from concept to final design on consoles

That reminds me... this is a little off topic, but back when Time Crisis was out, I wanted to recreate the arcade experience as much as possible. My dad and I found out that if you plug a second controller in with the Guncon, pressing any button will hide/reload. We rigged up a PS1 controller inside a foot pedal so that when you put your foot on it it presses buttons on the controller. I thought it was quite innovative.

 

I really dig the Super Famicom devolopment pics. The US SNES was so ugly in comparison.

 

Are there any photos of the Neo Geo concepts?

 

This is a Master System Proto owned by Omar - it doesnt look alot different but It does have different lettering on it and also a different looking (better?) bios..








and an Master System floppy drive, not sure who owns this, if anyone. This picture did appear in Retro Gamer's rare stuff artical (which seemed to mainly be about this forum) and they claimed it to be a picture from a mobile phone - but it was posted on SMSPower befor camara phones exsisted, apparently from Famitsu issue 12, page 7. - I have no more info


Perhaps it would have been better for Omar to post thease pics himself but I just wanted this thread to grow abit, it's got some cool in it stuff allready.

 

I wonder why Sega changed that cooler looking bios for the dull one western owners got stuck with? As for the Floppy, that would have been a very nice add on but you can't help feel it was Sega's last attempt to try and beat the Famicom in Japan.

Yakumo

 

Some legit 360 concepts




Getting Closer there to the final design..........

 

One thing I never recall seeing were any PS2 protos ... anybody have any info/pics?

 

Fake or Real I dunno

 

pretty cool

 

look like a proto

 

That's the SNES CD, GoH.

There was allegedly an unreleased Famicom design, too...



Mockups from EGM....





I remember a magazine publishing concept drawings of the Super Famicom, one of which looked much like the final design, but with more ports (3, I think?). I can't find it, though :-(

 

Just come across this topic now,.. all I can say is... Wet.... Is there something wrong with me?

 

You could also buy a foot pedal controller especially for the game, but yeah, great idea. Namco used to do things like that back in the day. Although the 'guest' always ended up with the toe cheese controller from then on OH:

 

Any Megadrive/Genesis proto pics?

 

Looking at those prototype PS1 controllers...damn. Some of those make the Bananarang look good. And why do I find that collection of proto-PS logoes faintly creepy?

On a side note, it's funny how a lot of these designs are all over the freakin' map, but most of the variations of the 360 are fairly close to what actually shipped. The main differences are the design of the power button, the number of front USB ports and whether there are multiple flaps for the USB ports or just one. It just surprises me how every single one uses the concave design...

 

I have some really whacky Dreamcast proto pictures if anyone is interested in seeing them. I used to have them all in a section over on my site but took them down a few years back.

Yakumo

 

I think that 360 proto Pikkon posted looks better than the released one. It looks like it's made out of high quality metal, rather than the crappy plastic that the final one got. I wonder if anyone makes metal faceplates for it?

Yakumo: Yeah, I'd love to see those pictures.

 

Are you kidding me? I've been waiting since the start of this thread :thumbsup: