A Youtube user named GruntZilla94 posted footage of Primal Rage II in almost its entirety.

Primal Rage's dedicated fan community had their prayers answered in 2017. Players had been given newfound hope, but traveling out to Brookfield just to play Primal Rage II was likely a bridge too far for many. Before long, huge news dropped, as an arcade in Brookfield, Illinois known as Galloping Ghost Arcade was revealed to have one of the playable machines open to the public. Fortunately, the 2010s brought about good news on that front.Īround 2014, footage of the game in action began to pop up on YouTube, showcasing the game's cast of fighters which included the Draconians but also their avatars, or human champions that battled in their name (the story of the game would later be made into a novel known as Primal Rage: The Avatars by John Vornholt). Since the BIOS file was considered moot, fans began to give up hope that Primal Rage II could ever be salvaged. The only problem was that the BIOS file wasn't able to run on any known emulators, including the popular MAME emulator that simulated the hardware of various arcade machines. Nevertheless, a version of Primal Rage II's BIOS files could be found and downloaded online thanks to the dedication of the game's fanbase. Since only two machines were known to exist, obtaining a CPU board and dumping the BIOS files online wasn't easy. The rumor mill continued on, with screenshot leaks circulating well into the 2000s. One was rumored to exist in two different Golfland arcades in California, and another was shown during a show known as California Extreme in 2001.

Overall, two machines were considered to have been made, and rumors had persisted that they existed in a playable capacity. As early as 2001, rumors circulated that before the game was canceled, prototypes of the arcade machine had been released and distributed to an incredibly small number of arcades. They assumed that Primal Rage II would never see the light of day. For years after, disappointed fans made their voices heard on early online message boards.

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