Rarest thing you own thread

The most rare thing I've got is the master server and client files for the Xbox One version of Neverwinter Nights.

I believe only 3 people own as of right now.

 

That's pretty awesome. Do you have a video or something of it running?

-doulomb

 

I can probably throw a video together of the files.

 

Just ordered a Virtual Boy.

 

Well, I don't think I own anything too rare. I have a red Playstation 2 console, though.

 

This is my rarest sealed game only confirmed graded copy in the world.


These would be my second rarest
Fox Data Resprays

 

Ugh VGA Grading...

Nice Star Fox Controllers though

 

These are my favourite part of my collection

 

I have John Romero's personal neXTstation turbo color... purchased it from and signed by him. Id software used the nextstations to develop wolfenstein 3d, DOOM, and Quake back in the early 90's... though this one has been wiped/reimaged (I took a peek at the drive contents and it's got a fresh image of nextstep os on it, with only reference to a external device called "monsters" in the config file logged back in 1998)

http://postimg.org/image/aq171oiqx/
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http://postimg.org/image/65f0mqz1l/

That's probably the rarest thing I own.

 

That is amazing. Does it have early source code or resources?

 

From what I've checked, no. It's config files appear that it was "reimaged" sometime back in 1997 by timestamps. The last activity of the machine was there was some device connected to it called "monsters" in 1998, which was timestamped in one of the configuration files.... though it was likely a secondary drive or external drive that was attached and no relevant data was on the physical drive other than NextStep OS standard install stuff. Fraggle from doomworld (who is a pretty nifty developer and knows Linux/Unix fairly well) assisted in the search. We confirmed all original components, so the drive wasn't replaced... just imaged apparently.

This was also noted during the transction with Romero, as he stated "no id software data is on the machine", but of course, curiosity and "had to know" factor was there, lol. It should also be mentioned that this was auctioned off directly after he posted a lot of never-before seen DOOM material (textures, images, sounds, map data) just a day prior on his post in doomworld forums... if that means anything. I had also asked him a week before hand if he so happened to still have an Nextstation, and to my surprise, he said he did and informed me he'd be selling it off. Remember, some of Wolfenstein 3D, all of DOOM, and Quake, were all developed and designed on these NextStations... they were ported to PC after it was completed.

On a side note, there were a few other Nextstations, used and owned by the id team, including a NextCube. These were apparently given to one of John Carmack's friends, and Carmack had told him should he ever sell/give them away, to destroy all the data on the drives. The guy who has the remaining nextstations is also the owner of smugmug.com, and I think he worked with Carmack many years ago. So it seems that for the id guys, making sure any data from those devices will never make it out in the wild.

To me, and to the PC FPS gaming community, I consider this NextStation as a holy grail, just as the console guys are treating the awesome Super SNES/PlayStation that was just found in the trash. Completely awesome week for gaming hardware history!!

 

Did you ever try one of those data saver tools that can sometimes find stuff after a format?

-doulomb

 

Several military-grade forensic recovery applications were used mounting the drive under a Linux machine (suich as SCALPEL), and while it'd didn't find any immediate files,another tool did find past instances of image partitions previously on the machine, though none of which appearead recoverable due to multiple overwrites.

 

I suppose these two would be my rarest.

 

Street Fighter on the Virtua Boy?

 

That's an home-brew effort, a really good one. (http://www.retrocollect.com/News/st...ghting-unofficially-hits-the-virtual-boy.html)

 

Yup! I'm glad I was able to grab one. Not very many were made (20 was the number I heard). The full version rom (if it was available) doesn't fit on the VB flash cart, so this is the only way to play it on actual hardware.

 

Wow thats very cool. Good for you dude.

-doulomb

 

PS1 Debugging station (mine was no #2 of 3 ever imported to Iceland. and i got it for $40 LOOOL)
Mastergames 9000 (ps1 clone)
GTA San Andreas PS2 still in the plastic, brand new. My mom bought the last remaining SA in the store and i doubt others in iceland kept their unopened XD

 

Funny, I just opened my brand new copy of San Andreas a couple days ago. In about 20 years I'm probably gonna regret opening my brand new trilogy set =P