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The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype will soon be put up for sale
- Thread starter Romain
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I hope this isn't bought by some private collector that will put it in their basement never to be seen again. I'd rather the Video Game History Foundation get it.
Was bound to happen eventually - very interested to see what happens with it. He's mentioned many times about the offers he's had since showing it off, if they were legit I bet they'll be all snapping back to get it!
Yes, and there is homebrew developed for it that can even boot from a burned disc IIRC.
Modern SNES emulators now support the SNES-CD format due to this discovery.
Its the snes with cd drive prototype that was found like 2 years ago
It's like watching into an alternate universe
It works fine. I played a quick bout of Mortal Kombat on it on a convention last year!
It's going to sell for some ridiculous amount, but I really hope it's a benevolent benefactor who lets it be properly archived and displayed somewhere and not one of those rich folks who hoard undumped prototypes or something.
It was a mid gen refresh add on like the Sega/Mega CD that likely would have done limited business before more powerful systems arrived so lost profits wouldn't be that big.
Nintendo has survived worse decisions than this.
Is there a big video games museum? It should definitely go there
;)
(I work there)
I read a book about the Sega and Nintendo console wars--I think it was simply called System Wars--and the author claimed that Sony first pitched the CD attachment to Sega and the companies were in negotiations. That was news to me, and I rarely see it mentioned anywhere. Is that actually true?
This will end up on a "will it blend?" video by a YouTuber who gets outed as a racist and/or sex case weirdo 2 days later.
Such a fascinating device. Hope it gets to a museum.
Underrated post. Bravo.
Underrated post. Bravo.
This is a really neat compilation, thank you for putting it together.Here's the contents of a thread I made a long while back (which only got 1 reply) with articles on all three separate, different SNES CD systems that were in development..
www.resetera.com/threads/snes-cd-rom-thread-nintendo-sony-philips-16-bit-32-bit-versions.49597/
Electronic Gaming Monthly #29 December 1991
Electronic Gaming Monthly #32 March 1992
EGM June 1992
Electronic Gaming Monthly - April 1993
Then I found this article in Electronic Games magazine (the 1992 incarnation of EG) from their April 1993 issue.
Skip forward to Feburary 1997 - an article on the Nintendo 64 "Bulky Drive" / 64DD, and the history with the Nintendo Disc CD-ROM (32-bit version) from 1993.
(#1) 1990
Sony/Nintendo "Super Disc" format - expansion CD-ROM and an all-in-one "Play Station" - no actual processor upgrade, other than RAM
(#2) 1991
SNES CD-ROM (Nintendo, Philips)- expansion CD-ROM - extra RAM, again, no actual processor upgrade other than RAM
(#3) 1993
Nintendo Disc aka CD-ROMXA (Nintendo + Philips + maybe Sony) - expansion CD-RPM - 32-bit, 21 MHz co-processor upgrade. Plus the decompression processor. This is the one that was not only a CD expansion, but also had additional power, making it an upgrade, like the Sega-CD, but 32-bit and even more powerful. The previous two were more in line with the PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM systems, which were CD drives with more (and more) RAM but no extra processing chips.
The prototype SNES CD-ROM system that was unearthed a few years ago, which got quite a bit of coverage,
was the all-in-one version of SNES CD #1 - the 'Play Station', or just 'Nintendo PlayStation'.
Gorgeous hunk of plastic
Its the snes with cd drive prototype that was found like 2 years ago
Yup Nintendo went to Philips after the Sony deal and that didn't work out either. Philips and nintendo came to a agreement that they could use 5 Nintendo mascots on their system (CDi) after Nintendo dropped the contract. Crazy times for sure.
Lol the intro to this video plays like a cable network murder documentary.
All that sony branding... yeah i can see why nintendo backed out. shit i would.. despite the "sony got blindsided biography videos!"
Yeah I feel like the controller is the most appealing part of this. You could play SNES games with an officially branded PlayStation controller without any modifications.
Okay that is pretty much on the spot if you visualize Ellie as Kutaragi XD