Might and Magic 5: Darkside of Xeen Beta?

[lordskylark]

Does anyone know if this is circulating anywhere?

someordinarygamers.wikia.com/wiki/Might_and_Magic:_Darkside_of_Xeen

[Ludacris]

I do happen to have a copy of Might and Magic anywhere around - it was a Bestseller Games Disc with I THINK Darkside of Xeen - Could be Clouds of Xeen tough. I will take a look when I am at home (which will be in three days)

[mrpijey]

He did ask for a BETA of it, not the RTM, check the subject header.

[pittical]

Well, thanks for deleting my post, whoever felt that was necessary.

I still think this is just creepypasta and this beta doesn't exist (ie there obviously are betas of it, just not the one described in OP's link), seeing how a) the wiki itself classifies it as such and b) no other site I can find makes any mention of it, despite Xeen being a pretty popular game series.

[Darkstar]

I have the Bestseller Games CDs (One issue had Darkside, the other had Clouds on it) and I have Darkside from the Yellowpoint CD (if anyone in Germany still remembers this one). But I haven't heard of any Betas circulating around. Maybe the people behind the Swords of Xeen "Fan"-project had something but I doubt it

[lordskylark]

I managed to track down one of the artists, Jon Gwyn, who worked on the game. His answer was:

"Yeah....this is laugh. We finished clouds, then started on dark side. I did most of the creature and cinematic work for dark side and was well aware of what was going on with the environments and there weren't any that were slipped into clouds, because they didn't exist yet. And, as far as I recall 3do wasnt making any demands. The horrifying visuals described sound great, and it would have been awesome to have done that, but the only reason the creatures look different from clouds to dark side was because of different artists."

[lordskylark]

I have the Bestseller Games CDs (One issue had Darkside, the other had Clouds on it) and I have Darkside from the Yellowpoint CD (if anyone in Germany still remembers this one). But I haven't heard of any Betas circulating around. Maybe the people behind the Swords of Xeen "Fan"-project had something but I doubt it

I hate to completely revive this topic. But just curious -- are all of the demos that you mention the same as the ones which are currently posted to the internet archive?

[Darkstar]

I have the Bestseller Games CDs (One issue had Darkside, the other had Clouds on it) and I have Darkside from the Yellowpoint CD (if anyone in Germany still remembers this one). But I haven't heard of any Betas circulating around. Maybe the people behind the Swords of Xeen "Fan"-project had something but I doubt it

I hate to completely revive this topic. But just curious -- are all of the demos that you mention the same as the ones which are currently posted to the internet archive?

I have uploaded the Yellow Point CD on archive.org (here) but that's not exactly a "demo", it's the full version locked behind some lame early 90's pseudo-crypto. I have not yet uploaded the Bestseller Games CDs but maybe they are on IA already, I have not bothered to check. Anyway, those are also not Demos