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[~llama]

I was setting up my SNES last night and i found (you guessed it) an expansion port on the bottom... what in the world was this for? i looked and i dont think its on the Rev. 2 SNES (the small one) so... was anything released for this?

[CPUWIZ]

The PS-X (SNES CD-addon) was supposed to be hooked up to that but it never came out because of a battle between Sony and Nintendo.

Yes you heard that right, the PSX is the SNES CD addon and not the PlayStation, which is why Sony employees were not allowed to call the PlayStation PSX.

[Nukey Shay]

Hm...but isn't the next gen. supposedly going to be called that?

[Classic Pac]

I have plunty of EGMs which called it a SNES add-on. The designs where weird compared to what it became. One even had a cartridge slot.

[MegaManFan]

If you look at my photos from the Classic Gaming Expo 2002, you'll see what it's like. It plugged into the SNES cart slot and hung over the back - it had a couple of "kick stands" to support it because of the size.

[Nukey Shay]

Don't you have a PSX prototype CPUWIZ? I thought there was an older thread around here someplace...

[CPUWIZ]

Nukey Shay said:

Don't you have a PSX prototype CPUWIZ?  I thought there was an older thread around here someplace...

I have the programming docs and a prototype controller but never got my hands on the actual hardware.

They were messing with it so much, first it was supposed to be underneith and then they tried the cart slot version (like MMF mentioned) and then they shitcanned it because of the battle between Sony and the big N.

[Ze_ro]

Ah, there are plenty of systems out there with expansion ports that were never really used. The 7800 had one initially, and it was never used.

--Zero

[~llama]

whoa! cool, i never knew anything about that... any good links to pictures of it?

im glad you guys knew what it was...

[JB]

Nukey Shay said:

Hm...but isn't the next gen. supposedly going to be called that?

No. The PSX that exists now is a home entertainment device that happens to play PS2 games.




Anyways, the expansion port was put there because it was the thing to do.
And in Japan, the reciever for the Satellaview service hooked up to it.

[Ze_ro]

JB said:

Nukey Shay said:

Hm...but isn't the next gen. supposedly going to be called that?

No. The PSX that exists now is a home entertainment device that happens to play PS2 games.

Yeah, but I think that CPUWIZ's point was that they couldn't use the PSX name due to copyright or trademark reasons. Those reasons would certainly still apply to their new machine.

--Zero

[Happy_Dude]

wasn't there a Disk drive for the SNES (Super Famicom) ?
like the ones for the NES & N64 ?

[Nukey Shay]

Ze_ro said:

JB said:

Nukey Shay said:

Hm...but isn't the next gen. supposedly going to be called that?

No. The PSX that exists now is a home entertainment device that happens to play PS2 games.

Yeah, but I think that CPUWIZ's point was that they couldn't use the PSX name due to copyright or trademark reasons. Those reasons would certainly still apply to their new machine.

--Zero

That's what I was wondering...so how could they use the name PSX without getting sued?

[Famicoman]

For whoever wanted pics:

[Bratwurst]

Anybody got pictures of software running on the PSX prototype?

[JB]

Happy_Dude said:

wasn't there a Disk drive for the SNES (Super Famicom) ?
like the ones for the NES & N64 ?

No.

...

Well, unless you mean one of the various 3rd-party game copiers that dumped the games out to floppy disks.
But those aren't really the same thing.

[MegaManFan]

Bratwurst said:

Anybody got pictures of software running on the PSX prototype?

I wish. Jerry said one of the games was an unreleased Disney title and due to copyright reasons it would/could never be publically exhibited.