Called himself a gta 3 fan, but forget to put widescreen in the options in, so that the picture looks squished...... Btw. Still a nice video. Gave you a thumb up. :)
@@MattJ155 No problem. This Game also have a special place in my heart. Like vc and sa. Will never forgot, how i played it with 12 years back then and was hyped and then dissapointed, that the cops don't have the blue paintjob. XD Even the intro on ps2 has this blue cop cars. Still a wonderful game. A friend always told me, a friend has the "earlier" Version. The first Version would have sold not on purpose, and i have the real version. Such a nonsense. Mine was already the earlier version xD And then i found out, i can play the game uncut when putting it in english. Oh well. This time back then was magic. And Driver 2 was already magic for me, half a year prior to that.
I think i have a pc gta 3 copy with its handling.cfg file saying 2000 or 1999, but the names of cars are the definitive ones and the armor cheat code is tUrtoise, not tOrtoise as many other versions, i think my uncle downloaded this from a pirate site way back in 2002, could it be a copy of Philip's files?
Hey, I'm going to write this in both under your pinned comment and the comment section: In this video that shows the beta footages in chronological order, ruclips.net/video/Es-yVL-AUMA/видео.html there's a comment wrote by the user _ryan seft_ that says "I wish I kept my GTA 3 I had one exactly like this when I was a kid didn't know anything till one day i purchased the game at cex and I was like da fuck is this this is not like what I played before 😪". You could ask him more details! (sorry for bad english, still learning)
To the Dead Rising community the TGS 2005 and E3 2005 builds of Dead rising are some of the most important game builds that have been lost to time as of right now, due to how drastically different the game was in 05 compared to the final release in 06.
Dude! Amazing research, overall fantastic video. Really cool you got so many people to respond, I find getting these kinds of contacts can be pretty difficult!
Very interesting. Sadly, GTAIII's beta is much harder to find beyond the prerelease screenshots & riddled with supposed "copies" which people falsely claimed to be beta builds of GTAIII. Chances are that this is the equivalent of finding the real Mjolnir in a mountain of fake Mjolnirs.
Wacky fact: With some digging, you can secretly ask developers to see if they have a copy they are willing to share for limited time. Then just copy that shit when you’re alone, I did it all the time when I went to Blockbuster.
I think i love gta 3 because it still has that old feel of gta 2 before the series went mainstream. Gta 2 was my first and it was awesome. Gta 3 was an awesome 3d extension of that surviving wheelman in a gritty metropolitan.
Chances are no one bothered to swipe a beta disc in 01' as no one thought the series would blow up. Parents were losing their shit, and didn't want their children anywhere near the game! 😂
Excellent video as always. I'm sure a beta disc or copy of it exists somewhere in the world, but is likely in very small numbers or being kept in secrecy or in the hands of those who don't release such material.
Great video as always, Matt. There are definitely pre-release builds of GTA 3 out there but your chance of getting one for a fair price these days is next to impossible with just how much GTA has blown up over the years. You're gonna pay out the ass these days. My older brother who got me into GTA told me a while ago he went to E3 2001 and saw a bit of GTA 3. Unfortunately, he says all he remembers is blue police cars.
As someone who previously worked for Rockstar NYC, they are beta builds of the games, but, they are currently unplayable without a development console and proper software on a PC. Of course, every assets of the game during development are safely put away. Not gonna say where or I’ll get my ass chewed up by the execs, us employees couldn’t touch it. I did, however, before being moved to the marketing team in 2008, I did previously QA Tested Bully and The Warriors on PS2 and Xbox (before bully getting canned on Xbox) and I also QA tested and marketed GTA IV. It was fun, indeed. Hope this answers your question. Keep up the good work - this was an amazing video.
@@xxe2 - every game goes through different stages over the course of development. Yes, I quite remember playing with a beta build of GTAV in 2012 for marketing purposes to get screenshots and etc. I cannot say what was in the build, and I cannot say who has the build or where it is. Just know it’s in the hands of the publishers, and we don’t have access to them.
Thank you for gathering so many informations in one video! Contacting people about the Beta Build was awesome! You're the man! It would be nice to see research about the other GTA beta builds :D
I remember back in like 2008, I picked random person's name from QA team in credits, found them on facebook, asked if they really worked in QA on GTA 3, they confirmed and ignored me after that. I probably asked something stupid, can't remember now lol.
