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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Xbox 360 devkit bought for $5 at car boot sale came with 2007 beta build of GTA IV with unreleased assets — Version includes cut ferry system, zombies, and more

Xbox 360 devkit with a GTA IV beta build on it .

Yesterday, on GTAForums, user MGGames100 posted a message saying, "something big has dropped," only for MapleEllie to respond with a link to a 118 GB archive for a dev build of GTA IV that appeared out of nowhere. What has since followed is one of the biggest info dumps in the history of the "Grand Theft Auto IV Beta Hunt" collective, and it was all possible thanks to an unassuming Xbox 360 devkit.

The story starts with user "janmatant" who apparently went to a random car boot sale in Edinburgh and purchased an old Xbox 360 for just $5. From the pictures, we can tell it's a revised model based on the original "fat" design from 2005, but with an updated motherboard, likely from the Xbox 360 Arcade era. Anyhow, the important bit is the "Rockstart North Ltd." asset tag, which shows this console belonged to the company.

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