I've spent the last few years building a huge, elaborate chart of various countries and their OPS2M Demo coverdiscs here http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title= … zine_Demos
While for most countries, most demo discs themselves were recycled between regions. Based on the disc label numbering, the UK build of the disc was used as a basis for re-releasing it into other countries - Australia, Benelux, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Spain. However most countries got a handful of exclusive builds for these demo discs, most prominently Germany for which most of it's demo releases are exclusive builds.
The wiki is pretty accurate and contains a lot of painstakingly assembled details that myself and others have added. By tracking magazine issues and investigating serial numbers (specially on disc labels), we've been able pinpoint what we believe is every exclusive build left to be dumped. One caveat "Serial dumped" just means the serial number has been dumped from another region, but it would be great to verify each issue demo from each region. More importantly however would be to target the last few identified exclusive builds - all from Germany.
Despite being coverdiscs, I've found the last remaining Germany demos impossible to track down so far, so I'm posting this info and leaving it in the hands of any Germans that might be interested in keeping an eye on ebay /ebay-kleinanzeigen.de / etc for these. The list of what's undumped is here: http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title= … os#Germany
If we consider serial numbers, here's the status country-by-country:
- UK - all builds probably dumped. The only reason I can't say for sure is because most UK additions to redump were listed initially as "Europe" making it difficult to backtrack the source country of these dumps.
- Australia - all builds dumped
- Benelux - all builds dumped
- Denmark - all builds dumped? All known discs match other regions.
- France - all known builds dumped. Some of the later issue serial numbers are unknown, but it is likely they match other regions.
- GERMANY - HAS SOME UNDUMPED BUILDS!!!!!!!!~
- Italy - all builds dumped
- Poland - all builds dumped? All known serial numbers match other regions.
- Portugal - all builds dumped
- Russia - all builds dumped? All known serial numbers match other regions.
- Spain - as of today, all builds dumped!
An asterix being that two different regions having the same serial, at least one of those regions is dumped per serial.
It may very well be this project has gone as far as it will, but in case any Germans out there have an interest - it would be very cool to finalize / get closer to preserving the last few exclusive OPS2M builds!
See also: http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title= … zine_Demos