/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3693329
Actually, in the days of the Famicom the console was the dev unit. Somewhere on the internet there's a scanned magazine article looking inside Nintendo at how games were made in the mid-to-late 80s in Japan. They just have famicoms and teletypes, basically. True-blue "dev units" first started to become a thing in the days of the N64. Hell, the game boy dev units originally plugged into a famicom.

>>3693370
Most famiclones are