Love Quest (partially lost original unreleased Famicom port of role-playing game; 1994)
The title screen for the Famicom port.
Status: Found (prototype)
Lost (ROM)
Date found: 2008
Found by: Unknown
Love Quest (ラブクエスト Rabukuesuto) is a 1995 Japan-only Super Famicom RPG game developed by C-Lab and published by Tokuma Shoten. The plot involves a weak and extremely mother-crazed businessman who is about to marry his fiancée, Yuka, in the wedding ceremony but suddenly something went wrong at the church, as such, the mysterious force has disrupt and Yuka has somehow disappeared. He set up a quest to find Yuka. The game was planned to be released for the Famicom in January 1994 priced at 7,800 yen before being moved to Super Famicom because of the dying 8-bit markets.
Only four prototypes were known to still exist[1] and all of them were owned by Japanese collectors making chances of making ROM public highly unlikely. One of them was sold for 250,000 yen in a Yahoo auction on 2008 and gameplay footage was recorded on nicovideo.com by user YumimiX.[2] Few of them has been dumped privately,[3][4] however, an NSF file for it exists. It can be found as LXXX XXXXT (mistaken as a Super Mario Bros. romhack).
Gallery
Prototype cart.
Weekly Famicom issue 244-245 (August 20-27, 1993) preview.
Reference
- ↑ 幻のファミコンソフト『ラブクエスト』のプレイ動画 | ファミコンのネタ!! Retrieved 28 Feb '23
- ↑ The original Nico Nico video. Retrieved 04 Jul '16
- ↑ Tweet about the one of private dumps. Retrieved 28 Feb '23
- ↑ Tweet about the now-deleted livestream for one of private dumps. Retrieved 28 Feb '23