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June 09, 2006
Rare Nintendo Prototypes Discovered
Congratulations to the lucky bastard out there who came across a whole cache of prototype, competition, and unreleased NES and Super NES games at a garage sale on sale for a mere $40. This lucky person has put up the collection for sale on eBay a piece at a time, releasing new copies of the Star Fox Championship Weekend game pak into circulation as well as prototype versions of Tetris and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past plus the second known copy of the English version of Earthbound for the NES.
This kind of discovery is what all gamers hope to come across at some point in their lives. Imagine finding not only the Holy Grail of video gaming, but a whole box of Holy Grails that can all be yours for mere pocket money. I check out the local used game shops from time to time in hopes of discovering something like this, but of course I never do. As I once said in an essay on acquiring used video games, it's always best to buy from people who don't know what treasures they have.
Posted by MattG on June 9, 2006 at 12:00 PM in Nintendo, Retro/Classic | Permalink
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they are reproductions mostly. a guy make an "official" cartridge with the translated ROM in it, he has made other jobs with NES cartridges too like prototype roms and hacked games.
he print all the stuff by himself in high-resolution and put them on the cartridge and it LOOKS like a real official cartridge, but it's not. it's a reproduction cartridge of games that never got to be released here, is the game is Japanese, it will mostly be patched in english if an english patch does exist.
Posted by: RaptorZX3 | Jun 9, 2006 11:25:44 PM
"but it's not. it's a reproduction cartridge of games that never got to be released here"
Did you even make the effort of reading the auction?
Posted by: Doofman | Jun 10, 2006 2:09:42 AM
^^^^ First commenter is a fucking retard.
Posted by: Ryan | Jun 10, 2006 4:57:41 AM
these are almost definitely fakes - easy to make and impossible to identify - the most impressive item; homemade eprom nes carts, have been around for years (I have 2), it would be simple to make one look official.
Why in the world do you people automatically assume this guy is legit? He even types like a scammer.
Posted by: moot | Jun 10, 2006 8:05:10 AM
Because (as The X-Files teaches) we want to believe.
Posted by: MattG | Jun 10, 2006 9:20:55 AM
One can reverse Ryan's question: why do people automatically assume he's a fraud? Just as no one has proof he's legit, no proof he's a fraud is apparent, so don't look down your nose at people who believe the story.
Posted by: Red | Jun 10, 2006 1:56:42 PM
Err, moot's question. Ryan's just an ignorant, flaming troll (which is what I just did :) ).
Posted by: Red | Jun 10, 2006 1:59:20 PM
well there is no proof, just his own words but the question is do you believe him even that there are pirated games out there....only if the guy from the yard sale would speack up?
Posted by: samusaran | Aug 20, 2006 1:41:26 AM
Really for anyone complaining, who cares, fake or real, he has a copy and you dont, he has a copy and i dont for that matter, any real gamer sure whats areal one but would settle for less. How many of those do you have as a ROM??? Good find no matter what
Posted by: Ed | Oct 10, 2006 11:11:20 PM
What a lucky bastard! I know, I am only 14 years old, but ever since I bought my Earthbound game for the SNES (Which by the way is complete!), I've been in love with Earthbound. I later discovered that there was a cancelled Earthbound game for the NES, which really wanted to make me play it, not only that, but also own it. When I saw the proto cart on the internet for the first time, I gave myself that dream; to own and find that game in real life. Ever since, I had this dream of owning it and playing it for real, not on some poor quality emulator.Playing it on an emulator doesn't really want to make me play the game as much as on a game console. So all summer long, I went at flea markets in hope to maybe find another prototype, but no find. I looked and looked for one, until this guy finds another game, but also with loads of other protos. I felt so mad (and still am today) that he had to find the game. Now, I really have no hope at finding another copy, since maybe thousands of people are looking for it at this very instant, and I am only one of them. I guess that my dream will never come true...
Posted by: earthbound fanatic | Dec 5, 2006 7:47:28 PM
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