Sonic and Sega Retro Message Board: Any interest in early Gamecube Sonic protos? - Sonic and Sega Retro Message Board

Jump to content

Hey there, Guest!  (Log In · Register) Help
Loading News Feed...
 

Any interest in early Gamecube Sonic protos?

#1 User is offline drx 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 10:51 AM

  • <Shade> fuck MJ
  • Posts: 2088
  • Joined: 02-March 04
  • Gender:Male
  • Project::rolleyes:
  • Wiki edits:8
I found three early Gamecube Sonic prototypes. The price tag is around 500 eur for all, I'm posting this because I don't have this kind of money right now and was wondering if anyone was interested. You'd need to make up your mind pretty soon (within 1-2 days).

They are on a one-of-a-kind NPDP cart (not an NR disc). NPDP carts are used during development, they are not press copies (unlike NR discs).

Sorry to pop in without any better news, but such is life.

#2 User is offline MathUser 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:17 AM

  • 3rd top wiki contributor
  • Posts: 1691
  • Joined: 09-November 05
  • Gender:Male
  • Wiki edits:14,865
Can these be dumped and used on retail consoles? Not much use to people if you need a cartridge console to play it.

#3 User is offline grap3fruitman 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:20 AM

  • Posts: 2829
  • Joined: 19-February 08
  • Gender:Male
  • Wiki edits:5
I believe they can, the benefit of the NDPD carts were that they were rewritable and could be used to run on real hardware instead of blowing through tons of discs.

#4 User is offline Dude 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:22 AM

  • 3ds MAX Help Desk
  • Posts: 2619
  • Joined: 11-September 04
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Southbridge, MA
  • Project:Sonic Adventure Generations
  • Wiki edits:43
Only interested if it's SA with the windy valley beta

#5 User is offline Techokami 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:24 AM

  • For use only on NTSC Genesis systems
  • Posts: 939
  • Joined: 19-November 05
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:HoleNet!
  • Project:Sonic Edge
  • Wiki edits:63
SA2B???
I am very interested in these.

#6 User is online synchronizer 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:25 AM

  • Posts: 1488
  • Joined: 20-August 08
  • Gender:Male
  • Wiki edits:19
It would be Sonic Adventure DX though, not SA1. It would be interesting to see the early versions of the ports however, if they are early enough.

EDIT: Does that include Sonic Heroes?
This post has been edited by synchronizer: 24 April 2011 - 11:26 AM

#7 User is offline Lobotomy 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:25 AM

  • Every man who knows a thing knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.
  • Posts: 3595
  • Joined: 22-March 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Traverse City
  • Project:Fixing Generations FOREVER, Project: In Silico, Unleashed PC Beautification.
  • Wiki edits:94
I'm interested. How early are we talking?

#8 User is offline Dark Sonic 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:33 AM

  • Dark Blonic
  • Posts: 6364
  • Joined: 21-April 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Project:People really need to get their facts straight
  • Wiki edits:10
What games are included?

#9 User is offline Skyler 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 11:43 AM

  • Posts: 2601
  • Joined: 26-January 09
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:West Sacramento, CA
  • Project:Going mad with POWERRRRRR
  • Wiki edits:136
QUOTE (Dark Sonic @ Apr 24 2011, 09:33 AM)
What games are included?

This. I'm definitely interested, regardless.

#10 User is offline evilhamwizard 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 12:37 PM

  • Posts: 1054
  • Joined: 16-June 04
  • Gender:Male
  • Wiki edits:109
Interested what games are on it as well. But since it's something from development, debuggggggggggggg. Also, since they're rewritable - can you use recovery software on the cart to maybe pull other data off from it that used to be on the cart?

I'm willing to donate FIFTY US DOLLARS to this cause.

#11 User is offline drx 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 12:40 PM

  • <Shade> fuck MJ
  • Posts: 2088
  • Joined: 02-March 04
  • Gender:Male
  • Project::rolleyes:
  • Wiki edits:8
I don't know much else besides what I already said. I can't ask much more until I have some interest.

As far as I know NPDP carts are just HDDs that are XORed with a 32-bit key. It should be relatively trivial to dump them. And yeah recovery software sounds interesting.

#12 User is offline Malpass 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 12:40 PM

  • Fell at the Battle of the Wing Fortress, 1992.
  • Posts: 288
  • Joined: 25-July 08
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:London Town
  • Wiki edits:20
Yeah, sounds rather exciting.

As an aside, did anything more come from that possible Sonic 1 (8-bit) proto, drx?

#13 User is offline drx 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 01:21 PM

  • <Shade> fuck MJ
  • Posts: 2088
  • Joined: 02-March 04
  • Gender:Male
  • Project::rolleyes:
  • Wiki edits:8
QUOTE (Malpass @ Apr 24 2011, 07:40 PM)
Yeah, sounds rather exciting.

As an aside, did anything more come from that possible Sonic 1 (8-bit) proto, drx?


Not yet.

#14 User is offline Lanzer 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 01:24 PM

  • The saber calls for its master...
  • Posts: 4102
  • Joined: 27-February 09
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:California
  • Project:Doing Stuff.
  • Wiki edits:1
Wow, $728? Jeez...

Hope the money can be raised.

#15 User is offline Scarred Sun 

Posted 24 April 2011 - 01:45 PM

  • Crushed by a single sunbeam
  • Posts: 3380
  • Joined: 06-February 05
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:San Francisco, CA
  • Project:Conquering the games industry
  • Wiki edits:36,091
Hey, can we go beyond "I'm interested" to "I'll throw money in"? I'll go $100 in, but let's see if we can get the money first, guys.
  • 5 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Last ►
    Locked
    Locked Forum

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users