Seems like GTA and Sims 2 both have a history of beta builds being lost. Both of them also have lots of people saying they somehow found the beta online and played it, but unfortunately they don't have it anymore. Sucks cuz the development process was really intriguing. There was even that one forum in which the guy claimed to have the beta build of Sims 2 that was shown at 2003 E3. You know, the one with better lighting, rain and cars as a purchasable item. Well apparently the whole E3 presentation was just for show, the game didn't really work. It would boot up to a pre-made family, saving the neighborhood wasn't even implemented and apart from what was shown, not much was playable really. But yeah, he can't share that build anymore, because his computer "crashed".
I wonder if a prerelease build of The Urbz Sims In The City exists. I do remember how different the beta version seen in the trailers back in 2003 showed the beta versions of Cozmo Street, Gasoline Row etc compared to the final version of the game we got.
*As always, great video Matt. I am happy to see your channel growing.* You definitely deserve more views - you've made a huge progress (especially in terms of content quality). I still hope someone will manage to find the original alpha or beta Grand Theft Auto III ROM. Red Dead Redemption preview copy was leaked so there is a slim chance people could find GTA3 preview copy as well. At this point, to be honest, even a preview copy would be great - any copy that differs from the retail version of GTA3. The problem with GTA3 is that, back in the day, Grand Theft Auto was not as popular as nowadays so most people did not care about the beta version of this game. It was the first GTA in 3D so people did not know what to expect from DMA/Rockstar North after their previous 2D games. I remember reading an old article (or was it a website?), in which the journalist stated that the hype at the GTA3 E3 booth was not that big, although people of course were interested.
Thank you for all your efforts of preservation and research, really hope something is discovered soon. About a week ago in the chat of a GTA 3 speedrun stream someone was talking about his friend owning a genuine pre-release build dated about half a year before E3 2001, even specifying odd details like what the disc looked like and saying there was a 99% chance his friend would release it on the 4th of this month. Could be the same person who messaged you through instagram?
Man I would love to at least get a look at the GTA 3 builds before 1.40. I got a taste with some pre-release screen shots. But I would love to see it in play.
Thank you. I have been using your videos (and others) to help determine where a disc I own falls into the pre-release timeline. When I was 14, a family friend handed me a copy of GTA 3 which was clearly ripped from somewhere else (Disc is just marked in pen). It contains the full game, containing (what I did not realize until much later on - when comparing it to others) a lot of the pre-9/11 things such as the blue Police cars. It has a fair few issues with even running (unsure if issues with the code or issues with the copied disc), and some very glaring visual issues in various places. Sadly that family friend is no longer with us, so I can not ask how or when he got hold of this copy. So far I have managed to determine that this copy is from around August 2001. I have no plans to sell this copy, I don't think anyone would find it trustworthy or worth buying, as the disc itself (just marked with pen) does not look legit or interesting. However, it is still nice to know!
@@gav1100 Hi. Thanks a lot for sharing this info. :) It was a very interesting read. Would you be open to sharing any photos of the disc or screenshots of this build? Sorry to hear about the loss of your family friend.
That's really interesting. The GTA 3 is the only GTA, wich was playable on E3's. That mean, those copys contain Darkel, who is cut at Summer of 2001. There are older videos, about the game, from March, and April of 2001.
I hope you do have digital backups of those Beta discs you have. Not saying you should upload them to archive.org, but I'm not saying you shouldn't either. At least, consider the fact that in a few years these discs will die due to disc rot.
It’s odd how there seems to be no prototypes of any Rockstar game (besides Bully iirc). The closest thing to a “prototype”/beta of GTAIII is the 1.40 PAL release.
@@MattJ155 Maybe you are right about the test discs. They said that there is no beta available because they simply kept updating the game and everything gets replaced or deleted. I'll watch your video first before commenting further :)
When it came to playing games early, Rockstar would always have their PR team (wonderful people, some I'm still in touch with) supervise our play sessions. I, and several other fansite webmasters (I ran GTAGaming) were invited to play early copies of GTA4, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne 3, LA Noire and GTA5. Other webmasters joked about making copies of the discs with their laptops when the PR team would step out briefly, but as far as I know, no one did. Rockstar have always been pretty strict about watching the dev kits and discs, so it wouldn't surprise me to find there aren't any early copies of the PS2 era GTA games. We jokingly asked about this back in 2007 with Rockstar, and said they're probably long lost, or deep within storage somewhere. Though you did manage to find PS1 era, so... you never know, really. I would personally love to see betas of any of the PS2 era GTA games in action. We did receive EPK discs, but those aren't as rare as they were meant to be given out to press.
This is the first time I've seen a video listed like this that isn't actually up yet. Hope it doesn't become a thing. That said, if anything's worth waiting for it's GTA 3 beta content. I'm really hoping there's more than just speculation in the video and that you've actually found something. That would be mind blowing.
To be honest, I've done two of these premieres now, and they seem to work well for me. I've got a lot more views in this amount of time than I usually would.
