Weirdness: Purchase This "Nintendo Dolphin Prototype Console" at Your Own Risk

Sheesh, I never would have thought a gamecube prototype would look like..THAT

awesome! too bad i dont have any money for it ^^

Update: Ubisoft found out about this and delayed all games for it so it could release the titles on the development kits of the PS2 and original Xbox.

Eh, can't buy it. I'm in the UK.

I think it is legal to buy, I see Genesis games with the "Not for Resale" label on them all the time on eBay.

@Knuckles technically your not allowed to resell any game or system you buy it says so in every instruction book you get with them (because you only technically buy a license for the game not the game itself hence why downloading copies is illegal), but most of the time it's not a problem because when you sell a game you could call it a license transfer from you to the buyer

Paypal actually always gives you the option to return your money if you end up not receiving your purchase or if the purchase is faulty, even if the seller himself doesn't want to give money back.

This is the ultimate 'conversation piece' for any Nintendo collector. That thing would look reeeeal nice parked next to my GameCube.

@Monkeh You can use a credit card and a new account and do a chargeback if you need to. (Better to avoid doing one if you can).

this is news???

Nice, looks…weird.

Ebay has buyers' protection, even if it didn't work, you would get a refund.

That doesn't look like a prototype to me it looks like a piece of development equipment. When you work on GC games back in the day you had a large box like that and the games went onto these huge plastic boxes with a handle on the end that plugged into that jack. In turn you'd take it to a maroon colored looking gamecube that would read those portable drives to play the game. I guess the theory was it would be cheaper in the long run than buying a bunch of discs, and it would be more stable and quicker.

I worked for MIdway in San Diego back throughout 2001 and through 2002 and ended up using this device as I was on the team that did Defender, plus I had helped out also with NHL Hitz 2002 and Gauntlet on the hardware on the side.

@RichRadEx it was more to test and make the games before the final design iirc

As was stated above, this isn't a prototype, just a devkit. You should probably fix the article.

Oh wow, the Gamecube has been my main console for collecting and overall is probably my favorite console of all time. To have that would be like my Holy Grail I guess xD I'd rather have a Panasonic Q though. I do hope someone gives that prototype a good home.

@tanookisuit @RCMADIAX I enjoy reading these insights, thanks for taking the time to explain! Console development sure has gotten a lot more straight forward.

that nintendo dolphin logo is adorable

I do think this is a prototype. That's why it's called Dolphin instead of GameCube. Otherwise it would be a "GameCube devkit". Just a thought. I'm sure it also served as a devkit, a prototype one maybe. Come to think of it, every prototype system would be a devkit...would it not?

@MC808 No. Devkits are made before the console release. It's the same reason the Wii devkits say Revolution.

@JoostinOnline
Gotcha.

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The no resale thing had being printed on a tons of things, it really makes no difference. If people wants to resale it, they will since the original company doesn't had ownership of them anymore. Here's some examples:

And I'm sure there are lots more too, thing is these stuffs are rare and could go for a lot of bucks if they are still in working condition though I'm not sure why the original Sonic the Hedgehog game can't be for resale as it wasn't a rare game, probably had some feature in it that are exclusive to this version perhaps, I'm not really sure. These proves that resale of rare items are legal as long as the item isn't stolen.

@RCMADIAX Yes I did, the last credited project I did. Worked as a backup on the team, evaluated technical requirements by Nintendo for standard naming, button/icon and save procedures. I also created the secondary control setup C and D on there which is annoying it wasnt primary as the lazies at Midway were happy to leave the game with no way to strafe and fire like on ps2 and xbox, and I went around them through email to the developer and submitting a hybrid starfox64/turok inspired control scheme that allowed it to be done. Never play Defender with the defaults as its incomplete.

NFR on games just means it was a pack-in deal or that it was a demo kiosk game that is complete as partials are labeled as demo usually. This isnt 100% but covers most. I have a NFR GBA Mario Golf, its 100% normal with that on the label so it was at a retail stand somewhere before.

@MC808 Internally the GC remained in coding the dolphin. Publicly it is aswell as all product codes on the system, controllers, and the rest are DOL-### not GCN or NGC-###. The cube itself I think would be DOL-001 on the label o the bottom of the system.

Found another one!!!

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221415047240&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

@SmashMario I have the blue box, and the purple GameCube bit. Do you know anybody who is interested in this kind of thing or the best place to get a valuation?
Thanks

Im selling one right here on auction. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nintendo-Dolphin-GameCube-Dev-Kit-NPDP-GDEV-collectors-item-/252669033443?hash=item3ad43f7be3%3Ag%3AnRYAAOSw2xRYRYk4