Beta Vice City

[Claude_Lib]

The helicopter during the deal is red and white instead of full black.

 

The game doesn't wait for Tommy's "I like this shirt" inner monologue after the The Party cutscene to finish and fades into the gameplay immediately, while it's still playing.

Edited February 1 by Claude_Lib

[Gravarty]

21 minutes ago, Claude_Lib said:

That's how I have it. I probably don't even need the SFX folder as reVC still uses SFX.RAW and SFX.SDT from PC. It just works, I can tell from the slightly louder Broken Wings during the intro.

 

Weird, doesn't seem to work on my reVC. I managed to bypass the "miscom.mp3" error, but now all cutscenes are just mute.

[Claude_Lib]

The yacht cutscene in The Party does not have Tommy's POV checking out Mercedes.

The camera when Diaz calls out to Mercedes has a zoom in animation, in final it's static.

The last camera angle, during the fade out, is completely different.

Edited February 1 by Claude_Lib

[PhPmayan]

10 hours ago, IAmNotToniCipriani said:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wltt14vqoarts8i/vice48.iso/file

 

GTA Vice City 02.10.2002 prototype build, fully playable and possible to emulate. On courtesy of @Jd63737 aka johndoe2.

 

Absolutely insane. really.

[PerikiyoXD]

Squalo has a different spoiler:

Spoiler

Sandking has R* logos on sides and top:

Spoiler

 

Edited February 1 by PerikiyoXD

[LorshZontek]

10 hours ago, IAmNotToniCipriani said:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wltt14vqoarts8i/vice48.iso/file

 

GTA Vice City 02.10.2002 prototype build, fully playable and possible to emulate. On courtesy of @Jd63737 aka johndoe2.

Now all I need is John Doe to drop a beta build of the PS2 version of Bully and my life will be complete

[Claude_Lib]

The Comet is unique. It uses the standard PS2/PC styling, while having design introduced in the Xbox port, as well as SA and VCS.

[DrMod.]

Man this is so cool, we just need someone to leak an Alpha or early beta build.. imagine finding Gator Keys still in the game or something crazy 

[PerikiyoXD]

Significative changes on vehicles:

• Moonbeam (Sliding Door Rail)
• Mesa (Horse on Rear Auxiliary Wheel)
• Stallion (Pentagon Brand Badge)
• Squalo (doesn't have horizontal spoiler part)
• TopFun (Beta texture)
• Sandking (R* Branding on top and sides)
• Rancher & FBI Rancher (Pentagon Brand Badge)
• Blista Compact (Pentagon Brand Badge)
• Regina (Pentagon Brand Badge)

 

Edited February 1 by PerikiyoXD
Missed Regina (thx Derrick Keno)

[Derrick Keno]

 

1 minute ago, PerikiyoXD said:

Significative changes on vehicles:

• Moonbeam (Sliding Door Rail)
• Mesa (Horse on Rear Auxiliary Wheel)
• Stallion (Pentagon Brand Badge)
• Squalo (doesn't have horizontal spoiler part)
• TopFun (Beta texture)
• Sandking (R* Branding on top and sides)
• Rancher (Pentagon Brand Badge)
• Blista Compact (Pentagon Brand Badge)

 

 

The Regina also has a pentagonal badge on its hood, other than the beta headlight texture.

The badges on the Blista Compact are leftovers from the GPX.

 

Edited February 1 by Derrick Keno
GPX badges on BlistaC

[Derrick Keno]

The Moonbeam is 100% the beta model, complete with the "New York" licence plate, the sliding door rails, GTA III headlight texture, and a windshield sticker with a corrupted texture.

[_BlackShadow]

Paintjob of Cuban Jetmax is different

 

And beta geometry of Squalo is also present in this one.

Notice Squalo also has the number decals on left wing.

[_BlackShadow]

A black Cheetah.It appears that the carcol file matches with the vivid car colors shown in some pre-release screenshots.

 

Sandking has Rockstar logo on it.

 

Blue Police Maverick seems also in this build as well

Edited February 2 by _BlackShadow

[_BlackShadow]

Tommy in this build doesn't play his idle animations while holding heavy weapons in this build.

Edited February 2 by _BlackShadow

[SammyXNA]

An sa beta build would be amazing, but this is just as good. I was already playing VC Next Gen but looks like I'm gonna have to playthrough this gem of a build

[Gravarty]

2 minutes ago, SammyXNA said:

An sa beta build would be amazing, but this is just as good. I was already playing VC Next Gen but looks like I'm gonna have to playthrough this gem of a build

 

Yeah, an SA beta build would be the cherry on top. The game went through many changes during development, and the version used for the guidebook may still be out there somewhere.

[Claude_Lib]

14 minutes ago, _BlackShadow said:

Tommy for some reason in this build doesn't play his idle animation while holding heavy weapons.

2 handed idle animation is broken, same as on PC.

[Kosobrazik]

Guys, can you please tell me how to listen to .vb files and how to view img archives more easily? 

