I dumped and preserved an UNRELEASED Original XBOX game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ย. 2023
- A fan reached out and asked if I could help dump an old hard drive that came from an Original Xbox Development Kit. Of course, I said yes - and was able to preserve 2 games including one that was never before released! In this episode I walk through the process and the games. There is more to come but for now, please enjoy.
► Fast and the Furious Unreleased Prototype - archive.org/details/fast-and-...
► Ford vs Chevy Debug Build - archive.org/details/ford-vs-c...
► OG Xbox Dumper - github.com/Ernegien/OGXbdmDumper
Note: both builds tested on Debug Xbox with 128Mb of RAM.
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When buying a dev kit, imaging the HDD is always the first priority
Yeah, i guess except when the previous owner replaced the original hard drive with a 120gb one, filled with useless retail stuff. He replaced the hard drive but left the original clock cap, that of course started to leak... 😒 no damage was done and this baby has a new life but still. These machines deserve better...
Yep I screwed up on that department. I had a custom build (or custom .xbe) of Tony Hawk Project 8 and American Wasteland that allowed me to run through the hard drive in folder format, normally you get an error when you try to load the story mode due to long file names, 2 out of the 10 games of the entire Xbox library the community never patched but for some reason, the ones installed on my Xbox were working correctly. Unfortunately, I bricked that system 2 years ago and threw it away before I could do any dumps.
My newer 2TB Xbox doesn't seem to have anything special sadly or I would dump it.
The first thing you do is to dump, and then wonder if there's anything of value.. jeez.. 🤦🏼♂️
Damn it brings me back seeing games less than 1gb
save Software from bit rot first, Hardware second as that can be replicated in software.
Eutechnyx sounded familiar to me and I think someone I went to school with was a Dev there. I have them on my PSN friends list and I remember seeing trophies for unreleased games appearing on their feed when they were testing trophy support at the time.
Edit: Just messaged him and he did work there and worked on both these games.
get him on here 🤓
@@m---- he has already made a comment
@@Mik_Swhere is it? It needs to be liked and possibly pinned by mvg.
@@TheLastLineLive MVG has seen it and replied
Hopefully MVG can get into contact with him because this would be wild!!
You've no idea how much the community appreciates all you do! Thank you so very much!
I honestly can't fathom how he manages his time. He puts out all this content, dropping in on live streams on other channels. Working as a full time developer too isn't he? I assume he is a family man too which must take up a lot of spare time. So yeah, I assume MVG must be some super workaholic robot. Puts my work effort to shame.
bro got a like thing to donate?
@@ColinBFClarke I looked up and he does have a Patreon.
actually he knows how important it is lol
@@sonicboy1995 ahahahahahah what?
Always nice when MVG wakes in the morning & makes a Massive Dump
Thanks for that, I just choked on my cornflakes. 😂
small moves and big shits
Log analysis is very important when dumping things. Helps you find potential issues much more easily... very important when you're older to spot potential early warning signs of bowel and colon cancers.
The Xbox is just such a nostalgia hit for me. It's so interesting seeing just any new content about it. It puts me right back into the early xbox scene.
I remember hooking up 4 of the with the neighborhood kids and playing halo. Thought to myself, holy shit this is the future!
Yeah I agree .. I love the homebrew scene with it . I regret selling my OG Xbox .. needed money at the time ..
It was a really great console, sadly overshadowed in that generation when people look back as a whole. It has some very tough competition. Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and the dying embers of the Dreamcast. I think all of these consoles were bloody fantastic, so for the Xbox to stand in it's corner with some bangers of it's own, it must have took quite a bit to stand out to the competition. When I think back, I had a really good time with the Xbox.
@@skycloud4802only 2 games that stood out were Jade Empire & Fable.
@@InnerRise😂
I have an OG Xbox devkit and debug console in storage that have never had their hdd's checked... I think I'll finally get around to that now. Thanks for the video MVG!
WHAT?!
How can your sit on something like that and not inspect it?
Do it do it do it! 😅
And don't forget to upload!
If you fear legal issues, just keep your mouth shut in public and give it to someone who will spread it for you.
Thanks for posting this! Now we can come back occasionally to see if you've had the hdd's checked.
Make sure you do a proper disk dump and backup. Verify its integrity. Ensure it's all present and correct.
Then go to town.
Update?
Awesome job MVG, you've done a huge service to the community. THIS is preservation, unlike those who love to lock games in a plastic prision to decay and die.
Nintendo are still chasing ROM pirates for games that are nearly 40 years old. Rockstar and T2 even issued takedown notices to people who worked on the very original GTA back in the DMA Design days, all they did was share their memories and some of their old design notes and game specifications. That has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on any modern Rockstar titles.
