LittleBigPlanet 1 March 2008 Devkit Recovery



This article details the findings from the remnants of a March 31st, 2008 prototype of LittleBigPlanet, found on a PlayStation 3 development kit in October 2020 by MysteriousCube, PrinceFrizzy, TechnicalSock, and ColinMacQ. Unfortunately, due to a mostly-wiped EBOOT.BIN file, the prototype itself is impossible to boot or play, but assets have been recovered from it.

English Seaside theme restored


The infamous cut English Seaside theme was mostly recovered from this build, and can be ported back to the retail game by hacking the files in.

Pod clothes hanger


In early versions of the game, a clothes hanger can be seen in the Pod background. It was removed from the game for unknown reasons, but its assets were recovered from this devkit. Similarly to the recovered English Seaside background, it can be hacked into the retail game.

Early version of the Stuntman costume


There was originally going to be a costume based off the real-world stuntman Evil Knievel, but was changed to a more generic stuntman costume in the final game. The textures for the Evil Knievel costume were discovered in this build.

"Milestone 5" build screenshot


A file named "screenshot.tex" was found in the data for this build. It does not originate from the March 2008 build, but is of a far earlier version of the game previously only seen in low-quality videos. The community has named this build the "Milestone 5" build, based off of the filename of one of the only surviving videos of this version.

Credit were credits do.
I (glitchboyYT) learned most of this from this video: https://youtu.be/d5j6xYB2eDM.

blueblur98YT edited it to fix grammar and spelling mistakes as well as adding more info