A guy is selling a fake proto of the game on ebay. He actually conned his way into having a friend of someone from Nesdev forum to program eprom chips for him saying he is a collector, actually had the prototype but ''accidentally'' erased the data in a UV box. I know it sound ridiculous but the guy thought he was just being nice and burned the chip for him. A few day later, the guy listed the prototype on ebay. You can't even contact the seller to ask question or it give you this message ''We're sorry we couldn't find an answer for you. Unfortunately, this seller is not able to respond to your question. We suggest reviewing the item again to see if your answer is in the seller's listing.'' http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-nes-Th...ultDomain_0&hash=item20c6c91675#ht_500wt_1210 You can even see that the eprom label were written very recently. So buyer beware! Feel free to report to ebay as counterfeit (even though I doubt they'll do much)
Yes. Sorry, I forgot to include it in the original post: Sorry guy, the original information got removed
He just edited his post that explained what happened . It was there one second, then I refreshed the page and the post was changed.
Sorry, the guy decided to remove the info from this thread for personnal reason: http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=76439 Edit: The auction is going strong which is annoying because someone will be ripped off. You can even see the guy recently bought the 27c4001 Eprom for his scam (second feedback from the top): http://www.ebay.com/itm/180845654117
Mike from Nintendo Player owns the real prototype, originally owned by Simon_Belmont and DreamTR. http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/steven-seagal-is-the-final-option-prototype/
Its only "fake" - the data is still legit, its still the currently unreleased prototype. Obviously the guy is a complete douchbag, but you are still getting what you paid for to an extent - an unreleased prototype game.
The rom was already released, you can download it from Nintendo Player. As for getting what you pay for, I disagree. It's like paying 100$ for Earthbound without knowing your buying a reproduction. I do not think people paying hundreds of dollar for a prototype do it to be able to play a crappy unfinished game physically on their SNES but are in fact paying for the rarity and the video game history behind it. For this one there is no real history at all. You're paying for a prototype pcb that isn't really worth much more than 60 or 70$ imo.
If the rom is already released - then I agree with you more. Its just a reproduction. If the rom was unreleased - while there is no history behind it, its still an unreleased game and kinda getting what you wanted. History and such seems more important when the rom is released and someone is trying to sell the original cart (as a collectors item). Rather than a case of having something rare (unreleased game). However, if the rom is already released - why the scam to get the guy to burn him eproms? he could have just done it himself.
well if the Rom is already released and this is not an"Official" prototype as such (since the eproms have been reprogrammed) then the price should be next to nothing really, however its still its a piece of proto history (even just for the hardware) so people may still want to purchase it
Indeed. I can see people being happy to buy a "fake" prototype if the contents is still unreleased to the public. But if the rom is released, not so much. he even says its unreleased in the ebay description - however, hes probably talking about official cart release, rather than rom - which is deceptive imo.
