Don't think it's the full setup though. Pretty sure there was also a special motherboard the game had to attach to as well
Is that something peculiar to this prototype? I have a Famicom proto for a different game housed in a RAM adapter and it runs just fine on my AV Famicom.
I remember seeing a Dragon Quest famicom proto on ebay a few years back that was in a ram adapter that had to be in a special mother board to work (never did sell as they wanted crazy thousands for it..) It might have been just for that though or I could just be mistaken.
I'd say the price isn't TOO bad yet, but the fact that it is (1) untested and (2) that the seller doesn't remember much about the contents doesn't help. I am a bit bothered by the apparent absence of an EPROM in the socket in the third photo, but it isn't a clear enough photo to say anything for sure. The plastic comes up just to the point where it would be hard to see the chip. I believe this style of prototype has 4 sockets for EPROMs, though. This kind of stuff irritates me. If you have a several hundred dollar game that you are trying to sell at auction, you'd think you would try to find SOME way to test it.
Virtually every prototype auction where the seller "can't be bothered" to test it, the game is likely 99-100% the same as final. You better believe if there were differences from the final, the seller would be showing it off.
Yeah, can't be bothered to test a super expensive proto means it's 99% going to be "same as final". i.e. no differences.
While everybody's interest in games is different, you'd think that somebody who held onto something that is fairly unique and desirable would have at least some sort of Famicom playing device on which to test the game, and not actually be selling it over 10 years after he disposed of his Famicom.
OR The contents have long since been erased/corrupted and the owner is lying about it being untested so when the new owner figures this out he/she cannot hold the seller accountable. Then to save himself/herself from the embarrassment it is sold again as "untested" to yet another idiot.
The seller said that he "kind of" remembers it was the same as the retail game, but he "can't recall for sure cause it is 10 years ago" lol. I suppose if he had a Rockman 4 that had some totally nice changes in it, he'd certainly remember. Anyway, sometimes we're lucky and let's not forget that the Japanese tend to understate much more than the West. Let's hope for the best
I wonder who won. The (relatively) low feedback number of the winner indicates that it probably wasn't a bidding service, so chances are good that it was won by someone in Japan.
