Laser Grand Prix: A Lost Media Mystery

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Also, another question: While attempting to find out more about Top Gear, I came across a game by a Spanish company called "Anpe-tronic" that has the same name and logo as this one. Is this some kind of alternate version or bootleg?

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They sometimes use other companies to build them under license like Unidesa in Spain made Sega OutRun and others so more than likely original

Streets in UK also made some Sega Turbo cabs
 
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Bods said:
They sometimes use other companies to build them under license like Unidesa in Spain made Sega OutRun and others so more than likely original

Streets in UK also made some Sega Turbo cabs
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Interesting. I wonder if this game has been dumped or not.
 
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Even Hifi. VCR's, Portables etc are made under licence by others companies in EU, I had some Sharp Stereo's that were made under licence of Staar S.A, in Belgium
 
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Something incredibly strange happened today: I had posted clips of the Top Gear laserdisc footage I found on Facebook to my YouTube channel for easier access (youtube.com/watch?v=_fkZ-5zkZsg), and a user named "robin yeo" commented saying he has the laserdiscs for both games. I gave him my email, and he said he'll send pictures and video next week, as he is apparently out of town.
 
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Astonishingly, he also said he actually had DUPLICATES of the discs: 2 for Top Gear 2 and 1 for Top Gear. This is incredibly shocking for a pair of games that are debated whether or not they even released.
 
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lemmyk2008 said:
I'll try to get it dumped once I get my paws on it. Just so I know, what people should I contact to do so?
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I'd recommend joining the Lost Media Wiki Discord server (invite link on the right sidebar on their website); they have a channel dedicated to helping dump/scan physical media. If that doesn't work out, I'm currently trying to coordinate with some people who have some more know-how on LaserDisc dumping; I'll probably make another post here if anything comes of that.
 
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lemmyk2008 said:
I'll try to get it dumped once I get my paws on it. Just so I know, what people should I contact to do so?
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Alright, after talking with some people who (I hope) know what they're talking about and reading up a bit more on LGP and LD dumping:
  • Dumping the disk would most likely require either a Panasonic LD-V1000 or LD-V1001 (both are functionally identical; the 1000 is the American version, and one is up for sale on U.S. Ebay right now for $99.99) and a Dexter board (which are over $500 each, and currently sold out): http://laserdisc-replacement.com/
  • The biggest concern for game discs of this era would be laser rot; according to the person I talked with: "...the early 80s was not a good era for LD manufacturing", and according to this page on LDDB.com, Pioneer (the manufacturer of the LGP disc) is the second most common brand of LaserDiscs to get laser rot (behind Sony at #1).
Also, and this is coming from me; I would probably recommend preserving the entire, full disc's data (or as much of it as possible), as opposed to emulatable data; you can get emulatable data from a full dump, but not vice versa.

In other news, by Googling "Laser GP" "LaserDisc" (as one search, in quotes), I was able to find:
 
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artech09 said:
Alright, after talking with some people who (I hope) know what they're talking about and reading up a bit more on LGP and LD dumping:
  • Dumping the disk would most likely require either a Panasonic LD-V1000 or LD-V1001 (both are functionally identical; the 1000 is the American version, and one is up for sale on U.S. Ebay right now for $99.99) and a Dexter board (which are over $500 each, and currently sold out): http://laserdisc-replacement.com/
  • The biggest concern for game discs of this era would be laser rot; according to the person I talked with: "...the early 80s was not a good era for LD manufacturing", and according to this page on LDDB.com, Pioneer (the manufacturer of the LGP disc) is the second most common brand of LaserDiscs to get laser rot (behind Sony at #1).
Also, and this is coming from me; I would probably recommend preserving the entire, full disc's data (or as much of it as possible), as opposed to emulatable data; you can get emulatable data from a full dump, but not vice versa.

In other news, by Googling "Laser GP" "LaserDisc" (as one search, in quotes), I was able to find:
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I'm actually friends with someone who owns a retro arcade in my area, and they have lasergames running on Dexter boards, so I think I have that covered.
Those links are quite mysterious, though.
 
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While I'm working on getting the disc for LGP, I do have something quite interesting to share:
You might be aware of Funai's "Interstellar Zangus", another lost lasergame meant to be a sequel to Interstellar Laser Fantasy. I don't know how, but the ROMs were somehow dumped. While they're not playable in MAME, you can view the graphics through the built-in tileset viewer. Due to this discovery, I have extracted all of the graphics and their palettes into a more easily accessible set. I'm a bit too busy on LGP to assemble the tiles into actual graphics, but if anyone reading this wants to, be my guest.

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