Hi Holla Forums, I work at a classic game shop and one of our regular customers used to work at Midway doing quality assurance testing in the 90s. He traded these in for a few transformers toys. I'll be borrowing the discs and ripping the contents later on, but I just thought I'd share the find. Some of these are prototype builds, pre-final prints, betas, etc.
Has anyone else ever come across anything like this in person? I'm pretty excited to back up the contents. Since my camera is far from the best quality, I'll list the contents: NFL2k1 for Dreamcast Bubble Bobble "Playable" build for Playstation "18 Wheeler" (Saturn? PS1? Dunno - no saturn copy protection layer so I can't tell) True Pinball for Saturn WWF in your house for saturn Big Hurt for Saturn Tunnel B1 (beta 1?) for Saturn Battle Sport for Saturn Tokyo Extreme Battle 2 (renamed to Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2?) I lost my chance to look at the discs, but as I can tell, the rest of them are: Myst, NBA Jam, Alien Trilogy, Space Jam, Rev-X
may be a bunch of betas, prototypes, alpha, and I know some are finished builds that were sent to be mass produced. I'm excited to share, but it may be some time before it appears on the internet. Would love to hear if anyone has come across anything like this in their time. The guy is a regular at my store, so I'm looking forward to seeing him more in the future.
Zachary Nguyen
That's a big haul you got there user, will you torrent it or upload to vola?
Sebastian Long
eventually, yes. It's going to be sold, but I plan on backing it up before it goes out. I'd hate to lose these parts of history.
Andrew Stewart
Very nice. Take your time ripping them, i remember setting read speed to minimum 2 or 4x) back when i still had an old IDE DVD rewriter.
Adam Edwards
Yeah, in time I imagine you'll see them pop up on sites like isozone, mostly for convenience sake - not necessarily speed. The trade itself was tremendous–we also got a copy of xenogears & a perfect condition valkyrie profile but that isn't half as interesting as beta discs which could contain all kinds of interesting development and system info.
Adam Rodriguez
funny thing, Im currently trying to get NFL 2k1 to run in reicast on my odroid c2.
Not because it was a particularly good game but just because it is the first game i remember seeing on a demo when i went to buy the console for the first time
Xavier Martinez
Checked
Logan Reed
Neat. Does your client know you will be doing this? If he do, what does he think about it?
Grayson Jones
No, Tunnel B1 is just the name of the game.
Oliver Kelly
Yes, i even asked him if he had backed it up. Told him I'd like to do it and he seemed fine with it. We even shared a few stories. I'm not gonna credit the man or anything, but he shared some of my enthusiasm.
