







One aspect of gaming preservation that can sometimes get sidetracked or even forgotten about is development discs. These hard-to-find, often very expensive discs can slip through the cracks of time without getting the proper archiving they deserve. Today, friendwas able to dump three of these discs from the PlayStation library.DTL-D2340, DTL-S2190, DTL-S2340.The discs seem to hail straight from Sony's headquarters in Japan so are classed as "Japanese" releases although a world region might be more appropriate, especially considering the vast majority of text on them is in English (at least a first glance through the files).The discs have PC software on them, but also include PSX test files. DTL-S2190 even has a PSX bootfile in the root so I class that one as a "PSX" disc and the others as "PC Discs". Here are some screengrabs of the menu and physics tests from DTL-S2190:These three discs will join a handful of other PSX development discs preserved at redump.org