very nice!
If you can, find a copy shop or print house with a large scanner and let it scan in 600DPI.
That is a very good chance to preserve this box in such a condition.

According to John Carmack a VB Doom would have been difficult.
He said a Wolfenstein 3D would be a much better option.

Robert, you should be careful with this ebay user.
He has the very same flyers (same pictures) right now on yahoo auctions online just with a cheaper price.

what a scammer. This guy is selling the same items at the same time on ebay and yahoo.jp
Apparently the guy has several accounts on yahoo auctions.

That cable is on both platforms with the same pictures.
yahoo is cheaper with “just” €367.20

Same with Sace Invaders:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174902343693?hash=item28b8fdf80d:g:2yoAAOSwj5FhIKZ2
https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/x771312965

There are many more examples right now for example with the flyers and with the Bound High Carts
On ebay thge prices are always double as high as on yahoo auctions.

Okay, I do not want to ruin anyones dreams but here are the facts.
Yes, the game is rare. It always was. I was not able to score a shrink wrapped copy about 20 years ago.
So far so good. Here in your still on going auction since march 21 we see a copy in a perfectly shity condition and you ask 999 USD. So now I was clicking your link above and it brought me to a ebay page saying that the item cost 999 USD +
and here it comes… wait… okay here: + $264.07 Addl. Costs WTF???
A copy in a more or less similar condition sold for not that long ago in a real auction for not even 500 USD.
Guys get real! Yes, some VB items are rare but they do not shit gold.
Also nobody is looking for additional cost of $264.07. Back out of that international shipping program on ebay.

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The Virtual Boy/Girl logo color is to bright.

My hope is still with the leaks

Just 100? Wow so I had one of the 100 at one point XD

That is cool. This Issue was always quite expensive on ebay or yahoo. Now we all can have a look 🙂

That said, I really like the Top Gear games on the N64.
Bossgames did very well there 🙂

Nintendo has nothing to do with unreleased 3rd party games especially if that game was not even approved by Lotcheck.
In this case we are also talking about software almost 30 years old. NDAs from that time are probably expired anyway. They won’t last a lifetime. The plain game binary does not contain problematic stuff. The source code or the VB SDK could be a problem. Nintendo is probably not even aware that this game exists.
What happens to the game is entirely up to the developer.

Nobody can or should force a release of course thats fully up to Seth but it is tiring that Nintendo or ages old NDAs are always used as a excuse not to release stuff.

“Unfortunately, Nintendo will not allow the release of the prototype as it is copyright protected, something that Seth cannot break. ” That is horse shit and somebody really needs to tell him this.
The copyright is with Bossgames. Nintendo has nothing to do with that.

okay I have to correct my last post. I checked back with some people.
There are 5 IDs that were skipped in the documents. So that could hint to unreleased games.
Time will tell.

let me guess, this items go now for an arm and a leg… XD

[Goemon]

There is a document out there with lotcheck lists for the systems. This contains also Virtualboy.
This list mentioned 5 unreleased games. Since it is lotcheck this games in question should be final.
We have no names for those games but I think it should be easy to guess which games that could be.
The way I see it, if the leaks continue, we have pretty good chance to finally see more VB content this year.
I would say its a 50/50 chance now.

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That is maybe true but then again what we are talking about here is a generic plastic key chain. That is very standard marketing and merchandise material.
I would not be surprised if you still find the exact model or something similar like the key chain in merchandise stores like this https://www.budgetkeychains.com/Custom-Plastic-Keychains

In any case, the price in this auction is insane for such a items. If more people are interested in such a key chain, lets order a batch of key chains and let them print the VB logo on it = Win.

what kind of 3d printer you are using?
The prints look very nice

Well, the BA3A board is not a prototype cart. It is a development and testing cart and not uber rare. I had 2 of these myself when I was collecting VB stuff.
This kind of cart was used by Nintendo and 3rd party companies mainly for testing since development was done on a debugger. Also such carts were given to magazines for review purposes.
The Virtual Boy died quite fast so it is possible that a review copy was left with the press and found is way to collectors over the years.
It is also possible that a testing copy of the final version of the game was left on the board after development of the title was done. Pack-in-Video Co. Ltd. made only this one VB game. Some time after that, the VB development stuff was propably put in trash and maybe one testing copy found its way to collectors.
I would call it a Testing or Preview Copy/Sample if legit and rate it with maybe 800 USD max.
Preview copies and Samples are a common thing on the SNES/SFC/Sega and they cost far less than unreleased stuff or real beta version.

The Texas Instruments Eproms are a bit strange indeed.
The game and its developer are japanese. The game was never intended for a US release. The origin of this card must be japan. A other eprom brand would sound more plausible but it can still be legit. If we can not verify the maker date of the eproms it will be hard to find out.
The fact is, with a BA3A board in your hands, you can basicially put anything on it if you know how to program eproms. The backstory of this card is really missing here.
BA3A boards were on yahoo auctions from time to time.
Some came with games, some were empty. It is very hard to say.

In any case, I admire Schwancks efforts but he also took a great risk here. For that price there are way to less information available and also the seller was not even covering the windows of the eproms. How careless is that?!? A real valuable beta/proto could have been damaged. Even if just a few bits get erased, the harm is done. The not covered windows could indicated that the seller knew that nothing special was on it or he has just no idea how to handle such things.

The board is a official and genuine VB eprom board.
The Data on it… well it is hard to verify if it was flashed in 1995 or recently.
If the binary matches with the final version of the game you can not call that a prototype anymore. It would be more of a review version if legit.
With the final version of the game and no other content on it, the board is not worth 2000 USD. 🙁
The board alone maybe 350-500.
In my opionion, for that much money, the seller should have given much more proof of the content.

You should propably open a case in ebay.

That said, I dont think that even a real prototype (early version of the game) of Virtual Fishing would be worth 2000 USD.
That is way to much for such an “unimportant” title.
A prototype of Zero Racer or Dragon Hopper would be worth it or even some more.

You can put a repro of these titles in there 🙂