Release: Metroid Prime Beta

sounds debunked to me

 

I see some speculation. I have seen some similarities between the demo found on my version 8 demo. I haven't played either much of the demo, the retail and this beta in a long time, but I can provide a dump of version 8 for comparison. I also have a version 9 demo which may or may not contain the same demo as version 8.

 

nensondubois: The disk image I compared this release to came from a Version 8 kiosk demo - the exact same image I had used in the thread at Jul I linked to in my first post in this thread -, and as I've posted above, the only difference is the "Welcome to the Metroid Prime Beta" text, which looks badly hacked in (overwritten letters with spaces instead of just nulling the string's end, the misplaced full stop).

Again, I'm not trying to allege any kind of scam or whatever, but the whole thing just doesn't look convincing to me.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing the version 9 demo dumped, you may want to contribute it to redump.org, just a suggestion

 

I'm currently dumping version 9 now.

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=76AB7REW

Should be a valid mirror eventually. It uploaded successfully but it says its temporarily unavailable.

Well, even if it was a scam none of us have actually lost anything except for maybe nensondubois if he paid money for the image.

Which it doesn't look like he did. No harm, no foul.

 

thanks

 

Yeah, the demo is still uploading and it will be in split 7 parts due to my account only being able to upload 200mb files at a time. Use 7zip or something to merge it into an .iso

Looking at the Metroid Prime game folder, it bears no resemblance to this Press-release that I uploaded. I don't know anything about Gamecube structuring so I can't be sure on how greatly it varies. Maybe someone with better minds than mine can look deeper into it to know for sure what varies between these three versions.

Here is the Version 9 demo. Really hope this wasn't released yet. I'm not going to distribute questionable digital copies anymore... no moar crap!

Part 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?q5y84c5n8z4d97r

Part 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yztqp62gaq4atfd

Part 3:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?15ir0a18b8v801p

Part 4:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hqia01o4lwkd5z3

Part 5:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2581a4tb9c1yqhw

Part 6:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jh6ibc3b9dccp3c

Part 7:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?98abfpwr0zq28e6

This is exactly how everything unfolded:

http://board.gscentral.org/showthrea...oid-Prime-Beta

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=154209

"Really sorry about this bs. Being a Metroid fan myself I'm thoroughly disappointed.

HERE IS THE IRC PRIVATE CHAT:
http://board.gscentral.org/attachmen...2&d=1307248151

There is nothing more I can offer except some Gamecube Kiosk rips to make up for this incident. Check Assemblergames frequently."

All future releases will be direct from my copies, not from some dubious source like itsblah. :roll:

 

What's the earliest version of the Kiosk disc available then? I know of the US kiosk disc, the PAL kiosk disc, the US 0-00, 0-01, 0-02 retail releases, the Japanese release, the PAL (and players choice) releases and the Korean 0-30 release.

What other 'versions' of MP are known to exit!?! ray:

 

Resident Evil 4 Bonus Disc - from Resident Evil 4 Limited Edition Pak
The making of Resident Evil 4
- Resident Evil game footage
- Resident Evil 2 game footage
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis game footage
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica game footage
- Resident Evil Zero game footage
- Resident Evil 4 game footage
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes playable demo

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N7SRDUDG
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QTDLLHV0

 

Version 7 is the earliest NTSC demo disk containing a playable version of Metroid Prime. I have no ideas about the other regions, but I assume they follow a similar suit.

 

...

Waker released that Prime beta.

He says hi.

EDIT:

"Hi

This was originally released in Metroid Construction.

Whoever has it is in big trouble, especially for distributing it.

Expect shit,
Waker"

 

Oh nose!

It doesn't even look like a real beta.

 

Didn't we all agree its just the preview demo with a text string edited

 

Yes, I would say so.
& if it truly is in fact an official beta, then it is incredibly uninteresting to say the least.

 

Yeah, it is.

It has a linker map file left over, though. I assume it's when they were testing the game.

 

Thank you for this release i will try it on my RVT-R

 

...whyyyyyyyy would you. It's a kiosk demo. Of course, unless you knew that. If so, go right ahead.

iirc it should run on anything.