Let's download Penn & Teller for Sega CD!

[TheRedEye]

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This is the title screen. It shows the title of the game, which is Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. Sometimes when I tell other people about the game I mix up which part has the "&" and which part has the "and."

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This is a still from the introductory movie, in gloriously garbled Sega-CD-O-Vision. Penn & Teller explain how they totally came up with all the ideas here and coded everything by themselves. At one point Teller makes a couple action figures get into a fight, and blood goes everywhere. At the end the pizza delivery guy shows up with their pizzas and asks if all the work he's done on the game is panning out or not, and then Penn and Teller rush him out the door so the audience doesn't think he made the game himself. Oh Penn & Teller you are so funny lol!

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Here is one of the minigames, DESERT BUS. The music on this title screen rocks so hard that I broke several bones just listening to it.

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In DESERT BUS you drive a bus in the desert. Your goal is to go from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas. Your bus never goes more than 45 miles per hour, so the trip takes approximately eight hours (in real time) to make. There is no scenery or even other cars on the road, just plain desert, for 8 hours. Oh, and your bus veers to the right just slightly, so it's impossible to just tape down a button and go do something else. Rumor has it that if you make it to Vegas, you score one point.

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This is Mofo the Psychic Gorilla. In theory, this is a game you play at a party with a deck of cards in front of you. Using some clever and subtle button combinations, you can make Mojo use his "psychic powers" to read the card your friend has drawn.

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This shot is more or less from the beginning of the actual adventure game. You control Penn & Teller at the same time, and can switch back and forth between them to use their unique abilities and solve puzzles. The storyline is that a competing magic duo, Stinkburger and Rot, have convinced the world that magic is REAL and they have SUPER POWERS and everyone should give them lots of money. So Penn & Teller set out to stop them, because they're fucking liars. You'll notice a cockroach counter on the top. When you collect enough cockroaches you can sell them to movie producers and wildlife reserves and stuff for cash!

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This is a shot from inside one of the many places of business in the game, Debbie's Travel Agency. Every store in the game is named either Harry's or Debbie's, and the clerk is always played by Deborah Harry from Blondie. And really that's just so awesome that I don't know what else to say.

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This is the first boss in the game, The Great Escapo. You end up killing him in a really violent way that I'm not going to spoil.

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This is a really creepy carny who charged $100 to guess my age. The bastard got it right every time, until I bought a fake ID and fooled him! Take that carny! For a prize, he gave me a nail gun.

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Oh yeah, this part is awesome. You can hire stunt doubles in the game. They look nothing like you, and they can run around doing all these awesome jump kicks and punches and stuff. The thing is, though, they can't do anything BUT hit people, they can't even go in doors, so using them is completely useless. When you pause the game, it shows a two minute completely unskippable movie of Penn & Teller eating pizza in silence, and then you regain control.

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This is a carnival freak. He sings a funny song about how he's in love with the bearded lady, but she doesn't seem to notice. And that's his only function in the game, as far as I can tell.

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This is a random shot from inside Stinkburger and Rot's casino. To the left is a room with a guy selling hot dogs. For some reason, whenever you find a guy selling hot dogs, it acts as a warp zone back to New York.

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This is me attempting to use my nail gun on a tiger's stupid face. It didn't work.

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This is the second boss, I forget his name. He was pretty easy. Actually, all the fighting stuff is easy, since you can't die. It's kind of like a Lucasarts adventure, but with action.

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These two shots are of my favorite move in the game. Penn points up and goes "Hey, look!" The guy looks up, and you control Teller as he crawls behind him. Then you push him over his back!

As you may remember, Zach "zmeston" Meston sent this game to me about thirty years ago so that I could torrent it for you, and then I sat around on my ass for a long time and didn't torrent it. Well, now I am! Download the torrent below, and have fun. If you don't know how to use Bittorrent, well...get with the times. Or wait until someone who isn't me posts a tutorial in this thread. If you're having trouble connecting to me, like many people seem to, just wait until more people hop on.

BITTORRENT IS FOR DIRTY PIRATES LIKE MEEEEEEEEEE (http://alluvion.org/download.php?info_hash=8444e2764938aea82044e4acc8c e6d39545da5b6)

[Cryomancer]

AVAST, THAR BE TREASURE. SET SAIL FOR INTERNET.