That’s awesome!! I was wondering what exactly you were teasing a couple weeks ago, and, as usual, you didn’t disappoint! Can’t wait to see what this third game is. I’ve always loved when the community releases something we had no idea of.
I wonder if any of the missing assets could be pulled from either the ps2 or psp versions of the game. We did that for the detranslation of Angel Devoid/deathmask on the saturn 2 years ago, specifically pulling audio assets off the PC version and getting them muxed with the Saturn video files to create (recreate?) English videos for the Saturn
Possibly although there's probably more to it than that. I know other multiplatform games of the era like NFS Underground have almost identical folder structures, file formats, and similar file sizes between the versions.
Damn good idea and solution implementation! ✏️📌👍
MVG is a pillar of the games preservation community. We're all lucky to have him, his success is well deserved
Now go ahead and go down on him.
You know you want to, fanboy.
@@Great-Documentaries ok
You’ve done so much for the Xbox modding scene! And you even preserved an Xbox prototype too! Keep up the great work man! All I need now is someone to find an Xbox prototype of Cel Damage, and then my life will be complete!
You think it would have the GameCube build? That was the best one
Maybe……..I’m hoping!
Or better yet the mythical cel damage 2
That would actually be awesome!
What an empty life.
Excellent work and massive thumbs up for sharing these finds! Looking forward to see what that demo was!
Thank you so much for your service in preserving another part of video game history!
God bless the preservers...
Because most companies nowadays are chasing that micro-transacton dollar and not giving a crap towards preserving their own libraries.
Emulation forever!
I wish their were more Xbox emulators for handhelds these days. GameCube is covered by dolphin. Dreamcast has Redream and Reicast. PS2 has AetherSX2 which used to be promising, but a shell of it's former self now. But Xbox? I don't really know of any good mobile emulators for Xbox emulation yet. It would be awesome to play Xbox games on a small cheap handheld.
Exactly! Also good bless the folks that kept the Xbox emulation, I was able to pull my own modded Xbox hdd dump and continue playing my own games and their saves, and I'm in the midst of upgrading my steam deck so I can take it and the rest of my console library everywhere.
Long live emulation!
@@skycloud4802 Until rather recently we didn't even have a good and proper one for PCs. We leverage virtualization hardware that's built into x86 machines to get it going and the average ARM chip in your phone would have to emulate it instead. x86 is a pretty complicated architecture to emulate and the only ones who have gotten ARM to do it so well would be Apple and the Rosetta platform.
What do you mean "nowadays?" They never preserved games in the past either, microtransactions have nothing to do with it
@@lethauntic
They did in a way.
In the form of backwards compatibility as older physical games were still readily available in the pre Internet era .
Such as PS1 on PS2, Gameboy and Gameboy Color games on Gameboy Advance. Gameboy Advance on Nintendo DS.
OG Xbox on Xbox 360 and GameCube games on Wii.
Unfortunately...
Even backwards compatibility has been thrown to the wayside.
Very cool. Thanks to everyone involved keeping the OG Xbox scene alive. I still play mine to this day.
Very cool and interesting find! Glad stuff like this still pops up from time to time
love these love how you bring old stuff back to life or show off cool stuff
I hope part 2 will be out soon. You made me very curious with the third mystery game
Great stuff dude, you are doing a great job of preserving and porting retro/older games for the next generation of gamers
I like hearing about unreleased games for any console and getting to see what gameplay there is. I also learned you can dump a HDD from your computer. Great video.
Loved every minute of this episode I can’t wait to hear more about that other unreleased game. Hopefully you find out more info soon!
What a tease on that third game! Can’t wait for part 2. Great video as always.
Really interesting stuff. Great work on the preservation.
Great video. Thanks for the insight. I remember when you mentioned trying to port Redneck Rampage to the Xbox but ran in to problems. I always hoped you would find a way. Keep doing you man!
I really enjoy all of your content!! Thank you for not being like others and just coining off unreleased programs! You're one of my top 5 content creators honeslty, you make these videos which shows me there are still good people on thia planet
thank you for preserving these builds
Be careful putting the drives right on top of each other like that while it's running. I've had the magnets from 2 drives interfere with each other before.
I'm totally calling you out for this bs.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse You have no idea what you're taking about. Try running an old Macbook with an HDD while resting it on top of another MacBook (with a closed lid). You'll see.
I love the preservation efforts of the community. This is incredibly important stuff and the continued drive for newer and better things tends to bury the legacy of the shoulders we all currently stand on.
