OG PS1/Saturn Group Buy 2020

A public fundraiser to secure various Sega Saturn/PlayStation 1 prototype discs was conducted sometime in 2020 by the Obscure Gamers community. The builds available for purchase were primarily used for magazine reviews and previews somewhere in the PAL region. This release also contains a few PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable builds as well. A total of around 15 discs were acquired and dumped. The dumps were released on April 2nd, 2021.

All discs have been dumped with a Plextor PX-W5224A on latest firmware, and with DICUI unless the discs had C2 errors. In which case they're dumped with CloneCD. We tried dumping with other drives but, the plextor still gave the best results so all are plextor dumps.

The Saturn build dates are based on the most recent file as mastering time stamps were wrong in cases.

The following people kindly donated towards this release:

• Aqua
• Biscuit
• DRW
• Damien
• DeveloperJeff
• Fusion
• Gravatos
• Haus
• Hi_Ricky
• Jordan
• Kabojnk
• Mementomori
• MrPinball64
• MysteriousCube
• NGR
• NexxBox_One
• RunWhiteBoyRun
• Shadowth117
• Vindios
• Yaz0r

Original fundraising thread on ObscureGamers.com.

Prototypes Obtained (Unique Builds):

	System	Date	Retail build dates	Retail release dates
3D Baseball (Sep 19, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	19 September 1996 18:35:56	JP Nov 8, 1996 EU Unreleased US Nov 7, 1996	JP Jan 31, 1997 EU Unreleased US Nov 30, 1996
Area 51 (Jul 11, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	11 July 1996 15:02:40	JP Dec 5, 1996 EU Jan 2, 1997 US Nov 10, 1996	JP Feb 7, 1997 EU Jan 2, 1997 US Oct 31, 1996
Baku Baku Animal: World Zookeeper Contest (Apr 26, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	26 April 1996 10:44:08	JP Oct 4, 1995 EU May 14, 1996 US May 1, 1996	JP Nov 10, 1995 EU May 14, 1996 US Aug 31, 1996
Bug Too! (Nov 8, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	8 November 1996 01:14:22	JP Dec 20, 1996 EU Feb 17, 1997 US Nov 19, 1996	JP Jan 31, 1997 EU Feb 17, 1997 US Nov 30, 1996
Complete Onside Soccer (Feb 27, 1996 prototype)	PlayStation	27 February 1996 18:29:38	JP Dec 15, 1997 EU Aug 5, 1996	JP Jan 29, 1998 EU Aug 5, 1996 US Unreleased
Crimewave (Jul 16, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	16 July 1996 18:08:46	JP Apr 24, 1997 EU Nov 6, 1996 US Jan 23, 1997	JP Jun 27, 1997 EU Nov 6, 1996 US Feb 28, 1997
Dance Factory (Feb 22, 2006 prototype)	PlayStation 2	22 February 2006 12:32:52	US Feb 23, 2006 EU Feb 27, 2006	US Aug 29, 2006 EU Sep 1, 2006
Dance Factory (Jan 21, 2006 prototype)	PlayStation 2	21 January 2006 17:37:56	US Feb 23, 2006 EU Feb 27, 2006	US Aug 29, 2006 EU Sep 1, 2006
DiRT 2 (Aug 11, 2009 prototype)	PlayStation Portable	11 August 2009 14:54:55	EU Aug 13, 2009 US Aug 13, 2009	JP Nov 5, 2009 US Sep 8, 2009 EU Sep 11, 2009
Grid Runner (Jul 27, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	27 July 1996 13:28:41	JP Oct 18, 1996 EU Oct 4, 1996 US Sep 12, 1996	JP Dec 27, 1996 EU Oct 4, 1996 US Nov 30, 1996
Hyper 3-D Pinball (Apr 9, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	9 April 1996 11:29:08	JP Oct 21, 1996 EU Aug 7, 1996 US Sep 13, 1996	JP Jan 17, 1997 EU Aug 7, 1996 US Oct 31, 1996
NHL PowerPlay '96 (Apr 19, 1996 prototype)	Sega Saturn	19 April 1996 13:32:34	JP Nov 26, 1996 EU Jan 21, 1997 US Jun 6, 1996	JP Feb 7, 1997 EU Jan 21, 1997 US 1996

Final/Matched Discs:

System	Game Name	Disc Label	Notes
Sega Saturn	Impact Racing	IMPACT RACING SATURN 8/7/96	Matches US final.
Sega Saturn	Three Dirty Dwarves	3DD 9/16/96	Matches US final
Sega Saturn	Virtua Cop 2	VCOP2 Final	Matches US final
Sega Saturn	Virtual On	V.ON Final	Matches US final
Sega Saturn	Hyper 3D Pinball	Hyper 3D Pinball 61003.1 Saturn	Matches US final
PlayStation	Motocross Mania	MOTOCROSS MANIA FINAL/REVIEWABLE PSX	Matches US final

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