Hello all, I have been presented with the following: The question I have for all of you is, are these indeed just stickered retails? or something more? I know for a fact they came from a dev house, but could it just be they were used for final testing etc? I can't say as ive seen units as such like these before, (I mean stickered in a dev house like these) so i'm abit unsure about them. Though I suspect they are just retail units and nothing more. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help identify them. Cheers. :thumbsup:
I have had similar items myself in the past mate that turned out to be nothing more than retail stuff stickered up. I had an N64 not so long since and I think I still have an xbox at home somewhere.
Gosh those stickers do look a tad new, esp given the yellowing of the SNES... I do have a few machines that were used internally by a dev studio for testing but the stickers on these is even worse with it being a printed sticker from a label printer. I have a few games that even have Nintendo stickers on them, which I know they came from nintendo but i don't think anyone else would...
Thanks for the responses guys, just wondering if anyone had any other input on them, summed up pretty much exactlly what I thought!
Hmmm, very good point, but I have no idea. I can only guess the person responsible for the photos must have done something to cause them to be reversed?
I had a lot of stuff like this from acclaim, it was from QA department. some of it modded hardware, some not. Usually it's from marketing, testing, hint line.
They DO need hardware to test their games on. Sega CD betas were burnt to Sega branded CD-Rs and since the console had no copy protection as per burnt media went they could just pop it straight into the console. Same goes with burnt EPROMs into PCBs for the SNES, Genesis and so on. Likely if it is stickered as such it probably was used in the dev cycle somewhere. I stumbled upon a "Sunnyvale" Atari 2600 which had a melted in label detailing it was for demo use only. Apparently it was one of the units that Atari had used to show off the "new" 4 switch design of the 2600. Likely Bushnell himself played with it and it likely was featured in a magazine somewhere but I couldn't prove it if I wanted to.
Ever taken pics with a webcam? If you don't tick the right box all pics will be reversed, that's normal. And these pics look webcammish so here we go-o!
What does the black and white sticker on the US SNES say? Permanently?.... damaged? What's the big power-brick-looking thing on the right side of the SS?
Whilst the QA consoles might be not as exciting as you expected them to be, at least you got a copy of Final Fight Guy out of the bargain! Alecjahn: It says 'Permanently Branded', as in 'don't bother taking this, you won't be able to remove where you got it from'. It's a shame that TCM weren't very ubiquitous when it came to SNES development (in fact, according to their website they only worked on a couple of Super Gameboy games - not even working on SNES games!). As for Saturn, they only worked on The Sacred Pools - which I'm not sure was released or not. Here's a list, if you want to get some background for your newly acquired machines: http://www.codemonkeys.com/history.htm
