My Nintendo DS prototype game

[MichaeltheGreat]

Just put it up. It's an official Nintendo DS development cartridge with a prototype on it. Feel free to ask any questions:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=8268421308

[Kitsune Sniper]

The item says "DS Flash Card 512M"... wow. ... wow.

I wouldn't sell it, but... wow. O_o

[MichaeltheGreat]

I've realized that even if something is really cool and rare, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is what I want to collect. And if it sells well, there's more money to spend on my true love--the NES! (don't tell my wife I said that)

a few more pics for you guys:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevast/

[mills]

woah, 512 M...thats insane...

IF you advertised the fact that there was 512m of memopry on that cart you might get even more money!

[MichaeltheGreat]

Maybe, but I've got one gig CF on my supercard for the DS, so that's not so amazing to many homebrew people. 10 minutes left...

[Drexel923]

Heh...I guess that guy really wanted it badly. Oh well.

Congrats on getting some nice money out of it.

BTW, I was curious...how did you come across this?

[§ Gideon §]

Yeah, congrats! I was watching this one, and you made a pretty penny!

[jajaja]

Holy fuck, that much. Didnt you buy this for $100 or so?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Yeah, it was right around there. I have no idea why nobody else bid on the other auction. Did people not think it was real or something? I guess it was a high start. It also was a short auction and poorly written, but mine was pretty poorly written too. I dunno. Once I get around to it, I'm going to write an interesting article with lots of extra pictures and post it here. There are a few things you technical nerds might find interesting.

[Drexel923]

Yeah, it was right around there. I have no idea why nobody else bid on the other auction. Did people not think it was real or something? I guess it was a high start. It also was a short auction and poorly written, but mine was pretty poorly written too. I dunno. Once I get around to it, I'm going to write an interesting article with lots of extra pictures and post it here. There are a few things you technical nerds might find interesting.

Well had I seen the previous auction I definitely would have bid on it. Do you have a link? I'd like the see where my search tatics went wrong

[NESaholic]

Wow that's some ill endprice!! Congrats on the great sale man.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I don't have the auction anymore and I think it was about 4-5 months ago. I'm pretty sure it had "dev" or "development" in the title which are two of my normal serches. It may have been something like "nintendo ds flash cartridge" or "cart". It was about the same time I was looking for ds homebrew stuff so that was in my normal search then too.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Auction just got pulled. I guess if they pay that's good for me... No auction fees, and no worries about overseas bidder pulling a fast one... But I hope they still pay.

[jajaja]

Why pull the auction after it ended?

[MichaeltheGreat]

I've had it happen to me before when I was bidding on things. From what I've seen ebay only pulls auctions when someone lets them know if it's against policy. They pull it even after the auction's over to protect themselves from legal crap. My thought is that kotaku.com picked up the auction and somebody saw the kotaku blog and contacted ebay.

[DreamTR]

Guys, I have a Sonic RUSH DS Prototype I am looking to sell. I posted about the ZOo Tycoon proto in here, on Assembler, and sold it on eBay. I am unfamiliar with al lthe tech stuff about it, but I do have the same type of proto for sale of Sonic RUSH, one level demo if anyone is interested.

Michael: what did the game end up at as a final bid?

[MichaeltheGreat]

It ended at 270 + shipping..