prototector 22 Member · Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) Contra/Probotector (NES/FC): Super Contra/Super C/Probotector II (NES/FC): (I have this one below) Contra/Operation C/Probotector (GB) : (I have the one below) Contra Spirits/Contra III/Super Probotector (SNES/SFC) : (The one above does not actually have the same version as the one below) Contra Spirits/Contra: The Alien Wars/Probotector 2 (GB) : Contra: Hard Spirits/Contra Advance (GBA) : Contra Force (NES) : Contra 4/Contra: Dual Spirits (DS): Contra: The Hard Corps/Contra: Hard Corps/Probotector (Genesis/MD) : (I have the one below) Contra: Legacy of War (PS1) : Contra: Legacy of War (Saturn): (I have the one below) C : The Contra Adventure (PS1) : Contra: Shattered Soldier (PS2) : (I have the one below) Neo Contra (PS2) : (I have the one below) (I have the one below) (bottom right in the below pic) (I have this one below) FAKES AND QUESTIONABLES (VARIOUS SYSTEMS): And now, for the fake or highly suspicious prototypes that surfaced over the years. Fake prototypes in general have been a really prominent issue in recent years. So due to that, in addition to completeness, I figured to include them as well. Beware of these. Contra III and Contra Spirits (SNES & SFC). Most likely fakes: Contra III (SNES). Highly suspicious: Contra Advance (GBA). Highly suspicious: Ok Edited October 21 by prototector Forgot a SNES prototype 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prototector 22 Member · Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 Added a couple more photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prototector 22 Member · Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share Posted August 13, 2022 Another 2 more, the latest in my collection. A Contra: Shattered Soldier preview and a Neo Contra preview. If anyone has any photos of others, please post them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armageddon Potato 120 Member · Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 On 8/13/2022 at 9:23 AM, prototector said: Another 2 more, the latest in my collection. A Contra: Shattered Soldier preview and a Neo Contra preview. If anyone has any photos of others, please post them. Wow, that is an awesome Contra collection! Has any of it been dumped, or backed up? I'd love to check out some of it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR 505 Member · Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Awesome. Has anyone ever seen a Contra III proto where the player's characters had their colors changed to green? VG&CE did a review of the game back in the 90's that had this color difference. https://archive.org/details/vgce_92-03/page/n35/mode/2up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prototector 22 Member · Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 (edited) On 3/9/2023 at 11:53 PM, Armageddon Potato said: Wow, that is an awesome Contra collection! Has any of it been dumped, or backed up? I'd love to check out some of it! Thanks. I don't have most of the cartridge prototypes shown there (I actually used to have many of those, in the past), but I do have quite a few of the disc protos currently. For dumps, most of them are, yeah. And if I ever acquired any, dumping the data is a huge priority. Also, most of the dumped and released ones, I either did it myself or was at least involved in their release. I would have loved to acquire and preserve more, but that has proven to be as unpleasant of an experience as ever. You can see the dumped prototypes here: https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra_(Sample_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Probotector_2_(Sample_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Super_Probotector:_The_Alien_Rebels_(Sample_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra_III:_The_Alien_Wars_(Review_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra_IV:_The_Alien_Wars_(Regional_Intermediate_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra_Spirits_(Sample_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra:_Legacy_of_War_(Aug_23,_1996_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra:_Legacy_of_War_(Oct_3,_1996_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra:_Legacy_of_War_(January_28,_1997_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/C:_The_Contra_Adventure_(Apr_22,_1998_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/C:_The_Contra_Adventure_(Jun_12,_1998_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra:_Shattered_Soldier_(May_8,_2002_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra:_Shattered_Soldier_(Jul_1,_2002_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Neo_Contra_(Apr_23,_2004_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Neo_Contra_(Aug_11,_2004_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Neo_Contra_(Aug_17,_2004_prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Contra_4_(June_27,_2007_Prototype) https://hiddenpalace.org/Hard_Corps:_Uprising_(E3_2010_Preview_Prototype) On 3/10/2023 at 12:17 AM, CMR said: Awesome. Has anyone ever seen a Contra III proto where the player's characters had their colors changed to green? VG&CE did a review of the game back in the 90's that had this color difference. https://archive.org/details/vgce_92-03/page/n35/mode/2up I've seen those screenshots. AFAIK, no prototype with those differences ever surfaced to date. A copy of it might be in private hands, but it seems that's far as it'll go. Either that, or they were taken by Konami in Japan and just the screenshots were sent out to various print publications. Edited October 19 by prototector 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyree_Cooper 668 Member · Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 man i love superp robotector 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prototector 22 Member · Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 (edited) I love when a graded copy of that superp robotector was listed for sale, with that misspelling used repeatedly in the listing title and description. The included authenticity doc even mentions the label being a typo, and what the correct spelling of the title is. Shows how many times the seller read the document. Edited October 19 by prototector 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirVillain 443 Member · Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Holy shit. This is incredible. You should make it a bit more clear in the OP that these are all your pictures, though. I wasn't sure if you had just collected pictures of all the different ones over the years.... but a good humble brag of "Hey, check out my awesome collection!" never hurts. You're just TOO humble, right? Also, having one picture of the collection together would be crazy impressive. ....errrrr.... wait... I just re-read the thread a bit closer.... SOME of the prototypes are yours? Okay... well, in that case thanks for compiling all the pictures! In that case... Having a picture of all YOURS together would be impressive, haha. Really neat stuff, either way. Thanks for sharing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prototector 22 Member · Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 (edited) Yeah I thought of arranging them based on game title, in the order of releases for the most part. I could have put the ones I currently own into their own separate sequential list, but just decided to add the text that indicates when I have that particular item. I used to have quite a few more protos, and those are in the pictures above, too. Those are cartridge-based; now I have more of the discs. Also I kind of suspect the DS ones aren't "legitimate". The cartridges are authentic dev carts, and the data they contain is authentic, too. But the dev carts are flash, rewritable; meaning anyone with the tech can write data to them (ROMs, in this case). Those 2 DS prototypes photographed above didn't come from developers or other industry members in the form of those physical items. The prototype build of Contra 4 leaked via a scene release around the US retail release date. So it first appeared publicly as a downloadable ROM. Years later, that exact Contra 4 prototype build surfaced on ebay listings and collectors/sellers on forums, on those rewritable/flash carts. Edited July 24 by prototector 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirVillain 443 Member · Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 16 hours ago, prototector said: Yeah I thought of arranging them based on game title, in the order of releases for the most part. I could have put the ones I currently own into their own separate sequential list, but just decided to add the text that indicates when I have that particular item. I used to have quite a few more protos, and those are in the pictures above, too. Those are cartridge-based; now I have more of the discs. Also I kind of suspect the DS ones aren't "legitimate". The cartridges are authentic dev carts, and the data they contain is authentic, too. But the dev carts are flash, rewritable. Also, those 2 prototypes photographed above didn't come from developers or other industry members in the form of those physical items. The prototype build of Contra 4 leaked via a scene release around the US release date. So it first appeared publicly as a downloadable ROM. Years later, that exact Contra 4 prototype build surfaced on ebay listings and collectors/sellers on forums, on those rewritable blank carts. Gotcha. Still really cool. Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prototector 22 Member · Posted October 19 Author Share Posted October 19 Updated, as I recently got a copy of the Probotector sample for Mega Drive. Also added a section at the end of the OP for suspicious and fake Contra protos that surfaced over the years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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