Wrong pressings, retail fuckups, unplayable games etc.

[Anonymous No.5492240]

I've read a trivia on PSX version of Tiger Woods PGA 99 Tour Golf that initial pressing had the proto-South Park short 'The Spirit Of Christmas' hidden between the game files due to some stoner in EA QA overlooking it before sending it to the pressing plant. There's even an IGN article from back in the days still up

>https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/01/16/tiger-woods-game-pulled

Do you know of any other major retail fuckups like that? games with content that shouldn't be there, mispressings, pressings with errors, games that were bugged to an unplayable state... gimme some of that shit.

[Anonymous No.5492283]

Custer's Revenge

[Anonymous No.5492292]

South Park sucks. Overrated edgy hipster shit.

[Anonymous No.5492723]

>>5492292
>hipster shit
>been around since the 90s
18+, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.5492730]

The PAL demo for Keio Flying Squadron was the full game with a screen that would take you back to the title after the first level. Except they forgot to remove the level select cheat code.

[Anonymous No.5492743]

>>5492292
not even what the thread's about

[Anonymous No.5492919]

>>5492292
This. Imagine being an adult and actually laughing to the "humor" in South Park

[Anonymous No.5492942]

>>5492292
way to shit up a thread dude

[Anonymous No.5492943]

>>5492919
He says posting an anime reaction image on a reteo video game board.

[Anonymous No.5492945]

The Guy Game on PS2 had nudes of a 17 year old on it, that was quite controversial

[Anonymous No.5492949]

>>5492240
Atelier Marie on dreamcast had the Kriz virus

[Anonymous No.5493020]

>>5492943
seething

[Anonymous No.5493039]

>>5492943
That ova was delicious

[Anonymous No.5493056]

>>5492945
not retro but reminds me of that one time when polish computer magazine ran an article about child porn and I shit you not - they actually printed lots of child porn pictures to illustrate the article.

[Anonymous No.5493093]

>>5492730
That reminds me of the time I downloaded the demo for Warcraft on Mplayer. It was only supposed to be the first 3 missions or so, but you could use the cheats to skip to any level of the campaign. The cutscenes were all fucked up but I remember playing a huge chunk of the game. I did eventually buy the full game to show my support but ironically I never played it again after purchasing it. Warcraft 2 had already come out so the limitations of the first really hurt

[Anonymous No.5493128]

They fucked up all copies of Strider 2 for the NA release. It's a two disc bundle of Strider 1 and 2. However, the games are switched. Strider 1 is on the Strider 2 disc and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.5493391]

>>5493056
Blurred out, right?

[Anonymous No.5493414]

>>5493128
That confused me so much when I rented it once.

[Anonymous No.5493423]

>>5492945
I noticed how all of the girls looked underdeveloped

[Anonymous No.5493469]

>>5492919
Imagine being an adult and finding anime "humorous"

Daily reminder that actual Japanese people enjoy things like baseball and kareoke, watching anime as an adult there is as cringe and ostracizing as it is here.

[Anonymous No.5493470]

>>5493469
>using readily available reaction images from this very site = enjoying the media it originated from
sure is zoomer in here

[Anonymous No.5493473]

>>5493470
Sorry I insulted you by assuming you were an an*me fan, but it was the logical conclusion from the picture you provided.

[Anonymous No.5493479]

>>5493473
>logical
only to an underdeveloped brain

[Anonymous No.5493491]

>>5493479
>uses anime reaction images
>n-no im not an anime fan i-i just like the cringe waifus

hmmm

[Anonymous No.5493496]

>>5493491
who are you quoting? cope

[Anonymous No.5493506]

>>5493496
Anon, come on now.

[Anonymous No.5493507]

>>5493506
Qt dog.

[Anonymous No.5493512]

>>5493506
>posts animal reaction image
by your own logic you're a raging furry

[Anonymous No.5493515]

>>5493512
I'm not either of the two anons that are being turbo tards, I'm a rogue 3rd party participant.

[Anonymous No.5493528]

>t-totally not me guys

[Anonymous No.5493553]

The Atari 7800 Impossible Mission was uncompletable due to a bug, hence the title really did apply.

