Well the short answer is that it’s a PD1 demo disc. It looks like an NTSC disc, but I haven’t seen it before; it popped up on ebay not too long ago, and while I’d usually have snagged it I just completely forgot to bid on it for various reasons. I was wondering if anyone here owns a copy, or could say what’s on it?
the title uses the perfectly right font, but I still think this might be fakeon te other hand who should start to make a fake package to sell an extremely rare item? so I guess it could be very well be true.
For a start the PD title is using the wrong font, and PD was more a less a USA Launch game. So the demo would be pointless (no point in a preview)[/quote]
This may surprise you, but the NTSC release of Panzer Dragoon Zwei has exactly that kind of logo on it - I genuinely did think that the North American Zwei box was a fake when I first saw it, as it even has an unofficial 3D render on the front instead of a real PD image - but this is what Sega of America actually produced back in 1996:
EDIT: This “Panzer Dragoon Playable Preview” disc appears on several US Saturn release lists, so it seems we can be sure it’s not a fake. It has a very similar product code number to my own PD1 demo (that I mentioned above), so I’m just having a look to see if any lists confirm that they’re one and the same…
For a start the PD title is using the wrong font, and PD was more a less a USA Launch game. So the demo would be pointless (no point in a preview)[/quote]
This may surprise you, but the NTSC release of Panzer Dragoon Zwei has exactly that kind of logo on it - I genuinely did think that the North American Zwei box was a fake when I first saw it, as it even has an unofficial 3D render on the front instead of a real PD image - but this is what Sega of America actually produced back in 1996:
Ah, well now I’ve found an image of what my own PD1 demo’s sleeve would have looked like - still not quite sure if it’s the same demo though, as it’s not a cover shot:
I looked into this the other day, but foolishly searched the web for “panzer dragoon playable demo” rather than “panzer dragoon playable preview” - the information was really just sitting there, so yeah, sorry for this random thread. At least I can be sure it’s only an NTSC demo, so it’s very probably no different from the finished game (so I doubt I’ve missed anything interesting)…