A few weeks ago, we reported about a Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night Tiger Game.com prototype, and now the owner of that cartridge – Brandon Cobb – has now listed it on eBay. Currently, the bidding is at $571.00.
The description reads as follows: “So how complete is the game? Very. I played through it for several hours, and I can tell you for certain there’s a lot of content here: including an ending, if you’ve got the mad skillz to reach it. The music is all there, plenty of sound effects are present, and a whole pile of graphics were converted down from the original Playstation version of the game. Love and care was put into this adaptation, no question: or, at least, the best effort the programmers felt justified their paycheck.”
It further states: “If you buy this little dandy, what you’ll be receiving is an authentic Tiger cartridge, with an authentic printed label, with the game stored on an authentic Tiger development PCB. No boring, ugly, epoxy-globbed production PCB here, folks! No, no! This is a programmable flash cart, used by the developers to test their work on real hardware: Fascinating stuff indeed!”
The game is playable, albeit in an unfinished state and rough around the edges but still works a bit. The major point though is that this is a major piece of gaming history, especially the Castlevania series. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.