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And then what? LRG never publicly mentioned that there will be the EGA version (or any additional content besides the VGA release) on the USB stick. They only mentioned tha there will be "the game content" on it.

Can someone give me the answer: What's the deal with the floppy disc which is contained in the RtMI box? On the Limited Run Games website it is said that this floppy disc will be an "floppy disc styled USB stick". But I'm not able to see the USB connectors or how to open this thing up. For me this simply looks like a fake floppy disc. Can somebody help me out on this thing?

"Sounds like they got all of this from the FM Towns version. ... So I guess the only thing they didn't include from the FM Towns version was the actual game, and the Zak McKracken theme? " Exactly what you've said. They've split the content of the FM Towns game CD (dropped the FM Towns game itself and moved the audio tracks to a separate audio CD) and deleted the Zak McKracken theme audio track. And they included the Japanese version of the audio drama audio CD (Japanese version with the English version and the mentioned soundtrack audio tracks of the audio drama), and missed all the other international versions of the audio drama. So all in all the collectors edition is an incomplete mash up of the Japanese FM towns release without the FM towns game version itself mashed together with the current Steam/GOG release of the game itself.

Hi there, as one of the guys who actually bought the LimitedRun Loom release, I would like to tell you exactly what is in this package and what not: - USB Stick: There's a "loom.exe" and a ReadMe file on it. The "loom.exe" will install the VGA CD-talkie version of Loom like it is available on Steam or GOG. And only this version. No EGA, FM Towns, AMIGA, Mac, whatever different version on there. - CD-ROM Disc: Exactly the same content as the USB stick. No EGA, FM Towns, AMIGA, Mac, whatever version on it. Only the known CD-talkie release. - Soundtrack Audio-CD: The known soundtrack (probably performed by an Roland MT-32 soundcard) and an alternate version of the soundtrack (sounds like being performed on a lower quality MIDI wavetable soundcard, the quality is also less good than the MT-32 soundtrack). Last song is a short version of the Indiana Jones theme (yes, for whatever reasons). On the jewel case, there is a data track mentioned but there is none on the CD (maybe the label package was simply copied from the original LucasArts CD release where track 1 was the data track. - Audio-drama Audio-CD: On track 1 there is the japanese version of the audio drama, on track2 the English original version. On the following tracks there is the soundtrack of the audio-drama with no speech. There are no other language versions of the audio drama (no German version for example, which does exist). - The original manual - The original Book of Patterns on a more sturdy paper than the original release. - The original red copy protection "glass" (which is btw never needed because this Loom release does not have the old copy protection) - Loom logo patch - A two sided poster So all in all this release is not worth mentioned to be a "collector's edition". It is missing a lot and is looks a bit like being "copied together what is available on the Internet already". It only has the (worse) Steam/GOG VGA talkie release and misses the sough-after original EGA release (not to mention the rare VGA FM-towns floppy version or the releases for other platforms), and it misses all versions of the audio drama. All in all it's not a release worth buying if you still have the original package from 1990.