Strange Crash 2 Disc

I've recently stumbled on to a US copy of Crash Bandicoot 2 on Playstation. What's strange is that the disc the game was pressed on isn't the typical black CD rom. It looks more of a standard CD rom disc with a very slight blue-ish tint. Disc art looks virtually the same as retail copies of the same game. It also plays perfectly fine on retail hardware (PS1,PS2 etc.). Can anyone tell me what kind of release is this?

Thanks in advance.

 

It might be a pirate or a late review.

Can you take a picture of the disk?

Have you noticed anything weird in game like extra text / missing graphics etc?

 

Comparing the contents to a "normal" retail Crash disc might be worth a try too.

 

Can you post pictures of the disc itself?

I know that some companies still produce PS1 games legitimately (i believe it was Square Enix?) but on normal discs (with wobble space as well) so unless this is one of those cases it will likely be a pirate disc.

Again, pics are desired. Easiest way to tell

 

This caught my attention. Recall where you got this from? I can't imagine where any new production of such old software would go unless Square had a personal store online.

 

@MrMario2011 did most of the investigating here - here's the video I'm referencing as source (from memory)

 

Update. Sorry for the late reply. I just was finally able to aquire the particular item in question. I took a pic of the center spindle. Hope this helps.
An thanks in advance for any additional info that can be provided on what this could be.

 

Most likely a pirate

 

From what I've seen, PSRM discs are real games published by Sony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Digital_Audio_Disc_Corporation

Can we have more pictures, like complete top and bottom shots of the CD?

 

Could be a pre release version but on the disc it would say mpeg files

 

I believe PSRM indicates it's a demo disk, at least PSRM is officially used by Sony (US only)

 

Please make more pictures.

Thanks.

 

PSRM series text on the disc doesn't mean anything. I know for a fact that at least one official Sony disc plant was rented out to bootleggers at night time.

 

Not sure how true that is?

I mean, renting out your million dollar factory to bootleggers over night would kind of put your million dollar factory in millions of dollars of danger. I find it hard to believe anyone would be that stupid at those levels. I spent 2 years in PR China (at the tail end of the PS1/start of PS2 era) buying games all over the place, from the north to the south... and I never once saw a self-booting disc. Now cue those replies of "I got a self booting disc from HK in the 1990's" followed by the reply "Let's see it." followed by a long period of silence.

Even Datel who did have self-booting discs out there on sale had to reverse engineer the wobble (disc copy protection). In fact, it would have been cheaper for someone in HK or China to do just that - rather than 'bribe a factory' to produce their discs. Whilst it's obviously a bit of a hassle, someone could (in theory) build a machine that reproduces the wobble, on paper it's hardly rocket science.

 

I didn't say anything about selfbooting discs, sir. I said I know of at least one sony disc plant that was rented out to bootleggers. I didn't say they made selfbooting psx discs, because they didn't.
But those series printed on the inside of the disc don't have to mean anything.

 

Here are some more pics. Sorry for the quality.

 

I have a couple of bootlegs that look just like that. I don't know if they were also on official Sony discs, I'll have to check when I find them.

 

Sorry, I just remember an ages old thread and it jogged my memory - I misread your post.

So what ever happened to those self-booting discs?

 

Looks like normal original disc, just silver. I can say it's a misprint.