Quote Originally Posted by Satoshi_Matrix View Post
In the early stages, the Super Famicom was designed to be backwards compatible with the Famicom (NES).
From what I read that "backward compatibility" was a switch that enabled video from another console (an unreleased matching Famicom AV console known as the Famicom Adapter) to pass through the SFC to share one video cable to the TV (though you could already do that with RF, but Nintendo probably wanted to promote composite. Maybe the Japanese started AV as a standard long before America did).

If a company didn't change the button format when they ported a game (I'm looking at you Ninja Gaiden Trilogy), then its the programmers fault, not Nintendo's. :P