Total Annihilation has debug mode codes in it, these were removed by the expansion packs

The IBM port of TMNT had the notorious uncrossable sewer jump; apparently the programmers were aware of this and stuck in a cheat code so you can bypass that area.

Sanitarium (original release, not Windows XP update) and Civilization II (original release) were pressed on defective CDs; the discs were prone to cracking and failing during use.

[Anonymous No.5493613]

>>5493553
>Sanitarium
aw dang, I lost a CD drive to an exploding Sanitarium disc. thought it was just a random fluke.

[Anonymous No.5493616]

>>5492945
>The Guy Game on PS2

This was rated M, but I can't imagine anyone older than 13 finding it appealing.

[Anonymous No.5493791]

>>5493613
i had this happen to me but for diablo1,loud ass cracking sound and my cd drive went back to heaven with the disc

[Anonymous No.5493859]

>>5492919
>this show is immature and childish
>let me show my disgust by posting ANIME

[Anonymous No.5493864]

>>5493859

[Anonymous No.5493869]

>>5493056
I remember a Norwegian news report on internet child porn explained what specific keywords pedos used to find their cp websites, since typing "child porn" obviously wouldn't get you anything.
Smart move, guys.

[Anonymous No.5493931]

>>5492292
>>5492723
>>5492743
>>5492919
>>5492942
>>5492942
>>5492943
>>5492945
>>5493020
>>5493469
>>5493470
>>5493473
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>>5493491
>>5493496
>>5493506
>>5493512
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>>5493528
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>>5493859
sucks this board turned to shit since recently. cant even have a decent thread without retards shitting it up
the only retail messup i can think of right now is spyro 3 playing the wrong tracks, which they fixed in later versions

[Anonymous No.5493934]

>>5492240
blue stinger's original printing in NA was before the dreamcast was released in NA, and as a result, there's a bunch of copies of the game that just don't work right. I thought this was a problem with the dreamcast I bought so I went and bought another one, and as I bought it I realized 'wow what if it's the game'

turns out they recalled the game and replaced it but I guess this one slipped through

so now I've got two dreamcasts I got for 20 bucks and a barely functional copy of blue stinger I guess

[Anonymous No.5494453]

>>5493869
They did that on Spanish news too.
They showed the sites that hosted the material, they blurred out the kids, but not the web name.

[Anonymous No.5494458]

>>5493613
A friend of mine had this with Diablo 2.

[Anonymous No.5494487]

>>5492945
Why is Western eroge so pig-disgusting?

[Anonymous No.5494526]

>>5494487
Because they insist on using 3D women.

[Anonymous No.5494560]

Space Station Silicon Valley had a bug that wouldn't allow you to pick up one of the trophies making it impossible to 100% without cheats. The opening cinematic will also freeze if there is an Expansion Pak in the console.

[Anonymous No.5494571]

Hehehe
Woods pulled

[Anonymous No.5494576]

>>5492919
>this fedora post with an anime girl
Folks, what can I tell ya.

[Anonymous No.5494659]

>>5492949
damn. find a bonus screensaver, then end up with a dead pc on christmas.
couldn't find a video of the screensaver on yt or nico. guess it was never released afterward and that anyone who's been curious hasn't been -that- curious.

[Anonymous No.5494762]

>>5494576

[Anonymous No.5494805]

I remember Myth II had something where if you uninstalled the game it deletes almost everything on your HDD so Bungie had to recall all the copies.

[Anonymous No.5494816]

>>5492292
>>5492919
Bad troll

[Anonymous No.5494837]

>>5493469
anime is trash, but
>Daily reminder that actual Japanese people enjoy things like baseball and kareoke, watching anime as an adult there is as cringe and ostracizing as it is here.
this isn’t exactly true. I’m in Japan for work, and being a weeb/otaku is cringy and ostracising here but lots of people do watch anime and read manga on the trains. it’s not the magical girl shit western weebs watch, I don’t know what it is but the stuff they watch has more action.

