How big of a fan of the Resident Evil franchise are you? For those hardcore fans of the game, would you be interested in getting your hands on alleged Game Boy Color prototypes of the Resident Evil game? If you are, you might be interested to hear that one such seller is “auctioning” off prototype ROMs – one of which appears to contain most of Jill’s campaign and the other containing a supposed earlier build.
According to the seller, details of the first cartridge include:
“The build that is to be released is very nearly complete in gameplay terms but when you get to the door at the Guardhouse Underground Watertank you cannot open it (even though you have found and have the correct key in your inventory). You can bypass this point by changing some memory values and ‘jumping through’ some of the rooms but I think we will leave that for you to figure out; keep some excitement in it.
You have unlimited ammo and the Zombies are very slow so the game itself is quite easy. The Beretta and Shotgun work fine, you can find the Bazooka but can’t get it to fire!
The only enemies which work are the Zombies; Jawn is in the attic as usual but he just stands there and does nothing.
Plant 42 is present but again, it doesn’t work.
Most of/ all of the cut scenes are present and work but I am not 100% if any of the endings work.”
The second cartridge’s details are:
“I haven’t managed to give it the full play test as yet but noticable differences off the bat are –
There is no ‘Load Game’ function available. If you select ‘Load Game’ you are advanced straight to character selection (As though you selected ‘New Game’).
Jill is not available as a playable character! Her ID is present but if you select her the game automatically starts as Chris.
Chris’ inventory at the start of the game is different – there are still only 6 item spaces but you instantly have access to the combat knife, beretta and shotgun (all of which are selectable and working). The Map is also present and working.”
The seller is apparently asking for $2,000 before both ROMs are released online. We guess on some level it could be looked upon like the Kickstarter for video games, so if you’d like to donate and hopefully see the release of both ROMs, head on over to the Assembler Games forum for more information or to donate.
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