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Family Computer => Famicom / Disk System => Topic started by: fcgamer on January 17, 2021, 10:19:04 am

Title: Something special or garbage?
Post by: fcgamer on January 17, 2021, 10:19:04 am
I've had this for about two or three years, generally I've put this on the garbage side of things, trying to half-heartedly sell it here and there. What is it, well a labeless version of Spelunker on Famicom, lol. Check out the pics please:

(https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6372132300_1610906732_thumb.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6372132300_1610906732.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7403810700_1610906748_thumb.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7403810700_1610906748.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3591205800_1610906767_thumb.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3591205800_1610906767.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8893324600_1610906786_thumb.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8893324600_1610906786.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7195384800_1610906798_thumb.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7195384800_1610906798.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3788667000_1610906809_thumb.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3788667000_1610906809.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/5385735300_1610906824_thumb.jpg) (https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/5385735300_1610906824.jpg)

The stickers on the back were added by me, and the black thing is covering a shop label, no need to give away my sources, sorry :P

Tonight I was about ready to chuck this into a set of stuff that I'm trying to move, and something dawned on me, Spelunker was only a led game, right? And this one has no led.

Later I decided to look it up on bootgod, totally different PCB/chips being shown for Spelunker.

http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/profile.php?id=2258

As can be seen from my pics though, it definitely seems to be a legit irem PCB ...

Thoughts on what exactly this is? Something special, or just garbage?

Let's discuss.
Title: Re: Something special or garbage?
Post by: gorgyrip on January 17, 2021, 11:17:58 am
It's legit:
http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/pcb.php?PcbID=548
You should dump it and see if there are any differences.

Edit: the one you linked uses rom for chr and prg, while your cart uses chr ram, so definitely there's a difference. Maybe a proto?
Title: Re: Something special or garbage?
Post by: ID415 on April 19, 2021, 08:53:44 am
No Famicom game will ever be garbage. Good luck with the pursuit.
Title: Re: Something special or garbage?
Post by: senseiman on April 19, 2021, 05:53:34 pm
Spelunker wasn't only an LED game, they released two versions of it, one with LED and one without.  The ones without LEDs are a lot rarer.  Basically late in the game's release they realized the kids weren't that into the LEDs and they made production of the cards expensive so they ditched them.

I did a post about them a few years ago on my blog, they did the same with Sqoon, 10 Yard Fight and Zippy Race:

https://famicomblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-new-sqoon-missing-those-lovely-irem.html