[Smeg]

For what it's worth, that title screen is unique.

[narc]

I have to say that he went through a waste of time just to string people along by using a picture especially since the auction was pulled.

Im still thinking fake myself but its possible that he could have something real.

That and I noticed someone on digital press was also trying to figure out what that was on the bottom right corner of the title screen. The pic is just too blurry.

[hiroshi]

The proportion of the title screen is way too much like a gameboy, not an NES game. He could've hacked Link's Awakening and played it with the dreamcast gb emulator. Or maybe he just used a digital camera's tv out to display his reworked image. I'm not sure what the numbers are for at the bottom right, but they look very similar to the font used on that particular emu. But, it could be his digital camera saying "image 4 of 5" or something.

The composition is much too close to LA's title screen. Replace the egg with triforce, flourish, and you're done. The large pixels for TM seem to be the biggest give-away for me. And "The Legend of" is the same exact font as LA's, same proportion, same everything. If you replace LA with "The Triforce Saga" using that font, I'm sure it would run off just the same. It's kind of hard to put one screenshot over the other in photoshop due to the distortion of the tube TV, but I'd say it's pretty damn close. A real NES wouldn't display it anything like that. Plus, there's no way they'd use so few colours for the title screen... you'd think they'd go for 16.

I didn't get to see the auction, but he supposedly said he didn't have a NES at the time he bought it... but you can clearly see on his msn account he has amassed a large collection of NES systems, games and other videogame paraphernalia.

I think this myth is busted.

[KatanaJon]

It looks like the title is "The Triforce Saga".

[KingMike]

Not to mention that one page says that because of that NP article, he believes the NES proto was 70% complete. Uh, the only mention of the NES in that preview is an unrelated note about Kirby.
The GB proto was probably 70% complete (that scan being from like spring '93, which was close to the GB game's release of August '93 in America (and very close to the Japanese release of June 6, 1993).

Not there's much believability in that page left, but I want to see some more of those Zelda Warrior shots.

[Ichiban Crush]

Question: Assuming the Rated O site's claim was legit, and that his proto won't work for him, is there still anyway possible to dump it or otherwise extract any sort of data from it?

Has anyone looked into that NoA email that was posted?

Deep down I know this is fake, I just really want it to be real -__- very much badly.

[Li Wang]

[kap]

I thought comment 55 at (this very retarded) joystiq entry was interesting.

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000357064460/#c542216

[Carnivol]

He gives a nice rundown on what's most likely done to the picture, but he got the tech specs wrong.


GB is 160x144, not 256x224.


+
As a comment from me about why that picture isn't real.

Take your average crappy and outdated digital camera and take a picture of your average and rather crappy 21" TV, without the Flash on.

[BMF54123]

I have to disagree with #55. Unless the guy's really good with Photoshop, there's no way that image was pasted onto the TV after the fact. First, the edges of the screen are slightly rounded, which a standard TV tube will obviously do. Easy enough to fake, if you know what you're doing, but you'd think if the guy was capable of that, he would've made a more convincing label for the cart. Second, there are two reflections of the screen in that image: a barely noticeable one on the plastic "frame" below the screen, and another on the floor in front of the NES. The colors of both are consistent with what's on the screen. Third, I've been using image editing software long enough to know that no standard blur effect will recreate the subtle differences in luminance and washed out/bleeding colors consistent with a real TV image. Look at the brightness in the middle of the screen compared to the edges, particularly in and around the Triforce. That's a real picture.

Oh, and the environment is "conveniently completely black" because that's how you're SUPPOSED to take screenshots with a camera. You turn off as many lights as possible and disable the flash, otherwise you're going to get nasty glare. People have been doing this forever.

Of course, none of this proves that the image is actually coming from that NES...for all we know, there could be a Super NES with Mario Paint or a computer with TV output just outside the frame. A few in-game screenshots or even a closer image of the title screen would be nice. Personally, I'm interested in that little bit of "text" in the bottom-right corner of the screen...

[Carnivol]

An old camera + a TV like that would in most cases create a greyed out picture and some horrible black boarder that'd be scrolling by the screen. (usualy end up covering the upper or the lower half, unless you take the picture over and over again and get lucky with the timing)

But seriously, that screen looks freakishly bright for having been taken, so I still wonder if it's really real... the screenshot could be of anything, there might've even been less work put into it than you think:

Snapshot of TV room
*snap*

Snapshot of computer screen with dumb picture on it
*snap*

Photoshop
cut'n paste
smooth edges



I'd say the video source, evt. a video or more pictures would be highly appreciated.

[narc]

Well he sold it to knight 7 aka himself :P

Anyways laying money on a table doesnt make the cart real but if it was legit I wouldnt complain.

[Li Wang]

[akadewboy]

Sold for $3,000 X_X

http://spaces.msn.com/members/vav00m/

Now it's time to wait and hope that they leak the ROM to the net.

[adaml]

I like those Zelda posters on his wall in the last few pics of his photo album.

[narc]

Well now he is selling t shirts and saying silicon knights bought it. This saga is well past its time limit.

[Li Wang]

[TheRedEye]

Hey, he linked to this thread in his little blog thing.

HI FRIEND!

[midget35]

Hi all. This is my first post- so first up: a big 'hello'!

ok, now you no doubt all think I'm gay. Never mind...



Didn't this guy say he had no NES system to test the ZeldaIII proto?

Looking through his photo album I came across this picture:
(You know, honestly, it isn't worth having a url to an image that's like four times the width of my fucking browser window. So I deleted it. -kap)


if this link doesn't it's under 'Texas Micki - Sept 3' in his photo column.

Now, I'm fairly surehe states this is his room- but even if not- he clearly has access to at least 3 NES!

The chap in this photo has just seen the high-quality cart label, no doubt.

[adaml]

What?