(This is a repost of my SegaAge thread)
Please scroll down for board pic update! I believe this is the first board pic ever taken of a New Leaf cart.
Hey guys, long time no post. I haven't exactly found anything noteworthy for a while, but that changed today. It was a normal day at the flea market, when this cartridge made it's way into my hands. Oddly enough, it was found in a box of Atari 2600 and 5200 cartridges. No other sega games were in the box. I knew what it was hard to find, after all, I've got most genesis games CIB already, so it was pretty convenient that it got to me.
Here's an article about New Leaf on Gamesniped (LINK)
Here's an additional article from 1994 (LINK)
Here's the New Leaf Entertainment advertisement.
It appears to be one of ten copies? The test market was ten Blockbuster stores in Columbia, SC, but I'm unsure if each store only had one cartridge or multiple.
Anyways, I took a few pictures before testing. I'm not aware how well this cart has been documented. Here they are:
I immediately went to my CDX and filmed my first boot attempts. I thought it would be cool for everyone else to see what I was seeing:
First attempt went straight to Sega CD menu.
Second attempt did absolutely nothing, with a blank CDX console status indicator.
So I figured it's not compatible with CDX, or it's broken.
I switched to Genesis 1, and gave it a third try. I was happy to find that the cartridge is still working, and appears to contain an early/modified Jungle Book version.
SEE THE VIDEO HERE
My video appears to be the only video available of one of these in action.
Notable differences
- Title screen reads "B.B. Flash Rom" above "Developed by Eurocom"
I will continue to check out the game and post any differences.
Thanks for reading, and I'll gladly read any questions or comments!
FOR REFERENCE:
11/22/2016, I sold this cartridge for $1500 on Ebay, BIN, within 24 hours, before I was able to even post about it's availability. It will go a long way towards my first home.
The second copy found (the one with the Mario sticker on it) sold for 765 BIN around May 13th 2016 from Matts Game Exchange. It was BIN very high, but they accepted a BIN for it.
This information is from a one on one conversation with one of their employees I had on Facebook.