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Earlier this year saw the release of an impressive new ROM hack for Ghostbusters on the Mega Drive/Genesis, which finally introduced the long-overlooked Winston Zeddemore into the game, alongside a new Nightmare mode, and other brilliant features.
The ambitious project, which was the work of BillyTime!Games, Master Linkeui, and days_danilo, turned out to be incredibly popular with Ghostbusters fans — many of whom inevitably wanted to know whether they would ever be able to get their hands on a physical version of the hack.
The hack's creators have stayed away from producing a physical cartridge of the modded game for fairly understandable reasons (such as to avoid unwanted attention from Columbia Pictures Ghost Corps). But in their absence, a custom creator named Toy Saurus Games has been selling physical copies for Ghostbusters fans over on Instagram, which are apparently all made to order (thanks GhostbusterNews!).
These physical editions feature all-new box art depicting the four Ghostbusters together, as well as a full-color instruction booklet, and an ectoplasm-themed cart that glows in the dark. Two variants have been produced so far, including a more common slime-green edition (unveiled back in May) and a new marshmallow version (revealed yesterday) that is limited to just 15 copies and will be exclusive to this month's Classic Console And Arcade Gaming Show, taking place in Cleveland, Ohio.
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These physical editions have proven so popular already that Toy Saurus Games has had to suspend orders on the Slime Green version in order to clear his current backlog. If you want to keep up to date with when orders are open again, we recommend following Toy Saurus Games over on Instagram.
[source instagram.com, via ghostbustersnews.com]
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“Days_danilo” is the creator of Blazing Chrome, Odallus, Moonrider, and Oniken. Quite the dude!
These are beautiful! Great attention to detail, love the designs.
As for this hack itself, its fantastic and similar to how I feel about Amy being added to Sonic Origins, its nice to have Winston finally playable in this game. I always felt a huge sadness that he wasn't included. Feels like an unjust history being corrected
I'm never quite sure how I feel about someone selling a romhack without paying the creators of the hack, I hope they at least contacted them first and asked for unofficial blessing. Regardless I it looks like this is just a fan project hand made to order with love and I assume isn't turning a profit of any kind. Once they start being massproduced and appearing on Aliexpress its a different story, sadly that often happens with these fan projects, without the permission of the original handmade fan versions.
I own a few similar things like physical Master System copies of fan made Game Gear ports and there is definitely a special feeling about holding something that feels like its from an alternate dimension with slightly different history. My Triple Trouble and Sonic Drift copies sit especially beautifully on the shelf along with the other 8bit Sonic games
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