Hi there, i bought this today and i am still trying to figure out what it is. I hope someone in the community can help me out and let me know how common or rare this is, and what it is! Thanks to all!
Beside its obvious country code (if that label is original), nothing else I'd know. Appears to be an empty board needing data chips attached. Might've been useful for devs to create press promos or something.
Thanks. I have also some Test 1 with ntr-abcd-eur and the test 2 ita cart. I opened the ita because it was a bit damaged on the back. Do you know if "ilseman" is some dev code or something? I had never seen anything like these, I haven't found any info online, never one for sale or anything! So I'm guessing they are very rare. What's your opinion? I'm not looking to sell them, I collect nintendo stuff and that's why I bought them. I want to find out why they were made.
Not that I'm aware. Maybe skimming the credits of DS games for an "ilseman" could help. People have that as a last name.
No "ilseman" game listed on the nintendo website for ds or any console. If these were fake, I don't understand why someone would print "nintendo" even on the board, that no one sees. It seems to be very well manufactured, same as my other ds games... I am confident it's manufactured by nintendo. The back says test0j08. Not sure why they would make that label and the board, close it and not put the chips...
Looks like a mock-up cartridge. Probably for trade shows, not ? :shrug: The contacts are corroded though ... How did that happen ?
Does the ntr-abcd-eur card do anything in a system? My guess is it appears to be a demo sample of some kind of what the carts look like. Something you can 'hand out' to a crowd at a trade show so they can see the cart. False label (but officially printed by Nintendo), and an empty board inside so the contacts look like the real cart... Might also have been internal, mold samples and such to make sure the molds for the cartridge shell are making good carts (ones that actually fit in the game) Assuming you are the first to actually open the cartridge, the blank board seems indicate one of the above (or a similar scenario).
I don't know about you guys, but the -abcd- and -efgh- product codes make me think that they are just placeholders, especially with the blank boards. Still very cool!
I know that font, it's the same on my test discs. Most likely used to calibrate assembly, packing and labeling machines.
But then it would be ISLEMAN, not ILSEMAN. As the label clearly states ITA, has anyone got any info on any unreleased Italian titles or titles coded by an Italian dev house? Surprised no-one's mentioned this earlier to be honest.
