A phantom "FINAL FANTASY II English version" Rom cassette will be auctioned out

In Japan, "FINAL FANTASY II" sold in 1988 was never released overseas, but someone who sent a sample at the auction, who got the sample ROM that it was making for sale There is a topic being called.

Final Fantasy II NES Demo / Sample - TRULY ONE - OF - A - KIND | eBay

This is a problematic part


A handwritten label written as "Final Fantasy Ⅱ Sample © 1988.1991 SQUARE soft"


Try removing screws and look inside the cassette ......


It seems that "FF2 NES for CES V12 5" is written


According to the seller that this Final Fantasy II English version of ROM is "definitely genuine".

This cassette was held in Las Vegas in 1991 in the winterConsumer · Electronics Show (CES)Square software for USA prepared for USA.

It seems that such materials were actually prepared.


Originally, Final Fantasy II was scheduled to be released abroad even at the end of 1991, but as Square became a policy to direct the game development power from 8 bit machine to 16 bit machine, the plan had flowed It is said that. After that, although the software named "Final Fantasy II" was released, this translated "Final Fantasy IV" in Japan, it was modified according to Japan when the PlayStation version was released.

Sample ROM cassettes of games of this age are rare, and when it comes to soft things that were not released, the remaining things themselves are miraculous. Although this seller got it in 2003, I have never seen FF 2 English version besides what I own.

This time, I needed to take a picture for auction exhibition, it came out, but it seems that I had not touched it at all.

Is not it just that I made it just like Gaawa? In order to clear up the doubt, the movie actually being used is also uploaded. By the way, according to the commenter on YouTube, "It is not that I do not want anyone to play," the data themselves are drawn by the poster himself from Windows 98 via the parallel port, mainly "Final Fantasy II (U ) (Prototype) ". However, as to where the file itself is, I comment that "I am not a file service."

Final Fantasy II unreleased NES prototype on eBay - YouTube


Pull out the cassette from the case ......


Set in Nintendo


"FINAL FANTASY II" started


First enter the character name of the four main characters, but enter the alphabet instead of katakana


And suddenly the fight with the dark knight. Although the original spelling should be "Dark Knight", it is "DarkNite" for convenience of the display field.


Of course all messages are in English.



The auction price is set at $ 50,000 (about 4 million yen). Whose hand will it bring?