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I guess this might be worth discussing? Not sure if it's a fake...if it is, it sure as hell is a very well done fake or a very well done photoshop.

http://www.gamesradar.com/original-sony ... prototype/

Just found this on Ars Technica recently, thought it might be of interest to everyone here -> http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/f ... iscovered/

I always wanted to see what one of these machines looked like, you know?

I smell a fake. I could be wrong, though.

If it's fake, it's the best "My Uncle Works at Nintendo" story ever.

That's similar to "Play Station" prototypes that I saw years ago. I imagine that it would have been available in two forms: the CD-ROM accessory for an existing Super NES and a single unit with both cart and CD slots.

I'm loving how people claim that thing at the back is a HDMI port (somebody never saw a PSX joystick port? because it sure as hell looks like the same as the two PS2 joysticks I have in my bedroom).

An hdmi port from what, 1993?

I'm so relieved that it seems to be genuine after all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCV6RusogAk

IT'S REEAL!!!!!!!!!`!!`!`1`~!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKLEBoowZJ8

I always love the way these things fall into the hands of people who have absolutely no business owning them.

"Looks like a Super Nintendo controller, but I'm not really sure." >_>

And handling it like it's a $10 toaster >___>

The video doesn't make me think it's any more real than the pictures did, though. (I don't know if it's fake or not, I'd say 50/50.) I wanna see the PCB.

This is very exciting indeed.

After three years, I finally get an opportunity to use the merge tool.

Might this be the same kind of Play Station that Dudley Dursley threw out? The PS1 came out in 1995 in our universe, but perhaps in the Harry Potter universe, the SNES CD accessory and the "Play Station" combo unit made it to market.

byuu wrote:The video doesn't make me think it's any more real than the pictures did, though. (I don't know if it's fake or not, I'd say 50/50.) I wanna see the PCB.

But then somebody could say the PCB is fake as well (especially since it'd have SNES components for the most part). Booting the ROM would be great, but then somebody would say it's just a SD2SNES inside the cartridge...

That's gonna be hard to prove as real.

Simple: take the cartridge apart.

What makes me belive it's fake are:

1) The original PlayStation would have been a CD extension that plugs in the bottom of the SNES. The original SNES controllers and console would have been used. Very similar to what the FDS is to the NES. There would not have been such a thing as PlayStation controllers.

2) I don't think any prototype unit was even made. The project was cancelled before when it was still in design phase. There was probably some early prototypes that Sony made that did not even connect yet to the SNES or something like that, then their contract was cancelled so they designed it so it would be a standalone machine instead.

Bregalad wrote:What makes me belive it's fake are:

1) The original PlayStation would have been a CD extension that plugs in the bottom of the SNES.

Both a CD accessory you mention and a combined "Duo" unit were available for the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16. In Turbo language, this would have been the "Super Nintendo Duo". Compare with Nintendo's later partnership with Panasonic to produce the Q: a Japan-only second-source GameCube that plays DVD-Video.

The original SNES controllers and console would have been used.

These are Super Famicom controllers; they just say PlayStation on them. The Turbo Duo also has slight cosmetic changes compared to the TG16 pack-in.


Left: Original TurboPad for the TurboGrafx-16. Right: Redesigned TurboPad for the Turbo Duo.