Get a PS2, a CRT television, a VCR VHS recorder, and connect them all together and make some really kewl VHS videos. Analog looks more beautiful rather than that nasty crisp HD laserdisc quality.
I tried to get in contact with that tim guy that did the game guides. I was keen to ask him about the ps2 san andreas guide book as on some of the flying segments of the game in the pictures he has the ingame coordinates on screen. And i was very keen to ask him what was going on with that. He never got back to me..
@@WHITE-EUROPEANS-ARE-ISRAELITES there's no bonus/cut content on it. like there's no cut vehicles, weapons, songs, or missions. Everything is exactly the same as a normal version. Except you can access some "debug tools" and those debug tools have been available/accessible for a long time now. /already been used it other mods. And theres much better mods out now that give you access to those same tools even for ps2 and original Xbox, for example try out "project kaizo 2.0" for the original xbox. You get pretty much full debug tool access and it all actually works properly hahaha, and a bunch of other cool little options that have been added. Like a full/proper working character selection screen an stuff
@@WHITE-EUROPEANS-ARE-ISRAELITES I have it installed on my modded original Xbox. I can't remember where exactly but there's a decent group of modded GTA games from back in the day people have saved on the internet archive. It was added there like 9 years ago. Also Most of the good original xbox mods that came out after used it to build off of since it was just a modd after all. If you really just want to experience what that mod should have had to offer I highly recommend project Kaizo. That one really is a good well done one. Has all the tools youd wanna mess with.
@@WHITE-EUROPEANS-ARE-ISRAELITESthe mod is already somewhere on the internet archive. However if you just want to have that experience I recommend project kaizo for og xbox. It works better and has more to offer
Matt do you happen to have the fast and furious 1 / 2 fast 2 furious for ps2 to show off like an early build , I remember as a child in one of the powerstation magazines 2 fast 2 furious or fast & furious 1 one of them was shown and said it was coming out on Playstation 2 , when I went into gamestation and asked a guy about it he said it was cancelled
@@stobeznog878 Yeah the first one thinking about it but I am hoping matt sees this and has it in his collection or can talk to devs about it because I'm interested into what it would have been like
I honestly don't think we'll ever see one, being disc based media it is aging and the more time goes on the less likely it is to surface. I hope we do, but I am very doubtful. Plus how Nintendo-like R* have been lately.. It doesn't help.
@@MattJ155 I can get one, I will have to find it first though... It's in one of about 50 or so large boxes full of old/retro games. From what I remember, it's in one of them really thin jewel cases. Has an inlay with a rear of a Honda Civic with the slogan "This is what a Honda feels like" in a whacky font. Only ever seen one for sale and that was a good 10 years ago. Let me know what the best deets to send the photos to and I will be sure to save it for when I stumble across it again! :) P.S. Check out eBay item No. 113194589245 - It's exactly that promo, but a different form-factor and for PS2.
Interesting video. But I gotta ask Matt if you ever saw a flying UFO in the original San Andreas? I remember one time long ago I was playing on my PS2 out near that one building in the desert that has glowing blue lights at about Dusk/Night. Well I was running around near it when I saw some weird shadow and when I looked up I saw a glimpse of a UFO before it just suddenly despawned before me. Being young me I never recorded the footage but still have the copy of the game if I ever will try to do it again to see the UFO. (Original PS2 version I mean. Not the rerelease)
What will you reaction be if someone of the houser brothers gives us answers about all the stuff about all of gta's beta and puts beta builds of all the gtas on sale.
Hey, I'm going to write this in both under your pinned comment and the comment section: In this video that shows the beta footages in chronological order, ruclips.net/video/Es-yVL-AUMA/видео.html there's a comment wrote by the user _ryan seft_ that says "I wish I kept my GTA 3 I had one exactly like this when I was a kid didn't know anything till one day i purchased the game at cex and I was like da fuck is this this is not like what I played before 😪". You could ask him more details! (sorry for bad english, still learning)
Gta3 is my favourite out the whole series to be honest! I once managed to fly under the map, here it is if you fancy a look! I have no idea if its even been done before to be honest. Couldn't do it again. Most of the time the game crashes. There is a hole in the sea you can get through like i did, but you gotta kinda stall the dodo and recover it. Madness! Enjoy.. ruclips.net/video/AdiI8uIZL9A/видео.html
@@Anvifen I have a Driver 3 build but it's very similar to the final build. I also have a Driver Parallel Lines preview build but I've got to play it as it's dongle protected.
This is a long shot, but I think you should try track down the computers and tech they used to build the game. Surleybthe beta was sitting on a hard drive or something at some point in time.
