Demo Discs, do you collect them?

[0078265317]

Got a dreamcast long time ago on ebay.  And it came with some demo discs.

[Yakumo1975]

I'm the proud owner of every single Japanese Saturn demo disc.  Some contain unreleased game footage too.  Also have a lot of Japanese Dreamcast deml discs too. 

[Classic Pac]

I have all 15 issues of the original Playstation Underground 

[HoshiChiri]

On 12/25/2016 at 7:29 PM, CapitanClassic said:

I seem to remember that even one demo was actually a full game, but was set to display a lockup screen at the end of the first level. Unfortunately, the designers left in a level select code, so you actually had the full game.

 

On 12/26/2016 at 1:19 AM, PianoMan343 said:

Yeah I think it was one of the Spyro games on the PS1 that had that

So did Keio Flying Squadron on Sega CD. Given the rarity of the title, it's one of the most expensive demos around (or so I'm told.)

 

I don't actively seek out demos, but I keep any that happen to fall in my lap. I was a PlayStation Underground member back in the PS2 era- and that was a great thing then. Every so often I'd just... get free demos in the mail. Sometimes with little goodies thrown in. I remember a Rogue Galaxy poster & an MRE-style snack pack with a military game (early Call of Duty, maybe?)

 

A word of warning for those demos, though- the Holiday 2004 PS Underground disc came in two variants. If you have the early version, with the Viewiftul Joe 2 demo, DO NOT PLAY THAT DEMO WITH A MEMORY CARD INSERTED! There's a serious glitch in it that will forcibly reformat memory cards & cost you all your save data. They actually did a recall of the discs & re-released it without that particular demo present (which is why there's two versions.) On that note- if anyone's got a PS2 memory card with corrupt data they can't clear off, let me know? I've got that demo & I've always wanted to see if it can be used to 'fix' such a card.