At least, @jossan came here to talk about this cart. He could have stayed in the dark, as people with bad intentions could have done. I trust him when he says that the cart comes from a Nintendo hotline. The only mistake he has done was to list it as a prototype. Today, everyone is talking about prototypes, but we should be more precise in the definition of a prototype. For me, a prototype is a work in progress game (early build, close to final,....). We can also include Submission cartridges as they are a part of the development process.
The Zelda cart is strange enought to avoid talking about prototype. If the buyer bought it as a cart comming from an official Nintendo office, then he has what he was looking for (something odd and rare from Nintendo). It can be a self made cart, made by someone working in the hotline, in order to be able to answer more people at a time, without asking to the main european or japanese office to get a cart thought official ways (official ways are sometimes very long, like in all other companies in the world, including mine
). Who knows....So the cart should have been sold as a cart comming from an official Nintendo office, but not as a prototype. But I think than Jossan was not looking to fool people. I have a perfect dark "prototype" on N64 (and I had a Mario Kart one) with Titus written on it. This is clear enought to prove that it is not an official prototype (the cart has probably been flashed by a Titus developper in order to play these games for free on the real hardware). But we can't be this sure with the Zelda proto, so we should just wait and hope to get more informations on it, and we should definelty not fight each other.