Thanks to Mace 2.0 for the awesome thumbnail! ruclips.net/channel/UCLkiIsgu60OTeR542Hv9AvA
Called himself a gta 3 fan, but forget to put widescreen in the options in, so that the picture looks squished...... Btw. Still a nice video. Gave you a thumb up. :)
@@SONGOKU02 Haha, thank you!
@@MattJ155 No problem. This Game also have a special place in my heart. Like vc and sa. Will never forgot, how i played it with 12 years back then and was hyped and then dissapointed, that the cops don't have the blue paintjob. XD Even the intro on ps2 has this blue cop cars. Still a wonderful game. A friend always told me, a friend has the "earlier" Version. The first Version would have sold not on purpose, and i have the real version. Such a nonsense. Mine was already the earlier version xD And then i found out, i can play the game uncut when putting it in english. Oh well. This time back then was magic. And Driver 2 was already magic for me, half a year prior to that.
I think i have a pc gta 3 copy with its handling.cfg file saying 2000 or 1999, but the names of cars are the definitive ones and the armor cheat code is tUrtoise, not tOrtoise as many other versions, i think my uncle downloaded this from a pirate site way back in 2002, could it be a copy of Philip's files?
Hey, I'm going to write this in both under your pinned comment and the comment section:
In this video that shows the beta footages in chronological order,
ruclips.net/video/Es-yVL-AUMA/видео.html
there's a comment wrote by the user _ryan seft_ that says "I wish I kept my GTA 3 I had one exactly like this when I was a kid didn't know anything till one day i purchased the game at cex and I was like da fuck is this this is not like what I played before 😪".
You could ask him more details!
(sorry for bad english, still learning)
Since I remember, no beta has been as intriguing as GTA III's.
I agree with that
Bully's beta
@@parzival9651 agreed, i absolutely love bully's beta
GTA SA’s beta
To the Dead Rising community the TGS 2005 and E3 2005 builds of Dead rising are some of the most important game builds that have been lost to time as of right now, due to how drastically different the game was in 05 compared to the final release in 06.
Dude! Amazing research, overall fantastic video. Really cool you got so many people to respond, I find getting these kinds of contacts can be pretty difficult!
Oddheader lol
Very interesting. Sadly, GTAIII's beta is much harder to find beyond the prerelease screenshots & riddled with supposed "copies" which people falsely claimed to be beta builds of GTAIII. Chances are that this is the equivalent of finding the real Mjolnir in a mountain of fake Mjolnirs.
Thanks Mace! And thanks again for the awesome artwork.
Wacky fact: With some digging, you can secretly ask developers to see if they have a copy they are willing to share for limited time. Then just copy that shit when you’re alone, I did it all the time when I went to Blockbuster.
I wanna do that for manhunt
@@regriefing1807 Did you do it? I'm very curious of Manhunt beta
Anyone did it? It sounds fishy
i wanna do that for bully
@safsnakered dead redemption for me
I think i love gta 3 because it still has that old feel of gta 2 before the series went mainstream. Gta 2 was my first and it was awesome. Gta 3 was an awesome 3d extension of that surviving wheelman in a gritty metropolitan.
True, especially in portland, redlight/hepburn/and harwood area
Chances are no one bothered to swipe a beta disc in 01' as no one thought the series would blow up. Parents were losing their shit, and didn't want their children anywhere near the game! 😂
Very true. I always remember people being more hyped about State of Emergency at the time.
Ohhh mannn i am sooo excited, make it in 3 hours , 3 days now would feel like 3 years.
@ Claude Speed Hey you can talk?!
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0:11 No one else noticed that random “Yodeling Pickle” for sale? Matt, you should buy it and check if there’s any beta builds if it.
Very interesting to see some insight from these ex-journalists/QA testers. Great video!
Thanks! Glad I could bring some new info to the party.
Excellent video as always.
I'm sure a beta disc or copy of it exists somewhere in the world, but is likely in very small numbers or being kept in secrecy or in the hands of those who don't release such material.
Thanks Thunder!
I swear I just discovered your channel and your videos are drug level addictive for some reason' you deserve a lot more subs
Thanks so much! It's always great to get such great feedback. :)
This video is fascinating. Hope we find it one day. I can't get enough of GTA 3 stuff.
I thought im the only one who LOVES GTA III stuff...
@@MaciejSkywalkeryou are not alone
Great video as always, Matt.
There are definitely pre-release builds of GTA 3 out there but your chance of getting one for a fair price these days is next to impossible with just how much GTA has blown up over the years. You're gonna pay out the ass these days.
My older brother who got me into GTA told me a while ago he went to E3 2001 and saw a bit of GTA 3. Unfortunately, he says all he remembers is blue police cars.
