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List of unreleased NES games Dumped or confirmed prototypes

Sep 12, 2017 at 9:40:07 PM
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Originally posted by: CaptainPiracy

Saw there was an Ebay listing for an NTSC Proto of Trolls in Crazyland from someone in Germany. seems that it is completed, and undumped, even if its just a PAL-> NTSC conversion.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Troll...
Crazyland, not Trolls in Crazyland.  I released the NTSC version years ago.

Edit:  Sold my copy through Ebay's Global Shipping Program October of 2015 for $370.  I assume this is my old copy as it looks familiar.

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Edited: 09/12/2017 at 09:56 PM by MrMark0673

Sep 12, 2017 at 11:24:25 PM
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Originally posted by: MrMark0673

Originally posted by: CaptainPiracy

Saw there was an Ebay listing for an NTSC Proto of Trolls in Crazyland from someone in Germany. seems that it is completed, and undumped, even if its just a PAL-> NTSC conversion.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Troll...
Crazyland, not Trolls in Crazyland.  I released the NTSC version years ago.

Edit:  Sold my copy through Ebay's Global Shipping Program October of 2015 for $370.  I assume this is my old copy as it looks familiar.





So is the ebay listing inaccurate? I was referencing the Guntz list in the start of the thread.

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Sep 13, 2017 at 12:20:45 AM
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Secret agent John Smith?

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Sep 13, 2017 at 12:38:46 AM
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Originally posted by: CaptainPiracy
 
Originally posted by: MrMark0673
 
Originally posted by: CaptainPiracy

Saw there was an Ebay listing for an NTSC Proto of Trolls in Crazyland from someone in Germany. seems that it is completed, and undumped, even if its just a PAL-> NTSC conversion.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Troll...
Crazyland, not Trolls in Crazyland.  I released the NTSC version years ago.

Edit:  Sold my copy through Ebay's Global Shipping Program October of 2015 for $370.  I assume this is my old copy as it looks familiar.

So is the ebay listing inaccurate? I was referencing the Guntz list in the start of the thread.

Crazy Land was released in Japan on the Famicom, then later some sprites were changed and it was released as Trolls in Crazy Land in PAL regions.

This is a localization of the original Famicom game that was to be released in the US market.  It is Crazy Land in English.

I'm not sure of the time line of what was planned first, the US localization or the change to Trolls in Crazy Land PAL release, but this is certainly Crazy Land and not Trolls in Crazy Land.  The listing has it as Trolls in Crazy Land as the titles are closely tied together.  I don't think it's intentionally misleading, but yes, it's inaccurate.
 

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Sep 13, 2017 at 12:41:15 AM
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Originally posted by: hybrid

Secret agent John Smith?

I owned that previously as well, just can't remember if I ever released it.

The graphics were later heavily modified and it was released as James Bond Jr., so I'm unsure if some would consider it an unreleased game.  Subjective, but I personally considered it unreleased.  And yes, it was 100% complete.  I had two copies of it, one I still have but have never been able to get it to work.
 

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Sep 13, 2017 at 12:49:20 AM
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the programmer released the source code which ended up being compiled by Cah4e3
so the ROM is out there

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Sep 13, 2017 at 12:25:57 PM
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Originally posted by: TheRedEye
 
Originally posted by: Jeckidy

Thread necromancy, but as a person who is growing tired of incomplete prototypes, it seems all the completed games that are worth the investment and can be wholly enjoyed are already available to us, with the remaining ones being merely localizations of games that were indeed released elsewhere. I like being able to see how the game development evolved, being able to salvage assets only from the protos for hacks and such, etc., but for the most part, the best ones are already with us. Companies do more to protect a completed product from disappearing as opposed to incomplete samples, which is why they have all survived and ended up with us now. I used to want to see Twelve Tales and Sonic the Hedgehog 1's prototypes, but they will of course be more for observation and not really playable. Thus, I would say my most wanted game right now is Dragon Hopper, because from what we know, it was complete and ready to go. That is all. I know for a fact that Dragon Hopper's programmer was the same guy involved on both Super Metroid and the entire Paper Mario series, as I have seen it mentioned on his profile at his website (which may no longer be up). SimCity NES will be interesting for studying how well the NES handles it, but it likely will not be complete or that good due to the limitations.

