A curious incident unraveled on a PSP related subreddit recently. A user who works with retro video games came across a box of PlayStation Portable UMDs. What makes this unique, is that most of the games are pre-production discs, meaning these are beta builds of games before they officially released in a complete state. One of the titles the user, Thebrown93, found, was "Ridge Racer English", which is a localization of the game for PSP, but dated 7 months prior to when it actually released. Among some of the "pre-production" games are Metal Gear Acid, Dragon Ball Tenkaichi Tag Team, BlazBlue, and "over 100 more UMDs". He also has multiple PS2 beta game discs, as well.

Other users were shocked at the discovery, and pleaded with Thebrown93 to dump the games so that they could be archived. Initially assuming it was a joke, he then found out that digital game backups can be done with a PSP system, and according to his claims, he's planning to purchase an older PSP system in order to back up some of the titles. More information will be updated if the poster decides to go through with his plan.

Persona 3 Portable - creation date 25.1.2011

Guilty Gear XX Core Plus - creation date 29.11.2010

Final Fantasy crisis core VII - cr date 19.04.2008

Castlevania The Dracula X Chronicles - cr date 03.08.2007

Final Fantasy II - cr date 01.11.2007

Full Metal Alchemist - cr date 20.04.2010

Gensan - cr date 15.02.2010

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact - cr date 15.09.2011

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[Manana]

These need to get 'ed already!! my mind won't stop firing out possibilities. Tales of english versions, tenchu english versions, ps2 ports. Damnit, I know I'm setting myself up for savage let down.

 

[Darksabre72]

People download and reupload the roms elsewhere. It always happen

yea you're right if there's is a will there's is a way

 

[|<roni&g]

Hopefully they are downloadable in a working state unlike the saints row game for psp which you had to open the iso in umdgen rename and rebuild files when someone could of just done it before uploading

 

[Almamu]

Hopefully they are downloadable in a working state unlike the saints row game for psp which you had to open the iso in umdgen rename and rebuild files when someone could of just done it before uploading

That is usually done just for preservation. Most of the people doing these kind of releases want the games to be preserved as close to the original media as they possibly can. That's why the beta of PoKéMoN SpaceWorld also needed to have some bytes tweaked for it to boot up properly.

 

[YuseiFD]

Any news on this ???

 

[xeph20]

the main question is are they playable and how diffrent are they from the release

Would be gold if some roms had unreleased stories or whatever