Tomb Raider II – Beta (30 Sep 1997) PC Port for TRX by XeNoN3560

Description
A PC port of the unreleased PlayStation development build of Tomb Raider II from 30 September 1997, playable with the TRX engine.

This is the beta, not the finished game: different room layouts, textures, object and enemy placements, and content that never made it into the retail release.

What's included:
- 18 beta levels and the Assault Course
- A shooting range in the Assault Course, built from unused beta voice recordings, with TR3-style targets and a best-time list for every weapon
- The beta title screen and 4 beta cutscenes
- The beta's unused rolling demo (plays on the title screen)
- Restored unused content: the jellyfish Core programmed but never placed, and Lara's unused kick
- Older, unused skies from Core's original texture files
- 3 bonus levels, unlocked by collecting all 54 secrets - and one more hidden bonus level for those who find every secret in the bonus levels too
- Save crystals, as planned at this stage of development
- 8 languages for the in-game text and the English beta voice recordings; with Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, the included TRX Language Swapper adds German, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and English (Remastered) voices, which you then pick in the game independently of the text
- Optional: the Language Swapper also switches the title screen, loading screens and cutscenes between the AI-upscaled HD versions (default) and the beta's originals

The unfinished build was repaired and made fully playable: missing textures and faces, holes in the geometry, broken enemy pathfinding, triggers and sounds were fixed, and some rooms were extended or bonus rooms added. The beta runs as its own TRX mod and does not change the original game.

A README with all credits and the full list of fixes are included in the download.

Note
Requirements:
- An original copy of Tomb Raider II (Steam, GOG or CD)
- TRX 1.11.1 or newer, already set up for the normal game: https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TRX/releases/tag/trx-1.11.1

Installation: place the tr2-beta folder into the games folder of your TRX installation.

The download (approx. 802 MB) is hosted on ModDB, trle.net and GameBanana - all links are in the attached zip.

Current version: v2.0 (includes the v1.9.1 voice language fix)

Credits: PS1 beta port to PC by XeNoN3560. 3D models (jellyfish, secrets of one bonus level) by Todesengel1931. Jellyfish sting sound: excerpt from "Rolling High Pitched Pattern.wav" by freekit (https://freesound.org/s/681569/), CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), shortened. All references, acknowledgements and play testers are listed in the README.