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4am ❧The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.woz
https://archive.org/details/wozaday_The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai
Thanks to LoGo for the disk!
This disk is insanely rare. Like not just the usual eBay "L @ @ K RARE OMG A 40-YEAR-OLD SAVE ICON" but like this is the only original copy known to exist. It came boxed and shrink-wrapped with manual and all paperwork intact. (They will be uploaded soon.) And as far as we can tell, the disk was literally never booted...
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...because it was mis-mastered and didn't work.
Side B is supposed to have a protection track on the last track (0x22), but it's missing. Not malformed; totally missing. Like they had a two-step mastering process and skipped step 2. The protection code is there (on side B + caller on side A), and it runs — and fails, naturally — and the game refuses to load.
We have analyzed the disk at the flux level, and we've concluded that this is how the disk was shipped in-box. There is no indication that any part of the disk was overwritten later.
So how did I create a working .woz that passes the protection check? I replaced track 0x22 with the protection track from another Adventure International game (Spiderman, specifically). They used the same protection for the lifetime of the company. All the Scott Adams graphic adventure disks used it, plus some of their educational titles.
This is not a "bit copy." With modern tools, I can replace the mis-mastered track digitally and create a perfect replica of what the disk was supposed to be.
To be crystal clear, the only thing I've modified digitally is the .woz file. LoGo still has the original floppy disk, and of course he will not be patching it or modifying it in any way. But the original disk doesn't work. It never worked, and it never will. The game is there but the protection is not, and the game refuses to load without the protection, and it's the publisher's fault but the publisher went out of business in 1986 and now it's 2026 so they're not fixing it.
gloriouscow@a2_4am Fascinating. can you upload the original flux capture too?
@a2_4am Scott Adams is still kicking around and updating his blog so I wonder if you might ask him if he recalls anything about it.
@gloriouscow yes they're in the -extras zip under Downloads
SeanGugler@a2_4am ONLY original known to exist? Factory-broken but replicated with repair? This is LEGENDARY. My heart sings!
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ShawnT 🔧🐀
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For Pete's Sake 
@a2_4am never played the game but the movie is one of my guilty pleasures.
Your toot has just put me in mind to watch it again.
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