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Was the second Utopia boot disk the one with the 3D model of a reindeer? Thats the one I had
There was only 1 utopia boot disk (the spinning reindeer). The second was the same thing but modded by scene group to change the background image (kept the reindeer) and force vga mode even if the game didn’t support the official vga box, which didn’t work sometimes
https://cdromance.org/dc-iso/utopia-boot-cd/ has screenshots of both, the bottom with the little alien fella is the original
The weird part is the vga patched one didn’t actually support vga mode itself so when you used it that way you had to boot the console, your screen would be blank, wait, change disks after a minute, then if it worked and the game booted your screen would pop on. You basically had to be used to the process with a/v cables and do it blind, which to be fair if you were a 90s kid that grew up on disk swapping ps1 backups was pretty much a given
But then like a few months later (I think it was) echelon started releasing self booting games so no one cared anymore and soon after you could vga patch the games directly