We’ve preserved a prototype of Shadowgate for the Nintendo Famicom by Kemco! This build is dated November 1988, which places this roughly four months before the retail Japanese release!

Differences

  • The prototype is copyrighted 1988 instead of the retail’s 1989.
  • It contains an additional copyright year of 1987 above the main copyright information.
  • Differences within the game’s script.

Screenshots

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ROM Information

----| File Data |--------------------------------------------------
System:             Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System          
File:               Shadowgate_Nov_1988.nes
BitSize:            3 Mbit
Size (Bytes):       393232
CRC32:              DA30409B
MD5:                F199FFB22AC1318D0C64B5D7ECFAA63E
SHA1:               E470347CCDA196C2BA5C35B220FCDBC2B007A916
SHA256:             F366530BC094F9F7258FEF313CBAD984263E035FBBBBE7B2EB621843B4DB900C
----| iNES Header Data |-------------------------------------------
Num ROM Banks:      0x10 (256 KBytes)
Num VROM Banks:     0x10 (128 KBytes)
Mirroring:          0 (Horizontal)
Save RAM:           1 (Yes)
Trainer:            0 (No)
4-Screen VRAM:      0 (No)
VS-System Cartridge:0 (No)
ROM Mapper:         4 (Nintendo MMC3)
Num RAM Banks:      0x00 (None or 8 KBytes)
Display:            0 (NTSC)
----| NES Header Data |--------------------------------------------
Title:                             
PRG-ROM Checksum:   0x0000 (Bad; 0x0B64)
CHR-VROM Checksum:  0x0000 (Bad; 0x9B4A)
PRG Size:           0x0 (16 KBytes)
CHR Size:           0x0 (8 KBytes)
Mirroring:          0x0 (Horizontal)
Board Type:         0x0
Unknown 1:          0xA3ECA3EC
Maker Code:         0xA3 (Unknown)
Unknown 2:          0xEC
Vectors:            0xA3EC00E849EB
----| Headerless Data |--------------------------------------------
Size (Bytes):       393216
CRC32:              31F40DC3
MD5:                9E68C637770D41B3189FABD7D7ECA839
SHA1:               D6C9750AA5F22770C81A74902BAB1E12BD3D3EA7
SHA256:             88D0DE4AABEE97313AD719C4ECF978A92D56444778D63DD573709E94E7B6BAF7

Board / Cartridge Images

Cart Front


Download

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