I disagree. For the NES alone, here is a partial list of currently lost, completely original games that appear to have been pretty far along, if not completed, that (to my eyes) look interesting:

Black Tiger (technically an arcade port but looks to be a different game, or at least an interesting new experience)
Dream Team 3-on-3 Challenge
Legend of Hero Tonma (see Black Tiger)
Lord of the Rings
Pyross (see Black Tiger)
Shogun Maeda
Space Ace
Ultimate Journey
Wild Boys

Plus there's ports of computer games that looked pretty far along that I think would have been given new life on the NES: Switch Blade and Magic Candle come to mind immediately.



 
Magic Candle was released on Famicom.

 

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Dec 17, 2017 at 11:36:24 AM
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Famicom, not NES, but it looks like Kero Kero Keroppi was found a couple of weeks ago. Along with Erik the Viking, this is one of the others that I've been wanting to see turn up over the years: https://lostmediawiki.com/Kero_Ke...)

Edit: Hahaha, oops, didn't check my dates closely enough! Looks like it was found a few years ago?


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Jun 4, 2018 at 8:48:37 AM
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James Pond II Robocod was complete, reviewed by two UK games mags. (N-Force & Game Zone)

Would really love to see this one get dumped one day

Jun 4, 2018 at 9:15:12 AM
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I did not see World War 3 on the list? I know LJN has conceptual ideas about it, not sure if it ever made it into the production phase thou.

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Jun 4, 2018 at 6:55:52 PM
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Originally posted by: Penguin

I did not see World War 3 on the list? I know LJN has conceptual ideas about it, not sure if it ever made it into the production phase thou.

We don't have any reason to think that there was ever a playable game, companies often advertised titles before they even started making them (sometimes just to see if store buyers might buy them, if they made it). A list of every title ever mentioned is over 400 at this point.

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Feb 10 at 6:29:40 AM
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My collection of unreleased NES games (ignoring prototypes like "Earth Bound" etc., because those were actually released - just not in the US):

https://scontent.fham1-1.fna.fbcd...

I recently backed "Panic! Dizzy" on kickstarter and I´m working on getting "Robert Byrne´s Pool Challenge" and "Dino Hockey" (complete version) on cartridge. Anything I missed?

The 37 games on that photo are:
01) Mystery World Dizzy
02) Dreamworld Pogie
03) Wonderland Dizzy
04) Cheetahmen II
05) Free Fall
06) Escape from Atlantis
07) Happy Camper
08) Airball
09) Hard Drivin´
10) XYBots
11) Time Diver: Eon Man
12) Hit the Ice
13) Titan Warriors
14) Sim City
15) Blockout
16) Chuck Yeager´s Fighter Combat
17) Hero Quest
18) Global Gladiators
19) California Raisins
20) Scarabeus
21) Happily Ever After
22) War on Wheels
23) Drac´s Night Out
24) Exploding Fist
25) Buzz and Waldog
26) Sunman
27) Adventures of Dr. Franken
28) U-Force Power Games
29) Thomas the Tank Engine
30) Legend of Robin Hood
31) Chip´s Challenge
32) Bio Force Ape
33) Star Trek V
34) Secret Ties
35) Pescatore
36) Robocop vs. Terminator
37) Square Deal

Feb 10 at 6:35:38 AM
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There´s also the unreleased game "Heavy Weight Hockey", but the ROM hasn´t been dumped.




