JJ Hendricks, who bought one of the surviving carts halfway through last year, has fulfilled his plans for the cart and listed it on eBay. The ROM has been released, byuu has it emulated on bsnes/higan and has said he would help ikari get it working on the SD2SNES, bunnyboy made a working reproduction using a slightly modified version of his Campus Challenge '92 repro board and is likely to offer them for sale at some point. The bid's already at over $10,000 in the first day, good news for JJ who has already almost made back the money he spent on the cart originally, a few thousand more and he'll have completely covered that plus the bounty he put on reproducing and emulating the game. This is the first time the game has been available on a public auction, be interesting to see what price it'll end at.
Does the cartridge require a separate power source? Looking at the pics in the auction and of the purchase story makes me wonder.
The digital contents of the cart, maybe, but the physical cart is still only one/two-of-a-kind. People don't pay thousands for awful collectible games that they could play for free online for the sake of actually using the cart. If you mean the black port on the PCB, then no. It's an RJ connector, byuu explained what it was used for here on Reddit.
Glad to see he's making his money back on this, as it was very cool of him to dump the ROM for the masses.
