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Not that anon but I think the other anons are saying that a beta never meant to be released to the public (which is probably very buggy and incomplete) takes less priority than games that were actually released but no one make backups for. Plus the arcade machines used to play them are either gone or very few are left. One example is Galaxian3 arcade. It's a huge 6 player arcade machine. Hundreds were manufactured and sold around the world. But only like 2 are left in the entire world. Pic related. And 1 of them is half broken with it being impossible to repair due to custom electronics, and the Japanese community refusing to share technical knowledge. They figured out a way to fix some of the fragile parts but refuse to share that knowledge with Western collectors. Which is extremely messed up considering Western fans are trying preserve a Japanese arcade game. They should be honored that the West wants to keep this game alive. But I guess the Japanese community doesn't see it that way.

I don't disagree with you that it would be nice for the beta of Conkers Bad Fur Day could be shared. But im not losing sleep over it. To me it's more of an oddity than an actual game. You could reach out to the collector who owns the beta cart and see if he's willing to share the game. Or at least share video of the gameplay with him playing it. But if he refuses to do it, then there's nothing else we can do but shrug our shoulders and move on. Not unless you are willing to do what some obsessed arcade collectors have done where they burglared into people's homes to get access to the game and dumped the ROM when the home owner wasn't around (yes it's happened). Otherwise we're kinda stuck. Just my thoughts