Feb 10 at 6:42:48 AM
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Japanese promotional video for "Legend of Hero Tonma" for the NES:




Feb 10 at 7:49:42 AM
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Originally posted by: JoePail

My collection of unreleased NES games (ignoring prototypes like "Earth Bound" etc., because those were actually released - just not in the US):

https://scontent.fham1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50514814_102...

I recently backed "Panic! Dizzy" on kickstarter and I´m working on getting "Robert Byrne´s Pool Challenge" and "Dino Hockey" (complete version) on cartridge. Anything I missed?

The 37 games on that photo are:
01) Mystery World Dizzy
02) Dreamworld Pogie
03) Wonderland Dizzy
04) Cheetahmen II
05) Free Fall
06) Escape from Atlantis
07) Happy Camper
08) Airball
09) Hard Drivin´
10) XYBots
11) Time Diver: Eon Man
12) Hit the Ice
13) Titan Warriors
14) Sim City
15) Blockout
16) Chuck Yeager´s Fighter Combat
17) Hero Quest
18) Global Gladiators
19) California Raisins
20) Scarabeus
21) Happily Ever After
22) War on Wheels
23) Drac´s Night Out
24) Exploding Fist
25) Buzz and Waldog
26) Sunman
27) Adventures of Dr. Franken
28) U-Force Power Games
29) Thomas the Tank Engine
30) Legend of Robin Hood
31) Chip´s Challenge
32) Bio Force Ape
33) Star Trek V
34) Secret Ties
35) Pescatore
36) Robocop vs. Terminator
37) Square Deal


If we're talking about the same game, Square Deal was released in Japan as Great Deal.

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Feb 10 at 8:16:21 AM
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@Niiue:

Thank you!
...I was hoping to add some games, instead my list just got shorter.  
It´s always a lot of work to find out if a game has once been released in Japan. I have the Famicom guide, but it´s all in Japanese, so basically it´s just comparing pictures of gameplay.


Edited: 02/10/2019 at 08:35 AM by JoePail

Feb 10 at 9:47:20 AM
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Originally posted by: JoePail

My collection of unreleased NES games (ignoring prototypes like "Earth Bound" etc., because those were actually released - just not in the US):

https://scontent.fham1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50514814_102...

I recently backed "Panic! Dizzy" on kickstarter and I´m working on getting "Robert Byrne´s Pool Challenge" and "Dino Hockey" (complete version) on cartridge. Anything I missed?

The 37 games on that photo are:
01) Mystery World Dizzy
02) Dreamworld Pogie
03) Wonderland Dizzy
04) Cheetahmen II
05) Free Fall
06) Escape from Atlantis
07) Happy Camper
08) Airball
09) Hard Drivin´
10) XYBots
11) Time Diver: Eon Man
12) Hit the Ice
13) Titan Warriors
14) Sim City
15) Blockout
16) Chuck Yeager´s Fighter Combat
17) Hero Quest
18) Global Gladiators
19) California Raisins
20) Scarabeus
21) Happily Ever After
22) War on Wheels
23) Drac´s Night Out
24) Exploding Fist
25) Buzz and Waldog
26) Sunman
27) Adventures of Dr. Franken
28) U-Force Power Games
29) Thomas the Tank Engine
30) Legend of Robin Hood
31) Chip´s Challenge
32) Bio Force Ape
33) Star Trek V
34) Secret Ties
35) Pescatore
36) Robocop vs. Terminator
37) Square Deal

You looking for only finished games?  Either way, you’re missing a few.
 

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http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/...
 

Feb 10 at 5:53:31 PM
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Originally posted by: MrMark0673
 
Originally posted by: JoePail

My collection of unreleased NES games (ignoring prototypes like "Earth Bound" etc., because those were actually released - just not in the US):

https://scontent.fham1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50514814_102...

I recently backed "Panic! Dizzy" on kickstarter and I´m working on getting "Robert Byrne´s Pool Challenge" and "Dino Hockey" (complete version) on cartridge. Anything I missed?

