What should I get while I'm in Japan ???

[Kitsunexus]

Yakisoba and a hot Japanese girlfriend! 

Hell yes.

[MurderDate]

YEAH screw video games you should get a nice massage

[Necromancer]

YEAH screw video games you should get a nice massage

With happy ending?

[nat]

YEAH screw video games you should get a nice massage

With happy ending?

Why bother if there isn't one?

here some rare and almost only good pix of that unreleased and probably most hunted game on the system:

http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Suzuran/9038/pce_nfs22.html

Why doesn't that bozo make an ISO of his copy and make it available? I've never understood that. He obviously has the ONLY copy ever made. Why not share it with the community? I just feel he is being selfish.

It would be one thing if there were other copies floating around out there to find, but it is obvious there are not. So he should "share the wealth."

[Necromancer]

Why doesn't that bozo make an ISO of his copy and make it available?

He may have signed a confidentiality agreement and is taking it much too seriously.  Either that, or he's just a douche bag - guess which one I'm leaning towards.

[nat]

Any agreement he may have signed should long since have been null and void. I mean, who cares about 16-bit video game prototypes anymore anyway besides us freaks? It's not like leaking an ISO of a 15 year old game is going to tip the scales in the current consoles race to ultimately cause the Big Video Game Crash of 2008.

I'd be surprised if the developers that worked on the game even still work at "Sur De Wave" if "Sur De Wave" even exists anymore.

[GUTS]

Man that game looks sweet, I played the translated NES original and it was pretty damn fun, but the graphics on that PCE version are about 20 times better.  I can see why he would hoard it though, having the only copy probably makes him some kind of celebrity in the nerd circles and gets him a lot of attention.

[Kitsunexus]

I think someone should kill him by way of brain trauma via a blunt object, and nab the prototype and rip it.

[Turbo D]

Someone offered that guy a couple grand for an iso! The dude turned it down.

[Necromancer]

Any agreement he may have signed should long since have been null and void.

From a common sense standpoint, I agree whole heartedly; from a legal standpoint, there likely wouldn't have been an expiration date.  Whether or not there's anybody to enforce it is irrelevant to some people.

[MissaFX]

Man that game looks sweet, I played the translated NES original and it was pretty damn fun, but the graphics on that PCE version are about 20 times better.  I can see why he would hoard it though, having the only copy probably makes him some kind of celebrity in the nerd circles and gets him a lot of attention.

Exactly, this dude probably has only one claim to fame in his life (though a pretty niche one) and it's his precious.  The reason why nobody has a copy of this program is that he appears in the night and kills anyone at the stroke of midnight, that has one in their possession.  I'm sure his legal excuse for why he cannot pass around a copy is bunk, he probably bought it at a garage sale, but it makes him sound a hell of a lot cooler to say he was involved with the company that made the game.

[Kitsunexus]

Someone needs to make a very convincing website that says they have the game too, maybe it would convince him to give his up!

[guyjin]

That guy is a fool. If his house burns down, that game is lost forever - he should share it for posterity.

[MissaFX]

Someone needs to make a very convincing website that says they have the game too, maybe it would convince him to give his up!

Like with a graphically modified NES copy uploaded to youtube with gameplay?  Could that trick him?

[SignOfZeta]

Personally if I were in Japan I'd be buying arcade PCBs. The vast majority of console stuff turns up on eBay sooner or later, and the prices aren't much worse than an actual game store. Being able to browse a shop full of cheap JAMMA boards would be something unique.