For sale - Official Crash Bandicoot Beta

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Price :500€

If you are referring to the discs, very few development studios used company branded media for their own code. (regular discs are cheaper and programmers went through hundreds of builds) Generally larger studios like EA and Capcom may use special discs when they send out samples to journalists because the discs would be marked in case one was leaked they could trace it to the source.





[video=dailymotion;xtm002]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtm002_beta-crash-bandicoot-5-96_videogames[/video]

 

The rules clearly state that all items MUST have a price.
If your asking price is going to be over $99 then you will also have to retake your picture and include your name and the site name!

 

on the scale of do want i do want alot...

 

You have some questions in your PM box.

 

On first look this appears to be the exact same prototype that was released by drx. I wonder if it's any different. The date shows three months before retail release.

Good luck with the sale

 

Up!

 

lol it aint drx's its mine mine has the "l" in the Loading screen drx's hasnt only different but easy to tell lol

 

Out of curiosity Maxou is the video you have in your first post your own video or just one you got off the net? The reason I ask is because the title of the video and disk have 5/96 when the beta shown in the video is dated 4/8/96.

 

8x CD-R in 1996?

 

Plextor did 4x in 1995 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plextor

Looking for more info now.

Edit:

http://www.plextor-digital.com/index.php/en/About-Us/

1997 for 8x launch apparently

Id have to agree this is very suspect.

 

A 4X CD-ROM drive was released in 1994, a 6X drive in 1995 and an 8X drive in 1996, establishing PLEXTOR as a CD-ROM drive brand.

It makes no bones about CD-R, only the readers/writers.

 

Please read correctly.

If the drive didnt come out until 1997, then the media is unlikely to be out in 96.

I owned a CD writer in that era, you struggled to find media that worked as fast as your top end writer. So getting faster media before the drives - No chance.

 

Please read correctly. The PX-R412C is definitely a drive

chicken or the egg

Plus there are other manufacturers for consideration.

I suppose further digging will find out for sure.

 

More makes than plextor doesn't matter, when the comment says "Industry's first 8x writer".

And no, its not chicken and egg. Drives came out first, media later. You struggled to find media that worked as fast as your writer at the best of times.

I had one for PS1 use when I was in school. It was 4x and trying to get 4x media was bad enough - not alone 8x and this was around 97, the same time frame we are talking about. So in 96? unlikely.

 

The comment "industry's first" was by Plextor on Plextors site in relation to Plextors product. it may be true, they may have been unaware of other developments, or it may just be marketing BS.

It is a chicken and egg situaiton. Media can be flakey at the best of times, but some media can also operate at a higher than the advertised rating, in which case it is perfectly possible to have media to market before the drive.

The comparison between the shopping experience of a poor student hunting for CD-R and the purchasing power of rich international conglomerate with a good trade relationship with the manufacturer are not the same or even remotely comparable.

Also it is possible for media to be burned with a build at a later date. There is a perfect example of this on eBay right now. There is a GD-R of Marvel vs Capcom dated after the game had already been released in all three regions. Could it be a fake? Sure. Or maybe it was burned later for a reason.

I'm not saying the disc is genuine or fake and personally I think Crash Bandicoot is a shit game, but people should not jump to conclusions and the buyer should beware.

 

Plextor says their first 8x was the PX-R412C and released in 1997. (But other googling says different? problem is, internet from that era isnt so well archived. I would assume plextor know their drives best - but who knows)

But I agree with you.

 

Even more damning then.

For anyone interested - direct link to the info Assembler is talking about - http://web.archive.org/web/19990427132619/http://www.plextor.com/820cdr.htm