The 2016 Prototype Releases thread!

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  1. Moo

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    Moo, Jun 20, 2016
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    SpongeBob and Power Rangers are the icebreakers to usher in the beginning of the future of video game preservation? Never would have predicted it, but... awesome!

    Along with the Hidden Palace wiki and releases, there's a whole lot of amazing stuff happening right now.
     
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    I don't get the hype, however nice it is. I mean aren't the available Sonic X-treme builds fan made builds (based on original source code). And there are like two or three levels with no events or anything going on?
     
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    The modifications that were done were more ports, not really "Fan made." Plus original builds as well. There are scraps of levels, but there wasnt really a game there, no. But it also only represents one branch of Xtreme.
     
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    It's cool that it's out there and as a sort of pitch-demo. But what's interesting in more builds of the same thing? With nothing really playable there to enjoy.
    Are you saying that there actually is a game that's playable and hasn't been leaked?
     
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    It's just what in development games look like. Thats part of preserving the history, not everything is going to be a finished game, especially as one didnt really exist in this case. It's incredibly interesting to be able to pop into different moments in time and see what was being done.
     
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    Exactly, that's what I meant by this:
    Of course not, but there are lots of protos out there that are still playable. Like Doom 3 E3 Demo. Three maps + intro. Very playable. If it wasn't for the bugs it'd be as good as a public demo. And there are tons of protos like this, even the HL2 leak or RE1.5. Preservation is good and necessary.
    But I like to play "what could have been", and look at videos of what's not playable (like X-Treme).
     
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    Just release all the things :D (and maybe chip in some coins to support the collectors/programmers )
     
    CodeAsm, Jun 21, 2016
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    contrafan, Jun 22, 2016
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    I would personally date that to the big drx SEGA prototype release. SBSP and MMPR eclipse his release in terms of builds of an individual game but the drx proto release was AFAIK the absolute largest ever prototype haul.
     
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    I guess I was honing in on the numbers and did mean more highest volume of builds for a single game, but yeah, the drx Sega collection is absolutely insane and deserves as much credit as possible. Especially since there are several games in there with 20+ and 30+ builds.
     
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    It is really neat to see so many builds of each of those Climax titles. I'm thankful that people are taking the time to back up so many CD-Rs.
     
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