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De Blob is a puzzle-platformer game, which sees the player taking form of a big blob character named, interestingly, Blob, with the goal of painting several buildings to red.

The game was originally being developed by THQ directly for the Nintendo Wii, and coincidentally, the game was set to receive a port to the Nintendo DS by THQ's division, Helixe. This division saw its closure in November, 2008, after a series of layoffs from THQ, which caused all projects by Helixe to be scrapped, including the DS port of De Blob.

On January 15th, 2023, YouTuber, Rebel Taxi, known for his animation projects, got in contact with an anonymous individual, who seems to have a direct connection to Helixe. This individual had in its posession the prototype of the DS port, who gave the prototype to the YouTuber, and subsequently, released the prototype build to the masses.

The leaked unfinished build demo features 3 levels from the game, with only the first level fully realized, and the other 2 subsequent levels lacking the same polish. The prototype ROM can be found in Archive for those interested in checking it out.

 

[TheStonedModder]

dang after watching the video I wish this ended up releasing

Younger me would have loved the hell out of a DS version of this game and just from the video seems like it had some decent potential

 

[gaga941021]

This is like week old news.

 

[ShadowOne333]

This is like week old news.

I know lol. I eve mention the date in the post.
I remember seeing this the very day it got released in my feed somewhere, glanced over it, and when I tried to find it again, I just didn't bump into it to make the news post then until KiiWii shared this today. I spent the whole week looking for the post.
I was searching dumbly for A Boy and His Blob DS instead of just De Blob, which was part of why I couldn't find it then.

 

[HarveyHouston]

I would've liked to have played this.

 

[MikaDubbz]

I just wanna say I really enjoy RebelTaxi, his content is always interesting and his production is fantastic.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Saw this in my subscription feed earlier, I love RebelTaxi's content enough already! Glad to see history being preserved!

 

[AaronUzumaki]

I've got a piece of Pokémon lost media that I want to post, but not until I make a video using it.

 

[ZeroFX]

A "YouTuber" huh!?

 

[Clydefrosch]

should've tried again on the 3ds

 

[eduall]

omg! this is pure gold! love this game and shame never gets complete :/

 

[SylverReZ]

dang after watching the video I wish this ended up releasing

Younger me would have loved the hell out of a DS version of this game and just from the video seems like it had some decent potential

Same here. I played the Wii version non-stop.

 

[tabzer]

My only experience with THQ was with Quest 64, coming off of FFVII.

I kind of want to play it again. I never finished it.

 

[ScaryHobbit]

I love both of the Wii games, and this DS port looks on point!
It would've been a classic on the system, for sure.

 

[Wish13]

Same here. I played the Wii version non-stop.

I love/loved De Blob! I got it from my library months ago.

 

[Sundree]

the subtle reference he made to his kid

 

[Jayro]

So hopefully it's archived somewhere for uh... preservation reasons, right?

 

[RupeeClock]

I tried it out on my N3DS XL using NDS-Bootstrap, and it does work! There's some technical issues owing to being a prototype, but it's functional.

MelonDS isn't able to boot the game citing a save data issue, I'm not sure what that's about. Rebeltaxi does mention as such that it only works in DeSmuME.

 

[DiJornios]

This is like week old news.

news to me who saw it today!

 

[thehawksfuckingdead7]

It looks like a game that I'd get addicted to.