SNES Cd-Rom FAQ!!!

if you can provide some scans or other reliable infos i'll be happy to insert them in the FAQ and give credit to you for finding them!

Let's keep up the good work! and thanx to all the people who tried to help so far!

 

Hello, was just lurking by and seen this topic.
I can add Sewer Shark and Night Trap and Chrono Trigger as being
in development or planned for the unit.
There was a fairly big article in Super Play years ago about Chrono Trigger just before it was released in Japan. There was an interview with the dev's who referred to the game as " a cd game that thankfully fits on cartridge "
Super Play then mentioned that Ted Woolsey had made similar comments about Secret of Mana in a previous issue. Not really sure what to think about that, maybe in the intial design stages Chrono was planned for the CD drive.

In the case of Sewer Shark and Night Trap im going to steal some info from The First Quarter a book by Steven Kent ( republished under a different name).

Tom Zito had in the mid eighties run a project called Nemo in conjunction with Hasbro with the intent of creating an interactive movie system. The prototype used a Colecovision( im serious! ) because the coleco's graphics chip allowed video to be passed thru ( long story! ). Anyways to cut to the chase two games where created Sewer Shark and Night Trap, the project was dropped by Hasbro probably due to the lack of cheap digital video storage in the eighties....
The games sat on the shelf until two exec's from Sony, looking for software for the nintendo playstation, chanced upon a video tape of Sewer Shark and got Zito to start work on porting the games to the playstation ( i assume with just a snes dev kit ), this went on for a year until it became apparent the Sony/Nintendo deal was starting to fall apart and the games where diverted to the Mega CD in time for the US launch.

Also a bit of extra info on The 7th Guest, nintendo spent a fair bit of cash, signing the exclusive console rights to the game ( I think ). Im sure Snatcher was planned for it at some point as well.

 

From an interview in the EGM (may '93) with Jez San, managing director of Argonaut (inventors of SNES FX chip and desgners of Star Fox):

"Wayne's World for the forthcoming Super Nintendo CD-ROM accessory is like a big cartridge game on CD. It's the equivalent of a 64 megabit game! When the CD-ROM machine is released, we'll put it all together on CD and add some motion video from the original movie and a lot of heavy metal music."

 

wasnt night trap published on the 3do later ?

 

Yes.

 

iteresting, but it have to a little more consistent before i'll ad it to the work in progress version... keep it up everyone!

 

I scanned through the rest of my VG&CE mags over the weekend and didn't see the article. Either I missed it or I'm missing that particular issue.

 

too bad, thanx for the effort, really

 

i found a link to another fourm with luckily some bigger and better photos of the actaul snes cd unit

here is the link i hope these help...or maybe im too late

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=24258

 

Oh no, not that again -_- We had a long discussion about that a few months back.

 

oh shit...did i do something wrong?.....sorry if i did...im new here so........sorry if i did something wrong

 

don´t worry i have done alot of mistakes too (even here)

 

No, it's just that thing started one of the longest and craziest threads we have ever had going on ASSEMbler. I almost forgot about it.

 

i think it was fun and interesting to read

 

Did you have this info?:



All files - HR


or this one?:



All files - HR

 

because the SNES CD-ROM project was on-going from 1988 to 1993, and the fact that there were at the very least 3 or 4 different SNES CD-ROM units

(Nintendo-Sony 'Play Station' 16-bit. add-on peripheral (#1a.) + stand-alone-all-in-one unit) (#1b.)

(Nintendo-Philips 16-bit (#2.)

(Nintendo-Philips-Sony 32-bit Nintendo Disc. (#3.)

I always get so confused when someone posts about the SNES CD-ROM

 

very nice thanx for keeping infos surfacing! as soon as i get enough ness i'll update and give credits to everyone!

 

I'm sorry to bump this up again but i'm still looking for more infos to update the faq....

if antyone can think of any news or found some other infos.... please let me know!

karsten

 

i've finally found the time to look at your infos and i must say they're interesting! i'll be sure to add them as soon as i get enough materials to make a new faq version. by the way i can't guess this patent if it is from the nintendo-sony, the nintendo-philips or the last nintendo-sony-philips since it's from 1995 i would guess nintendo philips but philips never tought about plastic enclosed discs.... anyone to clarify this?

oh, and i was wondering if philips had patented something similar for the deal with nintendo....

ps i'm sorry to auto-bump continuosly this topic :/

 

I don´t remember patents numbers but there are others like these but with less info from 1989??? - 1993

And these patents were approved in 1995 but were filled in 1993