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Sonic crackers proto arrived! \o/

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    #62
    Atavan-Halen
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    The Great Chinholio wrote: »
    O_O
    For that money it better give a new face

    Apparantly it's the last step desparate women take before surgry.


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    #63
    o1s1n
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    So the owner of Nintendo player contacted me again. With a really interesting update to this. He has been in contact with someone who was friends with this 'Clint Dyer' chap. (the apparant source of the Sonic Crackers protos, along with the Neptune proto model and other things)

    Scroll to towards the end for an update for Sonic proto, Sega VR, Neptune and proto Nomad (venus?!) goodness :)

    http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/following-the-trail-of-cracker-crumbs-the-origins-of-sonic-crackers/


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    #64
    Myrddin
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    So the owner of Nintendo player contacted me again. With a really interesting update to this. He has been in contact with someone who was friends with this 'Clint Dyer' chap. (the apparant source of the Sonic Crackers protos, along with the Neptune proto model and other things)

    Scroll to towards the end for an update for Sonic proto, Sega VR, Neptune and proto Nomad (venus?!) goodness :)

    http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/following-the-trail-of-cracker-crumbs-the-origins-of-sonic-crackers/

    So some of these Crackers protos, have been made in Sega, using Sega chips & boards....but made without permission? Clint had a mate in Sega who had access to the binaries & access to proto/dev boards & chips and made him a few unofficial protos for him to sell off? Weird! But interesting
    wrote:
    Clint’s friend had access to the binary libraries and he burned unreleased and work-in-progress games onto leftover EPROM proto boards. Technically (and this may be a debatable point) they are not true prototypes in the sense that they weren’t used for development or testing purposes.


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    #65
    o1s1n
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    EnterNow wrote: »
    So some of these Crackers protos, have been made in Sega, using Sega chips & boards....but made without permission? Clint had a mate in Sega who had access to the binaries & access to proto/dev boards & chips and made him a few unofficial protos for him to sell off? Weird! But interesting

    That's what it looks to be alright! Talk about a dodgy use of company property. :D

    To think he offered the Neptune proto shell to someone for $400 and they didn't take it. Madness. I can only imagine how much that's worth now.


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    #66
    KeRbDoG
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    That's what it looks to be alright! Talk about a dodgy use of company property. :D

    To think he offered the Neptune proto shell to someone for $400 and they didn't take it. Madness. I can only imagine how much that's worth now.

    Try explaining spending $400 to the wife/better-half back in the day - a block of wood covered in plastic :)


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    #67
    Myrddin
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    KeRbDoG wrote: »
    Try explaining spending $400 to the wife/better-half back in the day - a block of wood covered in plastic :)

    Easy - "Here's that thing I spent my own money on" :)


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    #68
    Myrddin
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    That's what it looks to be alright! Talk about a dodgy use of company property. :D

    Its a pretty cool angle on the story really. Not alone is it cool enough to have a proto, but this was a proto that wasn't even meant to be made in the first place!


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    #69
    o1s1n
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    The fact that it's all first party hardware is just insane. I doubt you'll see another instance of that happening again.

    Shame the guy has cut all links. Can kind of understand it though, I'd say they were innocent enough times when it came to walking out with development software/hardware. Imagine trying to do something like that now :eek:


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    #70
    KeRbDoG
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    The fact that it's all first party hardware is just insane. I doubt you'll see another instance of that happening again.

    Shame the guy has cut all links. Can kind of understand it though, I'd say they were innocent enough times when it came to walking out with development software/hardware. Imagine trying to do something like that now :eek:

    Probably still happens but you won't hear about it for another 5~10 years after a company has gone semi-tits-up like Sega did. /me waits to see the stuff that comes out of Sony if they go that way :cool:
    ...but that prob won't happen in my life time


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