As someone who previously worked for Rockstar NYC, they are beta builds of the games, but, they are currently unplayable without a development console and proper software on a PC. Of course, every assets of the game during development are safely put away. Not gonna say where or I’ll get my ass chewed up by the execs, us employees couldn’t touch it. I did, however, before being moved to the marketing team in 2008, I did previously QA Tested Bully and The Warriors on PS2 and Xbox (before bully getting canned on Xbox) and I also QA tested and marketed GTA IV. It was fun, indeed. Hope this answers your question.
Keep up the good work - this was an amazing video.
What about gta v beta
@@xxe2 - every game goes through different stages over the course of development. Yes, I quite remember playing with a beta build of GTAV in 2012 for marketing purposes to get screenshots and etc. I cannot say what was in the build, and I cannot say who has the build or where it is. Just know it’s in the hands of the publishers, and we don’t have access to them.
Still exist gta 3 beta or alpha build ?
@@xDaKiNG_Bro0KLyNxyea if that true how michael was looks on this build
Thank you for gathering so many informations in one video! Contacting people about the Beta Build was awesome! You're the man!
It would be nice to see research about the other GTA beta builds :D
I remember back in like 2008, I picked random person's name from QA team in credits, found them on facebook, asked if they really worked in QA on GTA 3, they confirmed and ignored me after that. I probably asked something stupid, can't remember now lol.
DUDE!!!! DID I JUST SEE A BETA DISC TO RUMBLE RACING???
This is me with trying to find ANY prerelease build of the Sims 2 on PC. Most work was done remotely from a server.
Why bother play a good game
Seems like GTA and Sims 2 both have a history of beta builds being lost. Both of them also have lots of people saying they somehow found the beta online and played it, but unfortunately they don't have it anymore.
Sucks cuz the development process was really intriguing.
There was even that one forum in which the guy claimed to have the beta build of Sims 2 that was shown at 2003 E3. You know, the one with better lighting, rain and cars as a purchasable item. Well apparently the whole E3 presentation was just for show, the game didn't really work. It would boot up to a pre-made family, saving the neighborhood wasn't even implemented and apart from what was shown, not much was playable really. But yeah, he can't share that build anymore, because his computer "crashed".
@@Robciomixxnfs ah yes, I remember the Frogz2007 fiasco. I'm convinced that was someone with a great mind sadly riddled with mental illness.
@@Robciomixxnfsstill hoping for simmars to be found lol
I wonder if a prerelease build of The Urbz Sims In The City exists. I do remember how different the beta version seen in the trailers back in 2003 showed the beta versions of Cozmo Street, Gasoline Row etc compared to the final version of the game we got.
Man I love GTA 3 all 100% still play it original on my PS2 fat I cleaned out like brand new .
the holy grail would be getting the dreamcast alpha build.
TF are you talking about?
Это легенда как сорокседьмой...
I’m from the future. We have the game on Dreamcast now.
It's awesome all those devs replied, keep the gta 3 videos coming!
This was a really well done video and it's a shame it doesn't have more views
Matt, you're amazing. This is unique content. Keep going!
Thanks Tomasz!
*As always, great video Matt. I am happy to see your channel growing.* You definitely deserve more views - you've made a huge progress (especially in terms of content quality).
I still hope someone will manage to find the original alpha or beta Grand Theft Auto III ROM. Red Dead Redemption preview copy was leaked so there is a slim chance people could find GTA3 preview copy as well. At this point, to be honest, even a preview copy would be great - any copy that differs from the retail version of GTA3.
The problem with GTA3 is that, back in the day, Grand Theft Auto was not as popular as nowadays so most people did not care about the beta version of this game. It was the first GTA in 3D so people did not know what to expect from DMA/Rockstar North after their previous 2D games. I remember reading an old article (or was it a website?), in which the journalist stated that the hype at the GTA3 E3 booth was not that big, although people of course were interested.
I will be waiting for a copy to emerge for the rest of my life.
I'm very interested in seeing stuff from that Toca Race Driver 3 beta. I can't find any videos about it on RUclips.
Another one I haven't had chance to look at... yet. :)
Also, it could be for sale, if you wanted to make an offer.
Thank you for all your efforts of preservation and research, really hope something is discovered soon. About a week ago in the chat of a GTA 3 speedrun stream someone was talking about his friend owning a genuine pre-release build dated about half a year before E3 2001, even specifying odd details like what the disc looked like and saying there was a 99% chance his friend would release it on the 4th of this month. Could be the same person who messaged you through instagram?
Yeah, could be. As I said in the video, I'm reserving judgement until I've seen any screenshots, discs, etc. Anyway, I'm glad you liked the video!
