To the game preservation community, we need your help!
We're a small group of individuals looking to digitally preserve everything relating to a niche PlayStation 2 game called Jonny Moseley Mad Trix, which didn't sell well and got otherwise very poor reception due to being a rushed 3DO Company title.
We're specifically in need of help finding our Holy Grail, a prerelease build of the game shown off by IGN on their page for the game:
https://www.ign.com/games/jonny-moseley-mad-trix
This build contains many differences to the final release, such as a placeholder HUD, the first implementation of the game's collectibles, very basic physics, and early level designs.
A Pre-Alpha build which predates the one shown in their videos was found, dumped, and uploaded to the Internet Archive by unknown individuals back in 2022, which has been thoroughly documented and showcased by myself:
http://redump.org/disc/95770/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niRLRCkO2Lk
Some prerelease materials relating to this earlier build were apparently found at the same time, these being scanned by Internet Archive user dizzzy:
https://archive.org/details/jonny-moseley-mad-trix-first-look-demo-pre-alpha-scans
A post-release PAL localization prototype was purchased from ebay and preserved by myself, but has no prerelease content and is identical to the final release of the game:
http://redump.org/disc/109782/ https://archive.org/details/track_20231112
Aside from the NTSC retail release and the three PAL retail releases, these are all the builds of the game that currently exist publicly.
It should be noted that the placeholder instruction manual scanned by dizzzy was uploaded alongside the Pre-Alpha build, however it describes mechanics that wouldn't exist until the IGN build was created, meaning the unknown source of this build might also be in possession of the IGN build, or might know where to get it. All attempts to identify this source have failed.
We as a community are asking the preservation scene, as well as any independent preservationists or private collectors to please help us in our search for the fabled "IGN Build" which is the only build yet to surface. This build needs to be digitally preserved, and would actually complete a development timeline, something not normally possible with other games of its generation. If anyone has any information regarding any prerelease build of Jonny Moseley Mad Trix for the PlayStation 2 that is NOT linked in this post, please reach out to me personally at dfeierberg@gmail.com.