Hello. I’m Ashe Penndale, hobbyist obscure media archivist and massive Earthworm Jim fan. Have been the former since my age hit the double digits.

Me and a few others online have been gathering info regarding the lost beta builds and content surrounding Earthworm Jim 3D and have gathered a rather sizable archive, information put into a somewhat cohesive timeline of its production and known cut content from 1997 to its official release date, magazine articles, screenshots and videos. It does have code of the FINAL RELEASED version, not the beta. I haven’t found that yet, that’s why I’m posting this all here to spread the word and get answers as to if the beta builds still exist or not. I’m happy with either answer, I just want one at this point.

Linked here is all the material me and others found online and in the final game itself. Feel free to sift through it so someone with more skills than me can find what I can’t. Anyone who makes videos on this stuff is free to use it without crediting or mentioning me, I don’t care regardless as long as it’s just talked about at all. I also have a smaller archive of the cancelled EWJ PSP game and what has been released to the public, if yall are curious about that too, I’ll post that at a later date.

also there’s something that looks a bit like Jim’s eyes hidden in the code like it’s ascii art which scared the heck out of me during a late night search.

Google Drive Archive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fnREV1durVzmvFzEyP4FQI8d6sO86sib

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