The Real Sega Pluto

As PB said, shoot me a PM. Im not quite ready to arrange things for the museum yet, as I dont know the process and haven't started yet, but Im happy to talk options once I know some more.

 

Interesting, you are planning on making a museum? Please feel free to PM me with more info.

 

I'll be starting work at the Museum of Play in NY soon. They have a huge collection, it's a proper museum. I only know about a fraction of what's there so far

 

Sounds really cool, definitely let me know more when things come together.

 

I'd only just heard of the Pluto as I've been living under a rock, apparently. What a cool piece of gaming hardware and history. I'm glad we have some of that history captured right here in this thread. There's so much more to explore. I think it's exciting!

Very interesting to know that we have someone among us who will be working for the MoP. I only know of it because my copy of Stadium Events was on display there for several years. I've not been able to visit the museum yet myself, but hope to one day. I bet there's a lot of really awesome hardware and history there. California has a similar museum: the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. As the name implies, it's centered around the history of computing.

 

Any chance you'd want to reach out to somebody that deals with this kind of stuff for a living to look into it further? I know there's a number of youtube channels that specialize in showing off rare prototypes (MetalJesusRocks is an example of a few I've watched who's shown off things like a NTSC-U 64DD and actually got to the bottom of what it is and how it works)

I'm sure there are people who would are well equipped and can carefully open it up and explain how it ticks without tinkering and modding.

 

The Museum of Play has an open email if they ever want to reach out. Jon Paul Dyson is the guy you want to reach for any sort of gaming donations
http://www.museumofplay.org/collections/donate

Slowly learning how things work here

 

i know zombie thread bump, did anything come of this sega pluto discovery? always was curious about what happened.

 

I can understand your reasoning, but I find it a shame that there might never be a teardown of this. I suspect it may be quite a lot more than just a Saturn + Netlink. The size of those expansion cards (they are nearly the full length of the console) mean that they could have had room for quite a lot of more hardware, plus they are right next to the MPEG slot which has the video input pins to use for any potential external hardware. There were also a LOT of rumours about the Saturn getting various 3d accelerator expansions.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is way more to this unit than what meets the eye at first. But then, I also wouldn't be surprised if it really was just a modem inside.

Perhaps you could contact someone who is an expert at handling such hardware? The SNES Play Station prototype ended up expertly taken apart, photographed, and analyzed, so we could figure out exactly what it was. It was even fixed up to working condition (aging caps prevented some parts from working)!

 

honestly the snes cdrom proto would have been handed way better by some of the users in here.

 

No TV show though.

Most of that was about publicity rather than anything else.