RCT Discussion / Your oldest RCT stuff

  • Liampie%s's Photo

    This came up on discord and I thought it was actually interesting. How old are your oldest surviving RCT savegames and/or screens?

     

    I know that I have at least one savegame from 2000, but sadly I cannot identify which one it is from like fifty saves, since the timestamps are lost. I do have a handful of screens from around the same date. Could be 1999. They're not interesting though, probably taken by accident too. Back then I probably had no idea what the button 'screenshot' actually did. I will dig those screens up to check the timestamps!

     

    How far back does your personal catalog go?

  • CHE%s's Photo

    The oldest I found on a backup is a Dynamite Dunes savegame from 2004. And I still have a RCT 3,5" which has probably older saves.

  • imlegos%s's Photo

    The oldest I have is probably 2015, since I have had 2 computer failures. Though, I do remember as a fairly young child being upssesed with RCT2

  • mintliqueur%s's Photo

    I have an old park from like 2002 or maybe early 2003 on a floppy disk(!), sadly it's impossible to open since it's unexported and uses some custom object that's been lost in the depths of time (I think it's AFIRE1.dat, if anyone has it!). I think it's one of my first serious RCT projects, but I'm not really sure. Oldest park I'm able to open and which still has a timestamp is from january 2004. There's a few other saves from around 2005, most notably an NCSO project based in the "build your own Six Flags park"-scenario, that me and a friend started in 2005. I've done some small bits of work on it through the years since, most recently during the summer of 2015 after discovering OpenRCT2, but it's not really of very high quality, mostly a just-for-fun park.

     

    There's also an attempt at a design using LL from april 2003 that I made under the impression of some of the designs at this site from around that time, in particular Nevis' Spitfire (the name of which I borrowed). Really rookie work though, definitely not comparable to what inspired me to make it.

  • G Force%s's Photo

    This is the oldest save I can find, dated June of 2008, but I probably built it sometime between 2004 and 2006, so over 10 years ago.

     

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  • Louis!%s's Photo

    better than westwinds

  • Cocoa%s's Photo
    This is great, im gonna see what i can dig up. A lot is probably lost forever though (eg on Atari rct2 forums which are long dead)
  • disneylanddude%s's Photo

    I found an old kings island scenario from 2003...

  • Jappy%s's Photo

    I have some old Jappy saves from 2007 when I just discovered RCT-Guide and tried to recreate that sort of style. Looked shit though, tons of terrible objects and WW/TT stuff... The first REAL park from me dates from 2011 and has been tinkered with all throughout the years. Last time I built on it was sometime last year. I think I even posted a screen or two on NE of it.

  • Todd Lee%s's Photo

    Late 2009, i think.

     

    found here under RCT1 parks.  Ancient Anxiety is the oldest that i submitted.

     

    http://www.sama-crea...ctfun/index.htm

     

    edit: not sure why i typed 2009.  It was well before rct2 was even released.  More likely 2001. 

  • MCI%s's Photo

    I dont have the savegame anymore, but the two coasters around the 10min mark should be the first things I ever shared on the internet.

    https://youtu.be/S5WwCO5uNiQ?t=9m44s

  • Sephiroth%s's Photo
    My oldest RCT2 saves I actually have on my laptop, and they date back to 2002-2003 (I don't remember when the game was released haha). My oldest saves would be me sandboxing in the original Mel's World and other parks. I remember getting Corkscrew Follies when it came out as a birthday present, and then Loopy Landscapes as a Christmas gift when that was released. And we ran it on Windows 95! And XP, good times. Then my dad fond this park called "coaster mania" which was big flat sand park with a bunch of rides in the corner and loads of cash, plus a random patch of snow in the corner above the rides. But, that would be my first true "bench". It had millions of dollars to play with and everything unlocked. It was heaven. I didn't discover the online realm till about 2004 with RCT2.com's Vacation Parks, starting with Pacific Island, which was brand new and mind-blowing to me at the time. Around that time I discovered trainers and then found NE in 2005-2006, only because I somehow found a link between Geewizz's Cedar Point rec and the AD district. Anyway, I also loved the RCT Masters site and used the NE link provided there to get here when I wanted to visit, cause I couldn't spell "design" haha. Around that time I found Phatage's SFWOE and the rest is history. Sorry for the wall of text lol.
  • G Force%s's Photo

    My oldest RCT2 saves I actually have on my laptop, and they date back to 2002-2003 (I don't remember when the game was released haha). My oldest saves would be me sandboxing in the original Mel's World and other parks. I remember getting Corkscrew Follies when it came out as a birthday present, and then Loopy Landscapes as a Christmas gift when that was released. And we ran it on Windows 95! And XP, good times. Then my dad fond this park called "coaster mania" which was big flat sand park with a bunch of rides in the corner and loads of cash, plus a random patch of snow in the corner above the rides. But, that would be my first true "bench". It had millions of dollars to play with and everything unlocked. It was heaven. I didn't discover the online realm till about 2004 with RCT2.com's Vacation Parks, starting with Pacific Island, which was brand new and mind-blowing to me at the time. Around that time I discovered trainers and then found NE in 2005-2006, only because I somehow found a link between Geewizz's Cedar Point rec and the AD district. Anyway, I also loved the RCT Masters site and used the NE link provided there to get here when I wanted to visit, cause I couldn't spell "design" haha. Around that time I found Phatage's SFWOE and the rest is history. Sorry for the wall of text lol.

     

    Speaking of Gee's CP recreation, I remember seeing that back at the time and thinking it was the greatest RCT work ever.  Amazing now looking at it how truly basic and primal it was.  Some bits are still nice in an odd way, but comparing it to something like Raptor which he made 9-10 years later its amazing to see the progression made in the game.

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