Really great video, this is one of my all time favourite games.
Thanks man, it's appreciated. :)
It's very well known that Half-Life has it press Alpha build releaseed out in the public
Man I would love to at least get a look at the GTA 3 builds before 1.40.
I got a taste with some pre-release screen shots. But I would love to see it in play.
The build exists, they are just in the hands of some pretty stingy people.
Research aside, that backflip was smooth af
See if you can find PSM. Playstation magazine. They were big in the scenes during early days
same dude. I love GTA 3 and Gran Turismos
Damn now I have to subscribe after lurjing your GT videos. GTA3 is my fave game as well. I love it so much.
Thank you. I have been using your videos (and others) to help determine where a disc I own falls into the pre-release timeline. When I was 14, a family friend handed me a copy of GTA 3 which was clearly ripped from somewhere else (Disc is just marked in pen). It contains the full game, containing (what I did not realize until much later on - when comparing it to others) a lot of the pre-9/11 things such as the blue Police cars. It has a fair few issues with even running (unsure if issues with the code or issues with the copied disc), and some very glaring visual issues in various places.
Sadly that family friend is no longer with us, so I can not ask how or when he got hold of this copy. So far I have managed to determine that this copy is from around August 2001.
I have no plans to sell this copy, I don't think anyone would find it trustworthy or worth buying, as the disc itself (just marked with pen) does not look legit or interesting.
However, it is still nice to know!
@@gav1100 Hi. Thanks a lot for sharing this info. :) It was a very interesting read. Would you be open to sharing any photos of the disc or screenshots of this build?
Sorry to hear about the loss of your family friend.
9:26 Ah, i can see the half logo of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" being on psm2. such a cool thing to see why im here.
That's really interesting. The GTA 3 is the only GTA, wich was playable on E3's. That mean, those copys contain Darkel, who is cut at Summer of 2001. There are older videos, about the game, from March, and April of 2001.
I'd love to see the beta version of bully. That game had alot changed
Cheetah Flip 👏 2:33
Also wow thrasher beta
I found one on eBay for $300 and that was pretty cheap to me but it turns out it wasn't even a burned disk
WTF did you buy then?
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Are you around?
I hope you do have digital backups of those Beta discs you have. Not saying you should upload them to archive.org, but I'm not saying you shouldn't either.
At least, consider the fact that in a few years these discs will die due to disc rot.
broo im almost about to fall asleep and thought this was a video now im forced to keep my self awake :( fml lol
Hope you made it. :)
Just found this channel, awesome stuff. Love that game
I was literally *JUST* thinking this question before opening RUclips wtf
I hope you will get it one day, you deserve it
I finished my candy and cola, thx m8 :)
I Wish I COULD HAVE ONE GTA 3, VC & SA BETA PS2 DISC :(
Damn i wish i had the beta version
It’s odd how there seems to be no prototypes of any Rockstar game (besides Bully iirc). The closest thing to a “prototype”/beta of GTAIII is the 1.40 PAL release.
Every copy of GTA 3 is personalized.
This is exactly how I feel about getting a better TimeSplitters 2 beta disc from either reviewers or strategy guide authors :(
Rockstar have already confirmed that there isn't but yet I'm interested to see what's your investigation.
Well, I mean, how would they know? I think it'd be hard to keep track of every single disc sent out to the press and made internally for testing.
@@MattJ155 Maybe you are right about the test discs. They said that there is no beta available because they simply kept updating the game and everything gets replaced or deleted. I'll watch your video first before commenting further :)
When it came to playing games early, Rockstar would always have their PR team (wonderful people, some I'm still in touch with) supervise our play sessions. I, and several other fansite webmasters (I ran GTAGaming) were invited to play early copies of GTA4, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne 3, LA Noire and GTA5. Other webmasters joked about making copies of the discs with their laptops when the PR team would step out briefly, but as far as I know, no one did. Rockstar have always been pretty strict about watching the dev kits and discs, so it wouldn't surprise me to find there aren't any early copies of the PS2 era GTA games. We jokingly asked about this back in 2007 with Rockstar, and said they're probably long lost, or deep within storage somewhere. Though you did manage to find PS1 era, so... you never know, really. I would personally love to see betas of any of the PS2 era GTA games in action. We did receive EPK discs, but those aren't as rare as they were meant to be given out to press.
Maybe this time you would like to check the existence of Gran Turismo 2 E3 1999 build? Anyway, another great video!
I would love to own that. I don't think there's as much info around, but I'll have a look.
@@MattJ155 good luck!
You were in a vadim m video
Thats pretty awesome.. I hope you will find that.
