vagabondarts
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Same lol. Its like someone throwing around the holy grail
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Nintendo PlayStation...so, apparently someone has one.
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Same lol. Its like someone throwing around the holy grail
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
That's a retro machine I would Kickstart in a heartbeat. Someone reverse engineer it.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Maybe he could sell it to a museum. Then everyone wins, kind of.
So true but won't pay enough I guess. People became greedy with all those ebay auctions and high prices for rare stuff. :-/
NoFaceNico
Member
As much as I'd like to make a snarky post about your trip to La-La Land, this prototype seems to show that this line of thinking isn't all that crazy.
I'm shocked by how many Sony logos are on this thing. Even the plugs for the controller have Sony written on them. The only Nintendo logo I see is the SFC icon and Nintendo branding on the back of the controller. This pretty much is a stand alone Sony console. It makes me think- could it be that maybe Nintendo wanted to pass full control of their hardware over to Sony? After all, this was the era when CDs were taking over and I hear that's why they wanted to collaborate with Sony in the first place since they had more experience with CD hardware.
vagabondarts
Member
Imagine this is you. Non gamer possibly. Someone offers you $200,000.00 United States Dollars for it. What do you do? You look around your kitchen and stare at the linoleum countertops and say yes.
Chances this console ends up with the highest bidder seem high.
Chances this console ends up with the highest bidder seem high.
Well, the contract stated that the stand-alone console would be Sony branded. Nintendo would have got the add-on for the SNES which would have turned it into the same thing but with their name on it. And the N64 would never have existed.
No kidding. Who knows if the capacitors are dead, or the motherboard fried, or any number of things. Just hooking it up to a power line could irreparably damage it if the internals have a short. Hand the thing over to an expert, pronto!
Then put it into a museum.
SirUltimos
Member
Some people seem to think this is fake (based on flimsy evidence, mind you) but I really, really want this to be real. This is the holy grail as far as videogame history goes.
People in this thread need to realize that the same complaints that you have against myself and other AG staff is the same thing people say about this place. There are rules in place that need to be followed regardless, there aren't exemptions.
I have this prototype controller, which was used in the early standalone Post-Nintendo age, although rumors and conversations that others have had with Sony employees imply it was used at the tail end of the Nintendo work as well.
I have this prototype controller, which was used in the early standalone Post-Nintendo age, although rumors and conversations that others have had with Sony employees imply it was used at the tail end of the Nintendo work as well.
vagabondarts
Member
People in this thread need to realize that the same complaints that you have against myself and other AG staff is the same thing people say about this place. There are rules in place that need to be followed regardless, there aren't exemptions.
I have this prototype controller, which was used in the early standalone Post-Nintendo age, although rumors and conversations that others have had with Sony employees imply it was used at the tail end of the Nintendo work as well.
That's awesome.
this is all so exciting!Haha yes, Mom's have been vindicated.
Was she disappointed when she bought you Halo and it didn't work?
People in this thread need to realize that the same complaints that you have against myself and other AG staff is the same thing people say about this place. There are rules in place that need to be followed regardless, there aren't exemptions.
I have this prototype controller, which was used in the early standalone Post-Nintendo age, although rumors and conversations that others have had with Sony employees imply it was used at the tail end of the Nintendo work as well.
Very cool indeed. It's great to see all this stuff.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
sixteen-bit
Member
It would be neat if they coul locate SNES CD-ROM game prototypes too
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Hahaha, same here.
shanafan
Member
"It looks like a Super Nintendo controller, but I'm not sure."
Gold. I love the quote from the video, and the GIF from one of my favorite movies.
Sky Interloper
Member
I didn't know the thing actually went into production. That a damn unicorn if I have seen one.
Also, that yellow discoloration.
Also, that yellow discoloration.
biggersmaller
Banned
Looks legit. Now power it up and see what's on that cart. If it shorts and burns his parent's house down...thus sayeth Ken Kutaragi.
dark_prinny
Banned
This is amazing.
It didn't go into full-scale production. They made a run of about 200 units for demonstration and development purposes. Typically as many of they could get back into their hands would be destroyed, which is horrible for those of us who love the history of these things.
dark_prinny
Banned
:lol
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
But then it says he may be lying also. Plot thickens.
Either way, it's a damn good fake if it is one.
lol, they did a great job.
Last_colossi
Member
OMG... If this isn't fake that is incredible. Please give this to a professional computer engineer (maybe someone at ifixit) to disassemble and assess if it is in a good enough state to boot, then and only then boot it up and see what happens.
Dude stop, read the whole thread before just linking to that.
Eurogamer article states:
UPDATE 6.20pm: Good news - claims that today's find of a PlayStation SNES console were faked have now been cleared up and proven incorrect.
French site Pxlbbq has clarified, and modder Vadu Amka agreed, that suspicion the console was a fake was simply a joke between the two after neither could believe how rare the find was - one that some mistook for an actual admission due to patchy Google translation.
"Google Translate isn't perfect. But the media give [sic] me to smile...
So this might still be true.
chronic_archaic
Member
Keep reading. It's been confirmed the french girl is teasing and has no involvement with the owner.
In other words - nobody knows if it's real or a hoak yet. We don't know.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
minor effort
Banned
Right now the tweet saying it's fake with a little winking
stands as much flimsier evidence than a physical object.
vagabondarts
Member
It's not fake, keep reading
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Seems to be a joke.
THE NINTENDO PLAY STATION IS STILL REAL!
THE NINTENDO PLAY STATION IS STILL REAL!
Charoncaori
Member
It's not fake, that was a clickbait article in french that was released before the video of the system was posted. Read the whole thread, it's not that long.
He's lying
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...ony-playstation-snes-console-spotted-pictured
edit: beaten by 100million
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Yes!!! There is still hope!
Discomurf
Member
Dont think its fake - Dude posted a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCV6RusogAk
OP: maybe you should add this.
EDIT: Beaten x2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCV6RusogAk
OP: maybe you should add this.
EDIT: Beaten x2
NoFaceNico
Member
Those people are idiots. They were led to believe that because some French guy on Twitter who makes shitty custom cases was saying something like "Oh hey, there's my latest creation! Looks real, doesn't it? You guys got me, it's fake!"
I'm sure this is real, what I'm not sure of though is whether all of it will work. I think he's missing a component. The previous pic we've seen of this console includes what looks like a link-up cartridge thingy that we saw in both the original Famicom Disk System and the proposed SNES Disc add-on.
He has stated that he has a disk and a cartridge but it clearly isn't the same color as a regular SFC cart. The cartridge is probably similar to the Nintendo Power Flash Memory Cartridge. Some speculate that it might have been used by the console as a memory card, which is similar to what Sega did.
The Memory Cartridge, when used on a regular SFC, was meant to be taken to a store kiosk where you would download games, kinda like a pre-internet e-shop. And of course, the writing on the cart says it's for demo use, so who knows if it even has a game on it or interacts with the CD part of the console at all. The CD part might just be for show, we don't know how early of a prototype this is.
Another thing you have to ask is- how did it end up here in the USA? I know the Nintendo-Sony partnership was discussed at the CES show, but did this console make an appearance there? Does anyone have any evidence of it being shown to journalists, or investors or anyone else in the USA? It's possible that this console doesn't "work" in the sense that it doesn't play games. It might just run a demo program that was shown off to stockholders or something and the CD part doesn't function and was just used to say "look here, it's that snazzy CD tech you've been hearing about."
PumpkinSpice
Banned
That video had me wincing like 100 times. Imagine if he had dropped it.