Road Rash 3 Genesis: Early Prototype: Dumped

http://www.welcometotherash.com/files/road_rash_3_alpha_5.smd

Heres the title screen:



Heres the cart:



(There used to be a James Pond III ROM on this cart), theres a build label visible underneath the RR3 ROM label.)

Big thanks to Qjimbo of http://www.qjim.bo for the assistance in the dump:

Some differences from the final:

* Some RR2 characters are still in there (Kakana, Bunker)
* At least one new character not in the other games, 'Nasty NAT'
* The title screen has a build date, and the tagline 'World Warriors' not 'Tour De Force' as in the final.
* graphical and sound glitches.
* The Japan track crashes - a lot.
* The 'Club' noise (IE when you hit someone with a club) plays at the start of each race.
* Mbote is 'Mobina' in this build and Smythe is 'Singh'.
* Bike descriptions are different - some of them look like theyre from RR2.
* After race comments are mostly from RR2.
* Bunker has a cop sprite, and can arrest you as such.
* Repoman's comments are different from the final.
* In options, you can select both engine noise and Music playing at the same time.
* Each race always starts with a car behind the starting line for some reason.
* Cheats are enabled by default for debug.
* Things like ££ amount, your bike etc are not reset on a Game Over.
* Cops will still arrest you in snitch mode.
* Cops have different comments in snitch mode.

Check out my site about Road Rash here:

http://www.welcometotherash.com/

Thanks - James

 

great thread thanks! :clap:

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks a lot !!!

 

Im on a mac

Can anyone convert it to a BIN format?

 

I've done it : http://www.megadrive.org/~elbarto/md/road_rash_3_alpha_5.bin

 

you

rule

 

text from the ROM:

Interesting - I wonder if at one point the RR3 game required you to earn X amount of $$ to qualify as opposed to clearing all the tracks...

 

From the character lists: Very interesting: I wonder if there was a marauding biker gang in there at one point? (Just speculation of course).

These names appear in the final ROM too

 

From the after-race comments list: Theyre all from RR2 (RR3 was built directly on RR2) except the snitch/ repo modes.

This comment appears right at the end, after the main ones, and is the only one not left over from RR2. It's quite funny

 

It's been here - http://www.hidden-palace.org/ - for ages, mate =P

 

marvellous!!!

 

Great stuff, one of my favourite series, thanks for the link.

 

thanks

anyone hears of any genesis/ sega cd rash protos (no 3do, amiga, gameboy n64 etc please) please LET ME KNOW

 

x

 

I have a Sega Saturn one left. Glad to see my old RR3 has a good home =)

 

you can download and see but the answer is no, just in-race opponents, and after-race comments.

Thanks also to Jason

 

Actually, I found a Sega CD one as well!