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Dec 24 2009: Baldur

   drx   



Here's something very, very nice. Baldur's Gate for PSX, donated for a release by a secret awesome person. Some words from them:


Hi, everybody!
Santa here! Or at least someone who's secretly filling in his shoes!
(Shh! Don't tell anyone!)

Isn't this season great? 'Tis the season of giving, hope, love and all that bla bla bla stuff... So here's me giving you something (and it's not the finger, for once). It's a brand spankin' new unreleased game! And one you can actually play too! I've been sitting on this thing for nearly 2 years. 2 years isn't that long a time! I acquired this for a rather sizy sum of money once (hint: four digits). Sure stung a bit, but I feel like I've somewhat recovered from that! So what you're now getting is a fully playable (from start to end) copy of the unreleased PS1 port of Baldur's Gate. It weights in at a mighty 3 discs and is a surprisingly faithful and direct port of the original PC game. Please note: This is NOT the same build that was featured "exclusively" on the PlayStation Museum. This one is further into development and much closer to the game's cancellation date.

I don't expect to get anything in return for this, but for those who're feeling very generous; My wishlist this year includes the usual bag of world peace and stuff, along with some personal wishes for stuff such as the early version of Resident Evil 2 (aka. Resident Evil 1.5) and the canned PS1 port of The Journeyman Project - Pegasus Prime, but money would also be nice! ;)

Anyway, hope you all enjoy your present from this year's Secret Santa! I also hope you all enjoy this often so forgotten title and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Make sure to leave your thanks and holiday wishes in the comments sections or keep an eye on LostLevels.org and the Hidden Palace forums, where I'm hoping someone will be paying their respect for this gem!  


Santa paid a mid-end four figure sum for this, so if you'd like to thank him with money, I can make sure it gets to him, let me know.

So, here's the torrent. Enjoy!

Edit: Carnivol has posted a nice write-up with a bunch of screenshots at the LostLevels forums, check it out.


linlhutz (email) (Dec 24 2009)
Nobody commented yet?!
WOW
Allow me to be the first to say thanks to the person who was so generous about releasing this.
It's refreshing to see someone truely giving to the video game community rather than forcing "donations" to get a release.
A class act all the way.
Merry Christmas, Santa


Evermore (Dec 25 2009)
This is AWSOME - Thank you very, very much for this ! Great release !!! One of the best releases I have seen over the last 10 years !




SLM-1 (1) (email) (Dec 26 2009)
At me it is bad with English.
Many thanks for that have laid out Baldur’s Gate for PSX. It is the present curiosity for collectors. It is very big gift by new year. But still the big gift would be, if you lay out BioHazard 2 Prototype and if it is not difficult JP-Pegasus Prime, but only on this site. But it is possible also on LostLevels.

And now it is a little about me.
I live in Russia. At us now not so it is cold as should be and because of it our bears cannot fall asleep, even vodka does not help. To have remove to fight and copulate, to cheer them up.

Very much I ask, lay out Prototype and JPPP on December, 31st, and it is even better on January, 1st. Well very much I ask you Santa. With coming 2010!


kami (Dec 26 2009)
Oh my holy fucking G*D !
No Way

The best Xmas gift
ever!


NeoWOZ (Dec 26 2009)
This is a great release.

Thanks for your genorosity.



phoenixclaws (email) (Dec 26 2009)
I just ran into a debugger by accident while i was playing the game in pSX (the permanent game saving doesn't seem to function in ePSXe).

Warning: The item will reset to the first amulet in the item list so do this with something you can afford to mess around with.

Go to your inventory, click X while on an item and then hit your start key. Then use L1 and R1 to scale back and forth through the entire item list in the game. To Keep an item drop it with X and then hit the Start Key. Otherwise the item reverts back to AMU01. Neat little leftover debugging tool.


phoenixclaws (Dec 27 2009)
Quick note:
use the Circle and Square buttons to move through the list faster :P.


roberam (Dec 27 2009)
One of the most IMPRESSIVE releases ever!

Thanks, thanks and a million more thanks!




Evermore (Dec 31 2009)
Does anybody have the build date of the Version of that great release ?


phoenixclaws (Dec 31 2009)
October 2 or 3 2000 most likely. That is the latest date on the files.
Before those three files on the root of the disc a data file is dated 8/15/2000.


i_trusted_you (email) (Jan 09 2010)
Fuuck you Michael! This shouldn't have happened! You fuucked up!


yeah (email) (Jan 23 2010)
COMPLETLY HARDCORE !
I LOVE YOU GUYS


n64fan (email) (Feb 23 2010)
It's Feburary 23rd, and nothing came out?!
Drx normally celebrates it with something Badas*!
Oh, well...


boring stufg (email) (Mar 15 2010)
THAT LOOKS BORING


boring stufg (email) (Mar 15 2010)
THAT LOOKS BORING


n64fan (email) (Mar 17 2010)
Ahh!! Spambot!
And if you're human, go find a USELESS site to torture, please?


Gorion79 (Mar 29 2010)
Sweet, this is the series where I pretty much acquired my internet name, now I can play it on PSX, I quite enjoyed this game on PC. Thank you so much.


Briguy (email) (Apr 16 2010)
any way of this getting into a psp?:)





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