact with a physical version of Forest Island. Touching the sea will mean falling to your death.
The Twisty Tunnels	The same as previous, except he starts in a different place.
The Ice of Life	Same as before, except the levels The Curvy Caverns and The Twisty Tunnels can be seen, as well as Beany holding another Croc above where And so the Adventure Begins should be.
Be Wheely Careful	This time Croc can explore Ice Island, with Beany holding Croc above Be Wheely Careful. He starts on top of a mount covered in snow.
Riot Brrrrr	The Desert Island with Beany holding Croc above Goin' Underground.
Chumly's Snow Den	The Castle Island. Beany holds Croc on the level Fosley's Freaky Donut.
Clouds of Ice	This seems to be identical to the Bonus Area of Swipe Swiftly's Wicked Ride. There are 47 Crystals and 5 Hearts at the end. The only difference is there are no Sparkling Stars.
I Snow Him so Well	The Crystal Island. Beany holds Croc above And so the Adventure Returns and Croc starts on top of Crox Interactive.
Say No Snow	The title is ironic, as it is set on a Forest Island themed level. There is a mountain circled with 49 Crystals, along with two Climbable Walls and at the top 2 Lives and a Beany Gong to end the level.
Licence to Chill	A white square containing a Life, a blue and a yellow coloured bag which were used in the Tech Demo as lives. They can be picked up but do not do anything.
Demon Itsy's Ice Palace	A Desert themed cave with platforms and Mud Pits. There are two moving up and down platforms at each end of the cave, but only one is reachable at the right. They take you to a ledge with only a non-interacting Desert Island themed well.
Ice Bridge to Eternity	A remote Desert Island themed area with Mud Pits, Platforms, Crystals, a Life, an Arrow Platform and a Ghost which will take Crystals and the Key to unlock a Cage containing a Gobbo.
Lights, Camel, Action! - Defeato Burrito	Slightly different variations of an ice slide which Croc can slide down on. He will eventually meet the end in which he falls into a bottomless pit.

Unreleased 'Mr. Gimmick' Beta

This version is even rarer than the 0.12 version, and is assumed that the CD was given to Fox employees to test, and compares significantly to the beta 0.12 version. It is currently owned by Wiki member Mr. Gimmick.

There are only a few minor differences - some of the level titles are slightly different, the backgrounds are different in some areas, different enemy and item placement, etc. He is known to collect rare Croc products from ex Argonaut employees, so it is assumed that the copy was only given to other employees to test. It is the known latest version of the game before the final game. It has been mentioned by Mr. Gimmick on other forums that he could upload the iso online, record playthroughs of the game and even make a website about it, but this has not yet happened and was written several years ago. He has only supplied these images but has not logged on to the wiki for a while.

This prototype is still being investigated for further differences and more info will be added to this page as it becomes available.

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Download Instructions

1996 Tech Demo and 1997 v0.16 Beta

Download the chosen .rar file here and extract it with a program such as WinZip, unRar or 7z. Open the .bin file with ePSXe or another PS1 emulator. You will have to search online if you do not have one. Note that you must own a PlayStation or PS2 to legally download it.

Testing Level 'Script Hack'

You can only try this one out with the PC version (seethis link to download). You must then download the zip folder here containing the maps.idx file which contains the testing levels. Backup the original maps.idx in case anything goes wrong, and put the new one in its place which should be at C:\\Program Files\Fox\Croc\gdata. Then run the game and it should work. Remember to use Passwords to unlock all levels, as you can only complete about two of them.

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