Xbox 360 devkit bought for $5 at car boot sale came with 2007 beta build of GTA IV

[Lostbhoy]

In some happy news for the GTA modding community...

Guy buys an xbox 360 with a Rockstar North asset tag at a car boot sale for £5 and yesterday uploaded a 118gb archive of a GTA IV dev build with apparent nods to the fabled zombie mode and other unused assets and radio songs.

The back of the console says, "Xbox 360 XDK," and it runs Xshell, an operating system that was only issued to developers. This devkit came with a 120 GB hard drive, which only contained one game — Grand Theft Auto IV. It's a pre-release version of GTA IV from November 2007, just a few months before the game's official launch.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-...on-includes-cut-ferry-system-zombies-and-more

 

[Robert Newbie]

That's an interesting find. Since this build is from late in the game's development, it may resemble the final more closely. However, it sounds like fans have already uncovered some unused/scrapped content already. I'll be interested to see what makes it to TCRF.

 

[namename11]

Waiting for Rockstar to use some of that sweet corporate overreach and collude with law enforcement to illegally seize this guy's property.

 

[SylverReZ]

It's unlikely that this will be dumped for another couple of years, or it may never happen. If I had a prototype like this, then I would never say because otherwise it'll drive up media attention and people are going to be desperate.

 

[Reploid]

Waiting for Rockstar to use some of that sweet corporate overreach and collude with law enforcement to illegally seize this guy's property.

they better at it than actual gamedesign