If you're a part of the Discord community, you may know that one of the game's devs recently joined the server (and if you didn't know that, you should check it out!). Avouca and I were inspired to reach out to him and others after finding some non-functional development files.

So what were those development files? They contain an early developer build of the game. The audio was corrupted and the files were missing some components, but me and Avouca were able to rebuild the audio and reconstruct the missing pieces using PSX developer tools.

The result: a fully working dev build! https://archive.org/details/PSXDOGS_081600

It's been confirmed that this is an early build of the game from August 2000 (two months before final build), with placeholder voices done by the devs themselves. It’s a PS1 build, since that was the original version. It’s got unfinished material that might answer some questions about how levels were designed—or cause some more.

Enjoy!