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[A Black Falcon]

Yes, the full, three-CD Playstation version of the original Baldur's Gate game was leaked by someone who had a copy. It's not 100% complete, but supposedly it's pretty far along, and though there are bugs the game is completable.

I don't have it myself and won't link it, but it's out there now, and it's always interesting to see and hear more about unreleased games. It's always sad when a game goes unreleased, all the hard work of the people who worked on it is lost... until either it gets finished and released on digital download or something somewhere (has that ever happened? It'd be awesome if it did, but has it?) or something like this happens, and then people can finally see that lost project.

The person who leaked it was pretty nice too, evidently they bought it several years ago for a four-figure sum but released the thing for nothing, no "donations" required or anything. That doesn't happen very often, to say the least.

I wonder if we'll ever see the Dreamcast version...

 

[hitoshi]

Yes, the full, three-CD game was leaked by someone who had a copy. It's not 100% complete, but supposedly it's pretty far along, and though there are bugs the game is completable.

I don't have it myself and won't link it, but it's out there now, and it's always interesting to see and hear more about unreleased games. It's always sad when a game goes unreleased, all the hard work of the people who worked on it is lost... until either it gets finished and released on digital download or something somewhere (has that ever happened? It'd be awesome if it did, but has it?) or something like this happens, and then people can finally see that lost project.

The person who leaked it was pretty nice too, evidently they bought it several years ago for a four-figure sum but released the thing for nothing, no "donations" required or anything. That doesn't happen very often, to say the least.

I wonder if we'll ever see the Dreamcast version...

Some screens, maybe?

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Funny how the thread title reads like *I* leaked :lol

On a serious note, I wasn't aware that a psx version of BG1 was ever in the works. Is it finished? Was it developed by bioware/black isle?

[edit] found a video online. Looks interesting.

 

[The Faceless Master]

Funny how the thread title reads like *I* leaked :lol

On a serious note, I wasn't aware that a psx version of BG1 was ever in the works. Is it finished? Was it developed by bioware/black isle?

at first i was thinking "damn, the mods are fast, i wonder what the original topic was" .. then i was like "ooohhhh"

 

[Talladega Knight]

Funny how the thread title reads like *I* leaked :lol

I was thinking the same thing. I was like he's either extremely brave or incredibly stupid. :lol

 

[thebagofsand]

There's a few screens on the Lost Levels forum.

 

[A Black Falcon]

at first i was thinking "damn, the mods are fast, i wonder what the original topic was" .. then i was like "ooohhhh"

That's a Roman Numeral I, not an I, obviously... didn't think of that. No, obviously I had nothing to do with this.

Some screens, maybe?

Okay, there are some screenshots on the site that put the leaked game on the web, I'll post a bunch of them.

Developer of the PSX port

Looking at those screenshots it doesn't exactly make me want to forget my PC copy of Baldur's Gate, but it'd have been pretty cool at the time for people who didn't have a very good PC or just didn't like PC games, so it's definitely too bad that the PSX and DC ports of the game were both cancelled.

 

[hitoshi]

Thanks. It looks awesome for a PS1 game.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

That's a Roman Numeral I, not an I, obviously... didn't think of that. No, obviously I had nothing to do with this.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you had anything to do with the leak, it's just that when I read the title I didn't get that it was a Roman numeral right away.

Thanks for the screenshots, as you said, nothing to write home about for those that already own(ed) the PC version, but would have been interesting for psx only owners. Loading times were killer (IMO) on the PC version (without full install), so I can only fear what the loading times for psx would have been like. Kind of like Blood Omen PC vs PSX.

:lol @ the name of the character.

 

[Brashnir]

man, these guys must have found my old dice...

 

[Danj]

Does it still do that "You must gather your party before venturing forth" thing?

 

[iamaustrian]

Thanks. It looks awesome for a PS1 game.

what? even the GBA version looks way better(judging on these screenshots)
I finished it yesterday and it was awesome

edit: I know it's not the same game but yea...anyway

 

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you had anything to do with the leak, it's just that when I read the title I didn't get that it was a Roman numeral right away.

