The Rarest copy of Monster Hunter.
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- What lies within the rarest physical disc of Monster Hunter?
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0:00 Intro & E3 Trailer
3:32 Rated M Beta
10:30 European Beta
13:22 SPECIAL MOVIE
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extremely cool to see, considering theres basically 0 coverage of MH betas online
I have a lot of fun going through old Monster Hunter stuff like this! Its my pleasure!
@@flyann2 would be cool to see some videos cracking open the files of various mh games and discussing any beta stuff left over
its something i dont anyone has ever tried to do unfortunately
At least in English. Monster Hunter is big in Japan.
I loved the original playstation version I remember seeing it in PSM and was blown away! The cover art had me drooling in anticipation and I had to buy it immediately on release still have the disk to this day for whatever reason haha! Looks pretty damn similar to this beta version!
@@insomniac8458 gen 1 monster hunter is something ive been meaning to try out properly since its a very different game to the gen 3+ ones
The special movie is quite a trip, love it.
For early ps2 standards, thats one long as heck special fmv
Explains where the rest of the quests went 😭
nah. back in the day the fmvs were long
It honestly looks a little nicer the 3 and 4 granted 3 and 4 were made on a much cheaper budget and arguably weaker hardware
2004 is def not early ps2 at all def peak year for ps2 games
Man, I love concept art and behind the scenes stuff like this so much. It's like seeing "what might've been" in an alternate tiimeline or something.
Special movie makes the world of the game feel really immersive and alive
Even though the game mightve lacked the hardware, nowadays with world/rise, we have so much to enjoy
If I saw the special movie when the game first came out, I would have definitely been hooked. That looked amazing
I remember being able to slice Velocipreys in half in the European release version of FU. I wonder why that one got away with a T-rating but this beta didn't.
I mean they completely fade away anyways after being cut
I still have one of these. I got it from a yard sale many years ago, and at the time I had no idea why I couldn't progress past the first set of missions. Didn't notice the "Public Beta" on the disc till years later and I've just kept it ever since. Awesome to see someone talk about it.
Really weird that they wouldn't add even a Kut ku fight, as the main draw of the game tbh is the big monster fights
Not even that. I thought the last quest would at least be a Velocidrome...
BRUH that special movie had me in goosebumps, I started with monster hunter freedom on psp, so basically monster hunter 1+, it just makes me miss that old school trailer stuff yknow?
I wonder why they always only go up to the velociprey hunt. I think people might get the wrong idea and think all you do is hunt dinosaurs that die in 3-4 hits and collect stuff on the map. They could've at least make Kut Ku the final boss of the beta because as a new player this one might very well take 15+ minutes and is the first time you feel like you overcame a tough challenge.
It took capcom 5 monster hunter main series and dozens of spinoffs to convince the western audience of fighting something for 15-30 minutes.
I can understand why they took this route.
@@soyUsernameWasTaken I don't really think it was convincing that was needed. MH1US is terrible, go read the version differences if you haven't already but to make a short summary MH1US was far harder than JP among a whole host of almost random changes that work against the game. On top of this MH1 gated a lot of content behind online, in Japan where the vast majority of the population lives in a single area (Tokyo) internet service was far more common and better than most of the world. As such the western releases had some of their best content gated behind online, which many would never get to play.
MH dos wasn't released in the west, though it did get an english fan-TL around a year ago.
MH Tri was a game on the Wii, which overseas was not known for its extensive library of Action-RPG Simulation games the wii was viewed as a family console.
MH4 was a 3DS exclusive, and a game on handheld. This one had the best odds of succeeding in the west up to this point, and it did succeed.
It should come as no surprise that most western fans either started with world OR the handheld games. Those are the only ones that from any perspective had a decent chance at success.
Monster Hunter was so far ahead of its time. Tons of content, great animations, online functionality, tons of customization and build variety... it's always been a franchise with exceptional purchase value but back on PS2 it was even more obvious. The only thing that held it back for me was the awful controls.
