Prototype James Bond 007?

[www.atarimania.com]

Not sure how many of you noticed most of the cracks floating around for James Bond 007 appear to be from an earlier build of the game. As Parker Brothers protos pop up from time to time, I was wondering whether anybody actually saw a physical cartridge of this version: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-james-bond-007_29219.html

 

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[Tempest]

I think I did see this cartridge. I know someone had a proto of James Bond, but I cant remember if it was for the 8-bit or C-64 now.

[Scooter83]

Im in the process of aquiring a cart of this title this weekend. So I hope to have it come end of this coming week. It isnt labled as a finished copy but a WIP 6. Should be interesting to see what differences there is from the final version. Also message me what oddities there are to the version that is floating around so I can be aware of that when testing this cart out. Thanks.

[Scooter83]

Everything arrived today Atarimania feel free to skip the first half or so to the part with James Bond 007 I think youll find it a bit interesting.

 

Episode # 39 - October's Atari 8 Bit Prototypes Find. ( Part 1 of 2 )

 

Edited October 18, 2013 by Scooter83

[Tempest]

I don't have sound here at work and I'm really not familiar with James Bond. How different is the proto?

[Scooter83]

The two things that were on noticed was game selection under the player number. Then at the good luck screen the few button doesn't bypass it like in the final. I haven't played the whole game to see what other differences would be.

 

Ill replay the video or replay the games and see how the music differs if at all.

[Tempest]

Ah so it has a stage select in it still. I'm guessing that this was pretty much the final version before they took out all the cheats and signed off on it.

[Scooter83]

Not sure but possible. Probably had a few tweaks left before finalizing.

[Kr0tki]

Attached below is a ROM image of the James Bond WIP 6 prototype, extracted from the DOS crack that's hosted at Atarimania.

 

The final verion of James Bond does not seem to contain any copy protection that would need cracking, so the WIP 6 prototype probably doesn't contain it either. Therefore it is somewhat possible that my ROM image is not cracked and will turn out to be identical to the contents of Scooter83's prototype, but of course any verification would be appreciated.

 

James Bond 007 WIP 6 (1984)(Parker Brothers)(proto).rom

[Atari8bitCarts]

I did see one on ebay pop up, maybe the one who purchased it is on AtariAge?

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JAMES-BOND-007-Atari-400-800-Game-PROTOTYPE-LAB-LOANER-RARE-/141069383809?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item20d863f881

 

This seller has had a lot of these lately. I picked up that Popeye proto/lab loaner from them.