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Squaresoft E3 '98-'99 Press Kits Raggy
http://bt.emuparadise.org:8989/details.php?id=ad6ac4dc61135e76888067152fb92d932ff6d29f
>> Raggy
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>> Raggy
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>> Anonymous
Have my babies. Please?
>> Anonymous
What exactly is this?
>> Anonymous !!I9XpXfP4okU
I didn't know EA made Final Fantasy 8!

What emulator should I use to play this?
>> Anonymous
>>207858

My awesome powers of deduction tell me that this is a press kit. If you don't already know what a press kit is, it doesn't matter, because you wouldn't care.
>> Anonymous
>>207861
Awesome powers indeed. I'm astonished.

:|

Actually, I'm asking because I'm amazed of how many of these are populating /t/ right now.

Now, please, what are these?
>> Anonymous
>>207864
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_kit
The more you know.
>> Anonymous
So... this CDs just have some videos in it. Now I'm intrigued.
Why are these so popular here?
>> Anonymous
>>207920

Great stuff is popular everywhere.
>> Anonymous
Thanks, Raggy!
>> Anonymous
>>207920
Because when you are a rabid fanboy of one particularly popular franchise & you have collected everything there is & have it on display in your mom's basement, you start to yearn after the more obscure "collectibles", like these "presskits", or the semen-stained underwear of Hironobu Sakaguchi.
>> Anonymous
Wow, thanks for this.
>> Anonymous
square electronic arts
>> Anonymous
>>207837
You just had to leave FF8 in there. Ruined.
>> Anonymous
VIII was the best. Go suck on nads, douchebag.
>> Anonymous
FF8 was seriously the best FF ever made!
No one agrees with me!

with Squal, Zell, Renoa, Quistis, all them. I used to play that so much.
So good.

>> Anonymous
>>207837
Is there a torrent available?
>> Anonymous
Raggy, could you possibly get a hold of Squaresoft's E3 1997 press kit?
>> Anonymous
>>I didn't know EA made Final Fantasy 8!
best troll ever
>> Anonymous
>>207920

>Why are these so popular here?

Because some of us enjoy having access to original source material.
>> Raggy
>>208601
Very very very unlikely. Getting something this old is a pure fluke. Also even if I could get my hands on something older chances are there won't be a CD. I know they (game media in general) were still using slides for images as late as 95, and I have no way of sharing my cool slides ^_^;

>>208595
Err, yes. If you can't find the torrent from the link in the first post it's:
http://bt.emuparadise.org:8989/download.php?id=ad6ac4dc61135e76888067152fb92d932ff6d29f&f=Square
>> Anonymous
>>208659

If you ever stumble upon old materials like these again, please PLEASE make sure to upload them posthaste. Old stuff like this is...priceless. To say the very least.

And you can scan the slides, of course, non? Just clean up the dust with a soft brush/lint-free cloth and scan at a high resolution. 300dpi or so.

>> Raggy
>>208735
I'd need a slide scanner. My scanner is kinda old and was cheap, even if I scan them up at something crazy like 1200dpi they turn out kinda blurry. I guess it just gets confused by the image sitting off the bed and off the back.
>> Anonymous
Man, I want the 2007 TGS press kit. Damnit, Square. =/
>> Anonymous
>>208659
I understand, and appreciate what you have released for us. It amazes me how... unprofessional (maybe immature is the better term) the game industry seemed in its conduct (at least, the press) back in those days. I guess I'm just used to so much being automated (streaming trailers, press kits for virtually every game, etc.) today.
>> Anonymous
You seem to know quite a bit about the behind-scenes work of gaming presentations, Raggy. Can you do a writeup sometime about the subject? Like, what it was like in ye olden days. I see two of the files included in this torrent are VHS rips, and that's only 8 years ago. What was it like in say, the early 90s?
>> Raggy
>>208970
I don't think I know anything particularly special, anybody who's paid a little attention to the industry would know about as much as I do. Also, I'm a terrible writer, nobody would want to read what I'd peck out ^_^; You're best off just picking up a copy of Game Over by David Sheff, or something.
>> Anonymous
Anymore Squaresoft kits? I've been looking for one with Vagrant Story for years.
>> Raggy
>>209391
Nope, I'm all out of kits now.
>> Anonymous
>>208526
agreed.
>> Anonymous
Hum, it seems someone posted this on Underground-Gamer. With the source as "a torrent site" he found. I assume he's talking about Emuparadise.
>> Raggy
>>209857
Meh, I don't mind lack of credit, as long as he doesn't pull the one readme I only included with the FF9 Beta.
>> Anonymous
>>210060

Funny you should mention that, I stumbled upon it for the first time a couple of hours ago. Stunning. If you ever posted it here, I never saw it. So a belated Thanks.

If you ever get another big-name beta, I have an arm a leg and two testicles to give away in exchange.