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In the development pictures of Imperishable Night from ZUN's website, www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th08ss.html, Sakuya's and Remilia's bombs looked a bit differently. To compare, on the left side there are the development pictures and on the right side there are screenshots from ver0.01.
You can see that the majority of lines from Sakuya's bomb are now white instead of blue and Remilia's bomb is less distracting.
Timepoint differences are detailed in other posts from #special8 tag.
Imperishable Night development picture has Letty Whiterock as placeholder
On 26th January 2004, ZUN posted on his old diary, a picture from the development of Imperishable Night. The page is now defunct, but it has been archived: web.archive.org/web/20040603101635/http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=2
The image depicts Marisa Kirisame using her Master Spark bomb.
However, if you compare it with ver0.01, there are some notable differences. The name shown in the top left corner does not match the style and it looks like it says "Letty Whiterock", an enemy from Perfect Cherry Blossom not Imperishable Night.
The time points value is 1000, which not even on Easy mode of ver0.01 is that low. The difficulty does not appear on the HUD and also the numbers you see on top of the screen seem to be debug mode values. There are some other minor differences such as the text padding in the HUD and the "Enemy" indicator looking slightly different.
If you compare this picture with Perfect Cherry Blossom, you can clearly see it says "Letty Whiterock". The font, the size, the colours match perfectly to it. Also it seems that the "Enemy" indicator in this development picture is from Perfect Cherry Blossom as well.
Curiously enough, if you rip the files from ver0.01, the enemy list includes few Perfect Cherry Blossom characters, which were later removed from the ver0.02 files. Even so, Letty Whiterock is not present on it, the names start only from Lily White.
Development pictures show different time point limits for stage 1 Lunatic of Imperishable Night
On ZUN's site, www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th08ss.html, you can find some development pictures from Imperishable Night. As explained in other posts, in ver0.01 there were two timepoint limits (first one, past which the timer would get yellow and second one, past which the timer would get pink and you can face the Last Spell).
If we compare the development pictures (left side) with pictures from ver0.01, we can notice that the first limit was supposed to be 2200 for Lunatic, while in the released version it was changed to 2500.
The second limit on Lunatic stage 1 was supposed to be 3300, but it was changed to 4000 in the released version.
Truth to be told, it is very difficult to trigger the Last Spell in ver0.01 due to this limit. You have to not get hit or use bombs, as the penalties would bring you under the 4000 limit at the end of Wriggle's regular fight.
Imperishable Night development pictures from Keine's boss fight
On 24th March 2004, ZUN was talking on his old diary page about difficulty balancing of Imperishable Night. The page is now dead, but an archive of it exists at web.archive.org/web/20040603101635/http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=2. In that post he included two images from Keine's 4th and Last Spell spellcards.
The difficulty does not appear on screen, but looking at the spellcards, we can assume they are from hard difficulty.
If you compare Keine's 4th spell from the development picture with the one from the released 0.01 version, you can notice that the arrowhead bullets look a little bit different. They are whiter in the development picture. Also, the numbers of arrowhead waves seem higher in ver0.01. It makes sense, since the development picture was posted in a blog post regarding difficutly adjustment.
The Last Spell doesn't seem like it has been changed too much (maybe just the frequency of the rice bullets waves). On the left side it's the development picture and on the right side it's a screenshot from the full version.
One last thing to notice about the development pictures are the time points limits. In ver0.01 Hard mode, the time points limits are either 6500 (after which the counter turns yellow) or 8800 (after which the counter turns pink), see /post/170181908019/ and /post/170230250984/ as reference. In the development picture, the time limit shown is 7300 and the counter is pink, so it doesn't match with what's in the released version.
Development pictures show different time point limits for stage 2 Lunatic of Imperishable Night
On ZUN's site, www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th08ss.html, you can find some development pictures from Imperishable Night. As explained in other posts, in ver0.01 there were two timepoint limits (first one, past which the timer would get yellow and second one, past which the timer would get pink and you can face the Last Spell).
If we compare the development pictures (left side) with pictures from ver0.01, we can notice that the first limit was supposed to be 5000 for Lunatic, while in the released version it was changed to 5500.
The second limit on Lunatic stage 2 was supposed to be 7000, but it was changed to 7500 in the released version.
Please note that the screenshot from ver0.01 from below is not taken during same Mystia nonspell (I died before that and the counter got below the first limit again so it wasn't relevant to the topic of this post anymore).
Different background for Eirin's last word in Imperishable Night development picture
On 17th July 2004 ZUN posted in his diary some development pictures from Imperishable Night, featuring Keine's and Eirin's last words. While the page is now defunct, snapshots of it exist on the internet archive: web.archive.org/web/20050408022603/http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=6
Interestingly enough, the background from Eirin's spellcard seems wrong, it more looks like it's Kaguya's background instead. To compare, below pictures are from the release version: left side is Eirin's last word and right side is Kaguya's last word (beginning of it, to be able to see the background better). If you look at Eirin's background behind the blue lasers, you can notice it's different than what is shown in the development picture.
One may conclude that perhaps Eirin and Kaguya were supposed to have the same spell background. However, there is a post from 6th June 2004 showing sneak peeks of Eirin's spellcards and she has her regular background there: https://web.archive.org/web/20050408022758/http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=7
The development pictures have low resolution so the name of the character is not clear at all. It doesn't help that both characters have a red outfit either. Maybe there was an oversight and Kaguya's background was used instead but it was corrected till the final release. Who knows, we can only guess.
On 12th June 2004, ZUN posted in his old diary a screenshot of the Spell Practice from Imperishable Night. Although the page is now defunct, you can find snapshots of it on the internet archive: web.archive.org/web/20050408022758/http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/cgi-bin/diary/nicky.cgi?page=7
The first image in this post is the development picture, while the second image is a screenshot from the release version.
You can see that the position of the spellcard list has been changed and a header was added detailing what the numbers on the right side mean. The spellcard info is also different, although not entirely (the numbering occupies more space and the second, third and fourth rows from the description have been slightly modified).
Unfortunately, I don’t know Japanese, so if there is anybody here who can transcribe the symbols and/or translate what it says in the development image (if you can understand what is written there because of the low res), I will gladly reblog.
twitter.com/SCDictionary sent me this picture of the Imperishable Night announcement paper. It was distributed at ComicMarket 65 (30 December 2003). Recently, it was sold for 350,000 yen in Japanese net auction.
Towards the end of the picture, it says “ver 2.7″. The person who sent the picture told me that it might be a mistake and it should have been “vol.2.7″ instead.
