 | Prototypes L-Q |
| Legend of Zelda |
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This cart is the exact same as the released version of Legend of Zelda. These were given to Nintendo Service Centers in the later days of the NES because the original Test carts do not "test" the older systems properly; the yellow Zeldas test out the features on the top loading systems, mainly color variations on screen which it seems the other test carts are not able to do as well. |
| Legendary Wings |
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The reason why this proto is so special is because it is on a true Famicom prototype board with Wings of Ares in Japanese on the EPROMS. Wings of Ares is the unreleased Legendary Wings in Japan, therefore this is an unreleased Famicom game. Not known if this is different from the USA version. Title screen says "Legendary Wings." Owned by DreamTR, bought from nes4u on Ebay. |
| Little League Baseball |
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Three copies of this game exist. One owned by DreamTR, another bought off of Ebay by Dream TR, then another bought off of Ebay by Paul Hogger of Simply NES. DreamTR traded one of them to a guy in Vegas. One label says LITTLE LEAGUE on the back, other two says LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL. One was found overseas, weird how a proto would be found over there. |
| Little Mermaid |
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Possibly different due to all the crazy Capcom differences found so far in the other games, but not known yet. Bought from Ebay by NES God, sold to DreamTR, two copies exist. One from a guy who used to work at Gamefan and Gamers Republic Magazine. |
| The Lone Ranger |
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Bought by DreamTR from the Texas proto woman. Not known if this is different from the released version, label is standard Konami proto label. |
| Mag Max |
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Proto sold on Ebay, sold by the same dude who sold the Crash and Boys proto. Looks to be going for around $338 or so. There's a big label on this thing, covering most of the cart. |
| Magic of Scheherazade |
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One of Martin's carts, this game has a similar label to the one on the Crash N Boys Street Challenge proto. Cart contains a long EPROM board, unknown if there is any differences between the released version and the proto. |
| Magician |
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Sold to Chris Neal by DreamTR, then sold back to DreamTR. Not known if this is different from the released version. |
| Major League Baseball |
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Found in a huge shipment of junk by Mike Etler of Video Game Connections in New Jersey, then sold to DreamTR. Not known if this is different from the released version. |
| Mega Man 2 |
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This is a proto of Mega Man 2, found by NES collector Nuuska. According to Nuuska, the game reads Crashman like normal, so the MM2 Clash man thing must be from a different proto. Quote from Nuuska " All the differents I can find is.. there reads Nintendo of America when you hit the power on. so its USA version. Then musics in PAL and PROTO are played in different octave. I have played the proto near to the end. So I think its complete game and and think that the proto is from Funente Oy (Its Finnish company which shipped in NES when it was popular)". |
| Mega Man 3 |
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Purchased by Kap from Ebay, then sold to DreamTR. Character sprites are different in one of the bosses, Mega Man freezes for a moment! |
| Mega Man 4 |
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Purchased by DreamTR broken from Ebay. DreamTR then got it to work, then had to send it to kevtris for repair. Works now, though! Not known if this is different from the released version. |
| Miracle Piano Cart |
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NES God bought this and a prototype keyboard model for $700 on Ebay, sold by one of the designers of the game! Same as released version. Sure is cool though. |
| Motor City Patrol |
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Found in a huge shipment of junk by Mike Etler of Video Game Connections in New Jersey, then sold to DreamTR. Not known if this is different from the released version. |
| Mr. Gimmik |
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Bought by DreamTR who found another in a Sunsoft house cleaning before the company closed, then sold it to the other guy that owns Airball. Three of these exist. the one sold by DreamTR is the same as the PAL release, but plays on NTSC system. Special sunsoft "prototype" board. The other has different sound effect and slightly different intro sequence. The third copy is from a former Sunsoft Employee. |
| Ninja Gaiden II |
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Bought off of Ebay with a buy it now price of $250 by DreamTR. Sample 21 is on the title screen, not much else is known after that, though... |
| Ninja Gaiden III |
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Top proto was purchased by Jay Tilton at Funcoland, then sold to DreamTR. Bottom cart has the Japanese Famicom label on it. Not known if this is different from the released version. |
| Noah's Ark |
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So we finally have a game that could give Wisdom Tree a run for their money. Unreleased NTSC game that is way different than the overseas Konami release in 1992. This game is copyright 1990 by Source, who in turn was getting distribution from Matchbox, hence why the label is the same as the other Matchbox protos...very incomplete, no sound; you can walk on spikes in some of the levels! Bought by DreamTR on Ebay. |
| Phantom Fighter |
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Not known if this is different from the released version. Bought on Ebay by DreamTR. |
| Puzzle |
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This prototype is of the game Puzzle, by American Video Entertainment. I wonder how this game survived the fate of the otehr AVE stuff. Richard Frick said that most of the AVE stuff was shipped to dumpsters and landfills so how this survived is beyond me. |
| Puzznic |
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Not known if this is different from the released version. One owned by NES God, another by someone in California that DreamTR knows. |
| Pyramids of Ra |
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Similar port to the Game Boy game, found by Mike Etler, and sold to DreamTR. Unreleased game, looks to be complete. Matchbox was to release this game as well. |
| Quattro Arcade 2 |
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Next we have Quattro Arcade 2. It contains 2 Dizzy games and a few others. Now it appears that there is an uncovered eprom on that board (I'm no expert, maybe it isn't) but wouldn't exposing that to light (camera flash) erase the date? Not good. DreamTR has a Linus Spacehead and Bee52 proto with inners that look just like it (One EPROM). |