As always thank you for your efforts and dedication to both the dev/gaming/video/preservation communities!
When I saw the thumbnail of the game I was hoping this was the lost Genki developed Fast and Furious game from 2003. Still really random to see a pre release version of Tokyo Drift!
I love how you break down the process and help us understand what we are looking at
i appreciate MVG for doing this as it brings me new information about unreleased games and dev kits and how video game development works
I love that the original xbox still gets attention, i'm going to download the unreleased files and get them on my console. If i ever came across any media i would release it too, it's always unfortunate when someone hordes it and it's lost to history! I can't wait for the LT DEMO (you should change the game category for the video from prototype lmao).
What you’re doing is under rated. For real thank you for preserving games. The biggest part of gaming has been my life and I know it has been yours also
The guy has millions of followers. Be quite, please.
"ur undahratd" 🤪🤡
@@suprememasteroftheuniverseThe jealousy is unreal
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse What thoughts even go through your head
Your work and your channel is amazing. Keep up with your work!
I do remember playing the PS2 edition of Fast and the Furious... it was kinda fun. Didn't know they were planning an XBOX version! also bravo for putting the hoarder types in their place, who are they trying to impress anyway?! cool to know all this stuff is being shared with the community after it's been dumped. Also super curious to hear what the story is on that 3rd game!
I haven’t even started watching this at this moment but I know it’s gonna be heat. Great job MVG!!
I worked on these.... @ModernVintageGamer
please reach out to me - info at modernvintagegamer dot com
I have reasons to doubt you did
@@A-GoogleUser look at moby games for the games in question, my name is in the credits
cuul
I enjoy geeking out over stuff like this, thanks for sharing.
The real Video Game Preservation Society
Iam in
Fascinating, I have a few sdk/debug kits somewhere in storage here that I used to use for dev back in the late 2k’s that will run this dumps.
I’m more interested at the patch jobs than the actual games tbh.
Very impressive find nonetheless m8, always respect ppl who share the love and not capitalise from something that ought to belong in public domain.
Super cool to manage test a rare game...even though not really into the game itself. It's just for the feel... excited
It's so awesome you do this work!
I can confirm that the Ford vs Chevy build runs on RGH XBox 360. Unfourtunately, the Fast and Furious Build does not load, even with the 128mb patched OG xbox emulator files for RGH. Maybe the default.xbe can be hex edited to work on 360. also, i could not run the Fast and Furious build on cxbx.
Big thanks MVG for doing the imaging. Preservation is truly a great and important thing for this medium.
Well done for uploading these unique gems to the internet for the world to enjoy and explore. You legend
Fast and Furious is probably one of my favourite racing games of all time, and to see an unreleased Xbox version is amazing. I'm in love with this
True
You always make such amazing content much love, funny thing I noticed is the game in the description for the video is 2009's Prototype
Good lord… wow dude this is such a killer project. Thank you for sharing!
Intriguing video, and great that you managed to preserve this drive.
This is fascinating. Thanks for another great video.
MVG, thank you for dumping these and archiving everything you find. I think that's genuinely admirable, and I got my start in game dev by datamining!
Didn't even realize you were such an active Archive contributor thank you so much for all those unseen gems!
You’re the man. I appreciate how you explain yourself to us, but speaking for myself, it’s not necessary.
I don’t trust many celebrities, TH-cam personalities, whatever. But I have no doubt you’ll always do the right thing.
You da man.
Very cool! Looking forward to seeing the LTDemo is
"There are people who do that (he says as if he totally respects it as a personal decision), I've always thought those people are scumbags". That made me laugh, I mean they are totally but the way he said it was funny.
Very excited for part 2
Cool stuff. Very interesting video. I was hoping this was going to be a later build of starcraft ghost.
Great channel I can't believe I am just now being recommended. currently running old sega saturn releases.
Thanks for doing this for me MVG, I’m all up for people to share the content of the drive, yeah I might own the Debug but the content on the HDD is priceless. Thanks for the hard work. Not sure where you find the time 😅
Ahh yeah I remember Eutechnyx's Test Drive series. Thanks for doing this Dimitris. We need to preserve these games!
@ModernVintageGamer Hi MVG. I emailed you about Rockstar selling cracked copies of software on Steam. I guess they couldnt figure out their own way to defeat their DRM.
Interesting how that Rockstar story has been making the news rounds recently. Wasn't that already determined years ago?
Fast and Furious (the Tokyo Drift-centric version of the game despite the icons referencing the first movie) has a special place in my heart, and seeing what could've been it's Xbox counterpart until it's demise as a PlayStation exclusive surely is interesting! Great video as always!
