Rare PC Engine Development Board - Parasol Stars

[rcantor77]

I was bidding on this and lost out at the last minute... was it anyone on here that got it as I would be interested to see how different the game is, if at all.

http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f144339784

[NecroPhile]

Neato, but man that is pricey.  Hopefully whoever got it will post up differences someday, if there are any.

[elmer]

$1,000 ... wow! 

Who is really that curious about buggy pre-release versions? Or was the attraction the eprom-card used for testers?

I can't think of many things that I worked on that had significant bits removed at the last minute ... most decisions like that are (in my experience) usually made long before you're burning test carts.

[cjameslv]

Good to finally see an actual "Rare" item! So tired of seeing every fucking listing on ebay as "Rare" now days.

[esteban]

Damn. What if this is the version with the alternative soundtrack?

J/k

[Sarumaru]

I think it'd be interesting what sort of graphical and musical findings there would be once this was dumped. You know they prolly removed all sorts of sh!t when they cleaned up the code for retail release.

[ccovell]

I got a Parasol Stars EPROM board like that about 8 years ago on Yahoo Japan, for much less money of course.  Sadly, it was identical to the release version, IIRC.  I guess Taito was generous with giving out evaluation copies.

[Sarumaru]

I got a Parasol Stars EPROM board like that about 8 years ago on Yahoo Japan, for much less money of course.  Sadly, it was identical to the release version, IIRC.  I guess Taito was generous with giving out evaluation copies.

Ah well that's a shame. Makes this pointless other than TEH RAREZ! 

[rcantor77]

I got a Parasol Stars EPROM board like that about 8 years ago on Yahoo Japan, for much less money of course.  Sadly, it was identical to the release version, IIRC.  I guess Taito was generous with giving out evaluation copies.

Shame to hear that Chris as I have some pre-release Neo Geo MVS boards that are dated only a month or two before the production released date and are very different indeed.

[kisaku]

I think price went too high for this...

[rcantor77]

I think price went too high for this...

It wasn't you that got this one then..?

[thisIsLoneWolf]

Very cool.
Does anyone know the winner or whatever happened to this?