The 37 games on that photo are:
01) Mystery World Dizzy
02) Dreamworld Pogie
03) Wonderland Dizzy
04) Cheetahmen II
05) Free Fall
06) Escape from Atlantis
07) Happy Camper
08) Airball
09) Hard Drivin´
10) XYBots
11) Time Diver: Eon Man
12) Hit the Ice
13) Titan Warriors
14) Sim City
15) Blockout
16) Chuck Yeager´s Fighter Combat
17) Hero Quest
18) Global Gladiators
19) California Raisins
20) Scarabeus
21) Happily Ever After
22) War on Wheels
23) Drac´s Night Out
24) Exploding Fist
25) Buzz and Waldog
26) Sunman
27) Adventures of Dr. Franken
28) U-Force Power Games
29) Thomas the Tank Engine
30) Legend of Robin Hood
31) Chip´s Challenge
32) Bio Force Ape
33) Star Trek V
34) Secret Ties
35) Pescatore
36) Robocop vs. Terminator
37) Square Deal

You looking for only finished games?  Either way, you’re missing a few.
 


What am I missing besides "Arcadia VI", "Hoppin´ Mad" and "Kitty´s Catch"?

Feb 10 at 9:44:10 PM
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Originally posted by: JoePail
 
Originally posted by: MrMark0673
 
Originally posted by: JoePail

My collection of unreleased NES games (ignoring prototypes like "Earth Bound" etc., because those were actually released - just not in the US):

https://scontent.fham1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50514814_102...

I recently backed "Panic! Dizzy" on kickstarter and I´m working on getting "Robert Byrne´s Pool Challenge" and "Dino Hockey" (complete version) on cartridge. Anything I missed?

The 37 games on that photo are:
01) Mystery World Dizzy
02) Dreamworld Pogie
03) Wonderland Dizzy
04) Cheetahmen II
05) Free Fall
06) Escape from Atlantis
07) Happy Camper
08) Airball
09) Hard Drivin´
10) XYBots
11) Time Diver: Eon Man
12) Hit the Ice
13) Titan Warriors
14) Sim City
15) Blockout
16) Chuck Yeager´s Fighter Combat
17) Hero Quest
18) Global Gladiators
19) California Raisins
20) Scarabeus
21) Happily Ever After
22) War on Wheels
23) Drac´s Night Out
24) Exploding Fist
25) Buzz and Waldog
26) Sunman
27) Adventures of Dr. Franken
28) U-Force Power Games
29) Thomas the Tank Engine
30) Legend of Robin Hood
31) Chip´s Challenge
32) Bio Force Ape
33) Star Trek V
34) Secret Ties
35) Pescatore
36) Robocop vs. Terminator
37) Square Deal

You looking for only finished games?  Either way, you’re missing a few.
 


What am I missing besides "Arcadia VI", "Hoppin´ Mad" and "Kitty´s Catch"?

Several unlicensed games afaik: Huge Insect, Poke Block (though it was released on a multicart), Big Nose and the Witchdoctor, and the standalone version of Fish Fall (i.e. what Free Fall was recycled into for Sunday Funday).

EDIT: Also, Buzz & Waldog was released in South Korea as Koko Adventure.

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Edited: 02/10/2019 at 09:46 PM by Niiue

Feb 10 at 10:24:16 PM
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Originally posted by: JoePail
 
Originally posted by: MrMark0673
 
Originally posted by: JoePail

My collection of unreleased NES games (ignoring prototypes like "Earth Bound" etc., because those were actually released - just not in the US):

https://scontent.fham1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50514814_102...

I recently backed "Panic! Dizzy" on kickstarter and I´m working on getting "Robert Byrne´s Pool Challenge" and "Dino Hockey" (complete version) on cartridge. Anything I missed?

