Early Saturn Footage. with video, now early PSX footage.

that be great assembler, but i''m curious, how come this isn't posted on the main site?

 

If you can't host the PSX videos, send them to my Gmail account.

1Gb of e-mail! Damn, finally some use for it :smt033

 

Whilst still looking through yet more tapes for the early Panzer Dragoon stuff I came across the Saturn version of Cybersled. Looks like Sony were waving their wads of cash about back then too so that other systems couldn't get the best of 3rd party titles. Cybersled and Ridge Racer were both in development for Saturn. I've yet to have ever seen anything of Saturn Ridge Racer but here are some Cybersled shots.


OK, so the top two shots are the same. I just couldn't decide which looked better :smt019


The version of Cybersled that these shots were taken from was only a rolling demo but it clearly shows that Namco were onboard as a Saturn games developer before someone waved their cash about or threatened them.

How about a bit of 32X action? Here are a few pictures from Wolverine and Batman Returns.




Yakumo

 

Wonder if wolverine uses the same enigine as that one x-men game that videogamesdepot use to have a beta copy of.

 

Well, as far as i know Yakumo, Ridge Racer was always going to be a PSX exclusive.

Cyber Sled, on the other hand, was not as succesful so Sony didn't care about exclusivity.

By the way, the Cyber Sled port for the PS1 is crappy. The original game wasn't that good anyways too. :smt040


PS: Yakumo, you will take all those tapes with you to Japan right? It would be amazing to see them captured by your PC, like you do with Dreamcast games.

 

Very nice pics Yakumo! Keep they coming!!



PD

 

Re: Some early psone pics

Performance reasons? Compare with the "high-spec demo" included with RR4.

 

Re: Some early psone pics

My mate used to have this game. It was released and what a plie of steeming crap it was. It was some sort of racing game where you controlled a floting bike/car thing. It had the worst controls ever with the L & R buttons being left and right if I remember rightly. He also had another very early doom style game with cutie characters. Can't remember what that was called but that was crap too.

Yes, I will take the tapes to Japan with me but I have no idea if they will play in my Video recorder. The English Panasonic video players play NTSC but I have no idea if the Japanese Panasonic video players will play PAL tapes.

Yakumo

 

Probably won't play PAL. Multiregion DVD is pretty common, but multi-system VCRs are you don't get on accident.

 

Too bad your parents house does not have a video capture card, its easy to convert pal to ntsc on pc, as for vhs, is it possible that euro vcrs allow you to record in ntsc mode like newer pal tvs allow for ntsc mode?

 

We have 3 video recorders in our house(Panasonic, Sony and Hinari) that all play NTSC but none of them will record in NTSC. :smt009

Yakumo

 

Found some cool stuff on a old brazilian game magazine. The picture i took is from Ação Games. It mentions the entrance of Sony on the game market with the PS1. The magazine is from 1994.



On the pics you can see:

- Aquanote : The pic probably show the game or a CG running on a more powerful system. The actual game ended up being released as Aquanaut's Holiday, with normal PS1 graphics.

- Metal Jacket : On Gamefaqs it says as released on Japan only. Never heard of this game before.

- Poli Poli Circus Grand Prix: From the pics it looks to be a very early build of the released game Motortoon Grand Prix.

- Ora 194 : Very early build of the released game Philosoma.

- Ridge Racer : The pics seem to be from the arcade version.

- Artdink 4 : Probably ended up as A-Train, released only in US by Maxis.

Now, the translation of the text on the magazine:

Sony declares war against Nintendo
The Sony Executives from Japan, gave interviews criticizing Nintendo, Worldwide leader of games.
" The Playstation will provoke a revolution on the concept of videogame and it's prices. We are starting a digital war and the end of the Famicom era." affirmed to ED Magazine (connected to Sony), on the September edition. The ED brings an enormous news article on the Playstation.

Despite the provocation, Sony did not revealed the price of the console, that will probably be released in November in Japan. But softhouses Virgin and Asumikku affirms that it will cost about 300 dollars. If this is the price, it will be a war and we, the consumers, will end up winning. The price of the CD's of games, however, will probably not fall: it will be around the 100 dollars each. Check now some of the first games to be released.The ED listed 200 games in production for the Playstation.


:smt024

 

bad news Johnny. The link doesn't show us the big image :smt009 can you post it again?

Yakumo

 

I uploaded it again. See if it works now.

 

work fine for me :smt023

 

It's working for me as well now. :smt023

Yakumo

 

wasnt working before but working ok now! :smt023