Remember that fundraiser involving Resident Evil 1's nearly finished Game Boy Color conversion? Well, the $2,000 goal was met, and the cart has finally been released to the public. Keep in mind that the game is only 90% complete, which means that without some ROM finaggling, you won't be able to finish it.
Of course, loyal fans have already started messing with it, and have discovered all sorts of glitches and oddities -- some even claim that it's possible to complete it. Regardless of what people think of the situation, as a die-hard Resident Evil fan I couldn't be more excited to see a piece of RE history preserved like this -- hats off to the anonymous party involved in the restoration.
I could go on and on about my love for the series, but if you're jonesing for more information about the lost GBC game, head on over to community member Sir Tobii's fantastic c-blog on the matter.
Resident Evil GBC Fundraiser thread - 2 builds! (GOAL MET) [Assembler Games]
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9:00 AM on 02.06.2012 | 
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It's really very simple:
He bought the cartridge from someone else for more than $2000. He decides to give the ROM to the community but he knows that the value of the prototype cartridge itself drops considerably once it is publicly available (he's expecting it to be worth about $600 afterwards, if he can sell it at all). He decides 'I'm happy to take a loss on this so the whole community can benefit', so he picks a feasible target.
Unfortunately, people are too incompetent to realise that unreleased cartridges go for reasonable sums of money, and that their value drops post-release (except for die-hard collectors). The price of Stadium Events is ridiculous even by collector's standards, but it's only because everyone who reads news blogs knows about it that the people who own it set such stupid prices for it.
The community came through, yes!
Gonna go enjoy this now, wonder where all those nay-sayers went now? lol
Many thanks to Sir Tobii and all the other die hard RE fans that made this game available for us all. Its time for a Jill sandwich!
If you read a number of posts involving alphas/prototypes of ROMS, it's fairly clear he didn't steal it. What most likely happened is that he bought the original copy from someone and/or the rights -- in order to make some money, he needed to "sell" the ROM to the public, hence the fundraiser.
Once he released it, the game drops considerably in value, and his original purchase wouldn't have been worth it -- he most likely isn't a millionaire and needed the money for rent or something. It's pretty commonplace on the ROM scene for this to happen.
Yes! I would love to play through that game! Elza Walker!
Also, the Resident Evil 4 beta, please.