Just days after a prototype for the long thought to be lost Sega Dreamcast title Castlevania Resurrection was discovered, the disk containing the only known prototype of the game has been listed for sale on eBay. The listing, brought to the attention of GBAtemp via Sega Saturn Shiro, started bidding for the disk at a mere $1 plus shipping, but as of the writing of this article it has already climbed to $1605 with nine days left to go in the auction. The demo disk is currently the only known copy of the prototype for the cancelled game, and it's unknown if the seller has plans to back up the contents of the demo disk before the sale.

So I have had this for 20 years and completely forgot about it despite being a HUGE Castlevania fan. This is probably the only playable disc of this game in existence and, as far as I am concerned, is priceless for any Dreamcast or Castlevania fan. That said I am downsizing and recently uncovered it again, and it’s time to let this one go. I have no idea what it’s worth to the rest of the world other than to get it ripped and archived, but to own a one of a kind in all the world piece of Dreamcast and Castlevania history would be the real treasure here. I hope it goes to as big a fan as I am.

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[|<roni&g]

I watch this dude on YouTube who makes adds things back into ps2 wrestling games and commented on his page about the 700 ps2 games released and my comment got removed lol.. he has Paytreeon to doesn't want people having any free fun I guess.
Protos need uploading to the net to keep safe and accessable to everyone.... Stating the obvious I know.

 

[E1ite007]

I watch this dude on YouTube who makes adds things back into ps2 wrestling games and commented on his page about the 700 ps2 games released and my comment got removed lol.. he has Paytreeon to doesn't want people having any free fun I guess.
Protos need uploading to the net to keep safe and accessable to everyone.... Stating the obvious I know.

Do you mean Scottjay01?

 

[eriol33]

Make Sonia canon again

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Be the preservationist you want to see in the world.

Sadly, I don't have $1,600

 

[nikeymikey]

Seems its only listed on US Ebay and not available to buy worldwide.
With this and the $300,000.00 copy of NES Super Mario Bros that's currently also available, Ebay is the place to go if you want to pay a shitload of money for games right now

 

[slaphappygamer]

Sadly, I don't have $1,600

It’s $7500 right now.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Now it’s $10,000! There is no ceiling!

 

[FAST6191]

Press copies are legitimate disks, not bottleg ones. Newsagents don't own, or at least shouldn't own, sdk devices that allow copies to be booted.

*sitting here imagining the average corner shop also owning high end specialist gaming devices*...
More seriously

I don't know DC specifics here but plenty of press in the game industry pocket* (or access journalism if you prefer that euphemism) back for the PS2, GC and whatnot as well as older did have developer grade devices. You would occasionally see them in videos they took, or that they could take videos at all (some of the screen not even capture but video camera with shroud options for the DS being quite interesting here). Also why they would have beta footage and previews so far ahead of others, which might still have had some grade of devkit type setup but a lesser version.

*think IGN, gamespot, maybe gametrailers, official ? magazine, the sorts of places that never had a bad word to say about anybody, advertised the games they were reviewing, were generally dogged with any number of claims of bias/lack of objectivity (sometimes even being true https://www.reaxxion.com/3829/the-solved-mystery-of-gamespot-journalist-jeff-gerstmanns-firing ) and mean people consider 7/10 an average/mediocre score.

 

[Newersmbwquestion]

can't wait for some collector to buy it and just keep it and not even dump the game

 

[Dimensional]

Just hit $20k. Wow.

 

[Freya]

Now it's $20,000.00.
Also, I found this at the bottom of the item description:

 

[slaphappygamer]

Now it's $20,000.00.
Also, I found this at the bottom of the item description:

Imagine............he is forced to pull the sale now. What if all the buyers pull out, knowing this?...........just.....imagine.

 

[Silent_Gunner]

Thank you Biden for giving me the stimmy to outbid all of the dirty thieves in this thread. Time to put this in my collection

By the time this thing's over, I doubt you'll have enough even if you saved all of your stimulus check deposits!

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BUY IT.

DUMP IT.

UPLOAD IT.

EVERYONES PLAY IT!

ALL FIVE OR SIX LEVELS...(unless there's more not selectable from the menu)

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Now it's $20,000.00.
Also, I found this at the bottom of the item description:

 

[eyeliner]

*sitting here imagining the average corner shop also owning high end specialist gaming devices*...
More seriously

I don't know DC specifics here but plenty of press in the game industry pocket* (or access journalism if you prefer that euphemism) back for the PS2, GC and whatnot as well as older did have developer grade devices. You would occasionally see them in videos they took, or that they could take videos at all (some of the screen not even capture but video camera with shroud options for the DS being quite interesting here). Also why they would have beta footage and previews so far ahead of others, which might still have had some grade of devkit type setup but a lesser version.

*think IGN, gamespot, maybe gametrailers, official ? magazine, the sorts of places that never had a bad word to say about anybody, advertised the games they were reviewing, were generally dogged with any number of claims of bias/lack of objectivity (sometimes even being true https://www.reaxxion.com/3829/the-solved-mystery-of-gamespot-journalist-jeff-gerstmanns-firing ) and mean people consider 7/10 an average/mediocre score.

I am unsure about the need to refer Jeff Gerstmann, but whatever.

From all the magazines I read, plentiful, some with quality, some... not so much, most times they had static images delivered with some descriptions and imported foreign systems (usually from the USA, because japanese isn't for everyone), so having a game early was easy. Play an import given by the developer! So, there was no need to have limited run sdks, specially with the prohibitive prices they had and the strict rules enforced.

In the time of cartridges, that would be easy, as the publishers just sent out writeable carts and sometimes asked for returns, Same thing as disks, as there are plenty review disks around, promo disks and yes, some systems have CDR or DVDR disks, but it stands to reason that they were mastered by the developers and sent away.

They were regular disks, mastered specifically, after all...

 

[stylo]

$20,000 and still wants $5.20 shipping. What a dick.

 

[BitMasterPlus]

$20,000 and still wants $5.20 shipping. What a dick.

Fucking nerve. That's a deal breaker for me.

 

[eyeliner]

Fucking nerve. That's a deal breaker for me.

Without tracking, no doubt.

 

[Codemastershock]

Press copies are legitimate disks, not bottleg ones. Newsagents don't own, or at least shouldn't own, sdk devices that allow copies to be booted.

Wrong, there are a lot of press copies that, from the state of the media itself are far from finished and look like CD-Rs.
Press discs that are finished are mostly when the game is ready and sent to reviewers, but on events, it doesnt matter if the disc looks like a CD-R because any people attending to these events wont even touch the physical disc anyway and before downloads, it was quicker to make these "cheap looking" discs to place on multiple machines used on stage than waiting for them to be properly pressed. Preview Xbox discs for example are just green with some writing that says "Do not insert on a non Preview console or Xbox Live is disabled". It looks like someone used lightscribe on a 360 disc or the 'famous" Wii support disc that is just a pink DVD (this case is not a preview disc, but still, it doesnt matter for the technicians to have a good looking disc, it just have to work).

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

$20,000 and still wants $5.20 shipping. What a dick.

He doesn't decide the price, it's a bid

 

[banjo2]

Reached 25k already