12th June 2006, 9:11 AM
This does seem a little fishy though. Thing is, making an NES cart is pretty easy these days. There are groups online that will do it for you (if you provide the ROM mind you, so they can avoid legal trouble). They basically use flash rom and a gutted NES board (that's the same type as the original game). In other words, hacked ROMs can be played on the actual NES.
It is certainly interesting, but more to the point, a lot of scam artists have been selling "Earthbound Zero" carts on Ebay as "NES originals, never released" and VERY expensively. The buyers often never realize that these are not what they were advertised to be, and could have been bought for a much lower price from one of those sites I mentioned.
In other words, this COULD be a scam. This is the sort of claim that requires a little evidence.
It is certainly interesting, but more to the point, a lot of scam artists have been selling "Earthbound Zero" carts on Ebay as "NES originals, never released" and VERY expensively. The buyers often never realize that these are not what they were advertised to be, and could have been bought for a much lower price from one of those sites I mentioned.
In other words, this COULD be a scam. This is the sort of claim that requires a little evidence.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)