California raisins proto or copy ?

[Gotchy]

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

[Ryaan1234]

I'm not really a big nes expert but take a look at this:

http://www.nesplayer.com/features/ca...sins/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]

According to the serial code on the chip, it should be Amagon. Probably fake, if it is not Amagon.

[merp]

Check the soldered joints. Look fresh?

[leonk]

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]

one time burn roms don't have a window but can still be wrote to that once. could be that

[leonk]

You can tell these aren't one time EPROMs because the PRG is stamped "PRG". This is done only with manufactured ROMs.

[MASTERWEEDO]

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]

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]

I didn't look good on the picture untill now, Is that a little blue wire by pin 31?

[MichaeltheGreat]

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]

I'd test it before I went nuts about being ripped off, it might work.