Possible Sega Saturn Prototypes

Just bumping this to inform that i merged all discussions about these prototype shells to this topic.

Posts from the "The Real Sega Pluto" topic (one of them made by me) and a topic started by Fran are now here.

 

More news about them.
Model C has appeared on Ebay:
https://www.ebay.es/itm/SEGA-SATURN...807545?hash=item1a39f994b9:g:J9EAAOSwdW9aC1uk

Wish I had that ammount of money to spend. For me that model is awesome, and the best of both of them.

 

Oh man if I had much, much more money I'd scoop that up too.

 

I think that the guy who owns the two prototype mock-ups should do a restoration project on them, don't you think?

 

Those are pretty sharp. Any idea how this person stumbled upon it?

 

That thought scares me...there's only one of each of these in existence we know of, if anything went wrong I'd cry.

 

Dont encourage non-professionals to do restoration, that's how we end up with arcade cabinets with spray paint and sharpie Leave them how they were, clean them up perhaps (by a professional with the right stuff) to look as good as the object can, and leave it. Anyone who wants one that is restored could take an image and Photoshop it, or 3d scan it and build a replica. If they had the chunk that was missing from the bottom, it might be worth having a pro take a shot at it, but I personally feel (and that's just me talking) that it should be left and conserved as minimally as possible as not to permanently alter the item.

It's the same as people wanting the SNES Play Station prototype to be retrobrited, that scares me.

 

I am sorry for having said that. What was I thinking?

EDIT: Just great. I killed the conversation!

 

The spanish magazine Hobby consolas that have been in the market for more than 30 years has an article on this model and its announce on ebay

https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/exotico-prototipo-sega-saturn-nunca-antes-visto-venta-175686

For those of you who dont read spanish, is is a mere translation of the Youtube video, but it has good quality pictures.

 

They keep repeating that it is a saturn proto when all indicates it isn't.

 

They're early mock-ups

 

It makes it sound more interesting than it actually is, like when that old Sonic Xtreme boss engine demo was labeled as "Nights engine".

The one on the ebay link is definitely not a Saturn proto, it dates to something like 92-93, it predates the Saturn. It's just a concept case anyway. I believe it was for a "Gigadrive" project, but who knows now if that was ever a thing or not.

The silver one is definitely a Saturn mockup, it was shown in magazines and in trade shows. One magazine, I think EGM, showed a sketch of it. The earliest Saturn developer docs use that design too. And I recall some patents using that drawing as well.

They are both mockups like the, what was it, Neptune case - that unit that was supposed to be a 32x built into a Genesis 2.

 

It's no different than the people talking about the Sony / Nintendo PlayStation and asking the owner to try a PlayStation game to see "if it works".

They confuse two different things / systems because of the name... one of them only exists because the former wasn't even released!

 

https://www.ebay.es/itm/SEGA-SATURN...NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE-SEGA-CHAMPAGNE/112650150366

If only I had money to burn.

 

Am I crazy in thinking 4500 euro is not too insane of an asking price? Tempted...

What are these things typically made of?

 

Agreed. I think that a Gigadrive prototype is way more interesting than a Saturn one, because it's simply never released, and we have almost no information about it.

 

It seems that the Gigadrive one was sold already.
And it was much more expensive than the one left.
What is strange is that both were not sold at the same time.
So bad I am so poor