You always have really interesting insights into game development.
dope video mate :O waiting for that next one about that demo thing
Man I love your vids, always so interesting. Thank you!
Great work MVG!
The debug OS that is on that DEV kit is 5849 and that was the final XdK that Microsoft developed for Halo 2 and was never officially released. IMO that dev kit is not in its original state. 5849 was unofficially released and is super common for people to upgrade to 5849.
The 5849 was on the Debug Kit when I purchased it. It was never opened and the guy who I purchased it from didn’t know what he was doing because it didn’t read discs.
Dude your eyebrows are OG
Love it!
Always love content around Dev kits for various consoles. For some reason I find them very interesting. I'd love to start collecting them but i'm sure the prices of them are crazy lol.
Fantastic work!
can't believe there are still games being found , i for one still very much love the og xbox it was the pinnacle of my gaming life way back when now , the hardware was so good then
Shout out to you for doing this. Saw that computer clan guy who got a super rare Mac with internal tools that he refused to dump and preserve. So lame.
Great work, MVG. Love seeing og Xbox dev/debug preservation.
I'm curious what the LT demo is. You can dump xbe headers to get more info about it. Throwing it in Ghidra (with xbox symbols add-in) might be enlightening too.
please also check the HDD for deleted files!
I have . More to come
@@ModernVintageGamerhot
That’s so cool that it’s easy to extract that data after all these iterations of Windows.
I wanted a backup of mine on a usb stick that’s universally accepted, so I formatted it as FAT32 before dumping my older brother’s xbox backup along with the EXE just in case.
Now it sits proudly on my shelf next to my computer labeled “FAT DUMPER AND BOX”. I will tell my mom that the (Australian?) man I watch on TH-cam gave it to me. Thanks again!
Great team work!
Love this guy! Love this channel!
When I was a kid and heard they were making a Fast and The Furious video game, I waited forever for it to release. Glad to see it being preserved. Movie is a cornerstone of my childhood.
PS2 The Fast And The Furious release has LAN-play (LAN-tunneling can be done as an alternate online-MP) and, with some mods, the original PS2 online-MP can be played as well via fan server.
Thanks for everything you do, cheers!
Epic! Thank you buddy 🙏
This is awesome, I always love seeing new stuff being dumped. I wonder how it performs on Xemu emulator.
nice! thanks as always MVG
The secrets this world holds will be lost but not all, can't wait for part 2
Love these kind of videos!
I like your room, it looks clean and neat :)
Great Work MVG
Great stuff as always!
I think the LTDemo file was for a cancelled game called *_Limbo Tanks._*
You had to go kamikaze and get hit with anti tank missiles just enough to damage the tank and make it shorter so it can go past ever decreasing giant limbo poles, without getting blown to smithereens before the limbo challenge.
Great concept, but I think they cancelled it as it was a bit too niche. Intended audience was Caribbean veterans.
That's really a terrible joke.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse I know; it was intended for all gamers.
Looking forward to learning about that 3rd game.
Thanks MVG - I've got a retail OG Xbox lying around that has recently been softmodded, so I am willing to try the two dumped games out, for curiosity's sake
Excellent stuff man.
We Need A Gameplay For The Cancelled Xbox Port For The Fast And The Furious
Prolly just the game but with enhanced graphics
Awesome stuff. Always interesting discovering beta games and games that could have been. I’m all about preserving history. Gaming or otherwise. It’s such a shame seeing things be lost to time leaving no knowledge for future generations to learn from. Or often in the case of gaming, losing potentially amazing unreleased games. It scares me thinking of all the games that may have been lost or just deleted or re written because devs or companies weren’t concerned with preservation. Then there’s times like with star fox 2, when the game is basically done and they’re just like yea...nope. Scrap it. Like, why work till near completion and not even release it?
I'm always hoping to see certain cancelled titles. When I started this video I was really hoping for the Jurassic Park Survivor game that was supposed to come out for og xbox.
The most interesting thing was to see him play Gears of War 3 on a PS3 Dev Kit
This was sick! Thanks for sharing, would be cool to go through the code. :D
Nice one! Will try to dump my debug kit with this method as there is a game worth to save 😊
Debug hard drives are locked to a specific motherboard. The debug kit just does not check to make sure if the hard drive matches or not. If you load the avalaunch dashboard, there is a option to lock or unlock the hard drive. The only difference I ever noticed is if you load a newer version of the XdK while the hard drive is unlocked is at the very end of loading the new XdK it will give you a error but everything still functions correctly.
Thank you for your work!
Very interesting, thanks MVG. I may use the app to dump my ide xbox drive 😊
Amazing those final words 13:07. You're awesome