Community Dump! 3 Famicom Prototypes!

[famiac]

Hello to all!
famiac here with 3 ROMs of some legally acquired famicom prototype/sample games!
What this thread is: A fundraiser!
Basically how this works is that i set a goal for donations, and the community of famicom world sends me money until a set goal is reached. When the goal is reached, i will release the roms to the community so that you may do whatever you want with them. (repros or emulation i guess).

I have received moderator permission for this fundraiser.
The goal is: $175 (which isn't bad because i paid 300 for the games.)
The games at hand are: Pyokotan no Dai meiro; Saint Seiya (the second one i think); and Holy diver!

I will not spend any donation money until the goal is reached.
All games are dumped and running in emulators. (had to get mottzilla to modify his emulator because other emulators don't recognize the prototype holy diver rom)


Proof pic:


Thanks to all!

[jpx72]

Good luck with the fundraiser!
Don't forget to supply the cartridge and PCB scans to Bootgod's database!

[MWK]

Good idea, nice going famiac and of course good luck with your fundraiser

[famiac]

You know what would help? A donation! hahaha. Thanks guys. Ill try to scan the pcbs. But i dont want to damage any EPROMs. Plus they're just regular carts with sockets and wires.

[L___E___T]

If we donated ten bucks each, we could get these dumped in no time.  Famiac, do donators get anything special, like early access to the ROMs before they're distributed?

Have you already dumped them,?  I think 175 is a fair amount personally.  I'd love to get in on Holy Diver, are there any differences?  It would be great to hear about them here.

[famiac]

Yeah there is a no death cheat in holy diver, i havent figured it out yet though. Im not sure about the other games but i would assume there is. I thought about early access but someone could easily release the roms once they have early access so it's a bad idea. I have already dumped the games, i thought i made that clear in the first post. I also think 175 is a fair amount and yeah the purpose of the community dump is to get a swift release using community support. It's surprising how much as little as 10 dollars piles up.

Thinking of something special for donators... Perhaps a 4th rom of some sort? Something undumped but not as cool as a proto. Im taking ideas.

[jpx72]

Thinking of something special for donators... Perhaps a 4th rom of some sort? Something undumped but not as cool as a proto. Im taking ideas.

Maybe a badge of sorts, that kind they have on NintendoAge, below their avatar... give this thought to admins!

[fredJ]

Maybe you'd get donation from a place such as assemblergames.

[famiac]

Maybe... But i dont have a high post count there. I also have a glover 2 rom i want to community dump for.

[UglyJoe]

Maybe a badge of sorts, that kind they have on NintendoAge, below their avatar... give this thought to admins!

We considered adding a badge system in the past, but the idea just sorta went away.  My concern was forum clutter -- I hate when the user's information to the left of the post is regularly longer than their actual post.  JC's concern was that they're dumb

[MWK]

UglyJoe, it doesn't have to be badged system, my idea is to simply replace/add a "post rank" (converter, famiclone, famicom... and so on) or whatever that is, with a "donator" title just like "administrator/moderator" one, whatcha think ?

[UglyJoe]

I guess we could set donators' custom titles to "Cart Dump Donator" or something.

[triforcedx2]

Sounds like it would be a pretty good incentive for FCW forum dwellers. 

[famiac]

Blah no donations yet... I should try assembler... You disappoint me FW. *sniff*

[Jedi Master Baiter]

Don't look at me. All my money goes to tuition.