The 37 games on that photo are:
01) Mystery World Dizzy
02) Dreamworld Pogie
03) Wonderland Dizzy
04) Cheetahmen II
05) Free Fall
06) Escape from Atlantis
07) Happy Camper
08) Airball
09) Hard Drivin´
10) XYBots
11) Time Diver: Eon Man
12) Hit the Ice
13) Titan Warriors
14) Sim City
15) Blockout
16) Chuck Yeager´s Fighter Combat
17) Hero Quest
18) Global Gladiators
19) California Raisins
20) Scarabeus
21) Happily Ever After
22) War on Wheels
23) Drac´s Night Out
24) Exploding Fist
25) Buzz and Waldog
26) Sunman
27) Adventures of Dr. Franken
28) U-Force Power Games
29) Thomas the Tank Engine
30) Legend of Robin Hood
31) Chip´s Challenge
32) Bio Force Ape
33) Star Trek V
34) Secret Ties
35) Pescatore
36) Robocop vs. Terminator
37) Square Deal

You looking for only finished games?  Either way, you’re missing a few.
 


What am I missing besides "Arcadia VI", "Hoppin´ Mad" and "Kitty´s Catch"?

That's a good start.

Of the three, the only one I'd recommend is Kitty's Catch.  Fully complete and an excellent spin on Fishing Derby on the 2600.  Genuinely fun two player game worth having on a cart IMO.
 

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Feb 10 at 11:57:44 PM
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Originally posted by: Niiue
 
Originally posted by: JoePail
 
Originally posted by: MrMark0673
 
Originally posted by: JoePail

My collection of unreleased NES games (ignoring prototypes like "Earth Bound" etc., because those were actually released - just not in the US):

https://scontent.fham1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50514814_102...

I recently backed "Panic! Dizzy" on kickstarter and I´m working on getting "Robert Byrne´s Pool Challenge" and "Dino Hockey" (complete version) on cartridge. Anything I missed?

The 37 games on that photo are:
01) Mystery World Dizzy
02) Dreamworld Pogie
03) Wonderland Dizzy
04) Cheetahmen II
05) Free Fall
06) Escape from Atlantis
07) Happy Camper
08) Airball
09) Hard Drivin´
10) XYBots
11) Time Diver: Eon Man
12) Hit the Ice
13) Titan Warriors
14) Sim City
15) Blockout
16) Chuck Yeager´s Fighter Combat
17) Hero Quest
18) Global Gladiators
19) California Raisins
20) Scarabeus
21) Happily Ever After
22) War on Wheels
23) Drac´s Night Out
24) Exploding Fist
25) Buzz and Waldog
26) Sunman
27) Adventures of Dr. Franken
28) U-Force Power Games
29) Thomas the Tank Engine
30) Legend of Robin Hood
31) Chip´s Challenge
32) Bio Force Ape
33) Star Trek V
34) Secret Ties
35) Pescatore
36) Robocop vs. Terminator
37) Square Deal

You looking for only finished games?  Either way, you’re missing a few.
 


What am I missing besides "Arcadia VI", "Hoppin´ Mad" and "Kitty´s Catch"?

Several unlicensed games afaik: Huge Insect, Poke Block (though it was released on a multicart), Big Nose and the Witchdoctor, and the standalone version of Fish Fall (i.e. what Free Fall was recycled into for Sunday Funday).

EDIT: Also, Buzz & Waldog was released in South Korea as Koko Adventure.
Huge Insect was officially released.

Poke Block was released as well, though on Famicom in Asia.  But that game isn't unreleased either.

 

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Feb 11 at 12:25:57 PM
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My criteria for putting unreleased games on cartridge: It should be at least a bit playable.

- Hoppin´ Mad: Still need to do some research about it. That game might get on my list
- Arcadia VI: As far as I know it´s almost not playable
- Kitty´s Catch: In a way it´s more like a homebrew. A single guy programmed it for himself, but later tried to get a publisher for that game
- Huge Insect: A released Sachen game
- Poke Block: What´s that?
- Buzz and Waldog: It´s just a sprite swap of "Koko Adventure", the second playable character is different. There are about 5 or 6 games from South Korea, but "Buzz and Waldog" is the only one that was supposed to be released in the west.
- Big Nose and the Witch Doctor: Basically a demo of "Big Nose Freaks Out"
http://www.nesworld.com/bignose_e...

