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A few months ago, a father and son discovered an odd console; the Nintendo Playstation, which harkens back to the failed collaboration between Sony and Nintendo. Now, this prototype system has been confirmed to indeed be real and functioning! The two owners took their console to the Retro HK Expo, and used it to play Street Fighter. The Nintendo Playstation boots up with a unique bios screen, but the CD drive is confirmed to not work.

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[EDIT: Credit to Chary for editing and formatting my turd of a post, making it look at thousand times better. Thanks!]

 

[Muffins]

It wasn't impractical, it was what developers wanted. They had been chafing at cartridge size limitations since the beginning of the Super NES era, and as it wore on the exorbitant cost and extreme space limitations of cartridge media became harder and harder to justify. Some companies like Tri Ace came up with ingenious compression algorithms to fit the games into such limited space, but other companies just threw their hands up and cut out content. The latter is what happened to Seiken Densetsu 2.
There's a reason why companies jumped on the PlayStation instead of the more powerful Nintendo 64.

 

[CIAwesome526]

I was just thinking about this on friday.....

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I want this thing so bad.

 

[FAST6191]

Teardown and repair (next video in the series) and closer look

 

[Bladexdsl]

I want this thing so bad.

for 1 game street fighter?!

 

[Langin]

Teardown and repair (next video in the series) and closer look

Thats a very nice video! Thank you for posting this. Could you also post their follow up video on this one once it's out?

 

[FAST6191]

Just noticed it was posted elsewhere in the forums yesterday, not sure if it is worth merging or closing various threads so I will leave it all as is.
http://gbatemp.net/threads/snes-playstation-teardown.434468/

My bad, not sure how I missed it. I just saw it clicking around bookmarks this morning.

 

[FAST6191]

Part 2 is out, and as it was asked for then posting here as well

 

[Deleted-379826]

Dang those videos are cool, will they ever find a disc though ?

 

[Langin]

Part 2 is out, and as it was asked for then posting here as well

Thank you for posting the video! I appreciate it!

 

[FAST6191]

The saga continues