SNES Playstation Prototype!

[FAST6191]

The yellowing is likely false aging as well, either that or using real parts from a yellow SNES but it sucks that this is fake.

Is there actual evidence of a fake now? The yellowing on the bottom is quite common in old plastic consumer devices and if they just reused the base but spun up a few tops with a matching screw arrangement and without all the fire retardants that tend to see yellowing happen (all well within reason for a prototype/test lab type arrangement), then that is common enough in prototyping, especially 90's prototyping.

 

[Cyan]

visually it looks legit to me. All little details are well polished and looks like a real unit.
If it's a fake, it's a good one and the author spent a lot of time to create it.

 

[cammelspit]

Please God, let someone with a decent bench power supply and a screwdriver power this thing up first! You do a quick inspection for any obvious signs of damage but since it's been in storage and not in use it's very likely that if anything a couple caps may be bad but even then it is likely to work. Just hook up the bench supply and set it to the voltage written on the back of the unit and the supply will give you the correct amp input. This way you could tell exactly what the unit draws and even just buy a normal power supply that will work in the machine. Everything about the look of this unit tells me it is likely to be real, no smoking guns to imply fakery. First I would try the included cart, this is most likely to be a development version of the system software, most likely before that system software would have been built into the unit in an EEPROM or even a one time flashable micro, this was common in the early 90s. THEN, if it does not work then you test a regular SNES/SFC cart. The age of the cart and assuming it is flashable for software updates the flash may just be damaged but the unit may still work. Then and only then I'd try a disc, optical drives would be the most likely to just not work. All this could be done in maybe 30 minutes at more or less any electrical engineering lab, even a home lab of pretty much anyone with any kind of moderate skill. I can't wait to see how this one pans out tho...

 

[happy_bunny]

the japanese writing on the snes cassette reads "demo"

 

[Dax_Fame]

"Not fake. Not made by some Russian dude" Yeah, made by some American

I'm sorry, but in the days of 3D printing I'm not convinced. It just happened to show up after all these years huh? Just one? Not likely... Turn it on, that would be the real test. But I'm sure some dickless virgin in a basement could eventually jimmy rig it somehow with a raspberry pi and emulation just to be super l337 beta prototype leak kid on the interwebs. Yawn*

Just some troll looking for traffic to his shitty YouTube channel with 3 videos

 

[FAST6191]

If that is a 3d printed effort I am mightily impressed. The overall size, surface finish and feature size are doable but it would take someone that knows what goes and if you have one of them it has been readily (and probably about as cheaply) fakeable since the thing was a prototype and before.

"just one" and "after all these years"
What is the matter with just one? The multi unit burn in/failure testing thing tends not to be done by the same people that need one to test beta software/basic handling/some exec that needs to be looped in to feel special.
Likewise who hasn't found something odd buried in a basement/attic/box in the cupboard at some point?

I am all for being cynical but I do try to ground it in something.

 

[Hungry Friend]

Is there actual evidence of a fake now? The yellowing on the bottom is quite common in old plastic consumer devices and if they just reused the base but spun up a few tops with a matching screw arrangement and without all the fire retardants that tend to see yellowing happen (all well within reason for a prototype/test lab type arrangement), then that is common enough in prototyping, especially 90's prototyping.

I'm just incredibly skeptical & as far as I know there is no absolute 100% proof either way.

 

[Sliter]

show it working and disasembled (pices, circuit and stuff) or it's fake, simple like this :v everyone could make an looking real hoax without showing much of it , like the old "Ariana's triforce on oot" or most recently, Rayman on smash4

I would why people like much to fool the others with same powers they could do something really usefull for the humanity xD thinking that it call atention and can become a good job is a bit selfish ... but is a way, anyay

 

[FAST6191]

I am skeptical about all things too; it is a good way to live life. However in this instance I have seen nothing does anything more than intrigue me further, though I do still have to read that assemblergames thread.

 

[Sliter]

well by myself I'm really very curious xD, of course being an " rare eletronic device" , the people would like to see it working and unset :v PRESSING THE DANM BUTTONS!!!1111 (they did it with New3DS and 2DS when came out, why ot this? XD) Saying " oh I have no cables" ... pff come on you don't even need to understand eletricty stuff to find someone that can help you t get a font on right voltage
also wasn't a vido that wa sposted there , nobody saw it by monts and sudden lot's of views, was like posted and shared right way

 

[TecXero]

I tend to be a cynical person, but everything makes sense with this, and not in a "too good to be true" way. I'm not getting invested in it, so if it turns out to be fake then I'll just say "bummer" and move on. I am interested in it, however, and will probably follow it casually unless something technical comes up that I can dig into. I'm just not getting any red flags from this, considering how past prototypes of various games/consoles/handhelds have been found before.

