Prototype misnamed on Wikipedia.

I did, it's here, in this very site. :P

 

Have you actually read the article? I don't think that the name is our main concern.

At any rate, trying to put concrete definitions on terms like "alpha" and "beta" is an exercise for academia. They don't even seem to have concrete definitions, and programmers can call their prereleases whatever they damn well please anyway.

 

Personally don't like the name "Nick Arcade", as there is absolutly zero confirmation that it is infact that build. It may be similer, but you can not say that it is the same.

 

After disassemblying the game, and looking at the leftovers, I have to agree with hxc. All evidence shows that the Nick Arcade might have been the same build (because there are no differences). But we are never going to find out whether they didn't re-flash this cart later.

 

Also, there are Leftover from other game, wich means that the cart you got is a pirate.

Of course it's possible this is a pirate of the Nick Arcade version...

 

No, you got it wrong.

The fact that it has leftovers means that the cart held some other game/build, earlier in time, and when they were flashing the new ROM, the padding sections (lots of FFs) were skipped, thus leaving these leftovers.

This was very common for developers, as they didin't have infinite cartridges lying around and they were quite expensive at the time, so they recycled them as much as possible.