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Prototype Controller Models
- Thread starter SOR5
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To me the original Xbox isnt the Dreamcast 2 but the sort of younger western brother, more like a weird sibling than an offspring
I remember some of the Dreamcast prototype controllers.
How about this crazy concept for the Dolphin / Gamecube controller?
Not just the screen but also some sort of trackball on the left shoulder.
Woah what the hell is that?!
Those of us that were following Nintendo's Dolphin development during 1999-2000, all the way upto the GameCube reveal at Space World 2000 in August, remembers seeing that crazy concept controller someone drew up. It was posted on one of the Nintendo 64 or Dolphin fan pages. I don't remember which but I'll try to find the source. Maybe Dolphin Cove ? edit: N64pro something .com
I posted this in another thread months ago, and someone commented that it looked like something out of Splatoon.
smaller but clearer image:
blame space
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really wish they would have kept the disc window on the GameCube.
Fredrik
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Would fit Scorpio better, it looks like a big Xbox One S with the disc slot in the middle.
capylikesgames
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More M2 console / controller prototype concepts from different manufacturers.
Was meant to launch in late 1996. (originally Holiday 1995 but that wasn't realistic). By mid 1997 was becoming too outdated and got scrapped.
Final specs (after some changes) GPU performance about 3X that of N64 - Dual PowerPC CPUs - 8 MB RAM - 4X CD-ROM drive. No upgrade card for original 3DO. Standalone next gen console.
Soapbox Killer
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although I have nothing to post, I freaking love stuff like this. Keep's coming!!
Murder. She Wrote
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I'm sad we never got the Boomerang 
Always wanted to hold one in my hand.
Always wanted to hold one in my hand.Fun fact: Sony was actively shopping around the idea of a stand alone UMD player to help spur the market a bit for UMD Movies (the market took off in a big way at launched but slowly cratered with the huge $30-40 asking prices per movie). The HD-DVD and Blu-Ray war pretty much killed it since there were just too many movie formats fighting it out on the shelves, but even if it didn't, the lower costs of memory sticks and rise of digital would have put the kabosh on that relatively quickly.
No one really knew about that, so source is me I guess.
No one really knew about that, so source is me I guess.
Fun fact: Sony was actively shopping around the idea of a stand alone UMD player to help spur the market a bit for UMD Movies (the market took off in a big way at launched but slowly cratered with the huge $30-40 asking prices per movie). The HD-DVD and Blu-Ray war pretty much killed it since there were just too many movie formats fighting it out on the shelves, but even if it didn't, the lower costs of memory sticks and rise of digital would have put the kabosh on that relatively quickly.
No one really knew about that, so source is me I guess.
Makes a lot of sense given Sony had a lot invested in movies and movie formats.
Fun fact: Sony was actively shopping around the idea of a stand alone UMD player to help spur the market a bit for UMD Movies (the market took off in a big way at launched but slowly cratered with the huge $30-40 asking prices per movie). The HD-DVD and Blu-Ray war pretty much killed it since there were just too many movie formats fighting it out on the shelves, but even if it didn't, the lower costs of memory sticks and rise of digital would have put the kabosh on that relatively quickly.
No one really knew about that, so source is me I guess.
Funny enough, reminds me of this mockup. Where the PS3 was gonna have a UMD drive built in. It's cool we got TV-out on the PSP-2000 and PSP-3000 models though.
Given how small it was I have doubts on whether they were ever seriously going to use it
From what I remember reading no one outside of Sony ever got to hold the thing.
Wow, I didn't realize the model was that small.
LambdaTeos
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all these are amazing !
the closest I have been to something like this is a dev xbox one
!the closest I have been to something like this is a dev xbox one
gingerbeardman
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He's at Apple these days. But he still plays consoles as well.
Annoying Old Party Man
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I have never, ever, EVER something so crazy as the "starpad" prototype controller. That Nintendo even publicized the pic is crazy - I would be ashamed to get something like this out.
I would have to have smoked a ton of weed to even consider this a viable idea.
I would have to have smoked a ton of weed to even consider this a viable idea.
Its got to play like DJ Hero
gingerbeardman
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Prototype Dreamcast is amazing
http://www.platypuscomix.net/interactive/protoboxes.html
Prototype Atari Jaguar controller
http://www.videogameauctions.com/be...e-boy-64/prototype-atari-jaguar-controller-3/
http://www.platypuscomix.net/interactive/protoboxes.html
Prototype Atari Jaguar controller
http://www.videogameauctions.com/be...e-boy-64/prototype-atari-jaguar-controller-3/
BladeoftheImmortal
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Awesome thread
PassiveObserver
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Love how they just shoved a VMU onto the Saturn 3D Control Pad on the upper left prototype.
diddykong13
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Prototype Atari Jaguar controller
http://www.videogameauctions.com/be...e-boy-64/prototype-atari-jaguar-controller-3/
People always post this and call it a prototype jaguar controller but outside of this auction that wasn't won, i dont buy it. For one, we know where the "jaguar" controller originated - the atari jaguar controller is just a black atari falcoln controller. Two, the jag standard doesnt support 4 analog axises as shown, only 1. This thing is most likely a prototype of the spacetec orb, not a jaguar controller.
Fourth Storm
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Does anyone have a picture of the N64 controller mock-up based on leaked info before the reveal? I think it may have been in Gamefan, but perhaps it was EGM. Loving this thread, btw.
Zalusithix
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Vive VR controller evolution. Mostly Valve's work.
Fourth Storm
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Not what I remember, but I had never seen that before so thanks! That mockup was on the money.
The guy pulling out a miniature noose was kind of morbid and random, though.
gingerbeardman
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Here's the story behind it. It is by Atari, made around Jaguar time, and ended up being released as the Spaceball Avenger.
http://spacemice.org/index.php?title=Mystery
qualitydisc
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Waddle Dee
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The Virtual Boy controller was originally going to be a bit more colorful.
Ah, so I wound up being correct (it i indeed ultimately wound up being a prototype for the Space Orb). I suspected that was a serial mouse connection, not a Jaguar connection. So that controller really has nothing to do with the Jaguar at all.
gingerbeardman
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Only somebody who was at Atari could really say what the timeline and original purpose of this prototype is.
Until then, I'm happy to call it a Jaguar prototype.
Knowing the history of the Atari Jaguar inside and out, this was never a Jaguar prototype for all the reasons I listed. Again, to recap:
-The Atari Jaguar controller existed way before the Atari Jaguar did
-The Atari Jaguar controller standard, the Atari Joystick Port, existed way before the Atari Jaguar did
-Flare, the people who designed and built the Jaguar, never showed this off, instead always using the Falcon Controller before even inking a deal with Atari
Sir Abacus
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blame space
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Masterfully designed to be fucking crap
Really glad the 3.5mm jack is in the new ones
None of those have the cord coming out fo the bottom, they have the vmu on the bottom (look at the buttons/analogs/dpads placements)
Sorcerer
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Wow. Completely saw that wrong. Thanks for pointing that out to me!!!