Primal Rage II

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Wikipedia to the rescue!
I kind of want to try Rise 2 now. It's supposedly merely mediocre and not outright terrible.

[Diff-chan]

They needed the power of 32-bit to realize their vision.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

[ChaoofNee]

[gameoverDude]

At least we have this;

Rise of the Robots... LOL, remember the "game you are currently playing sucks" warning gif! Coming right up.

I feel that the guy hoarding the Marble Madness II and now Primal Rage II protos is trying to flaunt that shit in our faces. I hear him saying "Nyah nyah you guys ain't shit becuzz u will NEVER, ever, every play Primal Rage II or Marble Madness II! Nyah nyah nyah nyah!!!!!!!111!!!111!eleven thousand one hundred and eleven!!111" Oh keep rubbing it in, bastard.


*fake Bud Light RMOG commercial coming up*
[commercial announcer]
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[Budweiser Real Men of Genius singer, Dave Bickler]
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[announcer]
Today we salute YOU, Mr. Rub-it-in Proto Collector.

[Dave]
Mister Rub-it-in Proto Colle-eh-ctor!

[announcer]
One of those guys who likes to think he's special because he's got something the rest of the world will never have. Specifically an unreleased proto Atari Games arcade machine.

[Dave]
I got this game... and you don't man. And you ne-eh-ver will nah!

[announcer]
You like teasing the average Joe with your rare prototype one-of-a-kind games.
Someone makes an offer to buy, you quote a price.

[Dave]
You quo-ote a pri-ice!

[announcer]
They come up with the money and you welch on the offer.

[Dave]
Oh that's cruel now!

[Female gospel choir]
It's a low blow!

[announcer]
You say "Look at me! I got the rare proto, ain't I special?"

[Dave]
Gee I'm so-oh cooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ool!

[announcer]
And you'll have no competition on the Twin Galaxies scoreboard for world records. Even if you can't break 5,320 on Marble Madness II- you're the only guy with this game. In the whole world, that is.

[Dave]
Can't have anyone beating your sa-ad scores, now? Mr. Rub-it-in Proto Colle-eh-eh-eh-ector!

*end commercial*

[Frogacuda]

Oh, and he actually dumped the game and compiled a modified version of MAME so he can play it on his computer and still won't release it.

This is the sort of cause I wish Anon would take on instead of DDOSing Sony.

[GohanX]

That's a new level of asshattery.

[gameoverDude]

WB Games needs to get MM2 and PR2 out on some collection for XBL/PSN/Steam, as well as individual DLC versions for iOS and Vita (touchscreen or tilt just might work well for MM2). AFAIR they got Atari Games' IP in the deal (look at Midway Origins, with the first MM and others from Atari Games).

[Frogacuda]

WB Games needs to get MM2 and PR2 out on some collection for XBL/PSN/Steam.

They don't have them. There isn't a big vault with all those games in it. There are two working copies of MM2 in existence, anywhere. That guy has them.

There might be other Primal Rage 2s somewhere. There's a bad dump in MAME of it, but not a good, working one.

[gameoverDude]

They don't have them. There isn't a big vault with all those games in it. There are two working copies of MM2 in existence, anywhere. That guy has them.

There might be other Primal Rage 2s somewhere. There's a bad dump in MAME of it, but not a good, working one.

WB would still have the rights, I'm sure- even if they don't have an actual copy of the games. Rights don't mean jack if they don't have the ROM.

After a little searching, I found a story with the truth: The guy who sold the two MM2 units to the owner made a request to him that he not release the ROMs. The last sentence in the below quote is the kicker: while he's under no hard duress to refrain from releasing the ROMs, to release them would likely ruin his reputation with proto sellers who may have similar requests. He has made donations of other ROMs to MAME before. OTOH if WB wanted a ROM dump to release MM2/PR2 in a future Midway compilation, I'm sure that particular proto seller would understand. His record of 671,050 (probably an all clear) on MM2 will probably never be challenged.

We're all blaming the wrong person. For the lack of MM2 in MAME, blame the seller instead.

Part of the deal of Scott getting those games was that he not publically release the ROMs. While the seller has no control if Scott were to go against that, Scott is honoring his portion of the deal. Scott has been dragged through the mud about Marble Madness II a hundred times (read archives of the newsgroup rec.games.video.arcade.collecting). He doesn't deserve it. He brings them out to CAX every year (usually both machines so you don't have to wait to play it). He has donated many many game ROMs to MAME that weren't available before (the military Battlezone comes to mind). He gets access to more prototype games because the sellers know he will honor their requests.