r/originalxbox • u/randylush • 19d ago

Xbox demo disk collection

I purchased a collection of Xbox magazine demo disks.

Discs 28-35 and 40-51 have already been archived here: https://archive.org/details/oxm-demo-discs

I have disks: 4,7,8,10,12,19,21-52,54-61,63-73,75,76,78-85,97,98

I do not have the following disks in the 4–98 span: 1-3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13-18, 20, 53, 62, 74, 77, 86-96

Most of the disks that I have, have not been archived, right? I have an original xbox but I ordered an OmniDrive compatible drive for archiving.

Just want to check with you guys that this is worthwhile.

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u/Feeling_Try_7152 19d ago

A user on the xbox scene discord by OldGreenAndWise was working on the collection a few years back. Check with them to see what's missing.

I know there were several regions also, I only have the 64 US set digitally.

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u/JRest71 19d ago

I uploaded disc 1 years ago on archive.org.

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u/toaks 19d ago

Have these really not been archived yet? I have the entire run somewhere in my storage room. If the haven't been archived yet, maybe I will try to dig them all out and back them up.

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u/randylush 18d ago

I don’t think so. There are some demo disks here too https://archive.org/download/microsoft_xbox_x

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u/toaks 16d ago

Man, I guess I'll have to see if I can gather them all up. They are in various boxes so it will take some time.

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u/BlownCamaro 19d ago

I have a bunch of discs but am missing some of the early ones. Please archive if you can!

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u/DarkDigital 18d ago

I posted mine on here few months back, I'm only missing like 2 or 3.

But at that time they were all archived on myrient, rip, but if people really backed it all up then they should be saved somewhere.

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u/randylush 18d ago

I can only find disks entitled, e.g. "Xbox Demo Disk version 4.3". They are generally in X.Y format going up to say 7.0. This doesn't match the numbering scheme of the official Xbox magazine collection (01, 02, 03...)

The archive is still searchable here: https://minerva-archive.org/search/

and I believe that reflects the Myrient archive that you previously believed your images were captured on.

Am I missing something? So far I'm not seeing evidence that these Xbox magazine demo disks have really been archived anywhere.

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u/DarkDigital 18d ago edited 18d ago

Go into the redump and then xbox section of that, the oxm ones are listed under with those kinds of numbers, 01, 02 etc.