New NGPC prototype discovered? (Magician Lord)

[Op Intensify]

http://www.gamekult.com/actu/magician-l ... 04756.html (article in French)

Some dudes claim to have discovered a prototype cart for an unreleased Neo Geo Pocket Color Magician Lord game developed by ADK, which was apparently distributed to certain Japanese game magazines for reviewing purposes. Not a port but an original game, it looks to have taken heavily after Metroidvanias like SotN, with a very familiar map screen. Considering the roundabout design of some of the original game's stages, this would probably be a perfect fit. There are plenty of screenshots and videos on the site, including cart pics.

I suppose this could be a hack or a hoax, but it seems way too elaborate. We can only hope that the rom is eventually preserved and distributed.

[louisg]

That's pretty exciting! I wonder why they decided to go with Beast Busters instead of this.

[nem]

A real shame that it never came out. The NGPC was really lacking in games like that (well, pretty much any genre except fighting games).

[EllertMichael]

cool. here's hoping for a ROM dump one day...

[Ed Oscuro]

That's pretty exciting! I wonder why they decided to go with Beast Busters instead of this.

I don't know why, but it ended up being a better game than Magician Lord would've been.

[Skykid]

That is awesome. Unfinished, but dump it anyway.

[Specineff]

I wonder if someone will be willing to pay 30,000 dollars for it one of these days. (Yeah, that was bad.)