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KlarthAilerion Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 673 Location: New Orleans, LA
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject: July 2004 - Spotlight: EarthBound |
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Spotlight: EarthBound
Mr. Jonathan Wirth has delivered us a journey into the world of copy protection screens, graphical edits, and expanded endings. That is to say, into the world of EarthBound.
The legitimacy of the cartridge has been called into question since it was first mentioned online in 1998. The game had been known to be in development all the way back in 1991. Now, more than a decade later, Lost Levels will deliver some answers about this unique game. |
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The Green Meanie
Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 218 Location: The New Wave
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Great choice for a background lesson. |
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Jred
Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Seattle, Wa
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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I'll agree.. very nice article. |
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GeoX
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:24 am Post subject: asdf |
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Good article...the one thing that I find interesting is that--although it's been years since I played the game--I remember very distinctly a townsperson somewhere or other noting that the bad corporation was planning on building a strip club in the town. How'd that get past the censors? |
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Jonnymaru
Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 33
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:27 am Post subject: |
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Well done, and very interesting. |
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treeman
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 98
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:56 am Post subject: |
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Cool, always wanted to know the story behind this rom, I'm impressed |
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Richter Belmont
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 285 Location: Murfreesboro, TN
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Ditto, great article. I highly enjoyed it.
I always had a feeling that EB was a real proto. |
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Smeg Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 1600 Location: beneath enemy scrotum
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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July 31st, 2004: the date following which you will be mercilessly mocked and ridiculed for continuing to defend the opinion that the Earthbound prototype was a hoax. |
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Fredde
Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 91
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Wonderfull article, altough since I haven't played very far into the game, it was a little spoiling (especially telling the ending!).
I wonder if the "prototype" to the english manual (the diary-thingy) will ever surface? |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Oh boy, Slashdotted again. |
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Ballz Staff
Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 610 Location: st. petersburg, florida
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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Smeg wrote: | July 31st, 2004: the date following which you will be mercilessly mocked and ridiculed for continuing to defend the opinion that the Earthbound prototype was a hoax. |
Seriously. The article makes it sound like entire consortium of Nintendo collectors thought this was a fake. In reality, wasn't it just like, three people?
Three vocal people, perhaps, but nonetheless... |
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KlarthAilerion Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 673 Location: New Orleans, LA
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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During recent history (also known as something like the past three years), a certain self-proclaimed expert on NES prototypes proclaimed that there was no way the cartridge was real. If memory serves, he claimed to have "inside sources" that proved beyond a doubt that the cartridge was a fake.
Many of the people running NES websites that cover prototypes went along with this assumption. Which means that all their followers went along with that assumption. Which means that many of the people who are into "the scene" went along with that assumption.
I don't remember the exact split back in the day, but if I had to take a guess, I'd say that at least half of the people around these days, including said self-proclaimed expert, thought that it was a fake.
They would be wrong, sir. |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Hell, I always thought that the cartridge itself was a fake. I knew the data was real, though. |
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kap Minister of Paranoia
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 2103 Location: I hate you.
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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KlarthAilerion wrote: | During recent history (also known as something like the past three years), a certain self-proclaimed expert on NES prototypes proclaimed that there was no way the cartridge was real. If memory serves, he claimed to have "inside sources" that proved beyond a doubt that the cartridge was a fake. |
I remember this guy! :D |
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Li Wang SnHX WiIYrd
Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 798
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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KlarthAilerion wrote: | Many of the people running NES websites that cover prototypes went along with this assumption. Which means that all their followers went along with that assumption. Which means that many of the people who are into "the scene" went along with that assumption. |
Yeah, the whole thing got so far in the collecting world the seventh edition of the Digital Press guide called it "an obvious fake".
Speaking of which, I'm a bit dissapointed about the feedback we've received on the article so far. Doesn't anyone want to try and say that later Nintendo Power article is OMG COMPLETE 100% PROOF they weren't even thinking about bring the game out? Perhaps someone would like to accuse me of computer generating "photos" of the dev team hard at work? Or maybe......LOST LEVELS IS ACTUALLY JUST ANOTHER ELABORATE SCAM BY DEMI!!!!!!
Come on, people, use your imaginations. |
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Ballz Staff
Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 610 Location: st. petersburg, florida
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure DBoy will play along if you ask him nicely. |
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ClamIAm
Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 139 Location: the frozen northland
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject: Wow. |
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Also, the included "MEGA SCREENSHOT BACKGROUND INFORMATION" is really cool. I had wondered about this proto for a long time, also. (never played/compared the, er, roms tho) |
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Evan
Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 948
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:22 am Post subject: |
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Nice article. Nothing like actually talking to people who worked on the game to clear up things. |
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SlyphGlitch
Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 144
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:41 am Post subject: Wow |
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Err, I never knew the history of Earthbound was so complicated. Great article though.
Happy On- Year Birthday,
Lost Levels. |
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Ichiban Crush Vaporware Detective Extraordinaire
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 578 Location: 33.884906 | -84.053758
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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I can already hear the voices of, err, the hundred or so skeptics that have screamed for years this game was a fake, now painfully moaning for not looking into matters firsthand.
Grate read you guys. |
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