Dude the amount of "EFFORT" though. Its clear so much passion was put into the series.
my major gripe would be how much of the game was locked behind the online wall...
Kinda want a horror M rated MH now
Same
Very good to recover lost media, hope all of this is documented and archived!
Finally a video talking about this disc! I own this disc and a few other beta/demo discs for the Monster Hunter games as part of my Monster Hunter collection. It’s nice to finally have some light on this disc, amazing video!
Somehow I actually managed to get one of these from eBay for 20 bucks a few years ago. One of the few items in my collection that I consider “priceless” because I’m estimating less than 10 have probably ever been sold on eBay and I don’t think enough people care about it to give it much attention.
You should dump the files online
The beta has already been dumped on Vimm's Lair
@@nibwhipdragon Oh. So that's why people aren't asking for a dump!
wait some more :D It will have even bigger collectioner's value due to Wilds and future releases :)
@@spizC oh it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. As a superfan, it’s gonna be mine for a loooooooong time.
One of my most played games. I had around 2,300 hours played on my main save -- great seeing this beta/demo version out in the wild
Surprised your memory card lasted that long. I blew through so many playing Vice City that my dad stopped buying the Sony branded ones and just got me one of the XL third party ones. Ironically it lasted until adulthood
@@JohnZombi88riiiiight, still have the memory card! Killed three ps2 tho: one OG fat, and two slims. Still have the replacement 4th in storage. My original game is missing, but I still have the strategy guide
I think the European Beta version of MH1 may have been the one included in copies of vanilla DMC3. My brother and I had it and I... vaguely remember it (funny, because I remember badgering my brother to play it seeing as it was already there, free with our DMC3, and yet, I don't remember much of what happened in it 🤣).
Yea I also had this, would smack the shit out of everything for hours. Was cool playing something that was so unique at the time
Not the same, but I think I still have an old Monster Hunter Tri Demo disk somewhere in my closet. This video jogged my memory, haha.
I know I still have my Tri demo. Never gonna give it up.
@@TonyRedgrave yeah, I think I vaguely remember I pre-ordered it on GameStop and the guy gave me the disc for pre-order
would love to see a full M rated monster hunter game since it looks actully like a cool idea for a not main title game of monster hunter ... I mean they are creative with those just look at palico dairys and stories so a more dunno horror themed or survival themed game would be a perfect fit for an M rated monster hunter title
I wish I could experience MH for the first time again. What a wild ride it was.
It was tedious to play. Yes a true classic, but man this game required a lot of patience. There is a lot of QoL you take things for granted doesn't exist in the first game.
@@ringring8938 Shit controls, bad hit boxes and it was manditory to be online to get more resources
@@ringring8938 Absolutely! Looking back it's a wonder that any of us persevered! What an experience though.
@@superscatboy well, cause is the one game I got. I play the first game with no online options. It took me years of play to beat Rathalos.
Same,these and MHFU was too nostalgic for me,especially the PS2 MH,since it was my first MH back then.
That's some *FRONTIER LEVEL* blood right there, wow.
On the Wyverian Elder in the fields... i DO remember somewhere between freedom 1 and 3, you could talk to him for free items a certain amount of times, but after he's tired of giving you stuff, he berates you for being spoiled and cuts you off. It wasn't just the beta.
Nice Video, thanks! My heart is melting seeing this old but jucy game finding this much support after so many years!
Ok this is monster hunter content I appreciate. A lot of monster hunter CZcamsrs do is reach really hard for lore that doesn't really matter but this is unknown unarchived territory.
These kind of videos are indeed cool but saying that lore doesn't matter is kinda sad
How dare u saying lore doesnt really matter
burn the non-believer!
God loves you
just wanted to say i really loved this video and i think you should keep doing these deep dives - i will deff watch and so many others! i hope you make it big :)
I love this series. Can't believe it's been around for almost 20 years
This is all so fascinating to see. Thank you for sharing putting this together!
Man this takes me back I had so much fun playing this online back in the day
Theres always a sense of excitement when a game has a warning about violence and gore. Thats how you know its going to be cool.
