Hi, when looking through the HDD of my TOOL's DVD emulator, I found what seems to be an almost complete (QA) version of Acclaim's Gladiator - Sword of Vengeance (for PAL territories). The image is entitled GLADIATOR_EUROPEAN, with the main game executable having a timestamp of 2003/11/20; although a built date of 2003/10/29 is displayed on the title screen. Some high-quality screenshots follow (copied directly off the TOOL's video memory). Is this one in the wild yet? If not, I can prepare a release if anybody is interested. Also, does any of you know whether Acclaim used some kind of watermarking for their QA builds? I don't want to bring anyone into trouble. :noooo: Best regards, SilverBull Update: You can download it here (around 2.1GB total): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HGYEBE8F http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RHTLLXLU http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PG1EN57 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6NMQKIMC Password is " @ASSEMblergames.com" (without quotes, but including the leading space). Unpacking will create a single ISO image of a master disc. If you have a TOOL with a T14k DVD emulator fitted, you should be able to run the game by simply copying all files from the image to the emulator. Otherwise, simply burn the image to a single-layer DVD. Use a command like "reset f0002 100" when trying to start this on a TOOL. The 0xf0000 flag is absolutely required, though; omitting it results in the kernel debugger halting the PS2 CPU, as the game passes invalid arguments to some system calls on startup. :banghead: Have fun!
I'd be interested in seeing if there's any difference between this and the release version...even if the Release version was kinda crap
Does anyone know the streetdate? If so, you could work out how close it is to final by the dates above in the screenshots. Alternatively, as this may be a PAL localisation of a game that was already completed for USA release, it may well be the same as the final release - the only think they'd be doing is adding the multiple foreign languages for the EU market. Unless of course it was being developed by a European coding house?
You're welcome :icon_bigg. Let me know if you want more of them (any specific ones?). This isn't the kind of game I usually play, so basically I know nothing about it. However, a quick google search returned 2003/10/28 for the US and 2003/11/4 for the EU release, although I do not know how reliable these are. The game says its been developed at Acclaim Studios Manchester. Oh, BTW: its a QA Build, so it has quite some debug stuff and even an integrated cheat menu :nod:. You can set the current level you are exploring, what weapons and armor you have equipped, set the length of and refill the life bar, and so on. Good news: I now have a master disc ISO which plays fine on both of my TOOLs here; one of which has a japanese region drive controller, so its pretty picky on what regions it likes (of course, not for master discs, but anyway ;-)). The file is around 2GB compressed, so I will now have to look for a way to upload it somewhere. My upstream here is painfully slow (something around 40KB/s), so that'll take around half of a day; apart from rendering the connection (basically) unusable for other applications, as I don't have a traffic shaper :banghead:. Will try tomorrow to use a better connection at another location. I'll keep you updated. Any thoughts on whether there might be a watermark on this specific build? Is Acclaim known for using them?
The image is available for download now :icon_bigg. Please see the first post for the links. Have fun!
It works on exactly one of my TEST units; the other ones seem to have laser issues and won't recognize the disc at all :banghead:. Therefore, I think it should work on modded retail consoles as long as the laser can read it. Sorry, can't test any further; my last modded console blew up some time ago (when I was trying to exchange the laser OH and is being repaired right now.
