SNES CD add-on proto found??

[rbudrick]

http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=136031#post136031

Pretty interesting thread there. It seems someone may have had one at CGE '02 and no one noticed until now, at least, that's the line of speculation. There are pics.

Anyone that went know more or have better pics?

-Rob

[c0ldb33r]

Wow, I hope this turns out to be true.

Not because I think it will have any sort of effect on anything, but just for interest's sake. To see what could have been.

Here's a thought - if nintendo and sony had partnered on this venture, sony wouldn't have branched out on their own and today there would be no playstation. The playstation wouldn't have killed the saturn, and Sega may still have been in the console market. (I wonder if Square would have released the cd-rom RPGs on the Saturn on made them cart based on n64?)

[Blackjax]

I think there's been at least two found, but I'll be damned if i can find any of the information on them.

although if I was a betting man, the info was probably somewhere on Assemblergames forums - they had pics and everything

*edit*
Before anyone asks, the pics weren't anything too exciting, it looked more or less like an external CD ROM drive with a SNES cart connector on the bottom... which I remember being surprised about since all the mockups they had in the magazines had the SNES CD underneath the SNES

[FullCircle]

Here's a thought - if nintendo and sony had partnered on this venture, sony wouldn't have branched out on their own and today there would be no playstation.

But then we wouldn't have had those wonderful CD-i gems like Hotel Mario and Link: The Faces of Evil! Or am I the only one that has collected these games?

Anywho, I think Nintendo made a wise choice at the time, because cd-based game systems really didn't catch on for a few years after they abandoned Philips. But at the same time, I think they should have gone to a cd-based system sooner than they did.

[rbudrick]

The thread does some good arguing over why it could have went top or bottom. It could have worked through either port.

On one of the last few posts someone mentions the person who probably owned it...it almost sounds like it HAS to be the guy he's talking about, which I found to be the most interesting part of the thread. Anyone know him? This whole thing seems fishy...like someone is trying to cover up that they own it. Gods knows why if he brought it to CGE.

-Rob

[ProgrammingAce]

Rumor is that who ever owns it now found it in the trashcan after CGE that year... I don't know if i believe that or not.

[rbudrick]

Rumor is that who ever owns it now found it in the trashcan after CGE that year... I don't know if i believe that or not.

Right. That's bull, imo. You know, I bet this guy they are talking about in the booth that used to work at Sony found it in the trashcan at SONY and the rumor got distorted to "he found it in the trash at CGE." There's no f'ing way that someone would throw that out...just no way. Someone who had the foresight to bring it to CGE quite obviously knew it was valuable and would not have thrown it out. It is completely unfathomable.

-Rob

[InsaneDavid]

The playstation wouldn't have killed the saturn...

-_- The PlayStation didn't kill the Saturn, the Saturn killed itself outside of Japan. Besides, the PlayStation did what the NES once did as well - expanded the user base of video games, giving the industry another much needed boost.

Back to topic, that's a very interesting thread, hmm...

[badinsults]

Um, Dangerboy has had pictures of the Snes PSX prototype for something like 2 years.

http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playstation_perfect_guide/snes_psx/index.html

[PapaStu]

Um, Dangerboy has had pictures of the Snes PSX prototype for something like 2 years.

http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playstation_perfect_guide/snes_psx/index.html

Beat me to the punch Evan.

Mind you us getting those pics and posting them caused a bunch of storms on Assember a while back. Arguments were going all over about who owned the system, that it was stolen ect ect. The link in the first thread takes you to the last page of a thread thats just shy of a year old.

[Blackjax]

*shakes head*

...of all the damn sites for that to have been on...

Now i feel dumb x_x :/ LOL

[Ed Oscuro]

Here's a thought - if nintendo and sony had partnered on this venture, sony wouldn't have branched out on their own and today there would be no playstation.

But then we wouldn't have had those wonderful CD-i gems like Hotel Mario and Link: The Faces of Evil! Or am I the only one that has collected these games?
I actually like HM, and the two original Zelda games (Face of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, all three titles I own) I'm trying to like. Dodgy control scheme. Zelda's Adventure is pretty bad, though.

[Matt-El]

Here's a thought - if nintendo and sony had partnered on this venture, sony wouldn't have branched out on their own and today there would be no playstation.


I... REALLY.... wish that everyone would quit thinking this. It doesn't add up to the facts. The whole reason Nintendo broke it off with Sony was that, when production on the SNES-CD was slowing down, nintendo discovered the reason: that Sony was Developing it's own system at the same time, using the technology with a 32 bit processor instead of a 16 bit. With Sony in control contract-wise as well, Nintendo very well would lose money, as the 32-Bit Playstation would have been Backward-Compatible. It also would have shown Sony's dominance over nintendo. It was bad enough Sega had THEIR Cd add-on already on the market. It was the most OBVIOUS CHOICE, especially in the eye of Hiroshi Yamauchi.

[theoakwoody]

Why does the prototype appear to connect via the cartridge slot instead of the expansion port. It seems totally illogical for something that bulky to be developed if its going to sit on top of the Snes. Not even Sony is stupid enough to pull a 32x.

[FullCircle]

I actually like HM, and the two original Zelda games (Face of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, all three titles I own) I'm trying to like. Dodgy control scheme. Zelda's Adventure is pretty bad, though.

Hotel Mario isn't bad, but it's so repetitive. And the enemies don't exactly try to stop you. The Zelda games are fun to break out for the terrible voice acting, but the controls are definitely terrible.

[rbudrick]

Why does the prototype appear to connect via the cartridge slot instead of the expansion port. It seems totally illogical for something that bulky to be developed if its going to sit on top of the Snes. Not even Sony is stupid enough to pull a 32x.

If it were on the bottom a boot cart would have been necessary on the top. Instead, it's all kept on the inside of the unit, as explained in the Assembler thread.


Um, Dangerboy has had pictures of the Snes PSX prototype for something like 2 years.

http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playstation_perfect_guide/snes_psx/index.html

Right, I believe it is mentioned in the Assembler thread. But like I said, it was discovered years ago and nobody cared...that is to say, it was not investigated at all in any way, because no one noticed.

So nobody has pics from the event or knew the guy with that booth? I figured someone here must have...hmm.

-Rob

[Ed Oscuro]

Rob, gotta link to the page of that topic with the image links?

[rbudrick]

Rob, gotta link to the page of that topic with the image links?

Umm, not sure what you mean, Ed. I must be misunderstanding... Wazzat?

-Rob

[Ed Oscuro]

Do you have the pictures that everybody keeps talking about? Is there a link to them?

[anagrama]

The GameRave link above has them.

[Ed Oscuro]

Oops, thanks. :D