Anyone check out the new Retro Games Magazine?

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Originally Posted by James

If I was to collect, I'd have the stuff up and torrented within a few minutes. Fuck being the only one to ever play something, where's the fun in that?

James

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Yeah the article talks about the ethics and code of conduct
when releasing a Rom.

Oh and how Game Magazine Editors sell their review copies to
people with deep pockets.

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Originally Posted by Finch

This isn't about that. This is about stuff no one can ever get. Cartridge-based Gamecube, Atari/SNK joint console, SNES CD prototypes, CD's that only exist in bolted systems used for display at E3. That's why it's interesting.

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I want to read this article! The cartridge based GameCube sounds like a dev unit I've seen before... yes, this one! I don't really think it's anything rare, is it? http://www.alten8.com/retrosoft/images/npdp2.jpg

And the Atari/SNK console thing, has it ever been confirmed that Mirai actually was an effort with SNK? As far as I knew the so-called prototypes were just empty plastic shells.

Or... ARE THEY?

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Originally Posted by Korian

It's about the guys that travel the globe for the unreleased
ClayFighter PSX game.

Super rare stuff that is so top secret it's under lock and
key.

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Like that asshole who assembled the only 3 working Marble Madness 2 arcade machines by hunting down the various parts from a dozen different sources.

Those people are shitheads unless they release the ROMs to the public. The Marble Madness 2 asshole even dumped the ROMS and wrote a MAME driver so he could put screenshots on his website, but won't share them with anyone. It's his fault you will never play that game as much as it is Atari's.

On a side note, I once had a chance to buy a Jaguar VR helmet prototype for $15 and didn't because I had just spent all my money on Vectrex shit.

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Originally Posted by Finch

Or... ARE THEY?

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Those people are shitheads unless they release the ROMs to the public.

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IBTN.

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asshole even dumped the ROMS and wrote a MAME driver so he could put screenshots on his website, but won't share them with anyone.

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holy hell

What kind of person does that?

People actually have Diamond Encrusted GameBoys. There is
also a guy who has the ultimate goal in owning all the PSX
prototypes, yeah like Finch said even bolted in E3 demos.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

The Marble Madness 2 asshole even dumped the ROMS and wrote a MAME driver so he could put screenshots on his website, but won't share them with anyone. It's his fault you will never play that game as much as it is Atari's.

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I had no idea. I knew of the guy because of the Primal Rage II part of his page, but I never knew about this part of the story. That guy sucks.

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On a side note, I once had a chance to buy a Jaguar VR helmet prototype for $15 and didn't because I had just spent all my money on Vectrex shit.

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No!

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Like that asshole who assembled the only 3 working Marble Madness 2 arcade machines by hunting down the various parts from a dozen different sources.

Those people are shitheads unless they release the ROMs to the public. The Marble Madness 2 asshole even dumped the ROMS and wrote a MAME driver so he could put screenshots on his website, but won't share them with anyone. It's his fault you will never play that game as much as it is Atari's.

On a side note, I once had a chance to buy a Jaguar VR helmet prototype for $15 and didn't because I had just spent all my money on Vectrex shit.

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Well it's unfair, but having something nobody else has is
one of the thing that happens in high level collecting. Not
just is Game Collecting.

I played Marble Man at CalEx. Like most prototypes, it went unreleased for a reason. Really, you aren't missing out on anything.

I used to be involved with high level collecting (I ended up with a lot of Origin production materials and whatnot, as well as an M2 kiosk and an online banking Amiga CD32), but I came to my senses and divested myself of pretty much everything that I don't play that doesn't have sentimental value.