https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com...

Thanks. I have a lot of other cool stuff to share but I'm finding this site impossible to navigate on mobile so I won't have much time to participate. It wouldn't even let me sign up using my phone! It said that the site wasn't allowing regstraions from publc proxies or something when I was actually using a home Internet connection. It's missing almost every letter I type in the pop-up reply dialog so it isn't working much better on the desktop. I tried to write this in Notepad but even copy/paste isn't working right!

A teaser:
Couterfeit Rockman 7 Super Famicom cart from a thrift store (yes, a locally discovered import AND it's a counterfeit!).
New in box Satellaview BSX
Two Dr V64 Jr 512 units
Two Dr V64 CD units
...and MUCH more.

Thats an awesome find!!

i know this is an old topic but Did you find that at the good will computer store off of freedom drive in charlotte nc?

Nah, I found it at a Goodwill in Wilmington.

I found my counterfeit SFC Rockman 7 at Goodwill in Newnan, GA. That's where I get a lot of my good stuff. I also found Wonder Project J2 at a flea market in Breman, GA. I'm still kicking myself for not buying the gray copy of SNES Killer Instinct I saw at Kobey's Swap Meet in San Diego (2007). I still remember seeing the awesome fluid animation on the beta video played at a Toys R Us kiosk (was definitely the SNES version though).

Ah ok, well thats some find there!  keep it in a save place ;P

Epic find to both of you!

If anyone is wondering it appears to be the same as the final version.

Seems strange a proto would have been bought at a blockbuster. Wonder if someone switched it out at some point thinking the rental copy was better than their proto.

I still plan to install a CopyNES to make sure that it's the same but $70 is a bit much for my curiosity. Of course, ours may even be different from each other. I never played the original game to compare. I compared the title screen and first level with a YouTube long play and couldn't find any difference.

There's nothing odd about it coming from Blockbuster. It is not a former rental but, rather, a trade-in. All the BBV labels and stickers were on the shrink wrap and not the game pak. Remember "GameRush?" BBV was doing this even before they tried setting that up. This was clearly a traded in as a normal copy of Xexyz. The only former rentals I got back then were the ones that were that had been owned since and traded in (some had foil seals from other rental chains).

If anyone is interested, here is the video of me opening it for the first time:

<---- new owner Thanks CZroe

Blockbuster had a used game program at some point, however I think it was just in some areas at the beginning. It didnt go nationwide untill the mid 2000's and it's something that most people didnt know existed. I found out about it over on CAG, and when I took items in to trade, they always accepted them even though there was no signage in the stores. They also had a weird way of doing trades because they were so focused on beating gamestops Trade in Value that many times they would take in games for more than they sold them for. I once traded in a game I bought on clearance at K-mart($1) for $20, then after completing the trade saw that they had another copy on the floor marked at $5 for sale.

Enjoy!

Doing a quick bump to this thread to mention that I found another one of these babies, this time in Newark, DE. Pics below:

Awesome find for $9.

That one makes 3 known to exist!

Very cool. I'm guessing they they put out a lot of review copies on prototype boards for this particular game. Obviously, the label art had already been designed even if they couldn't get the orientation right on any of these.  
 

I sent a PM to Mike_TV since his original pictures are being held at ransom by Photobucket. He uploaded some pictures to IMGUR:

https://imgur.com/a/ARYib