Found this while I was searching through ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Earthbound-Ni...ideo_Games_Video_Games_JS?hash=item20af651fea
I don't think it is fake. I just think it is the most expensive dumped ROM prototype cart known to man bought up by Earthbound lovers. Earthbound lovers buy it up and they fool around with it for a bit. After the inital wow factor wears off they realize that everyone else who wants to play the game already has the same ROM for free. So they download the ROM and resell the overpriced prototype to another Earthbound nut. Repeat process.
I'm sick of seeing the same damn Earthbound prototypes popping up on ebay again and again. Will someone please buy and, you know, just keep for a while. I'm sick of being tempted.
There is many prototypes in circulation. Check them all out here on Tomato's blog: http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/09/earthbound-zero-prototype-info/
Did anyone else notice the date codes on the eproms? One of em was 1993 and the others 2003. Seems someone is selling a copy of the rom re-burned on new chips?
lol..yeah. but this would simply mean, that those are phoonies, or at least not in original condition. can someone enlighten us?
How (or should I say "who") is this authenticated as a real prototype? Is the prototype game even complete?
Well, it had to be because it was dumped and is playable At least one copy of the US version is real and out there... somewhere...
So... I assume it'd be easily possible to have a proper proto board, and then drop some good looking/dated EPROMS (containing EB'0', of course) into it? Like, buy a cheap proto of the right construction, make some swaps, and make a profit?
There's a couple of very detailed videos about this cart if anyone is interested. http://earthboundcentral.com/2010/03/hands-on-with-the-eb0-prototype/
Are you sure that's the date code? I thought those were always 4 digits. That production code doesn't even seem to match any other AMD eprom I've seen from the 80's through the 2000's, like so: http://cgi.ebay.com/10X-AM27C2048-1...emQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item5ad4acdca4 Plus, it does seem to be very similar to the eproms used in this Batman Returns prototype: http://www.nesplayer.com/prototypes/batmanreturns.htm Maybe it's something different from a date code and was used (perhaps somewhat exclusively) on Nintendo prototype boards?
