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Redditor obtains "hundreds" of pre-production PSP and PS2 games
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Hoping they're not just retail promo discs. I've had a bunch over the years and they're pretty much always indistinguishable from final builds.
Even so, due to the sheer number he has acquired , there could well be a few betas in there.
Even so, due to the sheer number he has acquired , there could well be a few betas in there.
uh wouldn't it be beyond illegal to dump and upload all those?
that said, this could be an incredibly important moment in understanding the development of many of these games and this is making me giddy.
that said, this could be an incredibly important moment in understanding the development of many of these games and this is making me giddy.
It is, and they do take it seriously. It's what prevents me from uploading my acquired collection, I'm too easily traceable as the source.
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Depends on a game by game basis. For example, the version of Jak 2 he has is from an E3 before release, while Silent Hill Origins is from 3 months before release. He has multiple copies of Peace Walker, with two of those being 1.00 and 1.01
So it seems like a mix of earlyish builds, later builds, and nearly ready builds.
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Couple of updates
- every single game has duplicates, so he's selling the extras and keeping his own to dump
- another game he has is a Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep build from 03/12/2009
- there's no Tekken of any sort
- they will be preserving as many as they possibly can
- every single game has duplicates, so he's selling the extras and keeping his own to dump
- another game he has is a Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep build from 03/12/2009
- there's no Tekken of any sort
- they will be preserving as many as they possibly can
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This is amazing, imagine turning up to work and finding that box. Respect to the person who sent it, and respect to the person backing it all up.
I wonder if we'll see any more of the Jungle Book world than what was left in the final game.
I'm not surprised per se -- I used to work on marketing for many PS games, and they gave us tons of pre-release versions of games because the campaigns have to be done long before the game is on shelves. Of course we had debug PlayStations to play them on, but it wasn't like we could do anything else with them. So I'm sure there's plenty of this stuff floating around.
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Cant wait for all this to start poping up on "those" sites for the nice downloads ;)
Blizzard made it very clear the lawyers were going to get involved if they didn't. It would have been awfully suspicious if they had then "anonymously" dumped the source code some time later given it was the only one known to exist at that point. Presumably as the finder of it wasn't an idiot, they gave it back.
I expect this to go very similarly, unless the finder of these is an idiot.
Example of one of his boxes
Blimey, who has good as new Datassette boxes just lying around waiting to be repurposed?
Looking forward to the discoveries found in the prototypes after this dump. The large 2008 drx beta dump revealed a lot more about the games than people expected.
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Considering Birth by Sleep is probably the KH game that's seen the most changes from reveal to release, I'm incredibly interested in seeing what exactly might be hiding in earlier builds. The UI was definitely changed quite a bit from year to year.
He also got a bunch of stuff too plus some trip just for giving it back IIRC.
Anyways, that's pretty cool! Hopefully it turns out well for everyone who wants cut content. Don't have neither a PSP nor PS2, so I'm not really that excited about it.
Before getting too excited, this is likely a US/English beta, not one of the game in development. There is actually already a dump of at least one localization beta.
Awesome news! I hope he remembers "sharing is caring"
Edit: I'm at work, so don't have too much time to go through the whole reddit. Do they know who donated them?
Edit: I'm at work, so don't have too much time to go through the whole reddit. Do they know who donated them?
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The original Xbox dev kit thing really isn't that big of a deal, because those kits are actually so common you can get one for the price of a Xbox One today.
I hope we get to see the fruits of it all dumped on The Cutting Room Floor
I love seeing assets or changes between release and development titles, and they're really good at documenting that.
I love seeing assets or changes between release and development titles, and they're really good at documenting that.
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He also has pre-production copies of The Force Unleashed and Dissidia 012
We don't know who donated them.
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Why don't this things happen to me?? I have so many questions about it I don't think reddit will answer all of them.
That's a really cool thing to get.
I have a bunch of pre-release preview builds of PSP games in storage. Only one I can recall from memory is a review build of Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! on UMD. The game was originally released digitally and then was released on UMD when the sequel came out.
I have a bunch of pre-release preview builds of PSP games in storage. Only one I can recall from memory is a review build of Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! on UMD. The game was originally released digitally and then was released on UMD when the sequel came out.
Super cool, but I'm almost more curious as to who this came from and what their role is.
Hope he isn't shot down for conservation efforts.
Hope he isn't shot down for conservation efforts.
It was never pressed to UMD. Trust me.
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The one that was gutted was an alpha kit. Much more rare.