Not necessarily. Just because something is violent doesn’t make it good.
@@rileykopinski6026 My comment was more about being a kid and the feeling you get when just booting a game for the first time. You get that warning, and know its not being censored. You know you're getting the full experience.
Of course its not all encompassing.
So true. Bring on the shock value.
To be fair, many M rated _Capcom_ games did this for some reason that I don’t understand. I believe it ended when Dead Rising came by in 2006.
But it is both cool and a little silly that there is a warning like that.
Used to be
I never knew that what I played was the Beta and not the actual MH1. Still happy to be able to play it. This video made my day.
Hey cool to see this. The slice in half animation was in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Unite too. If you do enough damage to a Velociprey,Genprey,Ioprey or Giaprey then you can slice them in half. :D
Which is cool but alas,you get no body and thus no carves from it.
Me being a monster hunter tri fanboy since it was my first ever monster hunter experience, this video hits me... I remember not caring at all about mh3 when I first got it, I was 12, getting a plastic attachment that makes the wiimote a gun (trying to play some shooter games on the wii console, primarily black ops 2) I only picked up on the game about a year and a half before the capcom servers shut down... but MAN was it the best. So much of this version of monster hunter reminds me of the experience I had playing the for the first time.
Btw, just had to thank you for posting this awesome content, it inspired me to figure out dolphin emulator and get mh3 workin again, only have an xbox controller atm but it seems to work nicely so far! ill try the online patch soon, hopefully run into you guys again :D
I love this Channel and their content for prosperity
That's the same blood effect they used in MH 2G and the main reason because i can't never play Freedom Unite the hit effect feels so empty in comparison, in 2G was very pleasant
There never was a MH2G. Dos never got an expansion. Though reading further you seem to be referring to MHP2ndG, which is the expansion of Freedom 2 (MHP2nd)
@@kingofflames738 exactly, we never refered as portable cause we didn't know the original DOS back in the day
@@kingofflames738 frontier IS the Dos expansion
@@wishdere nope, Frontier was its own thing from the start. It did start off with online city of Dos, dundorma, but it already had different events and quest progression. Not to mention it didn't have G-Rank for a long while. It was also made by a different team and was under online titles, not spinoffs/expansions.
@@wishdere No man, Frontier is a spin off
MH 1 blew my mind in the ps2 era; absolutely no one was on with me at the time.
Freedom 2 on the PSP had the legend of being popular in the west and i knew Freedom Unite was a masterpiece, but i played it alone in Brazil.
Glad MH World became popular
One of my most played online games back in the day. Lost interest when they went to handhelds.
Eu joguei muito o MH2 de ps2 era totalmente em japonês aí tinha que entregar uns items pro pessoal da vila pra progredir e só consegui indo em foruns buscar ajuda,na época do msn conheci um companheiro de caça que joga comigo o mh rise até hoje
It would be great if we have the options to turn off the gathering spot symbols. I really like the gen 1 & 2 approach tbh, like embedding the mining points as the cracks on the wall, herb bushes between grasses and foliages, etc.
Yeah learning all of the spots in a zone was part of the game back then. Nowadays it's more about just learning routes
@@NafenX That's not really a game design thing, but an Internet thing. It's infinitely easier to find that information now, and there's ultimately only a few places you can place stuff like that unless you wanna make the game tedious and frustrating.
The modern MHW guiding lands do have partially randomized gathering spots that are "hidden" like described, but you can only do so much in the modern era.
ahh yess... the graphic rath sex scene version...
Please explain?
I love this game so much. When I hear the old village music, it brings me back to when I was a kid.
Fun fact, in the early concepts of MH1, ideas of adding dismenberment to different body part (head, winds, arms) are mentioned in one of the monster concepts, probably one of the reasons it's rated M
back when I was a mear boy we had PS2 and on that we had the fisrt SOCOM, AOE 2, Hitman 2, BF2, Republic Commando and SvR and those where amazing as a 10 years old, I did miss out on the early monter hunter train tho because that did not come to Finland (as major) till MHW.. But boi me and my brother where sucked into it, because we played the hell `n out of Souls games and I to this day still love it.. (Souls `n MH are the goats in my heart)
Another Flyann 2 banger. Always love to see it.
