These days, it’s pretty easy to buy old retail console games just by hunting online auction sites. It’s much rarer to come across a disc holding a beta version that …. Investigating a Rare Burnout 3 Beta Disc.
It’s much rarer to come across a disc holding a beta version that was only ever intended for internal us, and yet, that’s precisely what landed in [MattKC’s] hands—a copy of the Beta 3 release of Burnout 3 for the original Xbox. He thus set about the task of investigating the differences to the retail release and preserving the beta for the future. The first task involved figuring out how to read the disc.
Retail Xbox games show up as a DVD Video disc if you put them into a PC, which can complicate reading them. Being a burnt beta disc for use in an Xbox devkit, this one was a little different. It was easy enough to read and dump with a regular DVD drive and some common tools for ripping Xbox ISOs.
From there, it was a matter of comparing the dumped disc to the retail PAL release.
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