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Could not find a fitting label for my Hard Head repro. To whom it may concern and could make use of it.
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Download link: https://archive.org/details/battlebots-gc-prototype Back on Christmas 2021 I tempted fate and hosted an hours-long livestream of this unreleased game on my Twitch channel. I'd had a copy of it for a couple of years up to that point but was unsure what to do with it over legal concerns I had regarding releasing it. Naturally this attracted a lot of attention in my direction and when nobody sent their legal team after me for doing a no-no I figured I was in the clear. I reached out to the founders of the BattleBots company (again) and said I'd procured a copy of the game prototype. I asked if I could just go ahead and post it online for people to play. I was informed that as long as no money was exchanging hands in the process they were finally okay with this prototype being out there. Prior to releasing this prototype the game had only been spotted in a select few places: a demo was playable at the taping of Comedy Central's final season of the show in 2003, and competitor Donald Hutson brought with him his copy of the prototype and a Gamecube dev kit to the taping of the 2015 season of the show and let people play it there. When the prototype was posted to Internet Archive I also posted an entry to my BattleBots blog about my thoughts and history with the game and the process of obtaining and ultimately posting it. This is old news but I'm sharing it here for posterity since this is the appropriate forum for it and AtariAge is one of the few places online where people hunt for protos with sincere intentions. -
Is it true that the Mario Bros. (1983) port for the Atari XL computers was never actually released? If so, then that means there were virtually no official computer-based ports of MB at all, at least not here in the USA (prior to the 1988 Atari XEGS port, which itself was an improvement on the original 5200 cartridge port and with audio inspired by the Nintendo FamiCom/NES version of the same game). It would also mean that the so-called "XL" ports of the game I'm seeing was just the 5200 console version's ROM burned onto other media. The unreleased pre-1984 ports (USA): Atari XL (just a transfer from the 5200) Apple II (partially finished) Commodore 64 (finished) Pre-1984 ports of Mario Bros. that were released in the USA: Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Post-1984 ports (USA availability): Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (also was a bonus mini-game within Super Mario Bros. 3) Atari 7800 Atari XEGS Super Nintendo Entertainment System (as a bonus mini-game within Super Mario Bros. 3) Game Boy Advance (as a bonus game on all four Super Mario Advance titles, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga) ~Ben
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Today I am releasing a prototype of Frog Bog for Intellivision. This was dumped from an EPROM cartridge yesterday. I was told that I should also release it here, so I will. Provided in the zip file is the BIN and CFG files needed for emulation and/or flash carts. The file is also available on archive.org with the provided link https://archive.org/details/frog-bog-proto please enjoy! FrogBogProto.zip
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Hello A while ago I picked up a used French Canadian 'schtroumpf' label variation Smurf which I used to have as a kid (I'm from Montreal). Came home tried it and found it was kind of odd, looking further its a (as far as I know - I looked at every set out there) un-dumped variant of it. Made a small YT 'Short' video of the discovery. Link is in the description (stored on Archive.org). Also found a Space Panic variant. If you look at old youtube commercials and some other printed material of Smurf you will notice that it has the same tree lines. Thought you might be interested. Before you go on eBay trying to buy a Smurf with a French label just know that it has nothing to do with it. It was pure luck. Bought two more just in case and they were also the common 16KiB Rom. Cheers
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Hey, y'all. For those unaware, a prototype of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night recently appeared out of thin air... for the game.com *cough*. Here's some relevant links... https://www.timeextension.com/news/2022/11/unseen-prototype-for-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-on-game-com-is-unearthed https://hiddenpalace.org/Castlevania:_Symphony_of_the_Night_(Game.com_Prototype) And a video, running on real hardware... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9p2ceWSWYI And some screenshots... Cool stuff, amirite? Not fun to play, mind you, but definitely cool.
