On the Space Pinball thread. TheForce81 was talking about how when he got the rom, he was told not to tell anyone about it. He said there was good reason the game was not available for download.

This got me thinking, and it seems to me that the only reason the game wasn’t available for download, was so people like Jojobean could just resell the game to people.

Also I’m pretty convinced that theres a rom of Dragon Hopper somewhere. On some thread about two months ago, someone was talking about a proto of Dragon Hopper being on ebay around 2005. So that proto being sold years ago, before the days when ebay became like 50% resellers, and people that collect games for profit. The game probably went to someone who wanted it, and might have gotten it dumped. Theres no known Dragon Hopper rom, but yet theres a rom of Faceball, and Space Pinball.

If you take that those are much rarer protos compared to DH in consideration, then why wouldn’t there be a rom of it out there. E3 and Nintendo Power previewed the game, and there are probably are few protos that Intelligent Systems had while working on the game. What I’m trying to say is, there way more protos of DH compared to the others, but yet no rom anywhere. It just doesn’t add up to me.

For any people who have roms of unreleased games reading this. Why not just release the rom. The only bad I see coming from it would be no more resellers ripping people off. So with no more people getting ripped off, and all of the happy people that would be able to play the rom, a lot of good would come from it.

I was just thinking as a group of VB fans instead of your average 14yr old wanting some unreleased game for virtual console, we might have a small chance of something.

L___E___T wrote:
Yes – there’s also a moral issue there, it would be a dirty game.

Lol. Unless the entire proto underground bought crap from Acclaim’s bankruptcy auction, the whole proto scene is dirty.
I say dirty is tossing great protos away in a drawer with no plans of release. No respect for the fans there, and the action of locking up a title and throwing away the key is more dirty in my mind than a “Robin Hood” black market release.

Option #1:
No release EVER

Option #2:
Black Market

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I know what you’re saying, but what if Nintendo were working on some plans to bring Virtual Boy to the 3DS VC? What if, as part of the marketing campaign they decided – hey, let’s turn this ugly son into a great thing and stick that Griffon Jumper game we finished on there – the press would love that and write stories on to celebrate and not spend so much time talking about how it failed. That could be good, right?

My point is, they’re not kept in drawers to be never released, but because they think they might be useful one day, somehow.

L___E___T wrote:
What if, as part of the marketing campaign they decided – hey, let’s turn this ugly son into a great thing and stick that Griffon Jumper game we finished on there – the press would love that and write stories on to celebrate and not spend so much time talking about how it failed.

Griffon Jumper? 😛

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

L___E___T wrote:
What if, as part of the marketing campaign they decided – hey, let’s turn this ugly son into a great thing and stick that Griffon Jumper game we finished on there – the press would love that and write stories on to celebrate and not spend so much time talking about how it failed.

Griffon Jumper? 😛

I think he was making refrence to the game based off of the movie Jumper. The game was called Jumper Griffin’s Story, and was made on Wii and a few other consoles when the movie was new.

VBrulez wrote:

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

L___E___T wrote:
What if, as part of the marketing campaign they decided – hey, let’s turn this ugly son into a great thing and stick that Griffon Jumper game we finished on there – the press would love that and write stories on to celebrate and not spend so much time talking about how it failed.

Griffon Jumper? 😛

I think he was making refrence to the game based off of the movie Jumper. The game was called Jumper Griffin’s Story, and was made on Wii and a few other consoles when the movie was new.

Oh, I thought he was joking about if employees from Nintendo (who have not thought much about the Virtual Boy lately) came up with a good idea to bring unreleased VB games to the 3DS, they would refer to one of the examples of an unreleased VB game they could put on there as “Griffon Jumper” when they really mean “Dragon Hopper”, but they call it that because they have a cloudy memory of the 16+ year old console that didn’t sell too well

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

VBrulez wrote:

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

L___E___T wrote:
What if, as part of the marketing campaign they decided – hey, let’s turn this ugly son into a great thing and stick that Griffon Jumper game we finished on there – the press would love that and write stories on to celebrate and not spend so much time talking about how it failed.

Griffon Jumper? 😛

I think he was making refrence to the game based off of the movie Jumper. The game was called Jumper Griffin’s Story, and was made on Wii and a few other consoles when the movie was new.

Oh, I thought he was joking about if employees from Nintendo (who have not thought much about the Virtual Boy lately) came up with a good idea to bring unreleased VB games to the 3DS, they would refer to one of the examples of an unreleased VB game they could put on there as “Griffon Jumper” when they really mean “Dragon Hopper”, but they call it that because they have a cloudy memory of the 16+ year old console that didn’t sell too well

They should bring all of the unreleased VB games to 3DS. They should make a compilation like Intellivision Lives but with VB games on it, for the system.