Post by beliskner on Oct 23, 2014 13:01:19 GMT
As some of you probably I recently won an auction for a copy of Dinobasher. About 20 minutes ago it finally arrived. The seller was nice enough to send a copy of Space Harrier 3-D along with it because he couldn't get it to work properly. Looking at the pins I can see why. In any case I would at least have a free box for Space Harrier 3-D which isn't bad 
. Now to the prototype. After looking at it closely I am quite convinced it is real. The paper of the cover has that old smell to it. The cover is larger than it should be as it goes about 4-5 millimeters beyond the see-through part of the case (I don't know the actual term for that 
). Because of that it is quite worn on the edges. You can clearly tell it was cut by hand and not printed on a modern or industrial printer.
The label of the game was also clearly cut by hand and the guy who cut it probably only had five seconds to do the job. What you can't tell from the pictures is how it was glued down. Again it seems like it was done without that much care. It is only glued down on the edges and the middle of the cover kinda blobs up. The glue that was used seems to be quite strong though. The label holds on to the cartridge very nicely. However it looks like crap. The glue went through the label and messed it up at some parts.
I wanted to open the cartridge but there don't seem to be any screws and I have no idea how to get it open safely. Any help with that would be appreciated. At the moment I don't have a system to test the game but the seller said it works perfectly fine and the pins don't give me any concern.
Now for the pictures. If any more are wanted I can take some more
It looks better on the picture but the label is quite a mess
Close-Up of the cartridge.You can tell a bit better here how the middle of the label is lighter than the edges. The glue made the color on the edges darker.
Close-Up of the cover. It should be big enough to see the worn edges. What you can't really see here is that the overall quality of the print is not as good as normal Master System games.
Comments and help on how to open the cartridge would be appreciated
. Now to the prototype. After looking at it closely I am quite convinced it is real. The paper of the cover has that old smell to it. The cover is larger than it should be as it goes about 4-5 millimeters beyond the see-through part of the case (I don't know the actual term for that 
). Because of that it is quite worn on the edges. You can clearly tell it was cut by hand and not printed on a modern or industrial printer. The label of the game was also clearly cut by hand and the guy who cut it probably only had five seconds to do the job. What you can't tell from the pictures is how it was glued down. Again it seems like it was done without that much care. It is only glued down on the edges and the middle of the cover kinda blobs up. The glue that was used seems to be quite strong though. The label holds on to the cartridge very nicely. However it looks like crap. The glue went through the label and messed it up at some parts.
I wanted to open the cartridge but there don't seem to be any screws and I have no idea how to get it open safely. Any help with that would be appreciated. At the moment I don't have a system to test the game but the seller said it works perfectly fine and the pins don't give me any concern.
Now for the pictures. If any more are wanted I can take some more
It looks better on the picture but the label is quite a mess
Close-Up of the cartridge.You can tell a bit better here how the middle of the label is lighter than the edges. The glue made the color on the edges darker.
Close-Up of the cover. It should be big enough to see the worn edges. What you can't really see here is that the overall quality of the print is not as good as normal Master System games.
Comments and help on how to open the cartridge would be appreciated
