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Wonderbutt
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| kap wrote: | | borkbork wrote: | | No way nes could do sim city, how would it handle all the city calcs, etc. |
Umm. I'd bet that it's sitting complete somewhere at HQ. I'd bet that just about everyone else in this thread thinks the same thing. |
I know the 8 bit computer Acorn BBC had a very ugly version, much uglier than these nice NES protoshots, but it worked. I tried it on BeebEm the emulator. I don't know how the NES memory storage capacity compares to a AcornBBC floppy, but it has to be in the hundreds of kbs at most. I have a screen of the game too.....
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=main/7/20623400733.gif&s=f10
Also, Bork...remember the KOEI games on the NES had to keep trac of a huge amount of data as well. |
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BMF54123
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| Being battery-backed, this cart would have had 8K of onboard RAM, maybe more, depending on which mapper it used. Probably more than enough, although I wouldn't be surprised if the game only allowed you to save one city at a time (the SNES version has 32K of SRAM and only allows two cities). |
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borkbork
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the play area smaller you think? I love sim city and didn't know about the bbc version. |
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Vlcice
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:08 am Post subject: |
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Sorry to bump this ages-old topic, but I thought it was better to bump than to make a new one on the subject. (I hope I'm not acting too much like PlayStation Museum!)
Does anyone have the issue of Nintendo Power with this article? I'd be interested in seeing a scan of the page with it, but the scan on the first page is dead (and seems to be from an old 1991 Nintendo Power anyway). |
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kap
Minister of Paranoia
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| Vlcice wrote: | | Sorry to bump this ages-old topic, but I thought it was better to bump than to make a new one on the subject. (I hope I'm not acting too much like PlayStation Museum!) |
You'd have to do it like a couple dozen more times and then only post shit that is completely worthless, jesus. Stop being paranoid, people! :P Besides, you've been around for a long time and your posts have always been good. (See, having long memories can be good!) |
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Harry Hardon
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| Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| Vlcice wrote: | Sorry to bump this ages-old topic, but I thought it was better to bump than to make a new one on the subject. (I hope I'm not acting too much like PlayStation Museum!)
Does anyone have the issue of Nintendo Power with this article? I'd be interested in seeing a scan of the page with it, but the scan on the first page is dead (and seems to be from an old 1991 Nintendo Power anyway). |
I have every scanned NP from this time, and I've found a short entry about Sim City on the November-December 1990 issue (NÂș 18, pg 89) - http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1867/094lu6.jpg
Coincidentally, it's the SAME page where the Eathbound was showed.
On Nestral mirror there's some pictures too - http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nrhtml/simcity.htm |
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Vlcice
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| Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the scan! I was actually referring to the 2005 magazine where they do the brief retrospective on the prototype found, though. |
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rbudrick
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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We need a past Nintendo employee to tell us where in the building they keep shit like this. We then need to arrange a raid to borrow everything and anonymously ship them back.
-Rob |
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ProgrammingAce
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| I have a simpler plan, how about everyone agrees not to buy Nintendo Power anymore. When they go out of business, we just buy out their vault on the black market! |
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samael64
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: |
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Here is the article from 2005:
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Vlcice
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:08 am Post subject: |
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Thank you very much, samael64!
ProgrammingAce, surely that would require gamers to be able to come to a consensus on something. |
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KingMike
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| ProgrammingAce wrote: | | I have a simpler plan, how about everyone agrees not to buy Nintendo Power anymore. When they go out of business, we just buy out their vault on the black market! |
Didn't Nintendo just sell off NP (or outsource or something)?
So, Nintendo wouldn't be going out of business.
(yes, I know the original comment was probably sarcasm) |
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cheerio
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| Vlcice wrote: | | Sorry to bump this ages-old topic... |
Sorry to bump this ancient topic but does this proto actually exist or not? Your database says "confirmed" yet I don't see anyone talk about this exciting news. Nobody gives a sh*t about NES protos anymore or summin'?  |
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I am Christina Aguilera
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
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Unless someone here knows more than my internet schmo layman with interest in old games that were never released self, it's confirmed to be either in the Nintendo Power offices, most likely under sacrosanct order from Nintendo never to be released into the wild, or in Nintendo of America, under sacrosanct order never to leave the building unless some other Redmond, WA resident decides to have a yard sale.
So I'd say that it would be a rare stroke of luck for there to be any real news about this one beyond the 2005 Nintendo Power article, or the Grooveraider YouTube account posting a Video Power segment of it in action at CES twenty years ago. Sorry! |
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