Asset, photo pack, press kit dreamcast
Sonic The Hedgehog Character Manual Official Stylebook Binder + CD-Rom
This booklet is, as the title suggests, a character manual. There is all kinds of information about the Sonic Adventure characters and how to "handle" them. This was given to manufacturers who wanted to make Sonic products.
In addition to the information, this book also contains a lot of Artworks which are also available on the CD-Rom accompanying the binder. The photos used on this article are mainly from the disc.
You will be able to view the binder in PDF or JPG format. The CD-Rom has also been dumped.
You can download the bundle below:
Sonic The Hedgehog Character Manual Official Stylebook Binder (pack)
French disc of Asset Dreamcast
To promote the games, journalists regularly received CDs with information about the next titles to be released or those in development. Surprisingly, they are rarer than game prototypes!
This CD-R contains Artworks, photos and Word documents for the games: Jet Set Radio, Metropolis Street Racer, Phantasy Star Online, Quake 3, Sega GT, Shenmue, Sonic Adventure 2, Toy Racer and Uefa Dream Soccer.
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Germand Dreamcast Press Kit
To promote the games, journalists regularly received Press Kits with information about the next titles to be released or those in development. Surprisingly, they are rarer than game prototypes!
This disc contains Artworks, pictures and Word documents for multitudes of games like: Aerowings, Blue Stinger, Buggy Heat, Crazy Taxi, Dynamite Cop, Hydrothunder and many more. Strangely, 2 folders mentioning the games Baldur Gate and D2 are present but unfortunately empty.
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Metropolis Street Racer Dreamcast photo pack
At the time of the acquisition of this Press Kit, it was accompanied by the White Label of MSR Opel Challenge. The origin and history of this disc are still unknown.
The photos it contains are beautiful, in the best resolutions we can find for Metropolis Street Racer. Other images show the game during its development phase.
You can download it, along prototypes of MSR, below :
French Kit Presse Multimédia
To advertise games, manufacturers and publishers regularly sent Asset discs or Press Kits to journalists. Surprisingly, they are rarer than game prototypes!
This disc contains Artworks, photos and Word documents for multitudes of games like: Toy Commander, Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, Red Dog, Sega Rally, Snow Surfer and much more!
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Dreamcast Premiere Press Kit
The Première Disc (Press Kit) is the most precious item of the European Dreamcast collectors. Some consider it as the 217th game of the Pal Fullset (get all the games released in Europe).
Its name " Première" refers to an event organized by Sega during the ECTS 2000 in London (European Computer Trade Show).
This disc contains Artworks and pictures for multitudes of games like: Headhunter, Powerstone, Samba De Amigo, Space Channel 5, Skies of Arcadia and many more. Some of the titles that were included in the Press Kit will finally be cancelled: Agartha, Half-Life, Gunvalkyrie and Black and White.
You can download it, along with an archive containing more than 2000 photos of events (TGS etc.), below:
Archive of Artwork, photos, sketches and documents for the Dreamcast game Fur Figthers
This large archive, about 4GB, was used to design and write the book: Fur Fighters Sega Dreamcast & PC Official Strategy Guide Book.
There are photos taken from the game engine, sketches, artworks and the layout of the solution book written by David Boyle.
Fur Figthers is a little-known exclusive for the Dreamcast. If you don't know the game yet, I can only recommend it to you!
You can download it, along early prototypes of Fur Figthers, below, :
Black Belt 3DX INTERATIVE INC Confidential Document
A document that links 3DFX INTERACTIVE INC to Sega regarding the Black Belt Dreamcast project. Maybe someone will know how to get something out of it!!!
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Black Belt Dreamcast 3DFX INTERACTIVE INC confidential document
French promotional flyers for Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Promotional paper sent to the specialized press in order to make known the specificities of the crazy boxing game of Midway!
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Official list of Dreamcast games with barcode and Sega code
These documents will help people creating Dreamcast games databases. You will find the list of some games of the last Sega's console with the internal code of the company and the barcode for their commercialization. The classification of the game style and the PEGI are also on it. These documents come from Sega France.
We can notice that Dee Dee Planet was planned to be released in July 2000.
You can download them below:
Visual Memory System Hardware Manual Revision 1.00
Document for the Dreamcast memory card (VMU) on a confidential Saturn development CD-R.
You can download it below (original dump and extracted content):
Visual Memory System Hardware Manual Revision 1.00 Dreamcast
Dreamcast Dev.Box System Architecture (99.09.02)
Document that the development studios received from Sega.
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