Originally posted by: nesworld
honestly, with the current lack of interest in compensating collectors for the devalue of their purchases, there's no chance of these ever seeing the light of day.
Twelve Tales exists, not too sure about Dinosaur Planet.
That's a pretty cynical way of looking at things. What are you using as an example? Let my try to figure this out..
In recent memory there was that Resident Evil for GBC that met its $2,000 goal. No lack of interest there, though things of course take time. Besides that, I can't really recall anything that's too big that you can use as comparison. You're Superman proto? I'm all for preservation as much as the next person, but considering that's considered one of the worst games ever, having a proto won't exactly have people clamoring for a release. Of course anything early is great and it's always appreciated seeing owners putting their stuff like that out there.
What else do we have, those Borman's releases which are somewhat early versions of Bas Fur Day, and Perfect Dark which is practically final. Mostly the same for the Conker's actually, on the outside anyway.
I don't want to outright bash any of these, but the way I see it, if you're talking about an unreleased game, you should only use fundraisers of other completely unreleased games as examples of how well received such a fundraiser would go. Most fundraisers are always for "earlier" versions of released games, sometimes more often than not just something with a few differences that don't matter all that much. It just doesn't compare to an unreleased game. Something completely unreleased would likely get more attention. And besides the RE GBC I can't really come up with anything recently that would be a good example of how such a fundraiser would go.
Anyway, I just saw this old video on Nintendo's old E3 98 report page.
http://web.archive.org/web/199805...
Too lazy to check if it's already been out there on Youtube or not, but at least it gives an excuse to bump this.
BTW, Dinosaur Planet's out there for sure, drx told me once he tracked it down for someone who wanted it, only for the person to disappear suddenly. Guess they didn't want it bad enough. Who knows what happened to that one. Though I would much prefer Conker, since at least DP is practically Starfox Adventure. Meanwhile Bad Fur day is nothing like Twelve Tales, so, well, that's a million times more interesting to me anyway.
I'm put down at least $1,000 for a fundraiser for Conker. I can imagine if it were $20,000, there must be some other nuts that would go somewhat far in contributing. Combine that with some here-and-there donations from other people, and I think it would possibly work out. Then again, that's really only a fair price for a physical purchase of the cart. Trying to sell a ROM at $20,000? Forget it. Something as high-profile as this, if I had the cart I'd just make a personal dump for myself and then sell the cart so hopefully someone else makes a dump.
