A few months ago, I purchased a prototype of Fireteam Rogue.  Although another prototype ROM image was found several years ago (and released on SNES Central), this prototype was further along in development.  To coincide with the release of the later prototype, I have completely revamped the Fireteam Rogue article, plus added a bunch of other goodies to it.

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During the past year and a bit, two USB controlled SNES copying devices have come out.  I have extensively used both devices, and I have put up reviews for the Retrode (which allows you to play SNES and Genesis games by mounting them as a mass storage device), and the Mash Mods SNES Retro Flash Programmer/Retro Flash Cart (which lets you copy games to your computer and copy games onto a cart to play on an actual system).

This thing has been kicking around on the Internet for a few years now, and was recently on Ebay.  I have found out the story about it, and made an article.

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Recently, prototypes of Tecmo Super NBA Basketball and Super Mario All-Stars were dumped, and I decided to write a articles about them.  Thanks to Mikey and i2a2n2 for dumping there prototypes!

One of the biggest barriers to researching classic video games is the lack of available bibliographies that document when a game, system or accessory was mentioned in a published article.  Unfortunately, video game magazines are scanned by projects like Google Books, which allow you to search like you would on the Internet (for instance, look at what I found from an issue of Popular Science).

I just finished completely documenting the January 1993 issue of EGM as a proof of concept.  Download the bibliography in ODS and XLSX formats.

Note that I decided to include sales and upcoming games lists in the bibliography, but I think it would be downright insane to try and include the store listings.  However, when it comes to those lists, I was not rigorous to ensure that the proper name matched up.  In the end, there was 876 entries.

Now, it would be impossible for me to document every single known video game magazine that was released during the SNES era (which happened to be the golden age for magazines, with literally dozens of publications).  Another thing is that this might be much better as an online database rather than a series of spreadsheet files.  This is a project that I think is very necessary if academic study into video games is to be taken seriously. As it is now, it is difficult to find information which may be tucked away in a paragraph written in a preview.  Such a project needs to be very thorough, and leave nothing off the list.  I would need to have collaborators on such a project, and if you are interested, post in this thread!

Well, I finally went there.  I am not documenting variants and re-releases of SNES games.  Of course, this is a complicated goal (certainly more than the Saturn and Playstation), due to the large amount of inserts in the games, as well as the fact that most people discarded them.  Because of this, the only way to really verify this is if the original owner kept everything together, or if you open up a sealed game.  This is certainly a project that is impossible to complete by myself, so if anyone wants to contribute, please post in this thread.  Here is what I have thus far:

Chavez II
Chrono Trigger
Killer Instinct
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
NCAA Football
Super Bomberman 2
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario World
Super Troll Islands
Zoop

Today, I updated the page I had on the unreleased Sunsoft game, Sylvester and Tweety.  Thanks to Lost Levels, I have released another demo ROM image of the game, dating to December 1993.  It is a simple one room demo where you control Sylvester.

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Realizing that I haven't done an article in a while (though I have actually added a bunch of stuff to the site lately), I decided I should start cracking.  Today, I have written a short article on the game Little Magic.  It is an Adventure of Lolo style puzzle game, released only in Japan.  A few years back, someone found an English prototype of the game and released the ROM image.

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Take a look at my SNES auctions!  I'm moving to Australia soon and want to pare down my collection.

http://shop.ebay.ca/evangowan/m.html?LH_PrefLoc=2&_fln=1&_ipg=&_trksid=p3911.c0.m283

For some reason, this one is not showing up on my page:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250645186305

Well, I finally created the crowning jewel of my website - a proper article on the unreleased game, Star Fox 2.  I spent nearly two months researching and playing this game to give you the full story of what happened to this highly anticipated game, and the source of the ROMs that have been floating around the Internet.  In doing so, I hope to dispels some of the incorrect assumptions that people have about Star Fox 2, and to expose this brilliant game.

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