/vr/ - Retro Games

File: 120 KB, 986x826, golf.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:22:08 2019 No.5966349 [Reply] [Original]

This is what preservation looks like.

>>	Lazy Eddie Tue Oct 22 22:23:49 2019 No.5966352 >>5966349 Yeah, that's why comprehensive archives are merged.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:25:00 2019 No.5966356 >>5966349 I mean yeah.. that’s why we merge it into a compressed archive so you only store the minor differences. Any good emulator will uncompress automatically and select the best dump so it’s no issue

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:27:22 2019 No.5966358 But which one is the definitive version of Golf Magazine Presents - 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:27:46 2019 No.5966359 >>5966349 Use a deduplicating file-system.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:32:05 2019 No.5966371 How did they acquire so many sequential betas of one game?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:34:38 2019 No.5966375 who's Fred Couples

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:34:40 2019 No.5966376 >>5966349 It is. Sucks for you it triggers your tism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:36:53 2019 No.5966382 >>5966371 Let's just Say Fred Couples won't be playing Golf any more.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:44:14 2019 No.5966398 >>5966349 Did drx dump those sonic cd betas yet? The ones dating a year before the release, which had to be removed from those VGA graded sealed plastic cases?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 22:52:05 2019 No.5966410 File: 57 KB, 720x576, solarflare.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5966349 Not so fast!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 23:18:42 2019 No.5966468 >>5966375 I don't know but he has 36 GREAT holes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 23:30:02 2019 No.5966480 >>5966398 wasn't that a fake?

Anonymous Tue Oct 22 23:32:43 2019 No.5966489

>>5966349
And that's a good thing!
Sure, maybe it's amusing in a "who would care about this game enough to actually want to analyze the specific, borderline day-to-day at times development history" sort of way to see so many builds for a single golf game, but in the world of game preservation it is very rare to see so many builds of one title made available to the public. Many times none are ever publicly released, and when they are, it is often just one, and sometimes even then it might just be a short time before the final version. Plus, let's face it, if somebody dropped a dozen or more (or hell, even just one) preproduction versions of Super Mario 64 or something, the internet would be creaming their collective panties and people would be eagerly analyzing and documenting just how exactly a Nov 9 build differs from a Nov 8 build. Just be glad that the same people who share this kind of stuff will probably be the same people who share a build of a game that you do care about.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 23:46:41 2019 No.5966514 >not autistically playing each one than ranking them based on various different aspects, then compiling all collected info and documenting it. stay pleb

Anonymous Wed Oct 23 00:49:24 2019 No.5966605

>>5966514
Who wouldn't want to be THE guy who writes an individual TCRF page for each and every build, documenting all of their specific glitches, graphical differences, and gameplay alterations for the one reader who eagerly refreshes the entries every day, just waiting for the dedicated author to drop another update?

Anonymous Wed Oct 23 01:47:05 2019 No.5966654

One of the main reasons for preserving so many builds is just to keep tabs on what's already been found. When a beta turns up on ebay, nobody really knows if it's worthwhile or not. Once it's dumped, they can just run a comparison to the other beta builds they already have to quickly tell if it's worth digging through or not. If it's new, they can scrounge around inside it on the off chance there's anything interesting before adding it to the list of shit they already have.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 17:10:08 2019 No.5967986 >>5966654 >When a beta turns up on ebay, nobody really knows if it's worthwhile or not. Except all the people who know it's not?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 17:20:57 2019 No.5968015 >>5966398 those are currently MIA because of retardera, not even joking, it's best if you don't know anything about it and keep hoping it'll turn up again

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 17:33:10 2019 No.5968035 >>5968015 wait what, what happened? I thought drx had them?

Anonymous Wed Oct 23 17:40:41 2019 No.5968059

>>5967986
Sure, these things are universally not worthwhile in the eyes of some people, but for others who do find this stuff interesting, buying prototypes is often a gamble. Most sellers seem to be too lazy to really investigate what they're selling, sometimes to their own detriment. I know I've wound up with some unreleased games because the sellers apparently didn't recognize that they were unreleased, or were unable/unwilling to go through the effort to figure out what was really on the media.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 17:47:54 2019 No.5968072 File: 31 KB, 320x286, Down-Child-Hands.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5968059 >universally not worthwhile in the eyes of some people Well there's yer problem

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 17:58:09 2019 No.5968093 >>5966349 I'm so fucking autistic I'd love to datahoard all of these

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 18:03:30 2019 No.5968097 >>5968093 gotta marathon them all after datahoarding, rite girlfriend! #yolo #crazy #loco

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 18:07:01 2019 No.5968103 >>5968035 A deal went bad and all I know is that part of it involved telling nobody. A special kid did and now the collectorfag doesn't want to play ball. I hope they both burn to death.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 18:12:12 2019 No.5968109 >>5966371 someone brought the backup tapes that were used by sega

Anonymous Wed Oct 23 18:30:53 2019 No.5968142

>>5968109
>>5966371
https://hiddenpalace.org/Sega_ROM_Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTHghq6DNBE
Basically, some of the companies developing for the Genesis would send Sega ROM files for evaluation and apparently testing. Sega would receive the data, burn it to EPROMs, toss them on development boards, and have their testing department test them for, and then document, bugs and whatnot. At some point(s), Sega decided to archive the files that they still had on hand by burning them to CD-Rs. These CD-Rs were later sold and ripped.
Even prior to that, it would seem that a Sega employee took advantage of this system to sell prototypes carts to the public. You can read about that here:
http://www.nintendoplayer.com/unreleased/sonic-crackers/
Hard to say which old Sega ROMs that are on the internet today are thanks to this employee's prototype sales beyond Sonic Crackers, but given that he is credited for "Screenshots" in the Aladdin manual, and that the recently dumped so-called CES build of Aladdin was seemingly the source of some stock preview screenshots used in magazines at the time, it is probably a good bet that the prototype cart that the build was dumped from was something else he once sold.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 18:45:19 2019 No.5968164 >>5966358 Is this a porno or not? My friend needs to know how great these holes are

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]