Final Mission Famicom Proto

[rbudrick]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=1393564605

Hey folks,

It looks to have high "fake" potential, but I haven't seen too many Famicom protos, let alone review protos.

What do you guys think of this one?

--Rob

[MattyXB]

The problem is, I don't know how the normal release look like from Famicom. So it can be selfmade and someone has write it on the cartridge.

Don't know. :

[Buyatari]

Could even be a bootleg and some wrote 0001 on it.

I dunno.

Call in the NES team of experts.

Adam

[Li Wang]

I see no reason to suspect it being fake. Japanese prototype/review carts sometimes have a tendency to look more professional than their American counterparts. Simple looking professional stickers with the game's logo on them just like that one are commonplace. Generic white or black cases or ones in the style of the company that makes the game are, too.

Besides, piraters from any given country very rarely use art that clean and simple looking and would almost never bother adding a Japanese title under the English one.

[TheRedEye]

Well, here's what I can tell you.

1. Final Mission WAS released here, as S.C.A.T.

2. Magazine previews of S.C.A.T. often showed screen shots from Final Mission, so early review copies seem to more or less be the Japanese game.

3. The case we're seeing in that auction is NOT a production Natsume case, nor is the label a production Final Mission label, though it's certainly close.

4. I've seen many Famicom protos with white cases, it seems to be standard.

5. However, I've never seen an actual Famicom cart used for an American magazine review. They always just put the board and converter into an NES case, if a Famicom game is needed.

That's about all I have to say, draw your own conclusions from there. I'd like to see the board, personally.

[Li Wang]

Eh, I say there's a 99% chance it's real. I think the guy was just guessing that it was used by an American magazine for review. He also had another Fami proto up that was ended with the BIN:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=1393563563

I'm guessing he got them at the same time (along with this 0001 proto he talks about) from someone who was in the industry or someone who got them from someone else who was. The label on the Kemco proto is identical in font, format, and crappy label quality to the Bugs Bunny's Funhouse one that sold on ebay years ago and can be seen on NES World. I'd find it kind of hard to believe that some random guy would forge two Famicom prototypes that happen to have the same disctinct features as genuine ones constantly have when not much information is documented on them at all.

Not to mention Final Mission and "some Kemco Space game" are hardly what you would want to painstakingly fake a proto of in attempting to rip off collectors for a quick buck.....