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Several weeks back, a quiet little eBay auction went largely unnoticed by the collector-public. Whereas on the surface, it seemed just a slightly overpriced collection of boxed albeit rag-tag commons, included in the assemblage were two Coleco in-house prototypes of a game that would eventually be published and sold on the open market. Those two prototypes were works-in-progress of "Dr Suess Fix-Up The Mix-Up Puzzler". While not the most thrilling prototype works, there is excitement in that these are the first ever protos that I have acquired! The first cart is simply a still screen of the to-be-released puzzle, and a long "frozen" tone plays when booted up. I will have to clean the contact to see if there is other audio. The second cart is an early revision of the game with a few minor changes, including "Puzzle" rather than "Puzzler" in the title. The music's tempo is a beat faster, which tells me that marketing or someone probably advised that they slow it down for small children in the final release. I think the faster is better! The sound effects are slightly different too. Attached are pictures of the protos. When time permits, I'll get some game-play footage up for comparison. Thanks for looking! FUTMU Graphics Demo in-house label. FUTMU Graphics Demo EEPROMs and PCB. FUTMU Rev "R". FUTMU Rev "R" EEPROMs and PCB.
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Just when you thought it was merely a rumor, the evidence proving it true finally shows itself: Gaming Alexandria's article: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2022/06/fairyland-nes/ Looks like Retro Core may have to do an update video on Battle of the Ports.- 4 replies
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Hi everyone. Browsing my local Craigslist I noticed a less than generous individual is selling what appears to be a prototype of Sabotuer, the originally unreleased 2600 game. I don't know the history of this game but is this of some significance to the community? Had this been found and dumped already? Here is their listing. If this isn't allowed on the forums my sincerest apologies. This is not my game and I am not the seller advertising it. On a side note, $5k is an insane asking price, yeah? https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/clt/d/hayward-ultra-rare-atari-prototype-game/7482181201.html
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SELLING ENTIRE COLLECTION FROM 1980's. I worked as a sales rep for Activision in the early 1980's and have a LOT of prototypes (14 total - 8 for 2600, 2 for 5200, 4 for Intellivision), used games in boxes (40+ and mostly Actiivision titles), a 2600 and a 400 game console and even typed original drafts of instructions for 5 games. I want to sell it ALL IN ONE LOT. According to these blogs the protos should be worth about $80 each, no idea of the value of the instruction manuals, and we all know the value of the other games and consoles (not much...). I also have two unopened, sealed ROBOT TANK by Activision for the 2600. Check out the pics. I live in San Diego and YOU will pay shipping. First $600 (plus shipping) can have it ALL, right now! Or make your best offer. and highest bidder just may get this Collection. I had trouble uploading the pics from Google so here's a link top the pics - just copy and paste... (Sorry, I am a salesman, not a tech!!!) LOL https://photos.app.goo.gl/WN5DyyNTrGApAnec7- 6 replies
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Now this is quite fascinating: https://duke4.net/duke-nukem-forever-2001-content-4chan-leak/ Judging from the footage and screenshots, this actually looks like fun and it's pitiful that George Broussard decided not to finish this. Hat tip goes to Spawn Wave for mentioning this. It's at the 8:04 mark.
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Hello friends, I just picked up these carts from an Estate of a Principal Engineer that worked for Mattel in 82-84. I was wondering if you can help me identify these cartridges. All these were in a Intellivision II lot with a console that had an incredible low serial number of 00661. Thank you in advance
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Just wanted to share this pickup with the Mattel Electronics Aquarius Community. I recently attended an Estate sale and i picked up this Gem - The Command Console that was never released for the Aquarius Computer. This was from a Mattel employee who worked as a Principal Engineer from 82-84 Didn't even know it existed.. so happy i was able to find it. Enjoy
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Hello friends, I just picked up these carts from an Estate of a Principal Engineer that worked for Mattel in 82-84. I was wondering if you can help me identify these cartridges. All these were in a Intellivision II lot with a console that had an incredible low serial number of 00661. Thank you in advance
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Is there a Vectrex ROM ripper/downloader? I have a Bedlam EEPROM prototype and would like to download the ROMs. Thanks
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An unreleased game that could and should have been more!
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Sonic the Hedgehog (1) prototype on Genesis Does!
