Humans for SNES

[lordofduct]

I also posted this at NX but I want your guys opinion too in case you don't go there much...

I was at my friends today and I found a couple of SNES game boards lieing in his closet. I picked them up and noticed they had UV flashable EPROMs on them.

One of them was Humans and I think it's a proto board. I can hardly find any info on the game, like if it was ever released here in America or when. The game has a date on it (8/18 ) and there is tape over the opens for the UV flasher and handwritten on the tape it says "Humans (F)"

Do you guys know if this is a prototype and also my friend wants to know if its worth anything.

ALSO

He has other boards with these same EPROMs in them in EPROM sockets, I am thinking I can use them as ROM carts by going out and buying large memory EEPROMs... do you think this is possible?

 

[cgfm2]

One of them was Humans and I think it's a proto board. I can hardly find any info on the game, like if it was ever released here in America or when. The game has a date on it (8/18 ) and there is tape over the opens for the UV flasher and handwritten on the tape it says "Humans (F)"

Do you guys know if this is a prototype and also my friend wants to know if its worth anything.

I'd say it's definitely a prototype, especially beause the date is included. EPROMs tend to be used for one-off or low volume products, certainly not in regular production runs of cartridge games. Cool find.

As for it's worth, assuming nobody has dumped that particular version of the game from another identical prototype (unlikely) it probably worth something over the retail cost, at least. Just put it on eBay with the word "prototype" used a lot in the description and a high reserve, I'm sure your friend will get plenty of money.

He has other boards with these same EPROMs in them in EPROM sockets, I am thinking I can use them as ROM carts by going out and buying large memory EEPROMs... do you think this is possible?

Yes, but I should point out that SNES games have a lot of different memory configurations so the number of games that could be used on that particular board may be limited. Unless there are jumpers on the board for configuration you may be limited to using EPROMs of the same size or smaller.

Any chance of listing the other proto games he has? Wondering if there any any "gems" in there. 🙂

 

[lordofduct]

no... no gems.

All GameTek games (someone used to clean up the building for Gametek and he yank them out of the garbage for his son and my friend). So you got crap like "Family Feud" or "Jeopardy".