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SNES CD (original PSX) - What do we know about it?

Fabrizo - Oct 24, 2001

		Fabrizo		Oct 24, 2001
			I started thinking of this for three reasons: 1. The 64DD post in the N64 section got me thinking of rare and non released systems. 2. Something I realized a couple months ago: The original Playstation which was going to be the SNES CD drive was called PlaystationX, later renamed to Playstation, is still using the original abreviation: PSX. And 3. The SNES section of NX's board needs more forums then the one for the best Game for the system that I made a couple of weeks ago. Anyhow, what do any of you know about it? What games were in the works for it? How fast was its drive? Did it just creat a larger storage medium for the system or did it add mhz? And anything else you can come up with. Also, has a prototype ever gone on sale on ebay or yahoo that you know of? Any info would be nice to have on this unique piece of gaming history. (Edited by Fabrizo at 12:23 am on Oct. 25, 2001)

		Karny		Oct 25, 2001
			As far as I know the SNESCD never even made the prototype stages. Nintendo dropped the idea after the failure of the SegaCD. The best info I've seen was a 2 page EGM (I think) article. I'll try find a scan of it.

		Karny		Oct 25, 2001
			Unfortunately I haven't managed to find that EGM scan, but I have found a couple of pages with some details. The best being: This one... And this one... I'll continue looking for that scan...

		Commanda		Nov 6, 2001
			Apprently there are a few floating around the ebay equivalent in japan if you know japanese and there are some games (most of them it has to be said are pirates) also avaliable in that country, particularly at markets and the like. There are two models.. the nintendo sony effort and the sony only version. I beleive both play the same games (need some modding but according to a site which i can't remember the name of it is possible) "and thats all i know there isn't any more"

		calganagain		Jan 26, 2002
			I believe there is some info. in the document on this... site.

		Ratamahatta		Feb 21, 2002
			The snes CD was never released due to a fallout between Sony and Nintendo.

		eatpenguin		Feb 21, 2002
			...stating the obvious?

		Ratamahatta		Feb 28, 2002
			Well its obvious now but back then it wasnt. Nintendo shoulda just tried to develop the system itself, with the enhancements the snes had over the genesis it would have been a nice little cd unit.

		Karny		Mar 4, 2002
			The problem with add-on devices is that they generally don't sell very well and thus have a limited install base. This is what killed the SegaCD and 32X and to a large extent limited the effectiveness of the N64's Expansion Pak. Developers have to decide whether they want to work on the best technology or target the largest market share and more often than not, the publishers will go with where the money is...

		eatpenguin		Mar 11, 2002
			at least, many n64 games released towards the end almost required the expansion pack to look half-way decent.

		Karny		Mar 11, 2002
			Yea. I think the Empansion Pak is easily on of the better addons to be released for a console. And packaging it with DK64 was a good idea too, considering the very high sales of that title.

		SegaSaturnDDR		Mar 29, 2002
			the things on ebay ar for piracy purposes, they just play roms burned onto a cd.Lan-kwei sells em. i wish i could remember where, but once i saw a big article on the SNES cd, and the only realy interesting thing about it is that the cds came is a case (kinda like old apple cd roms) and they had a small ram chip on them to save games. i think the system was about 2x the clockspeed of snes, and of corse hooked up to the bottom.