MegaManFan posted a blog entry in MegaManFan's Blog
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As per the title, a complete beta of Toki has been found for the Atari 7800. This announcement is a bit overdue, as it was found several years ago by BuddyBuddies (another AA member) and I on the same test department hard drives as our Lynx discoveries. It appears to be PAL format and Information on the title screens indicate that it is "Toki Beta 2, Copyright 1993 Atari Corp" which would've made it an usually late release. Although I've been interested in the 7800 for a little while and have a decent collection of games, we're not very familiar with the 7800 scene so we're starting from scratch in regard to exploring the possibilties of releasing Toki. We are going to try to get the game to the right people and hope to have more information with regard to what can be done with this soon. For more information on Toki for the 7800, as well as the other titles we discovered on the test department hard drive, please visit our website HERE (where I've already gone through the trouble of organizing the information!). Other stuff we found on the hard drive include what appears to be some of the latest stuff Atari was working on for the 7800 and Lynx, including Klax (7800), Toki (7800), Hotdog (Lynx), Road Riot 4WD (Lynx), Poker (Lynx), Relief Pitcher (Lynx) as well as an as-of-yet unannounced title. Below are some screens. Here is the toki specific page of our site.
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Trying to find more information and photos about the line of telephones Atari was working on in the early 1980s. It's fascinating stuff, but Atari Museum has very little information. Does anyone know where the prototypes have gone (thinking the trash, but hoping otherwise)? Are there more, higher quality photos? Did the kiosk ever make it out of the Atari offices? Thanks all!
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Hello fellow Atarians, picked up this item on ebay back in 2011. I used to run a search for "atari prototype" and if anything looked interesting throw in a bid. Won this item sold by a seller in Maryland with a description of "Mock-Up for Happy Drive CPU", stored it away and found it in the closet the other day. Thought you might enjoy checking it out. Cheers!
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In today's episode I discuss the most controversial prototype ever: Thrill Kill. What are some other controversial games that you enjoy?
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Is there such a thing as a Prototype Label? I got this in a trade 18 years ago from the owner of Mean Hamster Software. At the time he said this was 1 of 2 with this label. But that's all I know, Can anyone fill in more history about this cartridge, label or game? Thank you Steve
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MAME 0.229 It’s been an eventful month, culminating in the release of MAME 0.229 today. One change that you’ll notice straight away is that the “64” suffix is no longer added to the file name for 64-bit versions of MAME. If you’re unsure, you can see the data model at the end of the window title. One very elusive Argentinian title has finally made it into MAME this month. We’ve very proud to present Ms PacMan Twin, an extensive hack of Ms. Pac-Man with simultaneous two-player cooperative gameplay. Another rarity you can now experience is Midway’s unreleased Power Up Baseball – the NBA Jam of baseball. On the topic of prototypes, Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey Fatality Edition is now supported. Several TV games for preschool age children from JAKKS Pacific’s Sharp Cookie line have been dumped and emulated, featuring popular characters like Dora the Explorer, Scooby-Doo, Spider-Man and Thomas the Tank Engine. Travelling back a little, Mattel’s representations of Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, and Tag as electronic toys are now supported. Elektronika Autoslalom has arrived from Russia (with love). Another batch of JPM IMPACT fruit machines have been promoted to working this month, making use of new artwork engine features for their internal layouts. Updates to the Win32 and Qt debuggers add a context menu to debugger views with an option to copy visible text to the clipboard, improve behaviour when views are scrolled to the bottom, and fix a crash when right-clicking some memory views. We’re lucky enough to have received another shader update from cgwg, improving the appearance of the popular crt-geom and crt-geom-deluxe effects. We’ve added support for the NEC/Renesas V850 family to unidasm. That’s all we’ve got time for here, but there are lots of software list updates, newly dumped bootlegs, bug fixes, and other enhancements that you can read about in the whatsnew.txt file. As always, you can get the source and 64-bit Windows binary packages from the download page. Read the rest of this entry »
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I unearthed a Sonic 1 prototype which is being streamed on Twitch now with a special NYE countdown video at 00:00 GMT https://www.twitch.tv/hiddenpalace Enjoy
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That's right!! A great news for the whole ColecoVision community! CollectorVision found & preserved another unreleased game! This game has NEVER been dumped before and this is the only cartridge in existence! The game is not a prototype, it's the full game We're going to post more informations about this awesome find, soon!
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