[ashthedragon]

Hi all,

I found a guy that owns a Sonic Heroes E3 build for Gamecube. I talked to him and convinced him to dump it and release it, but neither him not me know how to dump NR disks. Can anyone help? Is the E3 gamecube buid already dumped? I've not followed the gamecube-xbox-ps2 onwards game beta releases very closely.

If anyone knows how, please contact me. I've the guy's email and we can sort something out.


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Ok! So after negotiating with this guy, he is willing to sell us the proto for 400$ ( plus 10$ shipping). After talking with Orengefox, we're decided the best is to start a donation pool to buy it. So..any contribution will be appreciated!

You can send money by paypal to [email protected] . We've also found a trustworthy member who is able to dump it, so if we get the money, we will have this little one dumped and preserved for all the community />/> Let's work all together to achieve this!

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We got the money and the proto it's on it's way to the person who is dumping it! :D Thanks everyone!!!

This post has been edited by ashthedragon: 06 September 2014 - 10:22 AM

[GeneHF]

I don't remember if it already was dumped, but we have the Xbox build. It's how we go some of those production soundtracks we released two years ago.

[NiktheGreek]

I may have a way to do this.

[Orengefox]

I remember there being a Sonic Heroes E3 build for the Gamecube that got sold off long ago. I did wonder what became of that disc after all this time. Now that we know where it ended up, it's nice to know its current owner is willing to share it to the public thanks to ashthedragon (well done).

And no, the Sonic Heroes E3 build for the Gamecube has never been dumped. Although we do have a Sonic Heroes E3 build for the Xbox, I still think we should get the Sonic Heroes E3 build for the Gamecube dumped. For one, it might have some information that might not be in the Xbox version. Plus, it's another prototype under our belt.

I think I know what Nik has in mind in which case, it'll be more straight forward than say using a very specific optical drive.

[GerbilSoft]

CleanRip is available for GameCube, but you need some way to load homebrew, e.g. USB Gecko. You also need a storage device, e.g. the GCN SD adapter.

[Tanks]

From what I've been told (via Gerb) debug Gamecubes may work, but would require something along the lines of an SD Gecko in order to run a dumping program. They're relatively inexpensive looks like (last in stock if someone wants to grab it quick). Whoever does, they'd need to use a program called CleanRip and it should dump to SD. (If I remember there may also be a way to network dump too, but that may require a LAN adaptar...)

We don't have a lot of experience with dev-GCs, but, in theory, this is the best bet.

[ashthedragon]

Thanks for all the comments! I'll tell him to use Gecko, he is a Nintendo dev so he probably has something like that. if not, anyone here is willing to dump it themselves if I convince the guy to send it over?

[ashthedragon]

New info. The guy is willing to sell it, but is quite afraid of dumping it. He asks 400$ for it. Might be time for a retro community money raiseup? I could chip around 200, but only when I get my next paycheck in a few weeks and I don't have a way to rip it anyways, so I'll prefer it to be sent to someone here who can

[Hendricks 266]

Couldn't just about anyone dump it with a Homebrew Channel-enabled Wii and CleanRip?

This post has been edited by Hendricks 266: 24 August 2014 - 02:01 PM

[Tanks]

No, NRs are dev-GC only hence why this is so complicated. :/

[ashthedragon]

Ok! So after negotiating with this guy, he is willing to sell us the proto for 400$ ( plus 10$ shipping). After talking with Orengefox, we're decided the best is to start a donation pool to buy it. So..any contribution will be appreciated!

You can send money by paypal to [email protected] . We've also found a trustworthy member who is able to dump it, so if we get the money, we will have this little one dumped and preserved for all the community Let's work all together to achieve this!

This post has been edited by ashthedragon: 01 September 2014 - 11:23 AM

[Jen]

ash, I just sent $15 to you; I hope it helps Well done on managing to find this game.

[Lanzer]

Ugh, why do these come at the worst times for me?! I wanna help ;_;

Anyways, good luck guys I know we can get this. btw, do we still have the Xbox ver. E3 build around?

[Irixion]

Can't you use a Wii + Homebrew to dump it? :S I don't have any money to donate unfortunately. Best of luck!

[kazblox]

Irixion, on 01 September 2014 - 04:21 PM, said:

Can't you use a Wii + Homebrew to dump it?

Don't you even read the whole hubbub, sonny?

Tanks, on 24 August 2014 - 05:00 PM, said:

No, NRs are dev-GC only hence why this is so complicated. :/