[Ravenfreak]

Clownacy, on 25 September 2014 - 06:31 PM, said:

I have a boxed REV01 PAL copy of Sonic 1 if you're interested in any details, Qjimbo.

I'm interested in figuring out which cartridge contains REV01 of the game myself too Clownacy. I'm currently watching an auction over at eBay and contacted the seller to see if the cartridge has the text "Made in Japan" on the back, I really want to own a copy of the REV01 rom plus it's a complete copy of the game which I don't own. Does your copy also have the text "Made in Japan" on the back of the cartridge?

This post has been edited by Ravenfreak: 25 September 2014 - 07:16 PM

[Clownacy]

Oh yeah, it does. I have an old post about some strange details on the box when compared to the scan on the wiki.

Clownacy, on 03 October 2013 - 09:09 AM, said:

I'm not trying to be funny, but I have the strangest cartridge of Sonic 1 and I want to hear what you'd make of it.

I've had it for as long as I can remember (being one of the first video games I've ever played and all) but I've noticed some downright weird discrepancies between what my cart is and what all documentation I've found says my cart should be. It's a European copy, which is all well and good, it certainly looks the part, to say the least, but it's REV01, not REV00. REV00 being, what everything says, the only revision to have made it to Europe. Not only that, but the box differs in a few ways.

I've considered that it may be a pirate copy, but it exhibits no typical pirate traits: the Sega logo, the copyrights, it's all there! The box and cart are certainly no poor imitations, if it is pirate produced then it's a hell of an accurate recreation, I've long lost the instruction manual, so I can't look at that. The cart shows no obvious signs of tampering. Such signs would indicate that it was opened some time in the past, possibly with the intention of board swapping, but as I said, I can't find any. The box has some potentially useful information: two old plain yellow shop price labels, "6703 (catalogue number?) PREOWNED £7.99", one on the front cover, obscuring the 'E' of (MEGA) "DRIVE", and another covering the barcode (which is intact, it's not blank or anything). The cart itself has an interesting trait too: A letter 'P' scrawled in black ball-point pen on the top left corner of the cart's frontal sticker. What it stands for, I can only guess. PAL? Pirate? I'd rather not jump to conclusions and see what you guys think.

Even stranger is that the cover art scan found on the info page differs from my box (I'm having a hard time finding additional scans to compare against, so please excuse my ignorance). Look at the back cover, underneath the image of SBZ, you can see a list of patents. My copy doesn't have those. Also, underneath that you can see a serial number(?), a line that reads "© 1991 SEGA ENTERPRISES LTD." and that specific copy's place of manufacture, which in the scan's case, is China. Mine has no serial number, (the copyright's there though) and, according to the box, mine was made in Japan.

If it's such an uncommon thing, then I'm chuffed I still have it.

This post has been edited by Clownacy: 26 September 2014 - 12:09 PM

[E-122-Psi]

One frequently annoyed thing is some of the PAL games DON'T have regional differences. Along with the non-50hz optimized Sonic 1, most of our compilations have US manuals and covers.

Gems Collection was a particularly bad example, we not only got US extras, but their CD soundtrack, their console names on the menus, and even their 60hz emulations on ALL of the titles instead of just Sonic 1.

This post has been edited by E-122-Psi: 26 September 2014 - 05:51 PM