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[Casshern]

I am curios to obtain the ROM for this...

Check out Archive.org, there’s a couple upload I’ve seen on there.

 

[Swiss46]

One of the grosser details about Byuu was that his "spouse" wanted his hoard, but not his remains. Garbage human.

Well one was a memento of better times and happy memories never to be again and the other was the ashes of some retard.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

thanks to the guy that necro'd this so I could post this xeet.
Link to tweet

What am I supposed to be looking at/for?

I am curios to obtain the ROM for this...

Check out Archive.org, there’s a couple upload I’ve seen on there.

Notability of this appears to be that this was sold on eBay back in 2012 for $150,000.

Rom attached as proto_zelda.nes.zip

A user posted on the twitter thread that he converted the image to a ROM file, posted on twitter as a mediafire link, and the twitter OP confirmed it was a match for his copy of the proto ROM, screenshot attached.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/s7v8pl1up0abkmf/zelda_proto.nes/file

I only did basic searching on archive.org and org and I found a patch, an IPS file, to change a known ROM (Legend of Zelda, The (U) (PRG0) [!].nes - NOINTRO) into the proto ROM (Hashes for the known ROM provided on the archive.org page and archived below).

I confirmed that the .IPS file when applied to the known ROM matches the ROM file from the mediafire link, using https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

IPS and known ROM attached below for local archiving.

Individually zipped due to forum attachment file extension whitelist.

1. zelda_proto.nes
2. Legend of Zelda, The (U) (PRG0) [!] (patched).nes
3. CRC32: 3230667610
4. MD5: 621d37d89151b4ffd12287eb58ee44fa
5. SHA-1: e3de818785af690cbd027d4166803f1c20e5b2b0
6. SHA-256: 691d3bc42d5d84bd1937f57655c2784dac48864324d8eb3cadc11f1649bf9d78

Spoiler: "Legend of Zelda Prototype Cartridge Posted on eBay" article on nintendolife.com from 2012 content

1. nintendolife.com article
2. Archive.today
3. Archive.org Wayback Machine
4. Screenshot PNG attached

• News • Retro • Awesome • WTF

Legend of Zelda Prototype Cartridge Posted on eBay​

Yours for just $150,000

by Thomas WhiteheadTue 31st Jul 2012

When it comes to online purchases, you're unlikely to find any other website with quite the same variety as eBay. You can quite easily buy some custom made birthday cards for a few dollars, or a rare prototype The Legend of Zelda cartridge for just $150,000, which is the price of a small house or expensive sports car.
The seller, tjcurtin1, states in the eBay listing his belief that this may be the only copy of this item in the world, and has posted a number of images and a video to boost claims of legitimacy. In terms of the value and rarity of the cartridge, the listing says the following.

This is without a doubt the pinnacle of my collection and I challenge anyone to come up with anything more important in the video game collecting scene. Stadium Events? How many carts are out there? Hundreds. NWC Gold Cart? Again how many? There is one Prototype in the world for the NES Zelda, one prototype that started the launch of a generation of gamers and you are viewing it.

Various efforts to show authenticity are made, such as explaining the label as showing a date merely months before the title launched and demonstrating the TEST circuit board within. The cart itself is yellow as opposed to the retail gold, but the listing is also offering a boxed copy of the retail title as an extra. At the time of writing bids have been submitted, but obviously none at the target price, and it'll be interesting to see whether anyone is actually willing to pay the full amount. The seller has also produced a video, below, of the prototype cartridge in action and then disassembled, though collectors may want him to stop putting a cart allegedly worth $150,000 into a yellowing old NES.

Spoiler: "Legend of Zelda NES US Localization Prototype NOA COPY 2.23.87" page content from archive.org

1. https://archive.org/details/zelda-nes-us-localization-proto
2. https://archive.is/Ln0f7
3. Screenshot PNG attached

Legend of Zelda NES US Localization Prototype NOA COPY 2.23.87​

by Nintendo

Publication date 2024-04-25
Topics Legend, of, Zelda, Hyrule, Fantasy, NES, Famicom, Prototype, Beta, Localization, Localisation, Proto, Early, Build, Cart, Cartridge, NOA, Nintendo
Language English

A localisation prototype of Zelda 1 for the NES was released by Frank Cifaldi of Video Game History Foundation and Mr Talida on Apr 25, 2024.

It previously made the news in July 2012 when the yellow cartridge labelled "NOA COPY 2.23.87" containing this prototype sold on eBay for $150,000. The cartridge went through many hands over the years.

Before the eBay sale the previous owner showcased it in a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDOoChJZutw

Zelda was first released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan. This is a US localisation prototype, differences will mostly be related to the FDS to cartridge porting process. Nonetheless it's exciting to see this preserved and made available to the public.

To save people the effort of turning a picture into binary data I made an IPS patch for it. Apply the patch to

• Legend of Zelda, The (U) (PRG0) [!].nes - NOINTRO
• CRC32: D7AE93DF
• MD5: 337BD6F1A1163DF31BF2633665589AB0
• SHA-1: DAB79C84934F9AA5DB4E7DAD390E5D0C12443FA2
• SHA-256: 8F72DC2E98572EB4BA7C3A902BCA5F69C448FC4391837E5F8F0D4556280440AC

Addeddate 2024-04-27 19:49:12
Identifier zelda-nes-us-localization-proto
Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0
Year 2024

To make use of this and not have it crash and get something out of it you will have to search around the twitter post and other places discussing it.

 

[huesofmercury]

they really just can't help themselves with their lolsuits now can't they?

 

[The Last Stand]

Black Friday 2006, the shopping event where the Nintendo Wii launched in North America. What made the Wii so popular then? The motion controls? It being a Nintendo console (I don't think the GameCube had much fanfare compared to the PS2)? Or just being new tech to buy?

 

[Quijibo69]

Black Friday 2006, the shopping event where the Nintendo Wii launched in North America. What made the Wii so popular then? The motion controls? It being a Nintendo console (I don't think the GameCube had much fanfare compared to the PS2)? Or just being new tech to buy?

It had some good first party games as Nintendo but the Wii controller eats balls. Can't play a game for more than an hour at a time.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Black Friday 2006, the shopping event where the Nintendo Wii launched in North America. What made the Wii so popular then? The motion controls? It being a Nintendo console (I don't think the GameCube had much fanfare compared to the PS2)? Or just being new tech to buy?

Motion controls done adequately certainly was interesting to people, even me at first. Then there's it launching with a Zelda which seemed to be a "return to form" (more OoT-like, what people wanted at the time), that certainly helped. You could also consider the fact it launched ahead of PS3 and alongside 360 to be a benefit, less competition and an earlier start. It was probably the cheapest of the three too, I'm sure.