I’m skeptical.

I believe someone has Dragon Hopper…

…unfortunately that is not me 😛

It seems like VirtualJockey hints at it though! *runs away*

akumie wrote:
Still no one who needs Mario demo?
I dont talk much about it because I dont like 100 messages about it

starting price is 100 euro

i bid your starting price 100 euro 🙂
Iff you really goining to sell the lets discus this by pm
I’m a serieus buyer iff you looking to sell ( item will get in my private collection off virtual boy )

a mario demo? you mean mario tennis demo? mario clash demo? or mario for VB demo???????

I think it’s best to keep the discussion central to this thread. I’d easily bid 200 Euros if it was a genuine cart and the real deal. I’d also like to discuss what I can/can’t do with it after that and the best place to do that is right here, surely.

If your cart is a proto/alpha for VB Mario Land / Mario Clash, then it’s something the community hasn’t seen yet as working code. I’d be upset if you’re really willing to sell and it disappears into the hands of another collector for the next 15 years.

I understand some people don’t want to dump carts as then the money it took them to spend in securing that cart is seemingly lost. That’s why I suggested best course of action for the small communtiy of VB fans is to chip in a set amount together and donate that to you in return for dumping the cart code.

The cart itself could then be kept by you or sold, but you’d have peace of mind taht you wouldn’t lose out financially.

I think what everyone is interested in here is the code contents of the cart, what it plays like or even if it’s playable code AT ALL. I’ll be honest and say that I think it’s very unfair for someone to try and pry discussion away from here and as such I’ve decided to bid 200 Euros just to keep the discussion on here.

What does everyone else think? Perhaps I’m overreacting but I’ve seen similar stuations on Assembler and NintendoAge, as well as all over DigitPress, sadly.

Collecting shouldn’t be selfish in my opinion, which is why I share the protos I have and have plans to share future protos I get exclsuive access to.

L_E_T

Are you afraid that i’m willing to buy this game and put it in my collection ( and not sharing it ) .
Iff thats true i dont like that you say tis : Collecting shouldn’t be selfish in my opinion
Beacouse i’m not selfish and always share evrything!

I’m not willing to discus on here whit out PROVE off he having it.
And then still when there is prove and he is willing to sell then still i will not discus prices over here but i can pay allot for it ( but nobody needs to know how much).

L___E___T wrote:
I think it’s best to keep the discussion central to this thread. I’d easily bid 200 Euros if it was a genuine cart and the real deal. I’d also like to discuss what I can/can’t do with it after that and the best place to do that is right here, surely.

If your cart is a proto/alpha for VB Mario Land / Mario Clash, then it’s something the community hasn’t seen yet as working code. I’d be upset if you’re really willing to sell and it disappears into the hands of another collector for the next 15 years.

I understand some people don’t want to dump carts as then the money it took them to spend in securing that cart is seemingly lost. That’s why I suggested best course of action for the small communtiy of VB fans is to chip in a set amount together and donate that to you in return for dumping the cart code.

The cart itself could then be kept by you or sold, but you’d have peace of mind taht you wouldn’t lose out financially.

I think what everyone is interested in here is the code contents of the cart, what it plays like or even if it’s playable code AT ALL. I’ll be honest and say that I think it’s very unfair for someone to try and pry discussion away from here and as such I’ve decided to bid 200 Euros just to keep the discussion on here.

What does everyone else think? Perhaps I’m overreacting but I’ve seen similar stuations on Assembler and NintendoAge, as well as all over DigitPress, sadly.

Collecting shouldn’t be selfish in my opinion, which is why I share the protos I have and have plans to share future protos I get exclsuive access to.

I didn’t mean anything personal or directly antagonistic, just thought I’d mention the point of keeping things in the open ideally.

– Akumie, could you do us a favour and clarify a little please. We’re all quite excited if what you say is true.

Akumie needs to upload some pics, or atleast clarify what Mario demo it is everyones really curious (I’m not interested in buying the game, but still really want to know which demo it is.) I think this Mario demo needs to be sold here on the site and not anywhere else, because if it goes on ebay some dirty scum reseller will buy it and just try and make a killing especially if it’s VB Mario Land. Who knows maybe everything will work out and a ROM of the game will get relesed in the end.

L___E___T wrote:
I think it’s best to keep the discussion central to this thread. I’d easily bid 200 Euros if it was a genuine cart and the real deal. I’d also like to discuss what I can/can’t do with it after that and the best place to do that is right here, surely.

If your cart is a proto/alpha for VB Mario Land / Mario Clash, then it’s something the community hasn’t seen yet as working code. I’d be upset if you’re really willing to sell and it disappears into the hands of another collector for the next 15 years.

I understand some people don’t want to dump carts as then the money it took them to spend in securing that cart is seemingly lost. That’s why I suggested best course of action for the small communtiy of VB fans is to chip in a set amount together and donate that to you in return for dumping the cart code.

