SNES POWERFEST & SUPER FAMICOM COMPETITION CARTS

This is not some cheap fake. It uses an official Nintendo bottom piece just like the competition carts and test carts. There appears to be a CD caddy slot on the back of the unit. The metal enclosure is also very reminiscent of IS, it looks too similar to the FC kit to not be IS. There appear to be two side connectors, one appears to be a white DB25 (which would be for SCSI.)

The other may be a black DB9. This could be for the controller, although I don't know why this system would not use the normal SNES controllers.

You guys haven't given any sound arguments as to why it couldn't be real. BTW, it is NOT easy to fabricate plastics, to make such a controller you're looking at $10,000for just the base mold not including buttons, control pad and mechanical pieces.

 

what can the SNES competition-like cart hold? How many megabits too?

PS: if the cart had anything at all in it it would be system cart. data. SCSI interface points to optical disc emulation , since i bet CD-R werent cheap back then.

 

cd-r were at their beginning, and some of the colored books specs weren't final at the time. pulsetech was one of the companies that provided the first cd drives protos

 

SCSI would not necessarily be for disc emulation, it could be for external debugging.

 

At first, nintendo was working with sony on a cd addon for the SNES. I believe not long after sony did work on the SNES soundchip, and the first talks may have begun in the late 80's. The deal with sony caused numerous problems, notably sony wishing to make a standalone unit. My understanding is that this unti was to be primarily a cd addon, without much in terms of coprocessors.

After this, Nintendo made a deal with phillips to work on a console addon. this was to include 16bit coprocessor, in addition to the cd drive.

Finally, the last version was planned(with sony and phillips?) This was going to be a 32bit coprocesser with the cd drive.

But really this is just a summar of what has been said in previous threads on the cd addon, and I'm sure others can correct/add to what I've said. But again all of this has summarized in the SNES CD FAQ thread, like the expanision port being identical to the cart, for example.

I think the fact that this uses a plastic housing made by nintendo, and only seen in test units, is considerable evidence that this has some sort of tie to ninteno, but it's by no means difinative proof.

 

It kinda reminds me of an oversized version of this one thing I recently saw for the MegaDrive/Genesis.

Don't remember the exact name of it, but it was something like "Sega 1mb Mega Memory".
A big metal cartridge that had 2 AA batteries to keep it alive, a switch for READ/WRITE access and a case ontop that was filled with old computer ram chips.
(Someone suggested it was a SegaCD memory card test device, but to be honest, I think it's more like a flash cart with a pair of batteries to keep it alive and when power is cut, data dies/vanishes)

And I guess this huge box is something of the same.

 

Well this topic got a bit threadjacked....how about a different thread for the SNES CD proto?

-Rob

 

at Nintendo they have...

 

i barely ever post here but i know this guy is pretty legit. ive seen him selling this dev stuff on digitpress.

 

the 2 competition carts are mine, that big box thing is not. im not really sure how this post got so off track.