The people we fount the last few threads are dead ends. Don't bother with them.

You should look in Japanese circles first and foremost, although it would help if you know Japanese first.

It might take a few years, be warned.

That Guy probably isn't going to come back, at least not in the forseeable future. Waving money around isn't likely to coax him out of wherever he went.

Nob is /ourguy/, but he isn't our guy.

We'd have to throw around serious cash to get it in our hands, and one of us might have to infiltrate the collector sphere for a damn long time to even catch a glimpse of it.

Since V2 had the wrong tiles but the map data was there, it's very likely there is indeed a ROM chained up in someone's collection somewhere.