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From: "Rikki Prince" <netyaroze@rprince.dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Demo CD`s
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:19:05 -0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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> It may be that a minimum run of CD`s would be about a 1000, but if each CD
> could hold a number of demos, say 10, then whats to stop ten people
> submitting a demo each, splitting the cost and dividing up the CD`s. It
> would be nice to get some figures so we could decide if it was viable. Im
> sure most NY users would happily stump up the cost of a new game (possibly
> more) if it meant they could show of there work to other 'standard' PS
> owners.

Just to help sort this debate out, I have quoted the text below from
http://www.scee.sony.co.uk/

Getting your title into production
Please be aware that all discs that run on consumer machines must be tested
by SCEE QA & manufactured in large production plants at DADC in Austria,
where special anti-piracy technology is added to the master to create the
finished "black" disc. Standard production runs thus tend to be in the tens
of thousands - it is thus not commercially viable to create small numbers of
discs for niche applications.

As you can see it is very unlikely that we will be able to get anything like
this done, unless the people at Sony feel like doing the NY members a
massive favour. I think the best bet would be to beg OPSM to put games on
the cover CD, but I think the main problem here is that I read Sony put
together the CD, or at least the Yaroze part, so it's again back to Sony to
do something, though begging OPSM may get them to reason with Sony, to get
them to restart the Fame Game.


Rikki