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Need help. Possible Camerica prototype.

Feb 8, 2010 at 7:07:46 PM
bushyman (147)
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(Brad W) < Meka Chicken >
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Please follow this link to my thread over at RFG.  If anyone has any info on this, I would greatly appreciate it!

http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum...

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Feb 8, 2010 at 8:15:00 PM
DreamTR (163)
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Not a proto. I have a lot of Camerica protos and they all have an EPROM and normal repro label.

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Feb 8, 2010 at 8:18:49 PM
bushyman (147)
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Do you know what it is?

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Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20:09 PM
BeaglePuss (41)
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Originally posted by: bushyman69

Do you know what it is?

It looks like a ghetto jumper-job.  I don't think it's atypical for third party companies to have such things.


Feb 8, 2010 at 8:24:13 PM
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Kind of strange that the silver one doesnt have a dip switch

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Feb 8, 2010 at 8:54:01 PM
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The reason one has the dipswitch and the other doesnt is because many unlicensed games have multiple revisions to deal with the lockout chips. That's my take anyhow. I know unlicensed folks had to keep upgrading how they were able to operate, and that's how we got all kind of neat things like dongles. I love that word, dongle.

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Feb 8, 2010 at 9:17:40 PM
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Definitely not a proto but a cool variant.

I'd suspected for a long time that there are certain Camerica games that might have both a silver and a gold variant, but never cared enough to check obsessively on it.

The dip switch was based on date of maanufacture, yes, and no, there's nothing prototypical about either board whatsoever.

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Feb 16, 2010 at 12:52:58 AM
Armageddon Potato (267)
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I'm almost positive I have this exact version of micro machines for the nes. I know I have 3 different ones. I'll see if I can pull it out and check. I know one of them doesn't have the switch in the back too. It's probably that one I'm thinking of.
 
Edit: Yup, I have the same one. It's just a variant.


Edited: 02/25/2010 at 10:27 AM by Armageddon Potato

Feb 16, 2010 at 3:54:28 AM
Speedy_NES (158)
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Originally posted by: dangevin

I'd suspected for a long time that there are certain Camerica games that might have both a silver and a gold variant, but never cared enough to check obsessively on it.

Haha me too...I love delving into variants, but never looked much into Camerica variants since it's hard to tell from most pics what color the carts are.  The triangle vs no triangle variant on the label was mentioned in NGDs NES guide, but it's nice to see pics of both side to side with the added differences.  It might be interesting to start a Camerica thread for documenting all cart variants with pictures.