I'm still looking for it
This is the first time I've seen a video listed like this that isn't actually up yet. Hope it doesn't become a thing. That said, if anything's worth waiting for it's GTA 3 beta content. I'm really hoping there's more than just speculation in the video and that you've actually found something. That would be mind blowing.
To be honest, I've done two of these premieres now, and they seem to work well for me. I've got a lot more views in this amount of time than I usually would.
Also my favorite video game
I’ll be here
Matt I found a Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories PROMO PS2 £50 and hopefully I get it I will do a game play if I get it omg soo excited .....
I know people who work at R* North and I can confirm that they are absolute a--holes. This video was amazing though!
I’ve never set a reminder except for this
Me too, lol.
Thanks guys! Hope it lived up to your expectations.
That thrasher one looks very interesting!! On another note have you ever seen any pre-release San Andreas stuff such as a pre-release disk??
I'm curious, is GTA 3 still your favorite game of all time?
Probably still is (don’t see any reason for it to change)
gta vice city, vice city stories, & lcs betas were leaked. now we just wait for gta 3 if this johndoe guy actually has it.
do you have a beta version of gta sa? i really wanna see the animations, the cars, i just wanna see everything about the beta version of gta sa
Do you play GTA III on the PS2? If so, how do you record on it? I’m not a tech guy and I’d love to record videos on older games
Get a PS2, a CRT television, a VCR VHS recorder, and connect them all together and make some really kewl VHS videos. Analog looks more beautiful rather than that nasty crisp HD laserdisc quality.
Awesome
@@DJSprings 🥰🥰🥰🥰
La versión beta existe?
I tried to get in contact with that tim guy that did the game guides. I was keen to ask him about the ps2 san andreas guide book as on some of the flying segments of the game in the pictures he has the ingame coordinates on screen. And i was very keen to ask him what was going on with that. He never got back to me..
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there's no bonus/cut content on it. like there's no cut vehicles, weapons, songs, or missions. Everything is exactly the same as a normal version. Except you can access some "debug tools" and those debug tools have been available/accessible for a long time now. /already been used it other mods. And theres much better mods out now that give you access to those same tools even for ps2 and original Xbox, for example try out "project kaizo 2.0" for the original xbox. You get pretty much full debug tool access and it all actually works properly hahaha, and a bunch of other cool little options that have been added. Like a full/proper working character selection screen an stuff
@@WHITE-EUROPEANS-ARE-ISRAELITES I have it installed on my modded original Xbox. I can't remember where exactly but there's a decent group of modded GTA games from back in the day people have saved on the internet archive. It was added there like 9 years ago. Also Most of the good original xbox mods that came out after used it to build off of since it was just a modd after all. If you really just want to experience what that mod should have had to offer I highly recommend project Kaizo. That one really is a good well done one. Has all the tools youd wanna mess with.
@@WHITE-EUROPEANS-ARE-ISRAELITESthe mod is already somewhere on the internet archive. However if you just want to have that experience I recommend project kaizo for og xbox. It works better and has more to offer
Matt do you happen to have the fast and furious 1 / 2 fast 2 furious for ps2
to show off like an early build , I remember as a child in one of the powerstation magazines 2 fast 2 furious or fast & furious 1
one of them was shown and said it was coming out on Playstation 2 , when I went into gamestation
and asked a guy about it he said it was cancelled
2fast 2 furious game? i've seen gameplay of first f&f game (which is unreleased), but never the 2nd one
@@stobeznog878 Yeah the first one thinking about it but I am hoping matt sees this and has it in his collection or can talk to devs about it because I'm interested into what it would have been like
I honestly don't think we'll ever see one, being disc based media it is aging and the more time goes on the less likely it is to surface. I hope we do, but I am very doubtful.
Plus how Nintendo-like R* have been lately.. It doesn't help.
Hola Matt, pero la version beta ¿se podria conseguir?
can you make a video on the burnout 3 betas?
Yes, one day. :)
What is that NFS Carbon disk
Is it a preview or a beta? I want more info.
All the EA discs are either preview or review discs. I think that one might be a preview one.
@@MattJ155 i really want to see the Carbon one
The MW probaby i saw it as Alpha 124. But never a ps2 Carbon review disc
Hello! By any chance, have you got any Ghost Master (2003) PR discs? We are a modding community for this game and would love to see what was changed.
Hi. Thanks for the message! Unfortunately not, I don't have Ghost Master items, sorry.
Will you be making a vid on GT3 'Press Materials' copy? 👍
Yes! That's definitely in the pipeline. I was going to compare the standard one against the Le Mans press kit version.