 

[Dax_Fame]

The part where the famicon cart is inserted in particular looks dreadful. The logo on the controller looks crude, labels could easily be made for it. Funny how it seems to just be a mash up of consoles. No changes at all? Slightly different style controller perhaps? Even for a prototype, I don't think Sony or Nintendo had anything to do with this junky looking thing.

I'm not even going to consider the possibility that this could be real until I see it running.

 

[TecXero]

The part where the famicon cart is inserted in particular looks dreadful. The logo on the controller looks crude, labels could easily be made for it. Funny how it seems to just be a mash up of consoles. No changes at all? Slightly different style controller perhaps? Even for a prototype, I don't think Sony or Nintendo had anything to do with this junky looking thing.

I'm not even going to consider the possibility that this could be real until I see it running.

Prototypes normally look a bit rough. Granted this looks a bit more rough than other console prototypes that have popped up, but this was probably an early "proof-of-concept" prototype. Not something meant for anyone outside of the company to see. Later prototypes probably would have been designed to be more appealing. You could be right, and I completely understand being skeptical about it, but it just comes off a bit silly to dismiss a prototype because it doesn't look like a finished product.

 

[LuigiBlood]

I am skeptical about all things too; it is a good way to live life. However in this instance I have seen nothing does anything more than intrigue me further, though I do still have to read that assemblergames thread.

Don't read that thread. It's a huge mess.
You're better waiting for a new videos/pics or even dumps.

 

[Foxi4]

Prototypes normally look a bit rough. Granted this looks a bit more rough than other console prototypes that have popped up, but this was probably an early "proof-of-concept" prototype. Not something meant for anyone outside of the company to see. Later prototypes probably would have been designed to be more appealing. You could be right, and I completely understand being skeptical about it, but it just comes off a bit silly to dismiss a prototype because it doesn't look like a finished product.

It closely resembles the patent and the promotional photographs/drawings, it's as close to the "final product" as you could get. The "prototype" of the expansion model looked ultra-crude in comparison:

 

[Sliter]

yeah, like this I guess

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the images threse looks much a semi finished thing :v like " complete console" even if a " tet version" , but everything everybody said here XD

 

[FAST6191]

Don't read that thread. It's a huge mess.
You're better waiting for a new videos/pics or even dumps.

There was a nice summary at the start of it so I read that and left it there.

"Funny how it seems to just be a mash up of consoles."
For a prototype if you have some reasonably good fitting cases from something else, like an earlier console you might be using this as an addon for, you tend to want to do that rather than bother your case designers (and injection moulders) for a whole new batch.

 

[Foxi4]

There was a nice summary at the start of it so I read that and left it there.

"Funny how it seems to just be a mash up of consoles."
For a prototype if you have some reasonably good fitting cases from something else, like an earlier console you might be using this as an addon for, you tend to want to do that rather than bother your case designers (and injection moulders) for a whole new batch.

People are forgetting that this comes from a time when 3D printers didn't exist and you couldn't just "make a case" whenever you felt like it - it was a difficult process in and out of itself, which is why most stuff from that era is blocky even as final products.

 

[FAST6191]

3d printers did exist back then and we actually reasonably accurate and printed sturdy enough material -- a lot of the patents from that era are now expiring which helped with this recent push for them over the last couple of years. They did however cost somewhere in the region of a decent sized house for one, nothing outside the scope of 80's/90's era Sony R&D if they really wanted it but nothing most mortals could afford. That said I looked at the photos and it showed various hallmarks of injection moulding.

All that said making a case on a whim, especially for a prototype batch, would certainly not have endeared you to your bosses back then.

 

[Foxi4]

3d printers did exist back then and we actually reasonably accurate and printed sturdy enough material -- a lot of the patents from that era are now expiring which helped with this recent push for them over the last couple of years. They did however cost somewhere in the region of a decent sized house for one, nothing outside the scope of 80's/90's era Sony R&D if they really wanted it but nothing most mortals could afford. That said I looked at the photos and it showed various hallmarks of injection moulding.

All that said making a case on a whim, especially for a prototype batch, would certainly not have endeared you to your bosses back then.

If a technology exists, but isn't used, then we can pretty much dismiss it.