/vr/ - Retro Games

I am monitoring this development.

>>1737115
Uh, what's with that address?

>>1737343
I don't know why he put it like that, but it redirects to a nintendoplayer.com address.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4f5kdjyHmF-WmYzaEdud2pSNlU/edit?pli=1
I didn't draw this BTW

>>1737375
>it's real

Thank you.

>>1737343
link to an article I spaced it out like that in case 4chan considered it spam. my bad

>>1737401
t dot co doesn't mean anything, though.

>>1737375
OH SHIIII-

>>1737414
4chan thinks the post is spam if you put the whole url together for some reason.

Actual url after redirect:
http://www.nintendoplayer.com/news/unreleased-parody-world-monster-party-rom-sent-anonymously-in-response-to-grading-company-investigation/

So... Is this just the japanese version of monster party? I don't understand.

>>1737430
Significant version differences + this is the first time it's been available to the general public in the history of ever. The jap version never got an official release. The title screen differences alone should give you an idea.

>>1737430
It's the unreleased Japanese prototype of Monster Party which includes a bunch of content that was altered for the US release, things that were left as tiny hints in the code but never confirmed.

It's the final proof of a long-running little videogame mystery. The original japanese proto is full of even more blood and most of the bosses are blatant pop horror references

>>1737437
Ive never played the US release. Was not aware of the story. Thanks

>As I previously reported, the cancelled Japanese version of Monster Party was sold on Yahoo Japan Auctions in May 2011 for around $6,000.
>The owner took a hard stance against sharing anything more than a four-minute video on YouTube.
>In February of this year, a second cartridge appeared for sale on eBay and went for $3,513.19 (link). The buyers of the latter copy, Mark and Matt Nolan, came forward to say that they had plans to make reproductions sometime in the future.
>Although I would love nothing more than to distribute the binary for all to enjoy, I have not been able to confirm yet if the Nolans are behind this message or if there is something more going on here
>I have reached out to Mark Nolan, and if he explicitly grants me permission, I will post the back-up file immediately.

Jesus, why is this bullshit allowed or thought of as good? These people (not the Nolans, mind you, but everyone before) are just attention whoring themselves using footage from a lost game. It's both stupid and sad. What bothers me is that unless these Nolan guys go ahead and say "yes" the guy wo has the ROM won't make it available. As if they're some sort of holy Monster Party authority just by virtue of having a cart. Instead of feeling into this stupid mentality they should just make the ROM link public, the message where they got it from outright says FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

>>1737459
See: >>1737375

>>1737461
My bad, thanks!

Where did this come from then?

>>1737424
>in-response-to-grading-company-investigation/

This is beautiful.
http://www.nintendoplayer.com/feature/vga/

>Nolan had more success in the following month when he placed an Earthbound Super Nintendo pre-release cartridge on eBay for $15,000 (or best offer).

>Although Kotaku parroted the auction’s words in calling the Earthbound cartridge a “one-of-a-kind item”, leaving off the fact that Nolan also stated that there were a “few” others out there, further probing uncovered at least four identical examples residing in private game collections. Nolan, alone, had acquired two copies. According to their former owner, Nolan paid $1,400 apiece for the two Earthbound cartridges.

>A store owner by the name of Paul Clavet submitted an offer of $5,000, an amount largely unheard of for a Super Nintendo prototype, let alone one that almost surely contained the same code as the released game given the word “final” on its front label. Clavet believed his offer would not be enough to sway the seller.

>To his surprise, Nolan accepted. “I bought the game primarily to resell,” Clavet said afterwards.

>Clavet immediately removed the cartridge from its slab upon receiving the game.

Fuck the polices

captcha: rkseurop cart

http://www.nintendoplayer.com/news/you-are-cordially-invited-to-the-parody-world-monster-party/
They've uploaded it!

OK, what the fuck am I looking at here?

>>1738472
the ending to planet of the apes

>>1738483

Oh, right, now I see it too. Looks like this is really going to turn into a game of "spot the movie reference" now that American lawyers wouldn't have given a shit.

>This thread
This makes me so happy. Maybe there's hope in getting PC cocoron or Socks the Cat from their respective proto-hoarding fucks.

Some bosses seem relatively unchanged, like the minotaur, the well and the piece of fried food, although I can't read Japanese, so maybe the text is interesting?

I never really played the original, just saw a few video reviews of it, so I have to ask, were these pods shooting what I assume are facehuggers in the original?

Also, the vampires in stage 3 now have the characteristic Lugosi widow's peak.

Not sure what the hell this is either.

>>1738545
The Thing

Javelin guy's got a different face.

For some reason, there's only one moving face here, and it only moves left to right, making this boss a joke.

Instead of the Grim Reaper, we get this alien here that shoots facehuggers at you, and the third boss that takes away your key if you kill it doesn't exist here.

Level 8 starts you off all the way to the left, as opposed to the US version, where you start a bit further to the right and one of the boss rooms is actually to the left of you, which confused a lot of people.

Not sure if there are difficulty changes between the versions, but the bosses seemed pretty easy as long as you farm health and spam death lasers.

Ending graphics seem unchanged as well.

>>1738472
"Gotcha! I'll make you my slave!"

>>1738523
"I'll give you my Tsuchinoko. Hee hee!"
Tsuchinoko is a weird, mythical snake in Japanese culture. Look it up.

>>1738545
"Transform! Thiiiiiiiing X!"
It's a parody on Japanese tokusatsu shows.

>>1738579
It looks like a cross between a Gundam and Daimajin.

>>1738898
I thought tsuchinoko was a worm/leech. The way it's been described to me always sounded more leech-like than snake-like.

>JP proto of Monster Party is real
Whoa. This is big fucking news within the world of retro games. Thanx u OP, and doubly thanx u guy who uploaded it!

>>1738932
It has a fat, short body like a leech, but it's usually described as a snake. One of its alternate names is Bachihebi, where the "hebi" part literally means "snake."

>>1738942
Where in the fuck do they call it that?! Half my fam's a buncha Nips and I've never heard it called that.

>>1739231
Touhoku.

>>1739284
Figures those mountain hicks would do that.

>>1739378
>japs being discriminatory to other japs
What are you lot, a bunch of Mexicans?

Yes! More! MORE! I love Monster Party!

>>1739378
>>1739284
>>1739231
>Japanese people arguing on 4chan
Hahaha holy shit this is like a dream come true.