Posting on behalf of user Zen from the N64brew discord. He bought this MusyX SDK for Dolphin v1.5 (June 22, 2001) disc: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MUSY-X-SOF...m43663.l10137&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true Attached is a pic of the disc from the eBay listing, and another pic of the actual disc he received. As can be seen, the disc he received has a misaligned printed label. I know it was not uncommon for companies to ship CD-Rs/DVD-Rs with SDKs and related tools; however I'm not familiar with Nintendo stuff. Was it a common practice for them? Does anyone here have this or similar disc to confirm if it is legit? Have you seen legit discs with such crappy label job? PS: The contents of the disc look legit; we just want to try and figure out if the disc itself is legit or not.
I think he’s received a fake. Notice the disc he has received appears to be a white, inkjet printable surface where the listing shows a gold disk surface at the rim of the label. I would definitely open an eBay case in this instance where the received item doesn’t match the listing.
Having said that, it’s odd the periphery of the colourful background extends beyond the text in the received disc, like this was printed from a source image, and not a disc to disc copy. Unfortunately I can’t find any other reference images for this disc so this is a difficult case.
Hmm. I have been seeing a lot of weird gamecube dev stuff on Ebay that appears to be fake. Is this supposed to be one of the discs that runs on that brown tdev unit? @Cat man , you know anything about this?
If my eyes don't deceive me, the ebay picture is also a CD-R (look at the printed characters in the inner ring). I know for a fact companies sometimes went the cheap route of not pressing CDs, and instead used CD-Rs with custom printed labels, and we all know this is a manual job that may result in something like the disc received (especially if the person doing it was lazy). Just something to keep in mind.
I agree with you. Absolutely. It could be real, we just need someone with more information about this. I've never heard of this thing, and that's the problem. I have heard of disks with programs on them that will run on a tdev unit, basically a chocolate brown colored dev gamecube. I would like to believe this is a disk that would run on that, but I personally dont know. For starters, is this a regular sized CD or gamecube size? I'm having trouble with my depth perception or something o_o
The disc itself is a regular-sized CD for PC; it has a regular Windows installer. The files as well as the PVD have legit dates, which is a good indicator (sure, they can be faked, but most people probably don't know how to).
It was quite common for stuff like middleware to come on CD-Rs - it's sold in quite small quantities and revised frequently, so using pressed CDs would end up wasting a lot of discs.
