Look at what Metal Jesus has gotten ahold of!

[Da_Shocker]

[Thief]

What the contents of that disk is has my curiosity peaked. Hope he gets the help he needs.

[gamevet]

I was about to post that.

It would be cool if he found the dev cart for the unit, so he could check out the contents of the blue disk.

[Robotwo]

I like how his first reaction to finding a one-of-a-kind US prototype of the system is to slap a japanese game in there and then wonder why it doesn't work

Really neat though, sure hope the content of the disk is intact and revealed.

[Mad Moham]

This is a very cool find. I hope there's something good on the disk, but he doesn't even mention the possibility that its just a blank disk. Even if the disk is blank, his unit is a cool enough find just for the possibility of recovering the firmware.

[LordGeo]

This is a very cool find. I hope there's something good on the disk, but he doesn't even mention the possibility that its just a blank disk. Even if the disk is blank, his unit is a cool enough find just for the possibility of recovering the firmware.

I doubt it's blank, especially if the ex-Nintendo guy he talked to didn't feel it was. If anything, it's probably a series of demos that Nintendo used at the time to promote the add-on, before it wound up being delayed until 1999, like what Metal Jesus was told.

[NeoZeedeater]

It's cool to see that thing boot up in English.

I was always surprised Nintendo even made it for Japan back then. Famicom disks never did as well as cartridges and had worse piracy. And you would think the semi-recent 32X would have been a cautionary tale for unnecessary add-ons.

[needler420]

I'd like to find out how he obtained it. Found in wild or probably donated.

[xelement5x]

I'd like to find out how he obtained it. Found in wild or probably donated.

I would guess whoever the ex-NOA employee was knew of MJ since he's based in the same area that the Nintendo HQ is located in. Probably a couple connections and some notoriety helped him get preference to buy the item before it was just out in the wild on ebay or the like.