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Hello everyone, I have a good friend who, back in the NES days, worked at the Spanish distributor (SPACO). He kept the prototypes they used for testing the games before marketing them (and most of the accompanying documentation). Therefore, they have had a single owner since the 90s. He is now willing to sell (some) of them, so I'm helping. I'll start by offering these two: Captain Planet, PAL version, with the original "faxed" non-final manual. (Note: these are not copies of the documents but the original fax received - it might make little difference, but FYI). Sword Master, PAL version, similarly, with the draft manual, with untranslated parts, notes, and empty image boxes. This is almost an Spanish exclusive game in PAL regions (I believe it was also released in SCN). They both work perfectly and can be played - and, at least apparently, they are either final versions or close to final versions of the game, but still nice collector pieces. In case my friend decides to sell additional protos, I'll keep listing them here. There is no fixed price, so feel free to make your offers for one, both, or ask any questions you might have. Kind regards, m.

The console has been SOLD.

Hello, everyone, As I think an item like this needs an introduction, I will proceed to do so. I'm Marçal and I'm both a retrogaming enthusiast and a researcher. One of my interests was the Overkal console, which I finally was able to prove that it was available at least early 1974 and, thus, making it the first European game console. We presented our findings in the History of Games conference back in 2020 although I had previously written about everything in my website (https://retromaquinitas.com/catalogo/consolas/espanolas/overkal/) and in specialised magazines such as the RetroGamer's Spanish version. So, you know, I'm at least a bit knowledgeable about this machine, which is an Odyssey clone with a few clever twists (quoting Baer himself). I often get questions through the website and people also contact me for assessing the value of their consoles (which I rarely have a definite answer to, as I'm not really here for the "economy" part). However, very rarely, I get a contact from someone who owns an Overkal. This usually means just a quick valuation (which, again, I can't provide) but this time a person contacted me and shipped their console to me so I could check it and help them with its sale. I already own an Overkal console, so, I thought this could be a place where someone could be interested in taking care of such piece of history. Without further ado, let's get to the item. A few pictures are attached, but here go some details: The console is aesthetically in very good shape and color, at least in the top side and all laterals. The battery cover is missing and there is rust in the contacts. However, the console also can be powered with a 9V adapter similar to the Atari 2600's, for instance (center positive 3,5mm jack). There are also a couple cable marks (the typical "melted" marks). There are three of the seven "large" overlays (tennis, cat/mouse and roulette, I believe) and the full set of smaller overlays. The roulette board is also included, as is the paper money. Note how all these are exactly the same as the Odyssey ones but adapted: Spanish translation and Pesetas instead of Dollars. The switchbox is also included although it is quite irrelevant. The box is in a very decent shape, even though it has a bit of tape in its corners. Other than that, it is also representative to see the "El Corte Inglés" price stickers (a department store in Spain where it was sold) on it. Two inners are missing (the console cardboard and one controller). Controllers are good even though one of them is starting to lose the adhesive on the wooden part. The inside, except for the battery connector, is clean and without rust or corrosion of any kind. The buttons (power and games) work as intended. No manual. Does it work? Good question. I got this one sent to my place, and I don't have my consoles and TVs here, so I couldn't use a 70s TV to fine tune it. I tried my best in a modern TV: The signal in these 50-year old consoles is often not strong enough (or I'm unable to tune or fine-tune it in this TV). My power supply had a reading of current consumption that seemed reasonable - even though maybe on the low side, below 30mA - and it fluctuated when changing games. So, at least, there doesn't seem to be any shortcut or similar. So, I will list it as non working. Feel free to ask any other question; I don't have a set price for it (and, as said, it is not even mine in the first place) so, even though I'll be the one shipping the console, please keep in mind that any offer will need to go through the actual owner who I'm helping. You can contact me through this thread or via DM, but please express your interest beforehand so I can keep track of the request order. Thank you,

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PM sent!

Not for us, but for them it should be, as Andorra has much lower taxes (although it used to be even more extreme). VAT is 4,5% in general and corporate tax is 10% at most. So well, to be fair, if they shipped from Spain they should charge 21% more (the VAT) (approx 50€) but at least we could save the unfair and absurd administrative costs (in the case of Spain, almost 40€ derived of the "paperwork" to make me pay 50€). Whatever. Well, this is off-topic, I guess, but seeing how many Mega SD customers are here, I'll give you my timings: preordered on the 17th of June, Package in Transit 3rd of August, Order sent to DHL 12th of August, tracking was available on the 26th/27th of August, when DHL called me to confirm the contents of the package, gave an estimation of import costs and proceeded to "free" the package. It arrived in a couple days afterwards. Hope this helps! Meanwhile, also waiting for the next batch of Jaguar SD (I'm on the high 300s!).

Actually, although the Terraonion guys are Spanish, they are shipping from Andorra now. Andorra is in Europe and has a strong relationship to Spain/Catalonia and France, but it's not in the EU, so *everything* goes through customs. I received the Mega SD last week, if it helps, and I live in Spain a few hundred kms from Andorra (and I had to pay a lot of fees - VAT + administrative fees). Not nice, really, as I purchased the SD Super System 3 before and they did ship from Spain (so no customs involved for me or the EU) :-(.

Excellent work, SainT. It seems to work correctly; can't wait to order the Jag SD.

I don't know how someone can breathe while pressing two buttons at the same time.

More Godlike than SainT.

Same here. In any case, I can totally understand Starwander's frustration. Hopefully, most of the users who expressed interest will eventually get their pair. On the other hand, I was actually waiting for everyone who expressed interest to order before promoting the store through my network (as units are limited), am I allowed to do so already? Kind regards,

That's great, looks amazing. And you could have not chosen a better game for the showdown! Great work, @SainT.

Hi all, Just wanted to thank Bryan for his wonderful creation. I received the board really fast and it's already installed in my Atari 5200. We used a Mega Drive (Genesis) 2 connector to connect both the composite and the audio together, also did the power mod. The same Genesis plug could be used for the S-Video. All crisp and clear, really happy. Keep it up, m.

Last week was busy in the US with Thanksgiving, if I'm not mistaken, so I'd give him a little extra time to go over his PM's.

Just emailed, hope this helps making this project a reality for all Jaguar fans.