Thanks for the screenshots, as you said, nothing to write home about for those that already own(ed) the PC version, but would have been interesting for psx only owners. Loading times were killer (IMO) on the PC version (without full install), so I can only fear what the loading times for psx would have been like. Kind of like Blood Omen PC vs PSX.

:lol @ the name of the character.

Such a dumb character name... I don't even think it's funny, it's just stupid. It's in a bunch of shots though, so it's not like I could leave them all out or something.

As for loading though, yeah, I quite agree, it probably was pretty bad... the fact that it was compressed enough to fit onto three discs instead of five would have been a small help, as far as disc switching goes, but still, I'm sure those load times would have been bad. I definitely remember them being long enough on the PC, back before we had a hard drive big enough to do full install... and it'd certainly have been worse on PSX. It'd probably be worth it anyway, depending on how long they are, but yeah...

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

And Dragon Age couldn't be bothered to have an iso cam....

 

[Red Scarlet]

:lol Roman numerals definitely ftl in a title like that.

 

[DodgerSan]

And Dragon Age couldn't be bothered to have an iso cam....

Console? It does on PC.

 

[Kishgal]

And Dragon Age couldn't be bothered to have an iso cam....

A 2D game with backgrounds designed to be isometric and a 3D game aren't really all that comparable.

Console? It does on PC.

They had the isometric view in the 360 version to begin with, but removed it because they couldn't keep the framerate up or something like that.

 

[Cohsae]

Does it still do that "You must gather your party before venturing forth" thing?

It damn well better!

 

[Cohsae]

They had the isometric view in the 360 version to begin with, but removed it because they couldn't keep the framerate up or something like that.

Really? When I play on PC framerate is usually better in isometric view.

 

[godhandiscen]

They had the isometric view in the 360 version to begin with, but removed it because they couldn't keep the framerate up or something like that.

Wow, that sucks. I play Dragon Age (PC) on third person if that is any consolation. Honestly, I doubt it is the framerate, I bet it has to do with the fact that the control system doesn't lend itself to that pov.

 

[Acidote]

Really? When I play on PC framerate is usually better in isometric view.

I don't think it is a graphic power issue, must be a memory one.

 

[klee123]

Now if only RE 1.5 got leaked too. A CD-R copy definitely exists due to the video created from PS museum.

 

[Doc Evils]

(has that ever happened? It'd be awesome if it did, but has it?) o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VbjA4BjGk

 

[PetriP-TNT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VbjA4BjGk

Thrill Kill ruled (or well, it was pretty awesome to play something that brutal back in the day). Haven't played it in years though and I am pretty sure it won't hold up today.

 

[BigFwoosh]

Thrill Kill ruled (or well, it was pretty awesome to play something that brutal back in the day). Haven't played it in years though and I am pretty sure it won't hold up today.

I played it for the first time a few years back. I can see the appeal at the time it was made, but I thought it was pretty awful.

 

[Dachande]

Why didn't this get released? Looks pretty far along.

 

[Asparagus]

I always hoped this version would make it onto the net someday.

 

[Prime crotch]

I knew the interface was bad on the PSX version but not this bad. Still curious to see how well it plays though.

 

[A Black Falcon]

First -- I don't know if it was mentioned here (on NeoGAF), but last week or so another proto was leaked, an early version of Werewolf: The Apocalypse for the Saturn. Evidently it's a pretty early version that doesn't have much content and isn't much fun to play though, sadly. The project did get farther than that, but this is the one that is out there, now at least.

Now if only RE 1.5 got leaked too. A CD-R copy definitely exists due to the video created from PS museum.

The guy who released this wants a copy of that, evidently, so if they ever get ahold of a copy maybe...

There are lots of unreleased games I want to see released sometime. To name a few:

Mini Racers (N64)
that undersea RTS (N64)
Viewpoint 64 (N64)
Zero Racers (VB)
Bound High (VB)
Dragon Hopper (VB)
Dinosaur Planet (N64 or GC)

etc. Pretty much anything for the N64, Virtual Boy, Dreamcast, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VbjA4BjGk

Huh? That's another unreleased game that leaked out, right? That's not what I was talking about there, I was talking about any whether there were any unreleased games which, years later, got an official release somewhere. Has that ever happened?

Why didn't this get released? Looks pretty far along.