[Anonymous No.5494849]

>>5494837
Its the stuff that /m/ likes, usually. /a/nons are just inhuman freaks in any country

[Anonymous No.5494886]

>>5494560
>The opening cinematic will also freeze if there is an Expansion Pak in the console.
Technically this only happens if you boot another game beforehand and the memory is still initialized.

[Anonymous No.5494932]

>>5494560
Wasn't that the expansion pack thing? Same off with dk64

[Anonymous No.5495339]

>>5494932
DK64 had a bug that the game would crash WITHOUT the expansion, so they just made it one of the few games that required it to play.

[Anonymous No.5495408]

This cover art

[Anonymous No.5495460]

James Pond 2
Pic related, collecting these items in order activates all access cheat.
Cake
Hammer
Earth
Apple
Tap

The best bit is that they left the code in the free demo, which unlocked the FULL game

[Anonymous No.5495770]

"The game gained controversy when it was discovered that designer Jacques Servin inserted an easter egg that generated shirtless "himbos" (male bimbos) in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other and appear in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. Their fluorescent nipples were drawn with a special rendering mode usually reserved for fog-piercing runway landing lights, so they could easily be seen from long distances in bad weather. The egg caused hundreds of himbos to swarm and crowd around the helicopter, where they would be slashed up by the blades, and then need to be air-lifted to the hospital—which earned the player easy money. The egg was caught shortly after release and removed from future copies of the game."

[Anonymous No.5495778]

>>5495770
That's amazing

[Anonymous No.5495794]

>>5495770
Puritans ruin everything

[Anonymous No.5495804]

>>5493869
That's sometimes done to say "THIS EXISTS, SO FUCKING FIX IT!" like when an extremely high-resolution key to TSA locks or something was posted.

[Anonymous No.5495823]

>>5493553
>The IBM port of TMNT had the notorious uncrossable sewer jump; apparently the programmers were aware of this and stuck in a cheat code so you can bypass that area.
The Euro release fixed this.

[Anonymous No.5495896]

>>5495770
>gay dudes swarm your copter while gettin busy
>proceed to get ripped to shreds by blades
>you carry them to hospital and get tons of money

It's great because multiple sets of easily offended people could find reason to object to this.

>>5494659
So every copy of the game has a killer virus on it? Why don't you just open up the disk image on a newer machine, or on a VM, or on a non-windows system, and just extract it and go? Or am I misunderstanding? Sorry if I am, I didn't have access to computers until the mid-2000's, and I hadn't heard of the Kriz virus until I found this thread.

Also, that screensaver sounds like a real cursed image.

[Anonymous No.5496338]

I like anime girls.

[Anonymous No.5497207]

>>5496338
Bas-
>yotsuba
Cringe

[Anonymous No.5497345]

>>5495896
It's a screensaver, likely a .scr which is a .exe with some extra bindings. So you'd have to try and use a virus scanner to "heal" the file but it's hardly guaranteed.
There's a reason modern virus scanners just quarantine files.
You could install it in a VM to see what it looked like and blow it away when you're done. Maybe you could extract some images or some such, but the original .scr is best considered unrecoverable.

[Anonymous No.5497347]

>>5497345
>There's a reason modern virus scanners just quarantine files.
What's the reason?

[Anonymous No.5497392]

>>5497347
Say I gave you some copy of Harry Potter to read, but I had replaced all instances of Wand with Wang, it's clearly modified and perhaps hilarious. You could replace all Wang with Wand and everything is back to normal. Except at the end of the book I also changed some of the names around and now Snape is killed by Hagrid and not how it should have gone down.
Unless you are already familiar with the story you probably wouldn't realise anything was wrong, but I just put a false narrative in your head.

Early viruses were just appending their code in predictable ways and so virus scanners tried to "heal" files by ripping them out. But that was short lived, it wasn't long before they were modifying binaries in unpredictable ways to achieve the same result but in a way that you could never get them out.
A virus scanner guesses that AtelierMarie.scr probably has no business modifying KERNEL32.DLL so it says "Danger! Virus!", but it has no idea what else it might be doing that might still be malicious but doesn't trip any heuristics.

