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CosmicMonkey
12-29-2007, 03:06 PM
Indeed, it would appear that a prototype SNES CD pad has managed to escape into the wild, and is now on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/SNES-CD-dev-controller-Playstation-unreleased-RARE_W0QQitemZ230206949163QQihZ013QQcategoryZ62053 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem).
So, anyone feeling rich?
Cornelius
12-29-2007, 03:22 PM
At least one person here on the forums is very familiar with that pad already...
Mianrtcv
12-29-2007, 05:05 PM
So, anyone feeling rich?
If I was, it would be for the Dallas tickets he listed.
PapaStu
12-29-2007, 05:15 PM
Doesn't belong in this forum **shimmy to ebay insanity**
This is being put up by our own BuyAtari.
Adam, will you take installment payments? :D
Continue on with the discussion.
The 1 2 P
12-29-2007, 10:34 PM
Doesn't belong in this forum **shimmy to ebay insanity**
This is being put up by our own BuyAtari.
Adam, will you take installment payments? :D
Continue on with the discussion.
Forget installment payments. How about a date with a hot hooker?
Buyatari
12-30-2007, 11:47 AM
I wish all the items I sold had this many hits!
ProgrammingAce
12-30-2007, 12:16 PM
Q: I call fake and shenanigans, what say you?
A: Now I know how Roger Clemens feels.
Well, i think we finally know who dug the Nintendo Play Station out of the trash at CGE a few years back...
Actually, judging by the fact it has a DTL model number i would guess it was made after Nintendo and Sony broke up.
Buyatari
12-30-2007, 01:47 PM
Sony handled the project why wouldn't have their internal numbering system BEFORE they split?
Nicola
12-30-2007, 07:56 PM
Before...after...is there a real difference?
ProgrammingAce
12-30-2007, 11:23 PM
Sony handled the project why wouldn't have their internal numbering system BEFORE they split?
Like i said, i'm not 100%. DTL stands for Developer Tool Licensing, which is the division inside Sony that issues out the dev hardware. Since Nintendo owned most of the rights to the SNES-CD, i don't think that division existed until after the two split.
The SNES-CD was an internal project between the two companies, why would they need to license dev hardware to themselves?
Before...after...is there a real difference?
Not really, no. If i had more cash right now, i would have made a pretty serious offer on it anyway. I have this *thing* for proto controllers
ProgrammingAce
12-30-2007, 11:45 PM
Then again, i could be wrong:
http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/wp-content/retroguide/snescd/3.jpg
Nikademus1969
12-31-2007, 12:32 AM
That controller looks like it was made upside down. It does not look like it would be very comfortable.
Buyatari
12-31-2007, 01:49 AM
I have 95 watchers and 20,000+ hits so far. More than I ever had for any of the other 10 cent listing items I posted in the past.
If this sparks debate and discussion about what could have been then hey its all good. I am not 100% either but its based on what I was told which I tend to believe.
Buyatari
12-31-2007, 01:54 AM
Like i said, i'm not 100%. DTL stands for Developer Tool Licensing, which is the division inside Sony that issues out the dev hardware. Since Nintendo owned most of the rights to the SNES-CD, i don't think that division existed until after the two split.
From what I understand Sony did all the work on such hardware. Wouldn't they have a team or division for this and perhaps even their own numbering system. This was a real deal to them. The reason they developed the PS1 is because they had the structure in place already. They didn't expect Nintendo to pull the plug. They expected this to be a long term business venture.
badinsults
12-31-2007, 02:12 AM
Can you actually use this controller on a computer? Would be kind of neat to try it out.
ProgrammingAce
12-31-2007, 04:29 AM
I did a bit more research. Turns out DTL-500C was also the model number on the first set of controllers given out with the original PSX dev kits (according to the manual that came with them, anyway). The controllers were similar but with different markings.
See the top controller in this pic:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_BDCqpuwRnf4/RhudaQ5Jm2I/AAAAAAAABXE/nr7UnUpcQEU/s400/PSXcontrollers.jpg
What's really strange, is that it's the most recent out of this set of pictures. It looks like they went through a bunch of revisions, then decided to go with what they had for the SNES-CD.
What that means? I dunno.
What i wouldn't give to spend an afternoon poking around in that closet of yours...
Dangerboy
12-31-2007, 01:02 PM
The controller is indeed more PlayStation than Super NES CD-Rom - remember Sony was plannign on making their own SNES PSX aside from Nintendo's system (a la 3DO), Nintendo got pissed and went their own way.
Even our own friendly Sony source mentioned the same controller in our Game Rave pic was an early PlayStation model, just not specifically for the NintendoSNES CD-Rom.
ProgrammingAce
12-31-2007, 01:31 PM
That would explain the discrepancies with the logo's in regards to the timeline in the picture of the proto controllers...
ROTS MKII
12-31-2007, 06:12 PM
I would go and buy it but there is too many game controllers out there that have that shape.
The PS3 original controller was on PC light years in the SNES days.
That controller go's threw the orginal mouse port also. The ones that we had before the smaller port.
I wonder what it would registers as???