A number of years ago i bought a Dreamcast with a stack of 10 or so promo discs. The promo discs are standard white discs with the name of the game, except two of them. The games are Toy Story 2 and Dinosaur, they are two sided discs with the game on both sides. They appear to be double sided GD-Roms and not CD-R's, If anyone can provide any information or tell me if any other promos came out in this form, it would be appreciated.
There never were double sided GD-ROMs produced to my knowledge and those are clearly pressed.An And if they were double sided, why would someone write on one half of them ruining that side?
The writing is on the non-data section of the disc. The console with promo games were bought at the end of the dreamcasts life from some retail store in UK.
The only non-data sections of any optical media are the inner hub and the very sliver of the outer edge. IIRC data on GD-ROMs went from the outer edge inwards in the high density area and in the low density inner ring from the inside out. Unless these games only used 100-300mb or so the writing is on readable sections making the second half pointless. Why would anyone press the same game twice on opposite sides of the disc? GD-ROMs were already a custom enough gig to press; making double sided discs would be even more expensive. And of course it'd make sense to only press double sided discs for odd releases and never for mass production - especially the same game on both sides. EDIT: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?22772-Dreamast-silver-samples Pretty much what I suspected. They're 'silvers'. Probably press copies but they are not double sided.
Most of these are standard retail games without printing on the top. Nice thing is that they work without a bootup disk or mod of any kind on a retail system.
I used to have a bunch of them in my collection, just silvers like they used to do for the Saturn. More rare than the 'White Label' promos for DC IMO.
