Probably an April fools

[vbt]

Here are Two prototypes

1 CD is Quake at 65% and using only the VDP1
1 CD is theorically the start of translation of Fanta Step to english

Big thanks to the segaxtreme community, donators, hidden palace and the seller

Huge thanks to the contributors :

bo bayles
ndiddy
frogbull
tongara
fafling
wesker
cerbero
pinchy
vbt

be quick (or be dead), the files will stay 3 days.

Quake 65% dump 1.rar

2 files sent via WeTransfer, the simplest way to send your files around the world

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[rorirub]

I remember SSM UK covering the development of Quake and they said it in one of the interviews that they managed to save some texture memory by moving the player gun graphics to the VDP2 at some point. This build is evidently before that.

 

[Danthrax]

“Theoretically” the start of a translation?

 

[Fandu]

Thanks vbt and all donators. Interesting stuff.
Glad to see people interested in helping with this things when the opportunity comes.

 

[vbt]

“Theoretically” the start of a translation?

yes "Dreamknight" should have some parts in English but I didn't find any. it would deserve a detailled comparison with the Final Jap version

 

[fafling]

The Quake proto is not using only VDP1.
In fact it has the same usage of VDP2 layers as the commercial version : sky on RBG0 and weapon on NBG0.
Entrance level with VDP1 sprites disabled in Kronos emulator :

 

[bbayles]

I will have some research notes on Quake out for next week's Under the Microscope...

 

[Tongara]

Ayy, nice to see this~

 

[vbt]

and there was a nice aricles of our friends Saturn Shiro :

Early Prototypes of Quake, Fantastep Dumped

A group of SegaXtreme community members banded together to buy and dump a pair of Saturn prototypes: one of Quake, and one of Fantastep. VBT made a thread at 7:24 p.m. EDT Wednesday with a link to …

www.segasaturnshiro.com

 

[Danthrax]

Here's Bo's Quake research:
https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/03/30/under-the-microscope-quake-v0-819/

 

[vbt]

reup 3 days : Quake 65% dump 1.rar

 

[Fandu]

What would be interesting too it´s to find some way to reverse or fix the textures in DD2 proto.

 

[Tongara]

The Quake proto has been uploaded to Hidden Palace~
Quake (Aug 19, 1997 prototype)

I think bbayles will be adding some more content to the article later.
bbayles (Bo) added the cheats to the article, so that fleshed it out too~

I will also be making a page for Dreamknight later tonight, I'm all Wikicoded out for now!

 

[Tongara]

The Dreamknight proto has been uploaded to Hidden Palace~
Dreamknight (Sep 24, 1996 prototype)

That now means the DD2, Quake and Dreamknight Saturn protos all have pages!

 

[vbt]

The Dreamknight proto has been uploaded to Hidden Palace~
Dreamknight (Sep 24, 1996 prototype)

That now means the DD2, Quake and Dreamknight Saturn protos all have pages!

wonderful, big thanks !

 

[Tongara]

Alright, as a final update, I have added pictures of the discs for each prototype to their Hidden Palace pages (DD2, Quake, Dreamknight).

Thanks to vbt for going out of their way to take those!

Might as well put the pictures here too. I'll add the DD2 disc pictures to the DD2 thread~