All Three of Unclejun's Starlancer GD-R Dumps in CDI Format

atreyu187 · Sep 9, 2012

From Wikipedia:

It is the year 2160. Mankind has colonized the solar system and two political entities have emerged: the Alliance consisting of American, Australian, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, British and German forces, and The Coalition of Russian, Chinese and Middle-Eastern interests. The game begins with a surprise attack on Fort Kennedy, where a peace treaty turns into a bloodbath: all of the inner four planets are overrun, including Terra herself, and the Italian and French fleets are utterly lost. The Alliance fleet regroups at Triton, Neptune's moon, and attempts to regain lost territory. The player takes the role of a rookie pilot in the international 45th Volunteers squadron, under the command of Captain Robert Foster and Wing Commander Maria Enriquez, aboard the re-commissioned British carrier ANS Reliant.
As with Wing Commander: Prophecy, the pilot's flying ability is the only meter by which success and failure is measured, though Starlancer does not feature branching mission paths. As in Wing Commander I the pilot may be promoted throughout the course of the campaign; unlike WCI, their rank determines which fighters and missiles they may choose to employ during each mission. The game provides a "virtual carrier" through which to navigate, including nearby crewmembers whose reaction to you depends on your current rank and standing. However, the true gem of the game lies in its textual and video news broadcasts, which keep the player informed as to the status of the rest of the war, which seems to be progressing just over the horizon. Players frequently find themselves flying alongside squadrons and pilots they have heard about on the news just recently, providing a dose of 'celebrity exposure' and also increasing the sensation that they are just one part of a much larger war effort.
Starlancer's story is continued in Chris Roberts' Freelancer project, though the two belong to different sub-genres (the first is purely focused on action, the latter also features trading and the player can freely move through the game's universe when they are not on a mission.)
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Please note all four builds are WinCE games and will not work in NullDC at this time, they have however each been burn tested on 80min CDR's using IMGBurn 2.5.7.0 with Discjuggler 6 drivers at 16x.They all work and look great on a retail unit via VGA (all are VGA compatible and region free). I have not tested other emulators as my laptop simply will not run them so please feel free to report your findings.

So I obtained these GDI files from a guy at Assembler-Games forums called unclejun. He asked for someone to selfboot them as he couldn't get one to work from a GD-R. Well I am proud to say I have selfbooted all three and are fully working, I have also included a new rip of the retail disc done by me for you to compare all three GD-R's with the retail disc. The GD-R's are BETA's so keep that in mind as the whole game isn't there except for the last one it is a preview build of the single player action and is close to the retail besides that fact that online multiplayer had not been implemented in this build. Now one is from August 07,2000 and is a DEMO with only two levels,August 15,2000 is a early BETA, and finally the September 20, 2000 build is near the final build.

Below are some screen shots of the game taken by the original dumper as well. All games retain the original sort order and use 45000 LBA just as the GD-R's. All four are in DATA/DATA format for increased compatibility with more systems. I also padded each with a dummy file to 79:59 min of 80min CDR's to help cut down seek times. Nothing needed to be removed or downsampled on the first two builds as they are 1:1 images. The preview and retail had to have the video's downsampled but I used KVCD codec 2-pass with VBR to retain quality you know from my rips.

This is just a simple two level demo displayed at E3 years ago for the lucky folks who were there to try out this game before launch. It is short and to the point and has a totally different look then the other three.

August 07,2000 DEMO

Disk Info:
Hardware Identifier : "SEGA SEGAKATANA"
Hardware Vender ID : "SEGA ENTERPRISES"
Media ID : "7007"
Media Information : "GD-ROM1/1"
Compatible area symbols : "JUE"
Peripheral Information : "6799F11"
Product number : "T0000M"
Version number : "V0.800"
Release date (dd/mm/yyyy): 30/08/1999
First read file : "0WINCEOS.BIN"
Maker Identifier : "SEGA LC-T-00"
Game Title : "THIS IS A SAMPLE DISK FOR USE IN THE OFFICE ONLY DO NOT SELL DO NOT CARRY OUT FROM THE OFFICE"

HD area TOC:
HD tracks : 3 to 5
track 3 : Start LBA 45000 , End LBA 547817, ctrl 0x4
track 4 : Start LBA 547967 , End LBA 548418, ctrl 0x0
track 5 : Start LBA 548568 , End LBA 549300, ctrl 0x4
Last Sector : LBA 549150
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The second one is more like the final build and has a lot more options available in the menu. The dumper could not get this disc to work but after conversion the game boots just fine and for you to enjoy. Since he couldn't get it working there are no screen shots for this one sorry folks but the game does work ad you can findout for yourself what treasures lay ahead.

August 15,2000 BETA

Disk Info:
Hardware Identifier : "SEGA SEGAKATANA"
Hardware Vender ID : "SEGA ENTERPRISES"
Media ID : "7007"
Media Information : "GD-ROM1/1"
Compatible area symbols : "JUE"
Peripheral Information : "6799F11"
Product number : "T0000M"
Version number : "V0.800"
Release date (dd/mm/yyyy): 30/08/1999
First read file : "0WINCEOS.BIN"
Maker Identifier : "SEGA LC-T-00"
Game Title : "THIS IS A SAMPLE DISK FOR USE IN THE OFFICE ONLY DO NOT SELL DO NOT CARRY OUT FROM THE OFFICE"

HD area TOC:
HD tracks : 3 to 5
track 3 : Start LBA 45000 , End LBA 445775, ctrl 0x4
track 4 : Start LBA 445925 , End LBA 446376, ctrl 0x0
track 5 : Start LBA 446526 , End LBA 549300, ctrl 0x4
Last Sector : LBA 549150
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This one is close to the final build single player wise, the multiplayer hadn't been implemented in this build.

September 20, 2000 Preview (Video's downsampled to 2,000k KVCD 2-pass VBR, audio untouched and nothing ripped)

Disk Info:
Hardware Identifier : "SEGA SEGAKATANA"
Hardware Vender ID : "SEGA ENTERPRISES"
Media ID : "7007"
Media Information : "GD-ROM1/1"
Compatible area symbols : "JUE"
Peripheral Information : "6799F11"
Product number : "T0000M"
Version number : "V0.800"
Release date (dd/mm/yyyy): 30/08/1999
First read file : "0WINCEOS.BIN"
Maker Identifier : "SEGA LC-T-00"
Game Title : "THIS IS A SAMPLE DISK FOR USE IN THE OFFICE ONLY DO NOT SELL DO NOT CARRY OUT FROM THE OFFICE"

HD area TOC:
HD tracks : 3 to 5
track 3 : Start LBA 45000 , End LBA 187416, ctrl 0x4
track 4 : Start LBA 187566 , End LBA 188017, ctrl 0x0
track 5 : Start LBA 188167 , End LBA 549300, ctrl 0x4
Last Sector : LBA 549150
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September 09,2000
August 15,2000
August 07,2000

I thought it would be easier to have all three here in one spot for it to be found easier. Please thank Unclejun as I didn't do anything other them recode and selfboot this is his source and he deserves credit.

Rodrigo · Sep 10, 2012

That's neat, thanks.

How did the publishers distribute those demo/sample discs?

atreyu187 · Sep 10, 2012

On recordable gd-r disc and a gd writer is how they were passed out. One would need a pricey system 2 disc to boot them unless converted to cdi.

All Three of Unclejun's Starlancer GD-R Dumps in CDI Format

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