How rare is Tetris 1.0 Game Boy?

[nensondubois]

I haven't really found answers for this, and I hope someone here can help me out on this one.

How rare is the Game Boy version of Tetris (1.0) that has a different song for A-TYPE?

[GameBoyGeek]

I didnt know that there was a diffrent A-type song on the gameboy cart....hmm....whats its sound like?

[kedawa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cieXj...eature=related

[nensondubois]

I didnt know that there was a diffrent A-type song on the gameboy cart....hmm....whats its sound like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PknsQwSD46M That didn't help.

[Breetai]

Wow, I've never heard that music and have been playing Gameboy since its release. It has to be very rare.

[portnoyd]

The problem with ROM variant carts is there is no physical way to tell them apart except to plug them in and play them.

While it might be rare, it will never be of more value than the common version because the difference is too slight and good luck illustrating that fact, especially a difference relating to music, in an auction or sale thread.

Also, since it's not something many people will even notice, getting an accurate estimate of rarity is also almost impossible.

The only reasoning I can see that works is Tetris was packed in with every Gameboy. Even at launch, they sold a metric ton of Gameboys. Even if they changed it a month into production, that's still going to be at least 100k Tetris carts that are 1.0 (a number I admit I pulled out of thin air). If you compare that to how many Tetris carts are out there (33 million if Wikipedia is to be believed), then it's definitely incredibly rare by comparison. However, as far as overall rarity goes, 100k copies is nothing special.

[nensondubois]

I was thinking some odd figure like 10k. Does anyone here actually have it?

[badinsults]

If it is like SNES games, they stamp in the ROM version on the back of the cart.

But yeah, ROM variants aren't really sought out by anyone except the emulation crowd (which I'll admit I am part of).

[johndarkness]

The problem with ROM variant carts is there is no physical way to tell them apart except to plug them in and play them.

This is not true. You can tell on all Nintendo games which revision they are just by holding them in a hand. On each cart there is a pressed stamp number on the label (front or back, for DS the laser printed number contain also revision). If the number is followed by a letter that means revision (A for 1.1, B for 1.2 etc.) no letter mean first version 1.0, but same games are from beginning more then 1.0 so they start for example from 1.3 then A is 1.4 etc.

[portnoyd]

And how many people know that? Again, it goes back to:

Also, since it's not something many people will even notice, getting an accurate estimate of rarity is also almost impossible.

While it might be rare, it will never be of more value than the common version because the difference is too slight and good luck illustrating that fact, especially a difference relating to music, in an auction or sale thread.

[N 2 Nintendo]

ROM variants? This is a first to me. What other games exist like this?

[nensondubois]

Super Mario Land 2: Some versions let you use the pipe glitch and play the demo and the version that lets you is the non-player's choice original version.

[Limecat]

Wow, I've never heard that music and have been playing Gameboy since its release. It has to be very rare.

"It must be very rare since I haven't heard the music on the three or four Tetris carts I've ever played."

[N 2 Nintendo]

I have the original version of Super Mario Land 2. Infact the one I got as a Christmas gift very shortly after it's release. It makes sense seeing how it was released November of 1992. However, I'm not familar with this glitch, I'm going to try to research it. Then research to see if my copy works the same way. I'm thinking that the original version of that game can't be that rare though, right?

[csgx1]

Never new that this existed. I just check my 3 copies(1 Japanese version) of gameboy tetris and no v1.0 here. Seems quite rare.

[Eyedunno]

Wow, I didn't realize that about the stamps. I had a situation a couple months ago where I kept dumping my Garou Densetsu SFC cart but no matter what, GoodSNES wouldn't recognize the dump. Turns out I have 1.1, which is missing from the GoodSNES database. And yes, it does indeed have the "A" stamp on the back label.

Thanks for the info.

[aarenlainey]

Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2, Zelda Link's Awakening, Tetris, Goal, Duck Tales, Bubble Bobble, All-Star Challenge and F1 Race. What say.

[Oobgarm]

Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2, Zelda Link's Awakening, Tetris, Goal, Duck Tales, Bubble Bobble, All-Star Challenge and F1 Race. What say.

What mean.

[Shellshock!]

For what's worth, I have the player's choice version and also 2 pack-in versions for the original GameBoy set, and nothing. They have the same music. The pack-in versions were bought in Holland and U.S.A., in 1990.

[nensondubois]

Never new that this existed. I just check my 3 copies(1 Japanese version) of gameboy tetris and no v1.0 here. Seems quite rare.

It's US only, which makes it even rarer.