Unreleased games are not always just a black-and-white issue. Games like "Legend of Robin Hood" and "Free Fall" belong to the grey area in between, those are more like prototypes than unreleased games.

Feb 11 at 12:44:31 PM
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Originally posted by: JoePail

My criteria for putting unreleased games on cartridge: It should be at least a bit playable.

- Hoppin´ Mad: Still need to do some research about it. That game might get on my list
- Arcadia VI: As far as I know it´s almost not playable
- Kitty´s Catch: In a way it´s more like a homebrew. A single guy programmed it for himself, but later tried to get a publisher for that game
- Huge Insect: A released Sachen game
- Poke Block: What´s that?
- Buzz and Waldog: It´s just a sprite swap of "Koko Adventure", the second playable character is different. There are about 5 or 6 games from South Korea, but "Buzz and Waldog" is the only one that was supposed to be released in the west.
- Big Nose and the Witch Doctor: Basically a demo of "Big Nose Freaks Out"
http://www.nesworld.com/bignose_exposed.php

Unreleased games are not always just a black-and-white issue. Games like "Legend of Robin Hood" and "Free Fall" belong to the grey area in between, those are more like prototypes than unreleased games.


There are multiple builds of Robin Hood, varying degrees of completeness.  You have an Airball proto, but I think there are like 3 different "complete" builds of that game, so you may want to look into that more.  I mean, you have Bio Force Ape has a "final boss" that can't hurt you and the whole thing is like a single level that you can finish in 15 minutes.  Zero doubt by most that the game wasn't "finished".

Arcadia VI is very, very early and not worth having on a cart except for the novelty.
Kitty's Catch isn't a homebrew and would never have been viewed as such.  The word and idea of homebrew didn't exist when it was being developed.
Hoppin' Mad wasn't finished.  There were two known prototypes, discovered completely separately from each other, both by me.  The game had two finished levels, and a third level without enemies.  To my knowledge the ROM of the prototype is not currently available.

I guess the other thing you would be missing is unreleased games with ROMs that are preserved but not publicly available.  For example, I have a fully playable nearly bug free version of the unreleased Fun House, but it isn't "out there".

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Feb 11 at 12:48:33 PM
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Originally posted by: JoePail
- Kitty´s Catch: In a way it´s more like a homebrew. A single guy programmed it for himself, but later tried to get a publisher for that game
Couldn't the same be said about Karateka or Out of This World?

Feb 12 at 8:45:36 AM
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Originally posted by: JoePail

My criteria for putting unreleased games on cartridge: It should be at least a bit playable.

- Hoppin´ Mad: Still need to do some research about it. That game might get on my list
- Arcadia VI: As far as I know it´s almost not playable
- Kitty´s Catch: In a way it´s more like a homebrew. A single guy programmed it for himself, but later tried to get a publisher for that game
- Huge Insect: A released Sachen game
- Poke Block: What´s that?
- Buzz and Waldog: It´s just a sprite swap of "Koko Adventure", the second playable character is different. There are about 5 or 6 games from South Korea, but "Buzz and Waldog" is the only one that was supposed to be released in the west.
- Big Nose and the Witch Doctor: Basically a demo of "Big Nose Freaks Out"
http://www.nesworld.com/bignose_exposed.php

Unreleased games are not always just a black-and-white issue. Games like "Legend of Robin Hood" and "Free Fall" belong to the grey area in between, those are more like prototypes than unreleased games.





I have a theory about poke block, well forget it, I won't say for now.

But it's one incarnation of a game that would be released on Famicom, and later on nes maxi 15 game carts.

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