Weird rayman 2 image

[Geigergast]

So a bunch of days ago i was on 4chan, scrolling through /v, where people talk about videogames,
there was this thread about obscure beta things in videogames, and since i like this sort of stuff i clicked on it

after scrolling through some images i stumbled upon this one

Shw2PrtRm2bta#$2.png (85.63 KiB) Viewed 2731 times

the thread also seems to have vanished into thin air, reverse searching the image gives 0 results

i also tried to upscale and sharpen the image

now, this could be a fake, yet i am not super sure about it , and i don't recognize the pirate either, maybe it's a beta?

[Elite Piranha]

Interesting find, I think 4chan is excluded from the Wayback Machine, so if the original thread is gone I don't know how it can be retrieved.

[ItzalDrake]

Wow, nice find! It looked like some kind of beta Henchman 1000 at first sight to me
Looking at the picture again it seems that this robopirate has fired something like a cannonball, interesting

[Flat Earth Society]

In fact, that's an interesting find. You could always try find the thread again on 4archive.

The pirate does give off a Henchman 1000 vibe.

Also we could see a Henchman 800 fire cannonballs at 0:29 in this trailer so that's nothing new.

[Geigergast]

You could always try find the thread again on 4archive.

me and a friend on the rayman discord server tried to look for it but to no avail, i found it a few days ago,i think either thursday or friday, maybe i'll look for it again, perhaps i missed it?

i tried figuring out this guy's shape and it does look somewhat similar to the henchman 1000

by the look of his pose he looks like he throws stuff instead of shooting it, but that might just be me

i'll try to look deeper into this,i really want to see wether this is true or false

[PluMGMK]

Looks like the very first pirate-fight arena in the game, in Fairy Glade part 3. Is there any released version of Rayman 2 where pirates throw bombs? I thought there were some variants on some console versions that did things other than shooting energy balls…

[Geigergast]

is there any released version of Rayman 2 where pirates throw bombs? I thought there were some variants on some console versions that did things other than shooting energy balls…

the closest thing in-game that shoots bombs is the yellow pirate from revolution, but that game does not have that specific arena as far as i remember

it looks more like ninjaws,look at the pose, but i don't remember them shooting at all

[Elite Piranha]

There is a trailer that shows the red henchmen shooting bombs/cannon balls:



But I don't remember seeing a robo-pirate that looks like that.

[Flat Earth Society]

i tried figuring out this guy's shape and it does look somewhat similar to the henchman 1000

Good work!

It gives an obscure idea of what the pirate could have looked like.

[Hunchman801]

This is rather intriguing! I would be surprised if Henchman 1000 already existed back then and was reused in Rayman M, so I can only assume it's some early version of the ninja Henchman?

[ItzalDrake]

Maybe, I hope we'll find something more about this mysterious beta robopirate in future and figure out who is it exactly

[Flat Earth Society]

Hopefully we will.

Finding a better quality file would help by a lot, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be one indexed by Google like Geigergast said.

[boomboleros7]

Interesting...

Maybe it's a Pirate we already know, but who knows? Maybe there were more Pirates models in Rayman 2.

He reminds me this skin in Rayman Arena:
https://raymanpc.com/wiki/images/0/0e/R ... rSkin4.jpg

Hey, if he looks like a mix between a Henchman 800 and a Henchman 1000, maybe it's a Henchman 900!

Or maybe it's a Robo-Rooter! Remember them on that sign in the Sanctuary of Stone and Fire?

Looks like the very first pirate-fight arena in the game, in Fairy Glade part 3. Is there any released version of Rayman 2 where pirates throw bombs? I thought there were some variants on some console versions that did things other than shooting energy balls…

Well, appart Yellow Henchmen in Revolution and Red Henchmen in this old trailer, there are some Red and Purple Henchmen in the Dreamcast version who shoot helicopter bombs:
https://raymanpc.com/wiki/images/8/82/R ... omb%29.png
https://raymanpc.com/wiki/images/b/b8/T ... Pirate.jpg

[Flat Earth Society]

He reminds me this skin in Rayman Arena:
https://raymanpc.com/wiki/images/0/0e/R ... rSkin4.jpg

Hey, if he looks like a mix between a Henchman 800 and a Henchman 1000, maybe it's a Henchman 900!

Nice find boomboleros, the skin from Rayman Arena and the Henchman shown in the image definitely look alike. A way more than Henchman 1000 does compared to it. Now I wonder if this model of Henchman was supposed to appear in Rayman 2!

[Elite Piranha]

I just wanted to add that there is a trailer with a odd looking robo-pirate jumping (00:25), but the quality is so bad you can't really tell what it looks like. Maybe it is just a regular henchman, but the quality of the video makes it look weird.

[Indy]

So a bunch of days ago i was on 4chan, scrolling through /v, where people talk about videogames,
there was this thread about obscure beta things in videogames, and since i like this sort of stuff i clicked on it

after scrolling through some images i stumbled upon this one Shw2PrtRm2bta#$2.png
the thread also seems to have vanished into thin air, reverse searching the image gives 0 results

i also tried to upscale and sharpen the image upscaled.png

now, this could be a fake, yet i am not super sure about it , and i don't recognize the pirate either, maybe it's a beta?

Upon closer inspection, the model is of a Henchman 800, but the texture is different.
So, not a prototype design of H-1000.

A alternative Henchman 800 skin in Rayman Arena (GameCube version) bears resemblance to what's shown in the enigmatic Rayman 2 image.

[ItzalDrake]

Hmm not sure about that because the model is different, it seems to have large boots unlike the Henchmen 800

[Indy]

Hmm not sure about that because the model is different, it seems to have large boots unlike the Henchmen 800

I didn't notice the boots. But the head model is of H-800.

[ItzalDrake]

Hmm yeah it seems so, I really wish we had better images of this mysterious beta enemy

[Flat Earth Society]

I just wanted to add that there is a trailer with a odd looking robo-pirate jumping (00:25), but the quality is so bad you can't really tell what it looks like. Maybe it is just a regular henchman, but the quality of the video makes it look weird.

It definitely looks like the green Henchman to me.