What are the remaining holy grails of videogame collecting?

What about that prototype of Crash Bandicoot 2 with red crystals and different warp-rooms. Isn't it worthy of being considered a holy grail of videogaming?

 

I think only to hardcore Crash Bandicoot enthusiasts. ^^

 

D'Oh! xD

 

Any playable copies/builds of the canceled game Babylon 5: Into the Fire (if they still existed) would probably be holy-grail material.
Police Academy for the NES (if it ever existed as code rather than just mock-ups etc) would also qualify IMO.
Anything playable for C&C Renegade 2 is definatly holy-grail material (that and the "Tiberium" FPS that also got canceled)

 

One thing I'd like to see released, and I know this isn't exactly what you mean but I really want it and I'm sure many others do too, is the source code for some of the many great console games that really deserve to be on later consoles as well as their original machines. Games like Goldeneye (the N64 game, not the massively inferior modern cash in on the Wii/360/PS3), Perfect Dark, Unreal Championship, and Breakdown. It would be wonderful to have the source code for these games, and to be able to recompile them to run on the PC and on modern consoles.

id Software, 3D Realms, and a couple of other software houses have released the source code to their games, but sadly this altruism is almost unknown from other companies. I *really* with Rare would follow suit, and release the source code to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, but it's unlikely to happen, especially as Microsoft now have so much control over Rare (have Microsoft ever released the source code for any of their previously commercial games or programs?).

 

One of the issues with the n64 games is likely due to the libraries being use, can't release them with Nintendo code in them. I believe that for the NES and SNES, it was much more custom back then.

 

Duke nukem forever N64 or PC build? jk

 

I got to see Tiberium pretty early in its development production (before one of the redesigns of it -- also, wow, refreshing my memory via Wikipedia on dates ... that thing wasn't announced until 2008?) Don't remember much of it, other than the footage we were shown did seem promising. Guess they just couldn't get themselves a CoD killer, after Modern Warfare came out. Also, wow... come to think of it ... EA sure did have a good few projects "out in the open" back during the mid 00s without actually having announced them properly at the time (White Council comes to mind too -- as one of those titles that everyone knew of, but no one ever saw, which never really got formerly announced -- never did see that one, unfortunately).

Still a bit of a shame that Tiberium never materialized -- also don't get how EA's been all Medal of Honor / Battlefield lately, rather than trying to reignite Tiberium ... you know, what with how everyone else are doing these days "World of Tomorrow"-esque Sci-Fi shooters these days. (To be honest, I think BF4 should've been a BF3 relaunch/expasion/engine update, rather than a userbase splitter)

 

Source code to any of the Pokemon games.

 

I would love to get my hands on a Duke Forever build from back when it was based on the Quake 2 engine.
Prey prototypes, too.

 

I can't remember ever seeing anything about a Police Academy game in old gaming magazines. Was it based on the movies or the cartoon series?

 

Cartoon series. Tengen was doing it, there were two versions, neither of which were completed. I think Steve Woita did the first:



Which was canned after playtesting I believe. The second version looked like this (author unknown):

 

Yeah I agree with both of you, the idea of seeing some more released info on the "Nintendo Playstation" would be awesome! and the n64 DD games that got downgraded to 64 after it flopped.

 

So THAT'S what that is! I was playing Katamari Damacy today and saw that console. I saw that I was collecting what seemed to be Neo Geo memory cards, but saw the system too and was confused!

 

?? Eh? Are you saying that the WoWoW is in the Katamari Damacy game? Don't think I would be because that game is by Namco and the WoWoW is by Taito.

 

I'd still like to see the dreamcast Zip drive on eBay again, wasn't it literally the only one ever made and functioning?!

 

Naaaaw, the console in Katamari Damashii is some sort of fictional fantasy hybrid! The controllers on the side look like a Twin Famicom, the cartridges like PC-Engine HuCards, the colors like the NES and the shape like a fat PS2.

I found a picture of it:


It really isn't anything specific, just represents a console.

 

ditto, wish I'd of bought it now but wasn't it like 10k ?

 

The zip drive was supposedly functional but the owner had no disks and couldn't test it so it basically turned on and off and that was it. That, the high price, no images of it functioning [iirc] and claims that it came from a video game expo and had electronics inside but didn't function [dummy only] ment it was a total paperweight.

Somebody [something tells me HL maybe, I know they were reputable around these parts] said that multiple existed and they'd seen them in person. You might have to google around for that, it was a post here i know that

 

Yep, the Dreamcast Zip Drive made it to a functional stage. It was even shown off at GDC one year.

IIRC, the inside of the hardware was a standard IDE ZIP drive module with a bridge from the device to the DC expansion connector.

Games could access the discs directly, though most of the demos just showed that it was functional by streaming video stored on the Zip disc.