View Full Version : California raisins proto or copy ?
Gotchy
02-20-2006, 06:56 PM
I receive california raisins game today
how can i know if its a proto or just a simple copy ??
i think its a copy but im not sure ...
here a pic of the game
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f279/gotchy/c6e80881.jpg
Ryaan1234
02-20-2006, 07:36 PM
I'm not really a big nes expert but take a look at this:
http://www.nesplayer.com/features/californiaraisins/proto.htm
Here's a quote from the article:
"Well, if that game becomes a rom.. anyone *could* make it into a homemade cart. And sell for profit.
Thats why I want to hold on to it, I don't want that to happen."
That was the guy who found the only known copy of the game. If the article is right there'd be no possible way to make a copy of this game.
But I DID find a download for the rom which means it could be a copy.It seems the guy did release a rom. It's here:
http://www.lostlevels.org/200308/200308-raisins.shtml
I guess it really depends on where you got it. A flea market? Ebay? If you got it online I'd say there is a very high chance that it is a copy. Also, the number on your rom, NES-UN-07, intrigues me. I tried to find it but I could only find NES-UN-05.NES-UN-05 is used in Capcom games, which is a good sign. I don't know much more about prototype games so maybe someone else can give you some help.
badinsults
02-21-2006, 12:29 AM
According to the serial code on the chip, it should be Amagon. Probably fake, if it is not Amagon.
Check the soldered joints. Look fresh?
leonk
02-21-2006, 04:37 PM
Gotchy:
Something doesn't add up here. What you have there is a ROM (not EPROM) for PRG. But california raisins was never mass produced!
Are you sure it's raisins? I think you are mistaken.
NintenDk
02-21-2006, 05:07 PM
one time burn roms don't have a window but can still be wrote to that once. could be that
leonk
02-24-2006, 08:22 PM
You can tell these aren't one time EPROMs because the PRG is stamped "PRG". This is done only with manufactured ROMs.
MASTERWEEDO
02-24-2006, 08:35 PM
I know of people sellin the rasins game, both for $25-$27.50, i dunno what the insides of these carts look like but it's almost safe to say its a copy, but on that rare chance that it is a proto....good find, keep it either way
badinsults
02-24-2006, 09:26 PM
You can tell these aren't one time EPROMs because the PRG is stamped "PRG". This is done only with manufactured ROMs.
As I said, this is a pcb of the game Amagon.
NintenDk
02-26-2006, 05:47 PM
I didn't look good on the picture untill now, Is that a little blue wire by pin 31?
MichaeltheGreat
02-26-2006, 11:42 PM
If someone sold this to you, they ripped you off. As it has been stated, this is Amagon. That is not a little blue wire, that is a couple of traces being cut by sratching into the pcb. This means that the game has been doctored so that it would not work.
MASTERWEEDO
02-27-2006, 12:12 AM
I'd test it before I went nuts about being ripped off, it might work.