Posted By
MIK
on 2015-06-17
07:29:29
 |  Re: Street Olympics - bugged version found
There are about 4-5 era's of when Mastertronic changed the cover style. The first batch of games only stated C16 on the cover such as BMX Racers, but after those early games they then all stated C16/Plus4. So yeah, all copies of Street Olympics will have C16/Plus4 on the cover. I think this is the first time we have ever seen an obvious difference, (with out the need to load it) as normally they would of never of printed just C16 on the tape at the time it was made.
Like there are 2 versions of Rockman, one being C16 only, the other I call it "Plus/4 compatible" yet they both have identical covers and tapes so no way to tell which is which other than loading it on a Plus/4.
In short though, if your Street Olympics has a blue border once the game has loaded then you have the better one. And if your tape is the better one and only states Commodore C16 on the tape it's self then that adds weight to this theory of how to spot the better one.
To be honest though it is crazy such small things come to light 30 years later, nice when the out come is a good one though! 
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