I am all over this. I love sega cd, i love trying shitty games, i love trying unreleased games, and i love piracy. Will seed as well.

[TheRedEye]

Your items signature thing looks dangerous.

[Cryomancer]

It's all lightguns I actually own. It's to motivate me to buy more of them. It's a subcollection of sorts. The world is still safe, I still have yet to get around to learning to use a real one.

[TheRedEye]

Yeah but the oil can concerns me.

[zmweasel]

Thank you very much for creating the torrent, sir. I'm downloading it now with BitLord, which is great for BitTorrent newbies (like me), and I'll seed as well.

Thanks also for the screenshots. I've barely played into the adventure game, so every one of those pics is a revelation. Is there the slightest chance in Hell that you'll write a walkthrough of the adventure?

And you really do get one point for completing the Desert Bus drive. There was gonna be a contest in which you slogged through the drive, took a picture of your tv and your one-point score, and sent the pic to Absolute for a chance to win something-or-other.

(EDIT: My apologies to the mods for posting outside of the Buying and Selling forum. I felt it was alright to make an exception for this particular thread, since it's of particular personal interest to me, and since nothing in my post can be construed as inflammatory.)

-- Z.

[anagrama]

Many thanks, Frank/Zach! :)
This finally inspired me to get mybittorrent self in gear, and I think it d/l'ed OK last night. I'll have to try burning it this evening and giving it a crack...

[OldSchoolGamer]

Thanks! downloaded with BT Shadows Experimental client and burned with Alcohol 120%. I don't have a Sega CD so I play with Kega Fusion Emulator. I LOVE playing unreleased games! Thanks for posting, you know some jackass is going to download or design some labels and jewel case inserts and try to scam it on Ebay as a full unreleased proto sooner or later (I swear I won't do it LOL!) Anyway, thanks again!

:D

[SuperShark]

Hey dude, I think that there is something wrong with your pics link. I have attempted to view this page in Firefox and IE with no success.

BTW, is there anyway to download this without using some sort of bittorrent software as I know my parents would not allow that stuff on the family computer due to it being an easy way to get viruses (which I dont see the need to worry about myself as we got 3 diffrent antivirus programs including Norton)?

[PapaStu]

Images are down because his site has exceeded its bandwith for the month, in 2 days they'll be back.

[scooby105]

Is this available anywhere still?

[SuperShark]

Or in a non-torrent format?

[TheRedEye]

So...this has been getting a lot of press lately, from waxy.org, boingboing, slashdot, digg, G4...hell, Penn Jillette talked about it on his podcast.

[anagrama]

Yeah, but they're all 6 months behind the times ;) Many thanks again Frank!

[zmweasel]

Reading through the Waxy.org posts (http://www.waxy.org/archive/2006/02/28/penn_tel.shtml), I note a post from a fellow named Jeff Haas, who claims to have the PTSM instruction manual ("user guide") which describes how to actually play all the mini-games. Has anyone contacted him about this?

(The first time I posted on Usenet about my copy of the game, I don't remember how many years ago, it was because I hoped someone out there had a copy of the manual.)

EDIT: I exchanged emails with Jeff this evening. He says he's scanning and/or PDFing everything in his Smoke and Mirrors info-packet, including the instructions, and will have all the content ready for public consumption in a matter of days. ROCK.

-- Z.

[TheRedEye]

I have happy!

I really ought to beat the game and make a walkthrough.

[adaml]

I would love to see a Magic Bus walkthrough.

[Mr. Wardner]

Reading through the Waxy.org posts (http://www.waxy.org/archive/2006/02/28/penn_tel.shtml), I note a post from a fellow named Jeff Haas, who claims to have the PTSM instruction manual ("user guide") which describes how to actually play all the mini-games. Has anyone contacted him about this?

(The first time I posted on Usenet about my copy of the game, I don't remember how many years ago, it was because I hoped someone out there had a copy of the manual.)

EDIT: I exchanged emails with Jeff this evening. He says he's scanning and/or PDFing everything in his Smoke and Mirrors info-packet, including the instructions, and will have all the content ready for public consumption in a matter of days. ROCK.

-- Z.

Great! The game is hilarious, and I'd love to have the manual and other official info...let us know as soon as it's released. I've even made a custom case for this game and put it on display in my collection!

