Snes Playstation prototype story

[Greg2600]

Now that it is verified legit it could almost be worth more untested since it includes a disc game and cartridge. The "possibility" of what might be on them could be worth more than if they are just blank...

 

Maybe, but I doubt it's a major difference. Whatever is on the disc isn't going to be earth shattering regardless.

 

Did'nt they also convert some of PC CD The 7th Guest to SNES CD to see how it handled the FMV? (Answer a lot better than the grain-fest of the Sega CD).

 

Seem to recal it being mentioned in an Edge article years ago...

 

Perhaps that was done by Philips? Remember they were doing their own SNES CD at the same time as Sony.

[roland p]

1991? That was probably the professionnal units.

 

Philips started to sell those units in 1990 to professionnal, and shipped them in 91. They aren't prototypes, but they can look like because they had add-on, floppy drivers and all kind of extensions.

Cool, I think I actually used those, back in 1998 while still vcd was produced (encoded by an SGI Onyx, which was also beginning to age ). It had a harddisk to put the cdi images on and test them.

[CatPix]

Nice! I bet they are rare today... like most professionnal tools BTW. Interesting to know they had hard drives too! How was id working? Hard drive icon and file explorer on the OS/9 system I guess?

 

Perhaps that was done by Philips? Remember they were doing their own SNES CD at the same time as Sony.

Philips did released a 7th Guest game on CD-i.

I would like to know if Philips really did something, hardware-wise, for a SNES CD.

According to the official story, Nintendo approached Philips in 90 or 91? As I mentionned, the CD-i was already released at this time. But I do'nt know if Philips made anything.

Maybe, the CD-i 450 series was based on Philips' work to cut costs for a SNES CD add-on? Somehow I doubt it, but who knows? Philips isn't very talkative about this unfortunately.

[Seob]

Nice! I bet they are rare today... like most professionnal tools BTW. Interesting to know they had hard drives too! How was id working? Hard drive icon and file explorer on the OS/9 system I guess?

 

Philips did released a 7th Guest game on CD-i.

I would like to know if Philips really did something, hardware-wise, for a SNES CD.

According to the official story, Nintendo approached Philips in 90 or 91? As I mentionned, the CD-i was already released at this time. But I do'nt know if Philips made anything.

Maybe, the CD-i 450 series was based on Philips' work to cut costs for a SNES CD add-on? Somehow I doubt it, but who knows? Philips isn't very talkative about this unfortunately.

The first cd-i player released was the cd-i 180/181/182 unit. Released in 1988 as a joined venture between Philips and Kyocera. The system is modular, the 180 contains the cd drive, the 181 is the controller and the 182 is the expansion bay, containing a floppy drive, scsi controller and ports. For cd-i operations you need the 180 and 181.

[CatPix]

Wow 1988? that's the earliest date I heard of. And it definitively nail down any suggestion that the CD-i is a "rejected SNES add-on" as too many people believe it is.

[ataridave]

I don't think that there's any denying that this thing is the real deal after seeing this!: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/11/snes_playstation_prototype_gets_turned_on_opened_up?utm_content=buffer596ee&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[Nebulon]

Doubt it's a fake, unless someone really went out of their way AND took the time to age/yellow part of the console. The Nintendo multi-out connector on top of all the standard a/v outs is a wee bit suspicious though. Why incorporate both?

It looks authentic to me. I have one of the first NEC external CD-ROM units (from around the same time) and the bottom part of the console is pretty much identical, including the volume control, headphone jack, and the yellowing of the plastic.

[Parallax Scroll]

Keep in mind, there were 3 different SNES CD systems, each with their own set of specifications.

 

What we've been looking at this year is the first one, the Nintendo Play Station / Super Disc. This is the one that dates back to 1988.

BTW, the Super Famicom itself was revealed to the public in Japan in November of '88.

 

The Philips SNES CD was the second. This was announced by Nintendo at the 1991 Summer CES in Chicago, and caused Sony to be outraged. From there, Sony's own PS-X, the PlayStation as we know it, was born.

 

The Nintendo / Philips / Sony "Nintendo Disc" which added a 32-bit RISC co-processor (in a system cartridge) was the third and final one. Yes, all three companies were apparently working together, even though Sony had its own plans for a 32-bit 3D capable PlayStation without Nintendo. The Nintendo Disc addon would have CD-ROMs in caddies with its own security chip and writable RAM. It was canceled in 1993 shortly before Nintendo announced the partnership with Silicon Graphics for Project Reality which became Ultra 64 and finally Nintendo 64.

 

Below is old info, but the basic specs for all three SNES CD systems.

 

click to enlarge:

 

 

http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=231

Edited November 6, 2015 by Parallax Scroll

[0078265317]

Multi AV/out for RGB for better display for Sony and nintendo officials, to please Nintendo? and standard output for quick testing and demonstrations?

 

The first models of Playstation had RCA out and the Sony A/V out with composite too.

 

I have one of these. What is it worth?

[CPUWIZ]

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/06/nintendo-playstation-is-real-and-it-works/

[CatPix]

I have one of these. What is it worth?

 

Not much more than newer models. I found two of those in a bin, both working, they are worth that much.

 

You can however keep them as things like Action Replays and the incoming PSIO (that will allow to play ISO games from a SD card) need the Parallel port that was removed from the 3rd revision of fat PS1 and is lacking on all PSone.

 

Maybe, if yours have the original laser mechanism, where the rails are made of plastic and not metal, and works fine, maybe it have a little value collection wise, but I do'nt think it have any monetary value.

[0078265317]

 

Not much more than newer models. I found two of those in a bin, both working, they are worth that much.

 

You can however keep them as things like Action Replays and the incoming PSIO (that will allow to play ISO games from a SD card) need the Parallel port that was removed from the 3rd revision of fat PS1 and is lacking on all PSone.

 

Maybe, if yours have the original laser mechanism, where the rails are made of plastic and not metal, and works fine, maybe it have a little value collection wise, but I do'nt think it have any monetary value.

 

What rails?

[CatPix]

The rails on wich the laser head move.

It's hard to see on many pictures so I can't really show you a good example...

[0078265317]

The rails on wich the laser head move.

It's hard to see on many pictures so I can't really show you a good example...

 

Will it show in this video.

 

[Seob]

Ben Heck has a video on the sony snes playstation. He is asked by the owners to repair it, since it has some issues.

[Punisher5.0]

I'm looking forward to checking out that Ben Heck video. That one has to be a classic one day.

[MrMaddog]

Very interesting video... It seams that the CD-ROM drive is much closer to the Turbo-Grafix CD than the Sega CD, so I'm not sure if it would support FMV games like Sony had planned.

 

This would absolutely have been great for JRPG's like Final Fantasy 6 & Chrono Trigger with the much large storage & music tracks.