Is this a Prototype Cart ????

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posted by brendand on Jun 25, 2012:

HeXiGON said:






That's GAMEBOY flash cart not a GAMEBOY COLOR one, so a big difference there. If you were in Melbourne it would of been great to actually see this cart in person.
As for dumping the ROM, the X-Changers are not cheap you can ask gamedoctorhk to look for one for you (he's found me rare stuff before) usually specializes in You're very lucky to come across it though, there are no pawn shops in Melbourne that I know will have anything game related.​





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The only reason why I'm going to say it's a final retail version of Pokemon Gold is because it was found at a pawn shop, so most likely it was for a review -- You'll come across a few review code games on stores like that cause not everything that get reviewed gets returned.
You're very lucky to come across it though, there are no pawn shops in Melbourne that I know will have anything game related.

Thanks i have yet to see a official gbc flash cart so not sure if it is that or not ^^ it might be a full retail cart idk i have not seen a picture of another cart like this yet it is intresting to me a oddity sort of i will try contact them people again soon as i dont have the money right now and if that fails i will contact you about where to find gamedoctorhk ^^
 

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posted by Hedgeyourbets on Jun 25, 2012:

It's not a retail cart, nintendo never sold flash carts that would be a terrible move on their part and third party flash cards don't go to such lengths to look real, it's an official nintendo gbc flash cart for sure, if Assembler says it's a real gbc flash cart you can take that to the bank
 

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posted by brendand on Jun 25, 2012:

Hedgeyourbets said:






It's not a retail cart, nintendo never sold flash carts that would be a terrible move on their part and third party flash cards don't go to such lengths to look real, it's an official nintendo gbc flash cart for sure, if Assembler says it's a real gbc flash cart you can take that to the bank

I guess you are right but why would nintendo make such a cart ?
 

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posted by Bad_Ad84 on Jun 25, 2012:

For testing purposes.

You wouldnt make a run of hundreds of thousands of maskroms until you are sure its ready to go.
 

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posted by mooseblaster on Jun 29, 2012:

Hedgeyourbets said:






It's not a retail cart, nintendo never sold flash carts that would be a terrible move on their part

Except that Nintendo did made official consumer flash carts: the Nintendo Power Flash Carts for Game Boy and Super Famicom (in fact, the one brendand linked to - http://gbdev.gg8.se/2009/06/official-nintendo-game-boy-flash-cartridge-scans/ - is one of them).

Admittedly, they theoretically weren't self-flashable, requiring you to use a special public transfer station, but still.
 

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posted by brendand on Jul 3, 2012:

so this is a test development cartridge ? i can't find pictures of other ones for comparsion ><
 

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posted by mikeryan on Jul 4, 2012:

If you have an N64, 64drive, and transfer pak you can dump the ROM with agbd. Then it's just a matter of taking a SHA1 checksum to see if it differs from a retail ROM.
 

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posted by brendand on Jul 6, 2012:

mikeryan said:






If you have an N64, 64drive, and transfer pak you can dump the ROM with agbd. Then it's just a matter of taking a SHA1 checksum to see if it differs from a retail ROM.

i have 2 n64s and a transfer pak but no 64 drive lol
 

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posted by brendand on Jul 7, 2012:

Ok one more question about this if it is a test development cartridge how many of these things would exist and how did it survive to make it out from nintendo headquarters ? i am sure they have these sort of things LOCKED away or destroyed ?
 

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posted by Borman on Jul 7, 2012:

Things leave Nintendo HQ all the time. What is more interesting is what is on the cart, but without it being dumped and researched we can't say if it is something super rare, or just a retail game on a flash cart