I played the fmv for myself. It was in the devil may cry 3 cd case as an extra cd. First look and i fell in love with this francise.
The over the top blood splatters, while kinda cheesy, definitely give way more of a "slaughtering innocent creatures" vibe than I'm used to 😅
The E3 video also shows an early version of Gypceros! Just a small glance of it's back.
Cool video, and the special movie music goes kinda hard tbh
Dang, this is super cool. Thanks for sharing!!
I’m so happy I was here for the stream and able to spread awareness for daddy rathalos!
completely off topic but the wood paneling in your room is sick and brings back so many memories.
I'm glad you were finally able to get that Sushifish
Very cool to see this practically unavailable footage. The special movie has Drakengard vibes, somehow.
I love how the European movie is slightly off to the degree it weirds you out but still manages to be Monster Hunter
BRUV!! That blue disc binder case with the Sony logo, I HAD ONE LOL...except it was the Gamearts logo instead, but as soon as I saw the binder I went back in time lol
Did anyone notice that in 15:28 the Great Sword did a different animation attack? Or it just me?
I completely forget you could cut those velociprey in half. Man that takes me back.
Also i wonder how similar this beta was to the demo that came hidden in the back of the devil may cry 3 ps2 box?
I'm still looking for a US version where the E3 trailer, in cartoonish emote part, it was Rathalos on the area. They swapped with Rathian later after you slay Rathian
In another timeline there is a MH game where you can cut off any part off the monster youre hunting
I never played the og monster hunter back when I grew up on the ps2, but when netflix was lovefilm and you could rent games, I rented a copy of this game so I could try it out, was a lot of fun. I mainly got into the series through freedom unite, and now that I think about it, I think I might have originally played the demo version of it before my dad got the game and put on my PSP, although at that time I had absolutely no clue what I was doing in the game lol(I was rather young then)
You'd be surprised about the Velociprey slicing but, in Freedom Unite, you can slice the Velociprey in half, but it was very short like in the clip. Strangely enough, Unite somewhat feel a bit like beta MH 1 for the blood spewing out and the velociprey cut in half, imo.
That's so weird. Similar thing happened with first-run copies of StarCraft which were M-rated but then it was re-rated to T and stayed that way I guess.
Also happened to TESIV Oblivion which was re-rated from T to M but I feel like everyone knows that story.
Wait why is Oblivion M rated?
@@ammagon4519 Data miners and modders found uncensored nipples on the female character model though it's not visible on console through normal gameplay.
Thats awesome! Never knew there was a beta!
I had a copy of the Japanese beta disc back then too. I could make a few e-mails and see if my counterpart in Fukuoka still has one of the many I mailed out over the years.
“Dashing pose” dude squatted down to drop a duce
I got one of those and a bunch of other betas from G.A.P. back in the day. been playing since then and still playing in rise
I got the online functionality working on my japanese copy of MH1 but decided to go with emulation for my playthrough so I could easily download the english patch
I thought you were Mista GG lmao good video btw
yeah ps2 demo discs had trailers like that, it might even be on one of them, I remember DMC had an insane trailer that made it look like a horror game.
BRUV!!! That blue and black CD holder/binder!!! I had one! Lol, I mean except instead of Sony logo it had an off brand like Gamearts or something, I can't remember, but it was the same otherwise!! Man, that sent me back..
Good thing I still have My hard copy and All the features it has in it.
If that's actually rare, I might ask my mom to find my copy. I was a member of the Playstation gamer advisory panel. I had that online network test beta of MH1, as well as another for Auto Modellista, Capcom's cel shaded racing game. There was another game that they ran out of copies before they got to my name (maybe resident evil outbreak? Something like that) and they sent me a Playstation shirt instead.
The beta was fun. You could fight kut ku or gypceros, but there was a rathalos that would assault you during an unrelated mission. I remember there was one group of hardcore players that managed to farm him enough to have a full rathalos set by the last day of the beta.