The cart itself could then be kept by you or sold, but you’d have peace of mind taht you wouldn’t lose out financially.

I think what everyone is interested in here is the code contents of the cart, what it plays like or even if it’s playable code AT ALL. I’ll be honest and say that I think it’s very unfair for someone to try and pry discussion away from here and as such I’ve decided to bid 200 Euros just to keep the discussion on here.

What does everyone else think? Perhaps I’m overreacting but I’ve seen similar stuations on Assembler and NintendoAge, as well as all over DigitPress, sadly.

Collecting shouldn’t be selfish in my opinion, which is why I share the protos I have and have plans to share future protos I get exclsuive access to.

Akumie doesn’t have the Mario demo. See this post.

dasi thats also why i ask for showing it that he really own it.
maybe a picture of it and then a paper on the background with his forum name. or somthing diffrent.

This is funny, this site hasn’t been this active lately! Now that people talk about potentially new found protos we are active like a Christmas tree at Rockerfeller square.

Good to see the community is still alive, just a bit dorment 😉
I would be willing to add a few Euro’s IF anything is real, which I doubt is in the case of Akumie.

…it’s a shame as Faceball definitely exists and someone’s just hanging on to it 🙁

Don’t get me wrong, the game looks tripe but I kinda see this topic as videogame archeology and I don’t understand that mentality, personally.

Did anything come of these?!

Ok I’m reluctant to post this, but here it goes I did see it on E-bay once. But unfortuanately it was before I knew what Planet Virtual Boy was and at the time low on cash :p . Yes it exists and it is definately out there.:)

morintari wrote:
Ok I’m reluctant to post this, but here it goes I did see it on E-bay once. But unfortuanately it was before I knew what Planet Virtual Boy was and at the time low on cash :p . Yes it exists and it is definately out there.:)

YES! This is wonderful news! 😮

I don’t know how anyone else feels but one of the things I would want short of Dragon Hopper or any other unreleased protos being dumped is a few minutes of some decent video footage. In the best case scenario we have a few seconds of grainy footage or some crappy magazine scan. I would pay a good amount just to see the games in action never mind actually playing them.

But then you’d see that it’s not all that, and the value of the proto would be decreased…

I’m not serious – just trying to get into the mentality of proto hoarders 🙂

If Dragon Hopper were to appear on Ebay, I wonder how much one would have to bid, in order to win it?

$5,000.00? $10,000.00?…

All I know is that I would probably place a bid of $10,000.00, and if I happened to win with that, I’d be spending the next several months trying hard to pay off my newly acquired credit card debt, but most importantly, I would make every effort to ensure that a ROM would be made and that the Virtual Boy community would have free access to it. Heck, once that would be accomplished, I could then put the prototype back up for bids and maybe get some money back.

I just don’t trust other collectors, especially given the fact that the game is still being hoarded.

I will also put in a very very high bid and probbely will win the biddings 🙂 iff it ever comes on ebay

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
If Dragon Hopper were to appear on Ebay, I wonder how much one would have to bid, in order to win it?

$5,000.00? $10,000.00?…

All I know is that I would probably place a bid of $10,000.00, and if I happened to win with that, I’d be spending the next several months trying hard to pay off my newly acquired credit card debt, but most importantly, I would make every effort to ensure that a ROM would be made and that the Virtual Boy community would have free access to it. Heck, once that would be accomplished, I could then put the prototype back up for bids and maybe get some money back.

I just don’t trust other collectors, especially given the fact that the game is still being hoarded.

If a copy of Dragon Hopper were to come up on ebay. It would be really hard to win it.

There are more people that would buy the game with good intentions, like you and everyone else here on the site. But that doesn’t mean resellers wouldn’t see it as an opportunity. Like when the NES Campus Challange cart went on ebay a few years ago. A reseller bought it first, then relisted it a few months later for profit. With something like Dragon Hopper or any other VB proto thats probably what would happen. If a reseller did buy Dragon Hopper. It get relisted and would be so expensive no one would be able to afford it, like the VB Video Boy that was $50,000 on ebay a little while back.

L___E___T wrote:
…it’s a shame as Faceball definitely exists and someone’s just hanging on to it 🙁

Don’t get me wrong, the game looks tripe but I kinda see this topic as videogame archeology and I don’t understand that mentality, personally.

It’s fun looking back at old threads like these, when we were pining for “Faceball” and “Bound High”. Well, I have Faceball and Bound-High carts; they are very fun!

That gives credibility to the dream of some day having “Dragon Hopper”, and possibly Zero Racers and Goldeneye…

Morintari wrote:
Ok I’m reluctant to post this, but here it goes I did see it on E-bay once. But unfortunately it was before I knew what Planet Virtual Boy was and at the time low on cash :p . Yes it exists and it is definitely out there.:)

What time period was that?

We need to set up a group committed to buying it if-and-when it ever shows up again, dividing the price between us. (And somehow making sure that none of us is the actual OWNER, bidding PRIVATELY against us to maximize the price!) >:(