tenoch Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 I was at the Oakland Flee Market about 3 months ago and picked up a bag of loose 2600, nintendo and some 8 bit carts. Not really looking at the 8 bit, they were part of the package. I normally do not collect them. I just started to sort them an notices one did not have a name, but it did say Moon Patrol EPROM Cartridge 11-30-83 on the back of it. I'm guessing it's a prototype. Let me know what you think. Thanks -houston 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 That's a proto alright. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Am I the only one that cringes when you see open windows like that? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 I've heard it takes days in full, direct sun to erase one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenoch Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share Posted November 5, 2015 (edited) Thanks for the info I just opened it to take the image. It's closed and stored away Is something like this rare or are there a lot of these? Edited November 5, 2015 by tenoch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 It's pretty rare. However it's mostly likely the same as the final as it was originally developed on the 5200 and ported to the 8-bit. I have a 5200 Moon Patrol proto on my page: http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/moonpatrol/91983.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Nice find Very lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter83 Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Very sweet find. If you ever let something like that go let me know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenoch Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Howdy! I finally got an Atari 400 to play this Loaner cart I'm not too familiar with what the 5200 looks like. The color did shift from the completion of the first round to the next round. It had the rocket ship, tank eating flowers, mines, the hill with rolling boulders. I'm guessing everything. I did run through the game 4 time and have to admit I got the Atari thumb! One thing it did was start to play automatically? Not sure if this is part of the 5200. Anyways, until next find! Houston 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nezgar Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Do you have a programmer you can dump the EPROMs with? With that we can compare against known releases for the definitive answer to if the code is any different. If not, you could probably fudge it by removing the HI ROM so the computer can boot to DOS then save memory from $8000 to $9FFF, and repeat with the HI ROM in the LO socket. We can re-create the ROM image from those 2 files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Thats a neat trick. I didnt know one could do that. Pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianC Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 The title screen still has the 5200 controller symbols in the final game too. I like this version of Moon Patrol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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