Code Monkey

What am I even looking at here? Is this a thread full of weird photos? I've never been in here. I managed to traverse the mural procession here and it appears like this guy is arguing you can't really sit in a wing? Do you need me to comment how obvious that is? It'd be more fun to talk about why. Do you know how much those wings flex up and down? They literally pull the plane upwards, you'd have no choice but to wear a seat belt because you'd be flopping around inside there. And isn't that where they store fuel? So you'd have that to deal with as well, what a nightmare that would be, you'd be high, concussed and dead. Why would anyone think a comic about sitting on a plane wing is serious when it comes from an ex-NASA mathematician that quit to draw comics 3 times a week?

RetroUSB sends them in bubble envelopes so no.

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade is a completely different game from Taito and Ubisoft. Same name, same cover artwork, completely different games. I was also poking around behind the scenes on Nintendo's website where I probably wasn't supposed to be and I found a few official lists that I have not yet released anywhere but here is a screenshot of a portion of one for NES. So I do have an official list of NES licensed releases straight from Nintendo.

I heard prototypes and got here as quickly as I could.

Hopefully mine comes soon.

2023 now available.

I checked on Friday, nothing was on sale.

Booyakasha

I feel graded games still have the completely valid use case they have always had and that is ease of sales world wide. Think about the scenario where you buy a lot of 11 games and one of them is a sealed game you have no interest in. You need to sell that game on the internet and everyone asks you for 20-30 photos from all angles in different lighting, it is a complete pain in the ass. But what if there was some magical company that would validate the legitimacy of a seal and also grade it so that potential buyers around the world wouldn't be so concerned with finding damage in photos? Well, that's what grading companies offer, it's incredibly helpful. How other people use it is irrelevant.

Nice. I lived in Nova Scotia for 5 years.

I got 100% on Gran Turismo 3 and then started on Gran Turismo 4. I went pretty hardcore doing the 24 hour races (24 hours real time) and was on my last one while we started moving out of one house and into another. For 8 days the only thing left in the old house was the projector, PlayStation 2 and a single chair. I sat there for hours day after day just going round and round until the very last day we had possession of the house and completed the race. I literally picked up the 3 items and walked out of the house.

This is interesting, beyond the cartridge, board and game play, how would you even know? Is there a date on any screen? Date on the chip? Did you put that sticker on the chip?

Thanks, that's the plan for the next few videos if I can figure this out. I only know from Hidden Palace and The Cutting Room Floor, two websites focused on finding things in ROM. My Mega Man 3 prototype is well known and documented but my Mega Man 2 is unreleased and has never been documented by anyone before. While the ROM has been dumped, it has not been released and I would like to keep it that way which means I need to do it myself.

I think it's time I finally document differences from retail across all of my prototypes however I have no idea how to do that outside of playing them each one by one. I have a Gaunlet prototype with a different music track on level 1 so that's an easy one to find but I also have a Mega Man 3 prototype where one specific enemy in one specific stage is slightly shifted to one side by about a pixel. Even if there were differences in the binary code, how would anyone map that to a single enemy being shifted by a single pixel?

Sorry to hear that. There are many municipal and provincial (state?) programs that give you free grief therapy for things like this. I hope you find any resources you may need.

Wata's promotional claim is for the star code on the box, not the manual. They're also wrong, the star code box refers to the extra country added to the warranty on the side.

Wow, super cool. I have 7 different variants of this game and I'm still missing this one. So it seems like this used left over chips, box and cartridge label but used a new cartridge shell. Likely an early 1988 release from the last stack of media. So that would mean there were 2 print runs (at least) of the white bullets. Then third print is orange bullets, no REV-A and fourth print is REV-A.

You forgot one level deeper........print runs. Each variant may have been reprinted multiple times with differing date codes on the tabs. So one variant may have multiple print runs. That's how I'm separating mine in the mobile application.

'm very offended.

Only if it puts you into a lower tax bracket. Otherwise you're losing thousands of dollars to make back 30% of that loss in tax. If it drops you to a bracket with 6% lower tax, that 6% applies to everything and could be a huge savings.

I have a very convincing personality. Tengen Police Academy and a shitload of other NES games advertised in the backs of manuals. I wouldn't trust someone else having a copy of the dump and it not getting out. What about a rogue employee? What if I bought The Video Game History Foundation and effectively owned all of the dumps? According to Frank they apparently have Police Academy but it hasn't been proven. I haven't messaged him. I posted here and in the high end group on Facebook, he knows I want it. If he'll sell, he'll come find me. I would be quite aggressive with this one, it's very cool.

Can I buy it?

I have 3 Super NES and 2 Analogue Super NT, the medium isn't the problem. It's just the time to set up the old console and get into it, I'd rather just have it on a modern and portable console for convenience.

Chrono Trigger I started it on an emulator around 2005 and then started again on the PSP (also emulator) around 2010. Both times got about halfway through and never finished. Then I bought a complete copy on eBay for $109 (remember those days?) with the intentions of getting to it eventually but then sold it recently for $800 before I even played it. I'm hoping it comes out on Switch so I can actually play it all the way through.