This is the last remaining Nintendo Playstation Prototype. It features a working SNES cartridge slot and CD-ROM drive. Taken last year at MO Game Con 2017.
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This is the last remaining Nintendo Playstation Prototype. It features a working SNES cartridge slot and CD-ROM drive. Taken last year at MO Game Con 2017.
by Upuaut81
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[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM) [link](https://kotaku.com/hacker-makes-the-nintendo-playstation-fully-operational-1794968886)
So cool! It reminds me of when I was wandering around last Magfest and found a computer museum somewhat tucked away. I wasn’t even aware of it beforehand (must had missed it on guidebook) but they had a 3DS prototype, one of the ones that’s just a big board. I couldn’t believe I was seeing it in real life.
That Sony PlayStation SNES controller looks surreal.
Ben Heck did a teardown and some repairs on this unit. Good videos, worth a watch.
The last Nintendo PlayStation is in captivity. The industry is at peace.
Too bad all the game prototypes are lost to the sands of time, so all it can do is play SNES carts or run a system menu.
Makes me seriously wonder how things would have been now. Would Smash Bros even be a thing? Or would it have characters like Spyro, Crash, etc?
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
When is MO Game Con 2018 and where? if this thing is there I will HAVE to come see it.
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Is this from Ben Heck?
But does it work (with legit PS1 and SFC games)? That is the question.
Rip the firmware & make an EMU before it dies!
Would love to add that to my collection for PC tinkering.
Nah my uncle has 5
What might have been.
It seems like a cursed image but it’s not. Seeing Sony on a SNES controller is just so odd.
It feels weird to see the Sony logo on a Super Nintendo controller…
here’s probably *that guy* who’ll see it and brag that they can just get the same games on their retro pi
Yellowed, Checks out.
What da heck is dis and why haven’t I heard of it
I was there! Got to play it! 😁
I’m always baffled when I’m reminded that this thing exists. When it emerged a few years ago, it was like finding Bigfoot’s corpse. No one had any idea that *plans* for a prototype even existed, let alone an actual functional (on some level) prototype with the PlayStation name slapped on it. It went from a fun little factoid to tangible proof that Nintendo and Sony were well on their way to releasing a console together.
The only thing that could match that these days is finding a real functional Polybius machine, or a functional EarthBound 64 beta.
Is that Parappa the Rapper on the game cover?
Last remaining? Possibly, but not necessarily. We don’t know if any of the others out there are hidden away.
Ben Heck got it working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaIfPuziJ-0
My grandma tried to buy me one of these without even know it existed
Seeing this again reminds me of just how much of today’s modern game world we owe to Nintendo – it’s madness to think how different it might have been if Nintendo have never made the jump to make a console or if this project had ended up differently
That belongs in a museum
Last remaining prototype? What happened to all the others?
This is the only one *known* to exist. I’m sure locked away at Sony HQ or Nintendo HQ, there’s at least one or two somewhere. Sony has even published pictures of one variant that looks similar, but a little further in development. Here’s a link. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/n0ffZ25IFz0U9UByTKatZLznjVU=/0x0:1024×661/1200×800/filters:focal(431×250:593×412)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/54646621/1.0.jpg
Mom was always right. She constantly referred to my ps1 and ps2 as “Nintendo”
Last **known** remaining Nintendo PlayStation Prototype
I got to play it at MO Game Con last year. Most other cons have it under lock and key but the owner of it is really cool and he had it setup for play at MO Game Con. Got my but kicked in some Street Fighter II on it lol.
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Its weird that the word Nintendo isn’t on it anywhere at all.