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Jan 10, 2025 • 01:38 Profile Photo L___E___T

If this is to be believed… I also had to check the date.

Vintex64 are now saying they are in the production pipeline for Dragon Hopper, it does sound promising.

Could this really be true?

I don’t remember seeing anything on the forum here about it, and I don’t want to get my hopes up unnecessarily, but I thought it was worth discussing.

I find it hard to believe a finished or even partially playable build would have been located and not in the hands of one of our collectors here.

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Jan 10, 2025 • 01:56 Profile Photo Kazin

Yeah… I’ll believe it when I see it. Some new, moving footage would be nice – though I’m sure that could be faked, too. Still, cautious optimism is the best way to approach these things. I come from Doctor Who fandom, and while missing episodes of that show have been discovered and returned over the years, more often than not it all amounts to a lot of nothing. Here’s hoping the folks over at Vintex aren’t making it up!

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Jan 10, 2025 • 07:59 Profile Photo abarth

No, I don´t believe it. And why should one need a new PCB design? Are those games bigger than every other game? Simply, no.

But I would be glad if I am wrong…

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Jan 15, 2025 • 13:03 Profile Photo abarth

I got also notice from Vintex via mail after asking. Yes, they plan to release both Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers this year, but the final say has the contact person they have.

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Jan 15, 2025 • 22:54 Profile Photo Kazin

abarth – so did they indicate why they need a new PCB design or anything, or did they dodge that question? haha I ask because you’ve been pretty vocal that you don’t believe them…

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Jan 16, 2025 • 08:15 Profile Photo abarth

Nope, didn´t ask this one. Perhaps those games are the first with 16Mbit and SRAM save function? I don´t know.

I believe them that they have this contact. But why should the contact release suddenly those two games this year? Why didn´t he do this the 30 years before? That is somehing I don´t understand and seems to me quite arbitrarily. That is why I doubt that something will happen this year.

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Jan 19, 2025 • 18:00 Profile Photo pinmagic

I wrote to them and did get a response that I’ll be added to the wait list. But Nintendo is pretty aggressive about their IP, so I’d be surprised if these games do get released. Still, hope springs eternal.

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Jan 25, 2025 • 07:31 Profile Photo Levine91

They’ve had this exact message up along with the page for the game for over 18 months now. Don’t get your hopes up. It’s likely complete BS.

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Jan 25, 2025 • 16:41 Profile Photo Kazin

Setting aside whether this group has it or not (or will get it) – we are sure Dragon Hopper exists, yes? As in, there is a working prototype out there somewhere that just hasn’t been dumped/preserved?

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Jan 25, 2025 • 17:05 Profile Photo abarth

PVB knows it all 🙂
Look at the game description:
“A prototype definitely exists, the game was shown on Space World 1995 and E3 1996 and was even previewed by Nintendo Power.”

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Jan 25, 2025 • 18:09 Profile Photo Kazin

Well, I knew it existed at one point, I mean has it been confirmed to still exist in the past few years? Has a collector proven they have it (maybe with screenshots or something) at some point beyond the 90s, even if they’ve refused to dump it?

 

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