I'm just new to vb and have no idea how to work with ps2 images.

[feedthefishy]

11 hours ago, Sergiu said:

Debug functionality

Several beta car models

Source quality textures here and there

Several different character models (e.g. swat guys)

Early beta screens timecyc

Beta carcols

Beta Top Fun decal

Beta wheels

Different theme song mixing

Different intro

Different cutscene cam angles and some anims

 

This is the GameSpot preview build, the one with the white & grey cop cars. Quite a few changes...

Was there a video for the gamespot preview or was it an article with screenshots? Struggling to find info on the grey cop cars

[Spider-Vice]

6 minutes ago, feedthefishy said:

Was there a video for the gamespot preview or was it an article with screenshots? Struggling to find info on the grey cop cars

This would have been the preview - URL lifted from one of our legacy GTANet.com articles from 2002:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20021012132310/https://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/previews/0,10869,2885365,00.html

 

Unfortunately all images are broken.

[Sergiu]

7 minutes ago, feedthefishy said:

Was there a video for the gamespot preview or was it an article with screenshots? Struggling to find info on the grey cop cars

aap.papnet.eu/gta/pics/vicecity/ps2screens/vc-271.jpg

aap.papnet.eu/gta/pics/vicecity/ps2screens/vc-269.jpg

aap.papnet.eu/gta/pics/vicecity/ps2screens/vc-268.jpg

aap.papnet.eu/gta/pics/vicecity/ps2screens/vc-261.jpg

 

Here, same car models, wheel models, carcols and timecyc.

Sorry I can't be bothered to reupload the pics as embed.

Edited February 1 by Sergiu

[Claude_Lib]

3 hours ago, Gravarty said:

Weird, doesn't seem to work on my reVC. I managed to bypass the "miscom.mp3" error, but now all cutscenes are just mute.

Try using an OpenAL build, I remember having some audio issues with MSS one.

 

15 minutes ago, Kosobrazik said:

Guys, can you please tell me how to listen to .vb files and how to view img archives more easily? 

I'm just new to vb and have no idea how to work with ps2 images.

For VBs use MFAudio. Frequency is either 32k or 16k, 16 samples, 2 channels, interleave 2000 bytes.

IMG archives can be opened with IMG Tool.

Edited February 1 by Claude_Lib

[Darealbandicoot]

Intro at Ken's office shows Ken entering the building.

 

Tommy is facing the 1102 apartment when we first take control of him.

 

Melee camera zoom is further out.

 

When Tommy sits in the Cheetah and the door is open already he'll incorrectly sit in the air clipping through the top of the car and will properly sit a moment later.

 

The feet of the chefs in the mission "Back Alley Brawl" will be visible through the building before they are meant to appear.

 

 

Edited February 2 by Darealbandicoot

[3M_]

modded the carcols and default

cougar


patriot with gta3 carcols


infernus with beta wheels


white love fist limo (this one wasn't modded)

 

[kuruma1]

The debug. sc file found in the mission code leak that Grove Street Games leaked has those same buttons programmed, only some things are not in debug. sc, such as the l1 and r1 menu but for example there are the vehicle generators and weapons with the same buttons with the second control.

Edited February 2 by kuruma1

[VCS1984]

This build also doesn't seem to have the same piracy protection as the final retail build as removing the excess gta3 IMG files doesn't cause the game to speedup to a point where it is unplayable

[KolaFiend]

if anyone wants to extract the gta3.img assets into PC game, after using convdff & magictxd, make sure to skip over the following before tossing into modloader else the game won't load

 

Spoiler

man_wtrftr_1b.dff
man_wtrftr_2b.dff
man_wtrftr_3b.dff
managers_ofis_flr.dff
mp5short.dff
nailgun.dff
nhaitiplnt07.dff
pstsnub.dff
pstsnub.txd
rocket.dff
rocket.txd
rocketb.dff
rocketb.txd
S_keeper.txd
shareddirt.txd
shotgun.txd
sniper2.txd
stapleg.dff
stapleg.txd
steyr.dff
steyr.txd
stungun.dff
stungun.txd
TOYZ.txd
uziold.dff
uziold.txd

 

this list for the final PS2 game is very similar, actually the beta build is missing some of the unused files like otb_ext/otb_int, and some are in both PS2 games but seem to cause no issue on PC

 

 

[Guest]

John Doe has basically gone insane at this point, a couple of VCS prototypes are out there already!

 

As much as I would love to leave a link here, I unfortunately can't do that, so you should probably know where to go looking for them.

Edited February 2 by H-G

[rollschuh2282]

9 minutes ago, H-G said:

John Doe has basically gone insane at this point, a couple of VCS prototypes are out there already!

 

I'd post a link, but I'd rather not as well.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, rollschuh2282 said:

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Check the VCS article on tcrf.net or someplace else. The builds are said to be mostly finished, but some last minute changes that in the final game are missing in those builds.

Edited February 2 by H-G