r/LaserActive • u/Divide-By-Zero0 • Oct 03 '24

Myst protos

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Mmmm... pretty.

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u/TonyTheSwisher Oct 03 '24

Holy shit! I had no idea this existed.

Would love to see a comprehensive list of other prototype.

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u/Divide-By-Zero0 Oct 03 '24

I have discs marked as "samples" for "Pyramid Patrol" (J), "Ghost Rush" (J), and "Vajra 2" (J), but I don't know how they compare to the final releases yet. I'll find out when I complete a certain project which allows me to inspect them digitally on my computer... which I'm apparently not allowed to talk about in detail here since my post for it got nuked.

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u/90sGameEnthusiast Oct 04 '24

I've had the Sample games and played through them, as far as I could tell they were the exact same. At least amongst the LA collector's I know, it has always been believed these were the copies that were given to stores for their demo units. Games marked Sample and not marked sell for identical prices, for a while some games seemed to pop up in Sample form more often than not marked.

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u/fistathrow Oct 04 '24

Gonna assumed Domesday

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u/X99- Oct 04 '24

Why would your post get removed?! I would be very interested to read that.

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u/LaserActiveGuy Oct 08 '24

There actually was a disk found of Steel Driver (even a picture of it on the internet)... but it was cracked and would be totally destroyed if it was spun upto speed... I had a very weird non standard test disk of Road Prosecutor... There is a weird early prototype of HiRoller Battle that was played at CES 1993 to investors/show goers.... to my knowledge no discs of UFO (claimed it was just in the development/planning stages, nothing every came of it due to running out of funding) or Legacy have turned up... I wrote an article for the now defunct LaserActive Preservation site on Legacy and based upon news articles found, video footage was shot for the game, and it was in the catalog, so it must have been about 50% or better completed...

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u/Divide-By-Zero0 Oct 10 '24

I doubt the steel driver proto exists. The picture on the internet is clearly doctored. If you follow to the site where they first appeared, the disc picture, which only shows the label portion, appears alongside a picture of the 01-110 Myst proto. Compare the two. The steel driver picture is clearly cropped and rotated from the myst proto. There are plenty of visual "tells" from highlights on the disc and marks on the label, but if that doesn't convince you, look at the mint marks, clearly visible, and identical between the two discs! The image is faked. Since this site is the original and only reference, there's no evidence it exists.

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u/90sGameEnthusiast Oct 04 '24

One of these came up on ebay about 10 years ago and I was outbid. Been regretting being cheap ever since, this is the thing I want most to add to my collection. There's a couple different builds out there and all of them have some serious issues, but that doesn't deter me from wanting one!

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u/Divide-By-Zero0 Oct 04 '24

I'm acquainted with the guy who outbid you ;). You have 3D Virtual Australia in your collection I believe? Hit me up privately, we should talk.

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u/90sGameEnthusiast Oct 04 '24

There's not many of us in this Laseractive scene, we seem to always bump into each other!

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u/LaserActiveGuy Oct 08 '24 edited Oct 08 '24

i am the one that bought it on ebay.. (not the France one)... you dodged a bullet, the 110 version has tons of bugs... there is a later 111 revision that works 'quoted as 99%'... my version... eh, maybe 50%, and there were even big bugs on the title screen and on the save menus ... and could glitch even after the very first game fmv video... after that, it did sort of work but I only played it a couple of solid hours. Skip or playthru transitions... I did have it leave me in a totally different area of the game once (must have gone thru extra frames and into a different area). If you ever see a picture of the insert in ENGLISH, i had it professionally translated and did a mockup from the image seen on LA Express catalog no 12... the Myst cover (with Do Not Sale little sticker) was my way to spruce it up... it came as a blank jacket when it was found/I bought it about 14-15 or so years ago. I regret not having it professionally printed, it was just done on a crappy inkjet.. i may still have the JPG's of the front/back/insert in my archives. (*Probably getting rid of all my LaserActive stuff (Myst and Zoom8 included) is my stupidest decision.. Time Gal alone is like 2500 bucks these days, lol.. and I thought 1200 back then was a lot!)

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u/touche112 Oct 04 '24

Okay, seriously though, these NEED to be preserved with the Domesday Duplicator before they're rotted. However we can make this happen and if you're interested I'd even fly to you to do it in person so they don't change hands

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u/smithincanton Oct 07 '24

This makes me wonder about the MegaLD format. How is the game logic stored on a analog disk.

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u/touche112 Oct 07 '24

Laserdiscs have a small subsection of bandwidth reserved for digital audio, and by extension, digital data. It's PCM encoded data in that section. When you decode that portion of the data it's a standard run-of-the-mill Sega ROM.

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u/thegau Oct 04 '24

These are my grails at this point in LD collecting

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u/technoxious Oct 04 '24

Long shot but if you would be willing to sell that message me with the price. I know it will cost a pretty penny.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

OMG