#demo discs

[posthumanwanderings]

[socpens]

These discs they turn and spin…. the laser reads the relief of my deepest most resolute desires…. oh how deliteful… what is contained on these discs is a cavalcade of delectable DEMOS & VIDEOZ!

Tonight we indulge in DEMO DISC DELITES. Me & the crew will explore demo discs of days past.. including discs for PS1, PS2, XBOX & more.. often these discs contain exclusive videos & content that has never been archived anywhere.. we will be delving into lost depths, finding such hidden gems as Weeman playing Xbox.. and numerous exciting demos for unknown games…

Indulge in ur wildest desires… these discs are meant to inspires.. 7PM EST @ https://www.twitch.tv/socpens

[caddicarustv]

❗️ ALERT ❗️ My newest video went out just now. It's 33 minutes, and all about the history and magic of PS1 demo discs. Don't worry - it's still silly. It took me a ridiculous amount of time to make, so if you could, PLEASE like and share this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYOeXytMwoM

[mendelpalace]

released February 23, 2020 All tracks are made on Techno eJay 2 and are free-to-use ♥

A collection of PS1 demo disc techno tracks with a few bits of dark ambiance sprinkled throughout. 

@nine-hundred-and-nine

[videogamesincolor]

Folk are legit creating multiple accounts to play the RE2 Remake demo more than once. 

On one hand, that is really funny (I don’t think this particular remake is worth risking your entire PlayStation/XBO/PC accounts for, not this close to release).

On the other hand, the idea of timed demos that disappear from your console makes me miss the days of demo discs and gaming magazines.

[blazehedgehog]

If I may ask, on the subject of emulation, what do you think of the Nintendo Gamecube Multi Game Demo Discs? I don't think Nintendo's ever going to re-relase those things, but they do have some interesting thing on them, like all of that Dinosaur Planet content on Star Fox Adventures' kiosk version, the Super Mario Strikers Kiosk, Metroid Prime Kiosk as well, just to name a few. How could they be preserved or brought back without emulation?

I legitimately don’t think downloading demo discs is piracy. I’m sure there’s some kind of legal technicality that some people might try to flex, but at the end of the day, a demo disc is largely meant to exist as a sampler of a retail product and the vast majority of them were given away for free – or nearly for free. They were provided as a form of advertising.

In the “gray market spectrum” downloading demo disc ISOs or whatever is about as harmless as it gets. My moral compass is maybe something like this:

I think some kind of demo disc repository could work. I recently discovered something like that already kind of exists for PC cover disks and the like:

http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html

This is essentially a rather sizable archive of both cover disks from PC magazines (like PC Gamer) and those weird “101 Games for a Buck!” CDs you used to find cluttering up shelves at Wal-mart and CompUSA. Mostly, it’s just tons and tons of old demos and shareware games peppered with the occasional weird ephemera (the module music collections are a treat).

If something like that can exist, it’s possible a console game demo disc repository might avoid the eye of Sauron.

[multitapmugen]

twitch.tv/multitapmugen LIVE with Playstation 1 Demo Discs!

[posthumanwanderings]

Bit Fighter, Tech Saturn: May 1997 Demo Disc (Sega Saturn)