Sometimes even 100% complete games never get released, for various reasons... of the games in that list I just made, Mini Racers, Bound High, and probably Dragon Hopper are known to have been completed. Dreamcast Half-Life was nearly complete (just a few bugs remaining), and Propeller Arena was complete. Sometimes publishers just decide that they don't think the game will sell well enough to make back the costs of publishing the game, so they drop it at the end of development. It's definitely kind of weird, and sad, but it happens.

 

[pilonv1]

There was a dreamcast version of Baldurs Gate planned? I knew about HOMM but not BG.

 

[Vamphuntr]

One of my pal is a big baldur's gate fan. He is always saying why didn't they port this to the psone/ps2 like they did with diablo and warcraft II. Wow he's gonna be so excited and disappointed at the same time. It's truly a shame that it was never released it seems quite complete.

 

[A Black Falcon]

There was a dreamcast version of Baldurs Gate planned? I knew about HOMM but not BG.

The Dreamcast version was announced well before this PSX version was, actually. The results were the same though, neither came out.

The DC version was announced in 1998 or 1999 or something, moved to being ported by an Interplay team to Sega itself in June 1999, and was officially canceled by Sega in August 2000. The Dreamcast version was supposed to have online play, just like the PC version did.

The Playstation version wasn't announced until October 1999, supposedly to release that December, so it had obviously been quietly underway for a while at that point. The next fall, it still wasn't out -- evidently there might be evidence in this released version that it might come from fall 2000 (maybe, if dates weren't altered at some point, which is possible). I don't know if it was ever officially canceled, but either way there's no evidence the project survived the year.

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Now if only RE 1.5 got leaked too. A CD-R copy definitely exists due to the video created from PS museum.

My understanding is no, that's not a CD-R copy. At least, not in the technical sense. It's an actual development disc.

But he ("The Curator" behind Playstation Museum) doesn't want to share it. Apparently, Playstation Museum has begun denying ever having a copy of Resident Evil 1.5. Some other guy on Youtube under the name "GoroMacida" claimed he also had a copy of RE 1.5 and was willing to sell it for a very, very high price (and to prove he had it, he posted shaky cam videos of the beta in action running on a PSone with one of those LCD screens). When deals to buy the RE 1.5 beta fell through, "GoroMacida" proceeded to taunt several Resident Evil fansites (most notably BioFlames) with the game. After a while, he became reclusive, fearing Capcom would "bust" him for leaking the game. I guess some people did some digging and found out that there was a possibility this "GoroMacida" guy was the dude who runs Playstation Museum. Around the time this was found out, the guy who runs PS Museum denied he was "GoroMacida", but also started denying ever having a copy of Resident Evil 1.5 at all, despite posting video of it.

Granted, what I just wrote there is what I can remember and the bits and pieces I can find on Google. The Resident Evil fansites involved with the RE 1.5 beta mess have decided not to fan the flames any and as such most discussion related to the incident both past and present have been removed, and obviously, nobody can get a straight answer out of PS Museum.

So who really knows.

 

[Night_Trekker]

My understanding is no, that's not a CD-R copy. At least, not in the technical sense. It's an actual development disc.

But he ("The Curator" behind Playstation Museum) doesn't want to share it. Apparently, Playstation Museum has begun denying ever having a copy of Resident Evil 1.5. Some other guy on Youtube under the name "GoroMacida" claimed he also had a copy of RE 1.5 and was willing to sell it for a very, very high price (and to prove he had it, he posted shaky cam videos of the beta in action running on a PSone with one of those LCD screens). When deals to buy the RE 1.5 beta fell through, "GoroMacida" proceeded to taunt several Resident Evil fansites (most notably BioFlames) with the game. After a while, he became reclusive, fearing Capcom would "bust" him for leaking the game. I guess some people did some digging and found out that there was a possibility this "GoroMacida" guy was the dude who runs Playstation Museum. Around the time this was found out, the guy who runs PS Museum denied he was "GoroMacida", but also started denying ever having a copy of Resident Evil 1.5 at all, despite posting video of it.