Simpler gaming days
"We blew all our advertising budget on this boss-ass special film for the PAL demo disc, you made sure to distribute it right guys?...
...
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...guys?"
Does anyone remember the promotional disc trailer? It only had the trailer on it, not demo? It reminds me of the footage that was shown at the end of this videol.
I got this disc with DMC3 second-hand. I had no idea it was an older build and I couldn't even handle the stick-based combat so never really got far
the old psp games like freedom and freedom unite were rated M here in Australia. i just checked since i own my old copy's still
Looking at that M rating just reminds me how much i miss blood splatter in pre 5th gen game
that special movie is pretty rad ngl
The special movie feels like it was meant to have actual in-game music tied to the scenes but they just... didn't.
Oh the horrors of MH1. Can't wait to see some content about it.
I still had that CD... Nostalgic..
The thing slicing the velociprey isn't still there? Even in the Freedom versions
I like how the video is a zoomed out box style but I need to know why you do it It gives more character to your channel or something
Originally it's because a lot of the footage I used are from older games ( weird aspect ratios, lower quality) so it helps with that, and if I ever need to subtitle it gives me room, but ultimately it ends up being a stylistic choice that helps people recognize the channel :)
OH FUCK, That's the copy that i had! Now it's clear to me why the game stopped at the velocidrome. My copy wasn't official, i've bought it as a pirated copy, so it probably was the copy of the beta that the dude downloaded. Damn
there's very little in the way of data mining for these old demos, hope this draws more attention in that regard because you know that US demo is hiding something
MH1 Beta special movie goes hard 🥵
Imagine the absolute blood bath that a Lao Shan hunt would have been.
This is making miss my old copy of Monster Hunter G - the amount of blood when you hit an enemy _was_ a bit gratuitous, as you showed/mentioned - but it was a great indicator of hitting weak spots.
I've downloaded a mod to simulate this in MHW, but it's just not the same. 😮💨
The other bits are quite interesting though! I actually was given a copy of the demo/beta version when I bought MHDos, it was in Japanese. I remember I barely touched it because I had already played the full game extensively by then and didn't feel like I was missing much retreading the early game. I wish I thought to comb it for differences back then!
The guy I bought it from just threw it in as a bonus, because he was a MH fan as well; this was in China to be clear, around 2005~2006, back then MH had almost no following in the west.
Thanks for the nostalgia! 👍
special movie goes crazy bro ngl
Is that trailer really exclusive to that beta version of the game? I've definitely seen that trailer with the emotes on my PAL copy before
I played the OG monster Hunter on the PS2.. online, with the bulky modem and all the required bits... went online to make an account so I could then log into it on my PS2.. I ended up beating the game and then becoming a pro stun-locker for Rathalos so I could farm the plates...
Some one decided that "Movie" was the most important project of their lives.
The best feature of the earlier games is you can crouch walk- crawl on all fours if you walk slowly
The later games ditched that ability :c
Its a shitty ability,just a cool gimmick.
@@radegast2346 no a shitty ability is they mapped attacking to the right analog stick
i play this version of mh when i was in junior high school in the Philippines we play on rented ps 2 and put 1 peso for 4 mins . i thought the copy of the mh on ps 2 i am playing is corrupted cuz its only one star village quest is available and the urgent quest now i know why i cant play the other level because its a beta disc
Capcom, please bring back the splatter and slicing in twain of jumping raptors.
I still have my physical copy of the game. I never got passed Yian Kut-Ku.
Still have mine too. Completed the single player content but didn't have internet so never got to play online back then.
9:10
This also happens in freedom unite
Wait. Monster Hunter on PS2 is that one game I play on PS2 that I don't remember! Been looking for it for ages.
I got this disc with my copy of DMC 3. Pretty sure its still in there lol
had this on ps2 when i was almost done with the game i realized i could play online
The sexy sax music would not let me concentrate on the video lol. Jokes aside great vid thanks for the info good sir.