Not sure if this is the right spot or if you guys have heard but 3 new prototypes (2 being VERY early) of MM8 were released in March 2011!

I googled it last night and easily found download links for all of them on a forum and there was a mere 2 pages of disscusion about it. I guess no one has had time to tear into them yet. I booted both in Epsxe and they work. The early builds have only 2 levels you can play. Tengu man (in the ice level!?) and the intro stage. Im excited to see if someone with more skills then me can hack the other levels and see whats there if there are any diffrent bosses or anything exciteing.

Second build is later on but only has about 4 stages playable including the intro stage. Music wouldnt work for me on this one. Here is a link to the forums and where you can download these.

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=24623

Again sorry if this is old news but being a big MM fan I figured I would share the news incase others didnt know yet.