Sega Saturn Press discs - the truth

Madroms · Sep 6, 2007

Here is a copy of one of my post I made here on a private part of the forum (so some people probably didn't see it), after some of you bought some press discs on eBay, marked as "possibly a Proto or Beta" by the seller.

this information is about press discs for the Sega Saturn.

I really think the guy who sold them really knew what he had in hands but he made his auctions and comments like if he knew nothing about them: as not a lot of people know about review copies, he said they are maybe proto or beta copies.
In fact, 99% of the review copies (press discs) are just retail cds without the cd label. I asked the seller to give me the serials found on the inner ring (matric info) of every cds he had for sale. I never got any reply from him. With this serial, you can be 100% sure if the game is the retail one or another copy.

He just gave the serial for the RE cd on his auction. This serial is exactly the same as the retail cd, so the one who bought the RE cd just bought the RE retail cd without the label (a review copy identical to the retail version) and not a proto/beta of some sort.

I compiled all of the serials from the cds I have (and that's a lot!) and all of them are freely available in my database on the net. So for future buy, don't hesitate to ask the seller this serial and compare it with the one on my database.

For ex, in the case of the RE cd, the serial is:
MK-81092P-01812 A 12345
To check yours, the important part is:
MK-81092P-01812
If you have the same serial => you have a retail cd (or cd with exactly the same data as the retail version) and not a proto/beta.

I hope this will help some people here
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So, press discs ARE retail discs without a label, nothing more (99% of the time).

I hope this information will be useful and that you will never bought (again) some fake proto/beta discs.

Segafreak_NL · Sep 8, 2007

Hmm well, the DC had a couple of interesting White Labels at least. (MSR Opel, Flintstones VRV etc).

Madroms · Sep 8, 2007

WindowsKiller said:

That's the case for virtually every White Label disc (no artwork on disc, that's were the term is coming from) anyway, isn't it? ;-)
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White Label disc for DC are really common compared to Saturn press discs, so people already know about White Label disc but NOT about the Saturn press discs, otherwise people will never buy them thinking there are proto/beta;-)

Django! · Sep 8, 2007

So, press discs ARE retail discs without a label, nothing more (99% of the time).
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I could have confirmed this.

Most press builds are either shipped on commercial discs without any artwork or box, or sent on a CDr or DVDr.

I have several of both from doing reviews over the years.

Sega Saturn Press discs - the truth

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