Granted, what I just wrote there is what I can remember and the bits and pieces I can find on Google. The Resident Evil fansites involved with the RE 1.5 beta mess have decided not to fan the flames any and as such most discussion related to the incident both past and present have been removed, and obviously, nobody can get a straight answer out of PS Museum.

So who really knows.

It's possible the PS Museum "curator" was allowed to play the game and record a video of it, but never had the disc himself. That's what I thought had happened, actually.

If anyone wants to see the video that proves he had some sort of access to a copy of the game (includes previously unreleased footage), it's out there. If anyone wants to see the RE1.5 page the PS Museum used to have up, there's a copy on archive.org. Supposedly the guy who runs the PS Museum *sigh* received threats from crazy fans who wanted him to dump the copy they believed he had, and that's why he took down the page.

There are lots of unreleased games I want to see released sometime. To name a few:

Mini Racers (N64)
that undersea RTS (N64)
Viewpoint 64 (N64)
Zero Racers (VB)
Bound High (VB)
Dragon Hopper (VB)
Dinosaur Planet (N64 or GC)

etc. Pretty much anything for the N64, Virtual Boy, Dreamcast, etc.

You just forgot to include Earthbound 64, right?

Man, that "blue disk saga" fiasco over at starmen.net was so sad.

 

[A Black Falcon]

You just forgot to include Earthbound 64, right?

I'm not an Earthbound fan myself, never played the SNES one... but sure, that is one of the major lost N64 games, isn't it. I was trying to list ones I would have a personal interest in playing.

On that note, one that should be on the list but I forgot to mention would be a more complete version of Virtua Hamster for the 32X. An early version of it leaked earlier this year, but we now know that the game got much, much farther than that, to 90-something percent complete in fact, before it was canceled. Based on the early version that leaked the game looks like fantastic fun, I'd love to see the more complete version! I really hope we get it sometime...

Anyway, a list of canceled N64 games would be pretty long... true for any platform though, really, as sites like Unseen 64 prove. They've got stuff for lots of systems.

Oh, and Viewpoint 64 was maybe a bit of a reach compared to many other titles on that list, I don't know how far that got. Mini Racers I know was finished but not released. The RTS I can't remember how far it got, but I know there are protos of it out there so it hopefully is possible sometime. And I know there are plenty more... how about if someone ran across some stuff for N64 Eternal Darkness or N64 Resident Evil 0, for example? That'd be cool.

But anyway... I didn't list Earthbound 64 because I'm not a series fan, but of course it's one of the most prominent canceled N64 games thanks to all its fans, yeah, for sure. And of course the N64 always needed RPGs... I may not have minded that it didn't have many (RPGs are better on the PC anyway ), but a lot of people sure did, and more variety of games is always nice.

Man, that "blue disk saga" fiasco over at starmen.net was so sad.

Don't know if I know about that... I don't really go to Starmen.net.

 

[Dot50Cal]

It started on the Assembler boards. For YEARS this guy had blue discs labeled M3. He finally got all the hardware to run them after years of searching and it turned out to be not Mother 3 on them

 

[A Black Falcon]

It started on the Assembler boards. For YEARS this guy had blue discs labeled M3. He finally got all the hardware to run them after years of searching and it turned out to be not Mother 3 on them

Why did people think it was Mother 3? Are blue disks N64 dev disks or something?

 

[Chauncy Talon]

man, these guys must have found my old dice...

LMAO. I think somebody should of used a +3 Battle Axe for that attack.

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Why did people think it was Mother 3? Are blue disks N64 dev disks or something?

I think Mother 3 originally began life as a 64DD game, and they were debug 64DD disks. It's easy to make the jump in logic from there, I'd say.

 

[A Black Falcon]

I think Mother 3 originally began life as a 64DD game, and they were debug 64DD disks. It's easy to make the jump in logic from there, I'd say.

Ah, yes, it would be. What was on those disks, then?

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Ah, yes, it would be. What was on those disks, then?

http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Storage/DevstersLab/40931

I finally had a chance to try the disks yesterday.

The first disk didn't boot. It tried to load it and then stopped.

The second disk booted properly. But it wasn't Mother 3. It was Sim City 64.

The third disk didn't boot.

The fourth disk booted properly. But it wasn't Mother 3. It was Mario Artist.

It was exciting and dissappointing at the same time