[BBH]

Great! The game is hilarious, and I'd love to have the manual and other official info...let us know as soon as it's released. I've even made a custom case for this game and put it on display in my collection!

Looks like it's released now:

http://www.pennfans.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=46

[Mr. Wardner]

Great! The game is hilarious, and I'd love to have the manual and other official info...let us know as soon as it's released. I've even made a custom case for this game and put it on display in my collection!

Looks like it's released now:

http://www.pennfans.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=46

Wow, this game is so amazingly deep (at least for the time) that it's a shame it was never released. If you haven't already, go to the link above to download and read the manual!

[donbills]

Game downloaded, will continue to seed.
Thank you to whoever uploaded it!

[c0ldb33r]

This is great :D

Is there anyway to play this on a real sega CD or is it emu only?

[cyberfluxor]

Yeah, I'm bumping an older thread but does anyone have a working Torrent up? I was actually currious about this game three days ago and magically people were discussing it in the rare/unreleased SegaCD thread soo yeah. Thanks!

[otoko]

Necrobumping with a purpose.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AULMOWW8

Contains Smoke and mirrors disk 1 and 2 with other random material.

EDIT: For best results use with Fusion or burn them to disks.

[skaar]

Yoink!

[MASTERWEEDO]

i'll have to get this when i go back to my house.

[MachineGex]

Can anyone "help" me figure out how to burn this? I have wasted about $10 in blank discs. If anyone can help, send me a pm! SOmeone, anyone, HELP!! I have been waiting way too long to play this game!

[Kitsune Sniper]

... Buy better CD-R media.

I've never had a Sega CD burn fail on me.

[Gameguy]

What software and speed are you burning them with?

[MachineGex]

What software and speed are you burning them with?

Just saw the replies....
I have tried everything. I am doing it wrong, and still havent been able to play it. Anyone that is willing to walk me thru it, send me a PM.

[understatement]

Are you just copying the files to the CD drive in My Computer and burning with Windows or are you using an ISO burning program like Nero? As far as I remember you get an ISO file mount it to the IOS burning program and use the default settings to burn it, if you just copy it to the CD drive it doesn't work.

[kedawa]

Just use ImgBurn. It's free and has never let me down.
Use quality discs and burn at the lowest speed.

[Superman]

I went to the download link to checkout this fine game, but apparently, megaupload has been siezed by a district court. So I guess I won't!

As far as image burning is concerned, I have never had a problem using Imgburn. Nero and Alcohol work ok for most files, but there were one or two turbografx games that I cound't get to work with either of them, but Imgburn was able to handle it.

[Ed Oscuro]

I went to the download link to checkout this fine game, but apparently, megaupload has been siezed by a district court.
It's a good thing you went to download this obscure game, otherwise, the world might never have known of the mysterious disappearance of this Mega Upload! :help:

On a serious note, I see the Penn Fans site is down. I guess that a picture of a lady in a grey business suit holding an apple with a bite out of it was the closest they could come to both Penn & Teller and Penn State at the same time. If it was up to me they'd have the picture of Penn pointing, and Joe Pa pointing, and Teller preparing for somebody to be pushed over his back.

[Superman]

It's a good thing you went to download this obscure game, otherwise, the world might never have known of the mysterious disappearance of this Mega Upload! :help:


Just doing my part to help the online community! ROFL

[duo_r]

Is there a new host?





Just doing my part to help the online community! ROFL

[MachineGex]

I have an nice reward for anyone who can "HELP" me out. I have spent so much time trying to play this game. I use to have the old VHS show by Penn & Teller that was simular. It had self working magic and a bunch of other cool effects.

Anyone who can help me, PM me. If you are a Penn & Teller fan, you will LOVE this bounty!!!

[dendawg]

Is there a new host?

Demonoid. :ass:

[Gameguy]

Is there a new host?
For now.

http://tvd1r8.1fichier.com/en/

[MachineGex]

Did anyone save the manual/instructions? I saved them on my old PC, but it got wiped. Anyone have the PDF for the manual???
Gameguy, I finally got the game going. Thanks for your help. Send me a PM with you address. I got a small thank you to send ya.

[Shulamana]

It was interesting to hear Penn talk about the various ideas behind this game on his radio show back in 2006. All the episodes are up on archive.org but I sure as hell can't remember which one they talked about it on.