MattJ, do you have the Honda promo TRD3 demo? If not hit me up as il happily donate mine. (:
@Adam Demeter Was it the _"This is what a Honda feels like"_ version?
IIRC, I got mine after my parents test-drove the (then) new Civic.
I'm not sure I've seen that before. Do you have a photo? :)
@@MattJ155 I can get one, I will have to find it first though... It's in one of about 50 or so large boxes full of old/retro games.
From what I remember, it's in one of them really thin jewel cases. Has an inlay with a rear of a Honda Civic with the slogan "This is what a Honda feels like" in a whacky font.
Only ever seen one for sale and that was a good 10 years ago.
Let me know what the best deets to send the photos to and I will be sure to save it for when I stumble across it again! :)
P.S. Check out eBay item No. 113194589245 - It's exactly that promo, but a different form-factor and for PS2.
@@R33Racer Thanks, that's really kind of you. :) You can send details to mattj_155@hotmail.co.uk
PLEASE RESPOND - How easy would it be to get a disc of GTA London?
do you know who is the owner ow those discs in 0:55?
nvm, they are yours lol, now onto the thing. could you give some need for speed game dumps to speedyheart for research reasons?
or make footage of them
Pls do the Gta 2 Beta disc
Just thought I would ask but have you ever played crash tag team racing? it was made by the same people that made the Simpsons hit and run radical :)
Hey dude have u got a need for speed carbon build?
Interesting video. But I gotta ask Matt if you ever saw a flying UFO in the original San Andreas? I remember one time long ago I was playing on my PS2 out near that one building in the desert that has glowing blue lights at about Dusk/Night. Well I was running around near it when I saw some weird shadow and when I looked up I saw a glimpse of a UFO before it just suddenly despawned before me. Being young me I never recorded the footage but still have the copy of the game if I ever will try to do it again to see the UFO. (Original PS2 version I mean. Not the rerelease)
Maybe it's a Rare Retail Version . Like Italian for example . PLEASE ANSWER TO ME
I loved the video
Thanks!
It will be found, I still have faith
I wish they found gta 5 beta build too who the guy has it on 2018 but they burned his house
What will you reaction be if someone of the houser brothers gives us answers about all the stuff about all of gta's beta and puts beta builds of all the gtas on sale.
Hey matt, in terms of music wasn't gta 3 supposed to have a rock station?
3 radio stations were cut, as far as I know. Liberty soul fm, Liberty fm and WLLC the zone.
of course it exists, I had a beta ps2 cd which I lost, I still have the old guide book from the initial march 2000 release
Hey, I'm going to write this in both under your pinned comment and the comment section:
In this video that shows the beta footages in chronological order,
ruclips.net/video/Es-yVL-AUMA/видео.html
there's a comment wrote by the user _ryan seft_ that says "I wish I kept my GTA 3 I had one exactly like this when I was a kid didn't know anything till one day i purchased the game at cex and I was like da fuck is this this is not like what I played before 😪".
You could ask him more details!
(sorry for bad english, still learning)
Could you do a video about the Half Life 2 beta?
I mught not be the best person for that, as I've never played a game in the series. Shocking, I know!
@@MattJ155 No worries. The betas of GTA games are interesting too.
The day we get a real GTA 3 Dreamcast build not the homebrew build is the day I die peacefully
Gta3 is my favourite out the whole series to be honest! I once managed to fly under the map, here it is if you fancy a look! I have no idea if its even been done before to be honest. Couldn't do it again. Most of the time the game crashes. There is a hole in the sea you can get through like i did, but you gotta kinda stall the dodo and recover it. Madness! Enjoy.. ruclips.net/video/AdiI8uIZL9A/видео.html
'Thanks for all your help jeff' 🙄
Can i ask a question?
Gordon is that you
@@commanderskittles6558 Maybe
Yes, of course. Feel free to ask me anything.
@@MattJ155 Do you have by any chance a Driv3r pre-release/press release or Driver Parallel lines Pre-release/press release?
@@Anvifen I have a Driver 3 build but it's very similar to the final build. I also have a Driver Parallel Lines preview build but I've got to play it as it's dongle protected.
What makes GTA 3 your favourite gta?
I think it's because it was so groundbreaking when it came out. I'd never played anything like it before.
If if someone finds and releases a Beta release of GTA 3
Take 2 Will do everything to stop it.
This is a long shot, but I think you should try track down the computers and tech they used to build the game. Surleybthe beta was sitting on a hard drive or something at some point in time.
What about gta vice city and gta san andreas beats as well GTA san andreas cut 3 cars from this game (gta iii) the fbi car stinger and the Idaho
Don't remember if we had beta. My first memory was my father's funeral. He got mauled by a bear.