I must’ve mis-read – I thought that was about the removed tap.

I’ll send a message I think, maybe he’s got a bunch.

[L___E___T]

I had my eye on the taps for a while, but I don’t like that he’s opened it and retaped.
I also wondered why I really wanted 10 taps, it just seemed a poor spend so I put it towards a new game instead.

• This reply was modified 14 years, 4 months ago by L___E___T.

Heh, I think you’re looking at the set of 4 🙂

By the way, this isn’t an ad of mine or a plug, I just wanted to share and get some thoughts.

Thought I should clarify.

Proto sellers know that the value of a proto is determined by how early / what differences are in the code.

Trying to suggest that there *might* be differnces, while disclaiming that there’s no certainty is not going to encourage anyone to part with $100, let alone $1000.

I’ve seen this whole thing before. When there are real differences they’re shouted about, as that’s what drives interest. This is just a final or late beta game at best.

If it was starting @ $100, someone might throw a bid in but like you say the description, the disclaimers and lack of good feedback (and fair share of bad) is making this dead in the water.

I asked what differences there were and if it was tested and got an amusing response back.

I did, he has one more Panibon and a Jack Bros proto.

They’re not listed but he said they’re for sale – he (she?) hasn’t noticed any differences though from the retail games.

To me that makes them worth about 100 as a curiosity item.
I see value in old alpha builds of things like Rockman with an extra stage, or the Sonic 2 Beta for example with hidden extras, but a final build with a couple extra bugs has no interest to me.

I work with pre-final builds all the time so these kinds of things don’t offer me personally any real insight to a game’s design or such.
They’re basically expensive flawed versions and in the current economy, people are looking to offload them for triple what they bought them for when we were all in a boom.

In my world that just doesn’t fly, but maybe someone will bite. If he had an offer button it might get a few nibbles.

Hope I’m not offending anyone here – this is just my view on protos. Whoever buys it might be better to dump it and fund, but I’m not really fussed myself. I’ve seen the whole lifecycle of protos over on NintendoAge and it leaves a nasty taste in the mouth to see ludicrous prices.

Hugely overpriced considering it’s a final build right?

“the rom’s have never been dumped before, so there is a big chance that the game is different but no guarantee.”

In other words, there is no difference but I’d like you to think that there might be and shell out a grand for this little piece of plastic that isn’t unique and I have two others of.

Sorry if I’m being blunt.

I think it’s just another guy trying his luck. Send him an offer backed up by other listings if you’re interested, but I wouldn’t pay half that (even including shipping) myself.

It is too much. You can get a new Mario’s Tennis for under 15 Euros most places. That goes down when sold in bulk, not up.

There are are sellers on eBay that will gladly throw in the shipping box if you buy the lot.

It’s over double what it should be, according to the going rate.

Thanks very much Guy!

I think one more and we should just get this order out the door…

maybe I suck because I can’t read

I’m not sure I am playing it correctly – I thought I got ok scores but it told me I suck every time 🙂

Highest I got so far was 90 something, but I still suck!

I thought I was missing something because I know VJ has a prototype console, I’m not too familiar with them.

bigmak wrote:
I’ve gotten one from him already 🙂 it was fine :). hrms..took forever to get here thou.

-Eric

Cool- did it have the orange sticker? I’ll be pissed if I have to send back in order to get a refund…

Better check with him again!

I thought the prototype VB had Super Famicom buttons and a different logo?

VirtualJockey wrote:

Here’s a 600dpi scan (20.08mb):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3F9REK6G

Can anyone else share this? Obviously Megaupload has gone down so I can’t grab it now.
Dang, should’ve got it ages ago and then I wouldn’t have to ask, but I’d love to spend some real hours fixing every detail.

Please help someone 🙁

Thanks BigMak. I saw it before but discounted as I thought it was long gone.

However, after shooting him a mail he said he still has it AND it’s new… Not sure if I believe that but it’s on its way so I guess I’ll either be happy to receive it or he’ll be unhappy to receive my reply.

Cool! Can’t wait to run home and try this! (leaves office)

Just to check, did you pad the game you flashed?
I’ve had the same thing and then realised I forgot to pad the file out.

Heh, why did they put an even higher reserve on it? SCHMUCKS.

If you wanted something like this, you could always get it made up yourself with an .EPS logo. It would cost a couple hundred pounds, but it would be the same as a genuine E3 sign as Nintendo don’t make these themselves or anything, it’s all outsourced case by case.