Earthbound 64 - still accessible?

About a year ago, somebody who was a poster on Starmen.net was able to obtain four magnetic discs with the characters "M3" written on them. The discs were colored blue, which is the standard disc color for prototype Nintendo 64 Dynamic Drive discs:

Unfortanately, even though the fellow who obtained the discs had an N64DD, accessing the data from the discs was near impossible. Such data was in incremental values, and would not run unless the partner floppy containing an IPL4 rom program was present. No such floppy has even been auctioned off anywhere, ever since the release of the system.

However, here's the missing puzzle piece. Somebody from Italy has auctioned off a KMC N64 parter development kit, which is essentially capable of accessing the data from this discs - whether the data be from Earthbound 64, or not.

Unfortanately, the auction has ended, and it was sold for a relatively cheap $400. However, the battle has just begun. I am assuming that whoever in their right mind bid on this development kit did so for a reason, and he's not just some collector, or rich little John. But perhaps he doesn't know about these discs. His Ebay alias is mattmoss1982, and I am going to contact him, as evidently, nobody else has.

This is interesting beyind belief.

This post has been edited by Kaepora Ocelot on Jun 27 2006, 08:46 PM

So, those might not be Earthbound 64, right?

There is a possbility that they might not be. But in a time of desperation, it's certainly worth a shot to spend hundreds of dollars to find out.

As long as it's not me spending the money alright.

Why would you auction something like that?!?

Hopefully this guy knows what he plans to do. Which should be. CCreate a ROM of Earthbound 64 anf friggin put it on the web!

I'm pretty sure it's flat out impossible for there to ever be a ROM of EB64

I remember that when Mother 3 was still on the N64, the story spanned 10 years, and it has 12 chapters. When moved to GBA, it only had eight chapters, and the story only spanned merely three years. I wonder how much is cut from the GBA version...

I got the N64 information from here.

This is intruiging. Tell me if anything big happens.

Seems very interesting.

Interesting... If it is EB64, I wonder if a dumped ROM will ever surface the net...

I've seen that name before.



What possibilities...

I also remember Nintendo stating that the game would be bigger and more expansive than Ocarina of Time, thanks to the N64DD's use of magnatic discs.

Anyway, this ass still hasn't sent me a message regarding what I sent him.