Was looking around online, and came across some information about the Super Famicom from two years before the Japanese release. Lots of really interesting stuff, including an AV Input for backwards compatibility (lol, xbone) and other removed functionality such as a headphone socket. Hopefully posting the scans here is alright (the magazines are twenty years old!). I'll remove them if requested.
Headphone jack, composite input and Famicom compatibility. As noted on this website,
Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Sort of like an upcoming microsoft console! You can see the phono inputs on the back of the prototype in these shots. Apparently, there was nothing stopping you plugging other video devices into it. Hell, you could even plug in a cable or satellite box if needed.
The controller had thinner shoulder buttons, fully concave buttons and a different naming scheme for them.
Some higher quality shots of the console as well as Dragonfly - the Pilotwings prototype.
There's far more on the webpage - http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1988Q4.html
It's interesting anyhow. Very cool to see features that Nintendo came up with two decades ago are still being introduced to consoles even today.
Headphone jack, composite input and Famicom compatibility. As noted on this website,
"The SFC is completely incompatible with the Famicom!!"
The page explains how the SFC has no backwards-compatibility with the old Famicom. The SFC will, however, have an A/V input on the back which will accept the A/V signals of the "Famicom Adaptor", the redesigned Famicom with A/V outputs.
Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Sort of like an upcoming microsoft console! You can see the phono inputs on the back of the prototype in these shots. Apparently, there was nothing stopping you plugging other video devices into it. Hell, you could even plug in a cable or satellite box if needed.
The controller had thinner shoulder buttons, fully concave buttons and a different naming scheme for them.
Some higher quality shots of the console as well as Dragonfly - the Pilotwings prototype.
There's far more on the webpage - http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1988Q4.html
It's interesting anyhow. Very cool to see features that Nintendo came up with two decades ago are still being introduced to consoles even today.