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[shuri]

taken several sites
http://www.assemblergames.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2592
http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playstation_perfect_guide/snes_psx/index.html

and according to Nintendomad from the assembler forums:

I have had word from several of my dev sources that this is indeed the real mccoy, an early unit similar to the final design.The final jap sony design was to be square in shape but without the extra cart connector, this was probably to test if it would work in tandem with a snes.There were several kits handed out and Virgin had a couple of them to produce the snes cd version of the seventh guest.Sony had literally hundreds of these units so why there is so much suspicion is beyond me, we all knew that one day someone would show them.EGM saw the nintendo version behind closed doors and even showed you a pic of the ram add on for the system which went into the cart slot like the fc one.

We have to remeber that this like any other project would surface one day, the cd slot even looks perfect the caddy dosk system was being used, kinda like umd.

 

[Speevy]

Wow. The face of gaming in an alternate universe.

 

[Suikoguy]

I guess its only use was a weapon

 

[MassiveAttack]

Is that Kutaragi's blood?

 

[neptunes]

:lol

 

[Speevy]

Is that Kutaragi's blood?

Yeah, that was after Yamauchi bludgeoned him with it during the close of "negotiations".

"You fool! There's no way we will accept such low royalties. You will pay for your insolence. The Playstation name will never see the light of day!"

 

[Mr_Furious]

an early unit similar to the final design.The final jap sony design was to be square in shape but without the extra cart connector

It's a dev unit and is significantly different than what the "final" unit was going to look like. The retail unit was going to rest underneath the SNES/SF. The unit pictured above plugs into the top of the cart bay with some extender/pass through cart port on top.

This is much closer to the supposed final design:

 

[neptunes]

?

 

[mumu]

The disk drive was a backup system.

 

[Speevy]

This is much closer to the supposed final design:

Looks like a Panasonic Q/Fax Machine combo.

 

[DrGAKMAN]

It's a dev unit and is significantly different than what the "final" unit was going to look like. The retail unit was going to rest underneath the SNES/SF. The unit pictured above plugs into the top of the cart bay with some extender/pass through cart port on top.

This is much closer to the supposed final design:

There were about ten distinctly different machines around the time, the one you have pictured was ALL Nintendo and was what they envisioned the system to be...an ADD-ON. Sony had CD-only and CD + SNES cart machines...and that was one of the dissagreements, Sony was making all-in-one and totally seperate CD-only (not add-on's in other words) PlayStations with Nintendo basically bitched into making games for Sony's machine's. Nintendo wanted a mere add-on to the existing (and profitable) Super Famicom (SNES) as an "upgrade", but Sony was really wanting control and to take this whole thing as thier own. There's TONS to it, but the only thing I notice different in these new pics is that they're Sony made, have the cart & disc drive layout AND the disc drive seems to take encased disk's (which were ultimatly Nintendo's gripe as they wanted the discs to have a bit of memory for saving games, wanted durability & they wanted to help deter piracy).

 

[Defensor]

?

Hehe... my ol' snapshot for cellapu. I think I have them scanned now...

 

[DrGAKMAN]

At second glance this doesn't look like even a prototype retail design. The controller looks almost hard-wired in and it looks to be device that sits on top of the SNES/Super Famicom with a cart pass-thru.

neptunes...
Where did you get that pic??? Looks like a Nintendo-made all-in-one CD-only machine with SNES controller ports and possibly a cart intake? Looks alot like the other one, only with no cart pass-thru (suggesting it's not an add-on) and it has controller ports (suggesting it's a seperate self contained all-in-one machine)???

 

[montanha]

Wow. The face of gaming in an alternate universe.

shit, my thoughts exactly.. :lol

 

[neptunes]

So this is when sony got over the nintendo affair right?

 

[Defensor]

 

[neptunes]

Thanks defensor

Whenever you have time, could scan the entire feature?

You posted it a while back, but they were all blurry.

 

[DopeyFish]

it's funny how Sony leapfrogged over Nintendo into the game industry and Microsoft leapfrogged over Sega into the game industry.

Talk about a double-burn.

 

[Saki]

Is that Kutaragi's blood?

:lol

 

[Defensor]

Here you go neptunes:

http://img51.exs.cx/img51/5776/earlypsx01.jpg
http://img51.exs.cx/img51/9076/earlypsx02.jpg

If I have time, I'll rescan the entire article.

 

[neptunes]

Thanks

 

[ferricide]

what mag is that scan from? the writing is so aggressively mediocre.

not to mention that consumer DVD players started to come out in 1997, which was three years after PS1 (12/3/94.) =P

 

[DrGAKMAN]

Just off the top of my head, there was a short time when Sony, Nintendo *and* Philips were all working together on a disc format called either Super Disc or Super CD that would be a universal format that would play in each of the different machines. Later, that became what was implimented into Philips CDi, which not only played CD's, interactive CD's and game CD's but also played a form of VCD with movies on them as well.

 

[I Work For UbiSoft]

Nice article... Thanks...