Sonic crackers proto arrived! \o/

Atavan-Halen

:eek::eek:

Definitely contact him. It has to be him! Considering all the Sega stuff he has for sale from that era. Who knows, you might actually find the origin of your cart!

o1s1n

I've contacted Mike over on Nintendoplayer and let him know. Reading through his conversations with the likes of Richard Divizio (Baraka from Mortal Kombat!) he's a lot more experienced with extracting information from people like this.

I on the other hand would probably be more like -

'OMFG! ARE YOU THE ORIGIN OF SONIC CRACKERS?!!?!!!!!!!!111ELEVENTYONE111!!!!! I love you!!!'

(or something else equally as moronic)

/Edit - just snipped my above post in case someone else decides to contact him with something as stupid as my comment.

Will let you guys know if anything comes of it.

Sparks43

You do know that it has been dumped as a rom?



Cant post the link as id get a ban

o1s1n

Sparks43 wrote: »

You do know that it has been dumped as a rom?



Cant post the link as id get a ban

Ah yeah, it was dumped over ten years ago! It's just finding the actual source of them in Sega that's interesting as nobody has up until this point.

Sparks43

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah yeah, it was dumped over ten years ago! It's just finding the actual source of them in Sega that's interesting as nobody has up until this point.

Best of luck with the hunt m8

Did the cart cost much?

o1s1n

Bought it a good while ago now, but I think it fell in around the €200 mark.

Silly money to be spending on a game, but relative to other carts like this, not too bad.

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Bought it a good while ago now, but I think it fell in around the €200 mark.

Silly money to be spending on a game, but relative to other carts like this, not too bad.

That's not bad at all for a famous enough proto cart tbh.

o1s1n

atavan-halen wrote: »

That's not bad at all for a famous enough proto cart tbh.

Tell that to my girlfriend! :pac:

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Tell that to my girlfriend! :pac:

In all fairness that would have bought you nearly half a small tub of face cream we have where I work. Should have bought her €500 face cream :P

Professey Chin

atavan-halen wrote: »

In all fairness that would have bought you nearly half a small tub of face cream we have where I work. Should have bought her €500 face cream :P

O_O
For that money it better give a new face

Atavan-Halen

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

O_O
For that money it better give a new face

Apparantly it's the last step desparate women take before surgry.

o1s1n

So the owner of Nintendo player contacted me again. With a really interesting update to this. He has been in contact with someone who was friends with this 'Clint Dyer' chap. (the apparant source of the Sonic Crackers protos, along with the Neptune proto model and other things)

Scroll to towards the end for an update for Sonic proto, Sega VR, Neptune and proto Nomad (venus?!) goodness

http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/following-the-trail-of-cracker-crumbs-the-origins-of-sonic-crackers/

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

So the owner of Nintendo player contacted me again. With a really interesting update to this. He has been in contact with someone who was friends with this 'Clint Dyer' chap. (the apparant source of the Sonic Crackers protos, along with the Neptune proto model and other things)

Scroll to towards the end for an update for Sonic proto, Sega VR, Neptune and proto Nomad (venus?!) goodness

http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/following-the-trail-of-cracker-crumbs-the-origins-of-sonic-crackers/

So some of these Crackers protos, have been made in Sega, using Sega chips & boards....but made without permission? Clint had a mate in Sega who had access to the binaries & access to proto/dev boards & chips and made him a few unofficial protos for him to sell off? Weird! But interesting

wrote:

Clint’s friend had access to the binary libraries and he burned unreleased and work-in-progress games onto leftover EPROM proto boards. Technically (and this may be a debatable point) they are not true prototypes in the sense that they weren’t used for development or testing purposes.

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

So some of these Crackers protos, have been made in Sega, using Sega chips & boards....but made without permission? Clint had a mate in Sega who had access to the binaries & access to proto/dev boards & chips and made him a few unofficial protos for him to sell off? Weird! But interesting

That's what it looks to be alright! Talk about a dodgy use of company property.

To think he offered the Neptune proto shell to someone for $400 and they didn't take it. Madness. I can only imagine how much that's worth now.

KeRbDoG

o1s1n wrote: »

That's what it looks to be alright! Talk about a dodgy use of company property.

To think he offered the Neptune proto shell to someone for $400 and they didn't take it. Madness. I can only imagine how much that's worth now.

Try explaining spending $400 to the wife/better-half back in the day - a block of wood covered in plastic

Myrddin

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Try explaining spending $400 to the wife/better-half back in the day - a block of wood covered in plastic

Easy - "Here's that thing I spent my own money on"

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

That's what it looks to be alright! Talk about a dodgy use of company property.

Its a pretty cool angle on the story really. Not alone is it cool enough to have a proto, but this was a proto that wasn't even meant to be made in the first place!

o1s1n

The fact that it's all first party hardware is just insane. I doubt you'll see another instance of that happening again.

Shame the guy has cut all links. Can kind of understand it though, I'd say they were innocent enough times when it came to walking out with development software/hardware. Imagine trying to do something like that now :eek:

KeRbDoG

o1s1n wrote: »

The fact that it's all first party hardware is just insane. I doubt you'll see another instance of that happening again.

Shame the guy has cut all links. Can kind of understand it though, I'd say they were innocent enough times when it came to walking out with development software/hardware. Imagine trying to do something like that now :eek:

Probably still happens but you won't hear about it for another 5~10 years after a company has gone semi-tits-up like Sega did. /me waits to see the stuff that comes out of Sony if they go that way :cool:

...but that prob won't happen in my life time