/vr/ - Retro Games

>this is gonna turn out to be just a snes that reads cds
>cartridge is just some boring hardware test program

>>2515201
something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdk-SJJiPwE

>>2515172
I just hope all things go swell and everything, from BIOS, cart, and CD gets dumped and the whole console documented, then it can fade back into obscurity. It'd better get into a national museum though.

I don't think emulating it will be a problem once we get the BIOS, since it's still essentially a Super Famicom. Maybe there will be some slight updates like FMV or 3D rendering accessible by high-level calls but that would be it.

>>2515201
I think that might just be a RAM cart or a system pass to actually use the thing. Like key memory cards on developer kits for the PS1.

Let's talk about other holy grails for the time being.

http://snk.wikia.com/wiki/Neo_Star
Do you reckon a proto of this exists?

>>2515206
>It'd better get into a national museum though.

Yeah, but not America. Back to Japan where it comes from.

>>2515245
I really agree, but wouldn't that generate needless vapors. Or maybe it could cause Nintendo and Sony to partner once again and bury any hard feelings from the past. That wouldn't mean a second Nintendo Playstation, just being a little more supportive towards each other. They could lend each other franchises by licensing, for example.

>>2515259
Competition is always better for the consumer anon, don't ever encourage cartels to be formed.

>>2515245
I really agree, but wouldn't that generate needless vapors? Maybe it could even cause Nintendo and Sony to partner once again and bury any hard feeling left from the past. That wouldn't mean a second Nintendo Playstation, just being a little more supportive towards each other. They could lend each other franchises through licensing, so to speak.

>>2515270
Nintendo staying the fuck away from CoD boxes works for me. Fuck any Sony Nintendo relations.

>>2515269
Whoops, I was too late to do some editing. While I realize competition is always better for the consumer, Nintendo isn't really competing against PS4/Xbone now is it? It's more of an alternative for players with different tastes or expectations from videogames. You got a point about 3DS though, but that's mainly Sony's fault.

>>2515273
>Nintendo staying the fuck away from CoD boxes

As opposed to Nintendo not risking budget on some games because they would be impractical to sell to their userbase or develop on their console for various reasons? I'm too sad of the current state of videogames but let's not be close minded.

>>2515280
>As opposed to Nintendo not risking budget on some games because they would be impractical to sell to their userbase or develop on their console for various reasons?
What games?

>I'm too sad of the current state of videogames but let's not be close minded.
Been jaded for a long time anon. Since 6th generation really. Don't think that's going to change. Especially with Nintendo having shit DLC now.

>>2515280
>Nintendo isn't really competing against PS4/Xbone now is it?
It is, it's just doing a bad job at it. They're not pushing the NX now for no reason.

it's more like nintendo is competing with smartphones for the young audience

i bet the system is actually some sort of secret device designed to prevent Sega from having any success past the Genesis

those sick bastards

>>2515291
They're pushing the NX to say they're not getting out of the console business.

>>2515304
isn't the big deal with NX the fact that it is cross platform with cellphones or whatever

>>2515204
The sound tests were freaking me out
What do the sounds mean, and the latter half with the images, what the fuck
Like this is some /x/ shit

>controller exact snes replica

bullshit

>>2515350
It's not an exact replica, it IS an actual snes controller with some different logo design on the front. Sony was given the go from Nintendo to just use their producing line for these prototypes.

>>2515350
Go back to /v/ you goddamned moron.

It's gonna end up the same way /mu/ ended up with the All Lights Fucked fiasco.

>>2515352
>>2515350
Except you know the Sony logo on the front and the Sony serial number on the back.

>>2515201
Somebody posted a block diagram in the last thread. Somebody should post it again.

From memory, I noticed that it could mix into the audio, so that would suggest CD audio playback. It also was connected to A bus (WRAM) and B bus (graphics registers). I didn't see any additional blocks for enhanced graphics functionality tho. It likely is just a SNES that just reads CDs IMHO, and being connected to A and B busses allows for dumping data into WRAM and VRAM respectively.

