World Series Baseball 2K1 (May 9, 2000 prototype)

A prototype of World Series Baseball 2K1 for the Sega Dreamcast.
==Notes==
Differences noted by Dreamcast Info Games Preservation.
* E3 Build.
* "White the permission" and not "white permission" on the window with the logo of the "Major League"
* No kinematics
* Font color, on the title screen, of the copyright "@Sega Entreprise LTD" and of the "Presented by Sega" in blue, not yellow.
* The music is not the same, the presenter does not announce the game by saying "World Serie Baseball 2K1"
* No VMU window after pressing Start at title screen.
* For this E3 version, all game modes are locked except "Exhibition". Note that a "Tournament" mode exists while it is not present in the final version. The music is always different in this selection menu. The "Homerunderby" mode is also not usually present. The "Quick Start" is not yet implemented.
* The explanation of the "Exhibition" mode, in its small window, is on 4 lines and not 3.
* By selecting "Exhibition", we arrive in a sub-menu that does not exist on the commercial version, the "Select Mode". We should be on a window, the "Select Team" with the map of the USA. We can see that the "Player 2" at the top of the screen on the right is once again a variant of this build. Teams are locked.
* When arriving at the stadium selection page, the icons showing these are different.
* In the options, after having chosen your stage, past the "Select Controller" page, instead of having written "Difficulties", we have "Game speed". The choice of cameras has not yet been established. The "Injury" option is new, we cannot find it on the released game.
* On the "Starter" page there are indications for devs like for example c559fc8. left and right c55a578. Only 3 players can be selected by teams instead of 5. The background color of these small selection windows should be black and not transparent.
* The pre-match cinematics also have differences. First of all, the song, the hymn, is not present and sung by a woman or a man. The written presentation of the competing teams as well as the name of the stadium is non-existent. The entrance to the team is not what we are used to seeing (no close-ups, distant camera). There is no commentator.
* The window with the statistics of the launcher for example is incomplete.
* When it is finally our turn to play, after having passed the cutscene, the indication "Play Ball" in orange color should appear on the screen. There is none of that here.
* In play, according to the player's indications, the "1st" is not in the rhombus that is supposed to represent the field. There is instead a "Top" which is unpublished in this version.
* In the final version, we have a mundane in-game pause menu with the choices to come back to play or quit. Here, the START menu is more advanced with 5 possibilities, some of which are locked, "Change the player", "Change position", "Shift Fielder", "option" and finally "Cancel"
* When the game announces a "Strike", a "Ball", "Out", or any other indication, they are colored blue and not orange.
==Origin==
194081476_963759024446889_8624509760760650266_n.jpg|GD-R front.
==Acknowledgments==
Special thanks to Laurent for releasing this prototype!
==See also==
* Original release thread on ObscureGamers.com
* Entry on Archive.org.