Req: Snes prototype pictures and weird peripherals

I was wondering if someone have anything about this

the only weirdness i know of was the bandai's portable snes canned in 1991...
anything else?

 

well there was the weird ass street fighter controler for snes/super fami that was only released in japan, it looked like you used one hand with it, i could never understand the point of it.

 

Iposted loads of Prototype Famicom pictures about 1 year ago. THey're probably not here anymore since I posted them on the old boards.

Yakumo

 

prototype Sfamicom i guess you mean ?

 

That was released here...I owned one.
There were versions for the SNES, Genesis and even 3D0!

http://www.sega-16.com/Sega Peripherals/capcom pad.jpg

 

Soldier pad is probably the best home experience ive had with Streetfighter, great on 3DO.

 

nice pic, a little scary tought
is it any good to use?

 

It actually is quite comfortable! I bought mine at a Toys R Us clearance sale for something like $3.99 and never regretted it.
Very stable controller with good tactile feedback for the buttons.

 

seems nice. in my experience the best controllers for street fighters like games are the saturn and psx one. anyway i'm not good at playing them tought i like those games i get too excited ehrm whatever...

 

I've used the Genesis versions. They're quite good. They also work well with Galaga on Atari 7800!

 

If anyone has one of those to get rid of cheap, let me know - I'm always searching for new fighting game controllers.

Though if you are a fan of fighting games on the Genesis and SNES, I'd highly recommend the Capcom Power Fighter Stick if you can find one - they work beautifully, and in fact do an excellent job with any arcade port for that more authentic feel - shooters especially are more enjoyable this way.

 

Horizontal shooters are poo with joysticks IMO

 

Go play Progear with a pad and then say that.

 

I find Gradius III, Cotton 100%, Darius Twin, and Super R-Type on the SNES, and Sagaia and Steel Empire on the Genesis to be loads more fun (and precise) with a stick than with a pad. I've even hooked my monster of an arcade stick up to my PC for the various Mame shooters (both horizontal and vertical) that I have, and a pad just doesn't compare.

 

/sort of off topic/

GSL

Ever tried R-Type Final with a Stick? I've got this PS2/USB hybrid stick that was cheap as hell, but even has vibration feedback... man, it makes the game much more intense to play it with a stick instead of the pad. Silpheed also rocks played like that. If I had some sort of double-stick thing for the PS2, I'm sure Zone of the Enders 2 would be magnificent as well.

I found Gradius V very uncomfortable with a stick, though. Viewtiful Joe was quite difficult that way, as well.

Shooters rock when played with a joystick, generally.

 

yakumo.......i really like prototype systems....is there any way you could post some pics or direct me to a forum with some..or maybe send me some pics?

 

I someone has a good set of US Nintendo Power Magazines, there was an article a little before the US SNES was revealed that showed several mockups of what it might look like. Really interesting.

And RyanGamer... Search the forum. Old posts carried over from the old forum. Or just stick around...stuff like this comes up all the time...

 

http://www.tinypic.com/27ghk

this first image shows two Famicom systems. the larger one on the right
is a prototype of the 16-bit Super Famicom. the smaller one on the
left, with the yellow cartridge, is an unreleased version of the 8-bit
Famicom. it is actually not the original version of the Famicom dispite
what the caption from the magazine says. that above picture is from
EGM Number 2 which came out in summer 1989. EGM was just becoming a
monthly magazine at that time.

I had assumed for many years that the white Famicom in that picture was
how the Japanese Famicom looked, until I got the internet and learned
that the original Famicom was much different looking.


what that white Famicom seems to be, is something called the "Famicom
Adaptor" even though it doesn't seem to be an adaptor for the Famicom
or Super Famicom, but a self-contained Famicom that plays the 8-bit
Nintendo games.

okay now check out these pictures from a Japanese magazine

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/misc/sfcproto01.jpg
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/misc/sfcproto02.jpg
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/misc/sfcproto03.jpg

and some comments about that magazine article from Chris Covell, a guy
who has this really amazing page about unreleased Japanese games

CC:
"And below is a really amazing find! This comes from an announcement of
the Super Famicom hardware, in February 1989. The article discusses
some of the features of the new system (stereo sound, scaling, ROM
size, etc...) But the system pictures are intriguing, to say the least!
The system on the left side of the page is a redesigned Famicom, called
a "Famicom adaptor". Who knows if it connected with the SFC as an
adaptor, or if it was just a fancy name for a redesigned Famicom to
complement the SFC design. This new FC design wasn't produced.

BUT! That picture on the right side of the page shows an early design
of the SFC, as above. This time, the labels of the switches are clearly
visible: Power Switch; FAMICOM Switch, and Reset Switch! Is this the
fabled Super Famicom prototype that was backwards-compatible with
Famicom games? It looks possible.."


personally, I really love the design of that white Famicom / Famicom
Adaptor system.


Also, here are more pictures of several different Super Famicom
prototypes / casings

ver. 1: same as the one in the first image at the top)

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/misc/EarlySFC.JPG
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/snes/history/images/snesproto1.jpg
http://www.tinypic.com/27g9u

(ver. 2)
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/1990/earlySFC1.jpg

(ver. 3)
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/1990/earlySFC2.jpg

(ver. 4?) a possible *hoax* Super Famicom proto picture
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/1991/SFCHoax.jpg

there are some other prototype-concept-mock up pictures of the American
Super SNES / Super Nintendo / SNES from Nintendo Power and EGM that I
have not been able to find online. If anyone has these that can also
post them, I would love to see them again.

 

Sorry, the pictures I posted were pretty much like the ones in the above post apart from being maybe better quality plus a few different ones. However I no longer have these images and I'm pretty sure that the ones I posted were lost when the boards moved over to the system they are running on now

Yakumo

 

BTW, getting back off topic, I can recommend the PSX Horipad for anyone who wants to play Street Fighter (or other D-pad/6 button intensive games) on PSX/PS2, it can probably be had for peanuts, I bought mine with a lot of other PSX hardware at a flea market for 10e.