[Anonymous No.5497475]

>>5495339
that's becaue DK64 had a memory leak and Rare was too brainlet to fix it so they had nintendo ship expansion pak with each game

[Anonymous No.5497498]

Superman 64 has some fatal bugs that prevented you from beating the final level

[Anonymous No.5497505]

>>5493512
He didn't post a furry reaction image. The only thing you can infer from an animal reaction image is that he likes animals, which most people do.

[Anonymous No.5497613]

>>5497392
sucks, sorry to the Atelier fans who got their machines borked

[Anonymous No.5497640]

>>5492240
Not totally the same, but RE2 could have fit on one disc.

Basically, some dude at Capcom did the math wrong, and thought it needed to be 2 discs. They started production with that in mind, until the guy realised his mistake when it was too late.
A simple math mistake ended up costing the company money (imagine like 25 cents, but times 3 million copies printed. It adds up fast). In the end, the sales were so great that the game made all the money back anyway.
Also, they ended up keeping the 2 discs thing as a gimmick aftwr that. Even the Dreamcast version was 2 discs. Only the N64 and Gamecube releases were different. They also used the character specific disc gimmick again with Devil May Cry 2, but it didn't help them.

[Anonymous No.5497660]

>>5497345
>You could install it in a VM to see what it looked like and blow it away when you're done. Maybe you could extract some images or some such, but the original .scr is best considered unrecoverable.
Copies of that initial dreamcast dump exist out there.

[Anonymous No.5497776]

Outcast deleted itself after finishing the installation.

[Anonymous No.5497801]

>>5492919
You just know some South Park episode made fun of something this anon likes and he took it way too personaly.

[Anonymous No.5497814]

>>5494805
Really? Damn, glad I liked it enough it never got uninstalled. Pretty sure I still have the disc.

[Anonymous No.5498010]

>>5497776
lel

[Anonymous No.5498119]

>>5497207
Yotsuba is literally the mascot of 4chan.

[Anonymous No.5498126]

Big Rigs Of the Road Racing (not retro) is widely known for being incomplete and relatively unplayable.

[Anonymous No.5498127]

>>5497207
Retard.

[Anonymous No.5498419]

>>5492730
The C&C Tiberian Sun Demo was sort of like that, full game functionality, all the units including the art for them, FMV stripped out. You could bypass the fact skirmish was grey out and play it anyway, but you couldn't access the campaign without injecting additional files.

[Anonymous No.5499126]

>>5492240
>due to some stoner in EA QA overlooking it before sending it to the pressing plant
everyone at ea are stoners. were then, still are today. the file was used as random data to help with some function of the game, added by one of the programmers (so the story goes).

[Anonymous No.5499129]

>>5492292
south park used to be funny. now the plot writing is so self-indulgent it forgets to make the audience laugh

[Anonymous No.5499134]

>>5497640
That's hilarious. Do you have a source for this story? I want to read more.

Seems like an odd error to make before a game goes gold.

[Anonymous No.5499582]

>>5492240
Are there any more incidents involving padding / dummy files? I remember ryuuko no ken had a shitload of source code and various assets pulled directly from a dev machine due to a mastering error

[Anonymous No.5499953]

>>5498127
Not an argument

[Anonymous No.5500051]

>>5499129
This. The problem with modern South Park is their over reliance on one joke per episode. Hope you like that one joke cause you're gonna hear it and deviations of it for half an hour. It's all so predictable, homogenized, and shitty now. Like everything else.
Not even jaded, most media is simply abject garbage these days.

[Anonymous No.5500123]

>>5499582
I also remember Beatmania Best Hits had used the entire source code for Beatmania APPEND 5th Mix as the dummy file in the initial pressings.

[Anonymous No.5500147]

>>5492292
You're not wrong. It hasn't been funny in forever.

[Anonymous No.5500175]

>>5494849
This. I know a bunch of jap normalfags that live in my country and the dude has a bunch of gunpla, not shit like idol dogmas.

[Anonymous No.5502029]

>>5497498
the game itself is one fatal bug

[Anonymous No.5502181]

>>5492945
They only used her voice actually

[Anonymous No.5502195]

>>5498119
Not an argument