Still fucking cool, and I want to know what's on the cart because it's likely a driver for the CD drive which would be invaluable for reverse engineering the CD control registers, but it's prolly more a high capacity storage novelty and a museum piece than something the likes of which we've never seen before.

Then again, if you could transfer a full screen of character data and nametables to memory faster enough, you could have FMV on SNES. Gfx would be (8 pixel)*(8 pixel)*(4 bits/pixel)*(32 chars)*(32 chars)*(1/8 bits/byte)=(32768 bytes), while nametable would be (32 chars)*(32 chars)*(2 bytes/char)=(2048 bytes). That's definitely doable if you double buffer and run at (30 Hz), but it may just be doable at the full (60 Hz). But FMV sucks anyway, so more a novelty than anything.

>>2515364
Nope >>2512135

>>2515364
>Sony serial number on the back.
it's the same as the sfc

>>2515364
And that Sony logo on the connector.

Hes just going to sell it off to the richest hoarder who give a fuck anymore.

I was just checking 2chan, japanese people seem to not be aware of this. Then again I only checked their /geemu/ board. Do they have any retro board?
They even have a Sony board (damn cockroaches), but they aren't talking about this either.

>>2515393
The sad thing is you're probably right. I just hope he gets the proper power plug and doesn't fry anything in the process. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't he looking for the disc today in his father's attic?

>>2515404
Japs don't care much about Sony. Not compared to the American casual crowd anyway,

>>2515410
Hopefully yes. But he wont know how to properly dump the disc anyway.

>>2515416
how fucking hard is to create a fucking disc image? like any retard can do that.

>>2515416
>>2515432
inb4 "IMG/ISO is bad, use MDF with alcohol 120 or fuck off"

>>2515440
Heh. If nothing else will drive him to say fuck it and sell to a greasy-fingered hoarder, that will for sure.

>>2515338

Zelda II title screen music, actually

>>2515416
I think he'll figure out how to make an ISO. He went on assembler games to get help, but people were tripping over themselves to try and help him. God only knows how many private messages he received. Hopefully we'll get an update today, however, I doubt it. We'll be waiting in limbo at least until Monday.

>>2515459
>Hopefully we'll get an update today
it's the 4th of july, i wouldn't count on it

>>2515206
Isn't it significant that the cart has the extra pins on the sides? I thought those were for cartridges with enhancement chips in them, like Super FX and Cx4.

>>2515330
>NX runs on android
That was the rumor that Nintendo completely denied.

>>2515440
Isn't BIN/CUE the best?

>>2515460
dude's probably already smashed and about to drop it in the kiddie pool

>>2515492
clonecd is best, but who cares?

>>2515526
>but who cares?
Retarded admins of betaarchive.com

>>2515291
Nintendo's stated numerous times they don't see Microsoft and Sony as competitors.

>>2515492
>Isn't BIN/CUE the best?

As a format, CloneCD is better in every way while remaining backwards compatible (the IMG in the clonecd rip is the same as the BIN in a bin/cue).
In reality, CloneCD is also better because you don't 10 applications producing 10 different bin/cue all with different versions of the track gaps.

CDI uses a single file layout which closely matches that of how the data is ordered on a real CD. This is both good and bad - low-power devices will benefit from this (like SD loaders), but they will compress worse. Also using a single file can be tidier.

I think CDI can also store pregap data, but this does not matter because nearly no CD drive can rip those fully.

Subcode ripping is also problematic depending on your CD drive.

I'm not familiar with Alcohol mds/mdf and Nero formats, I think they are similar to CDI, but I don't really know.

I'd like to see him put it on loan to Jason Scott for six months who in turn will find the best people with the best techniques to dump it hardware and all and put it up online in perpetuity.

you faggots still think this shit is real?

>log in to facebook
>this shit is literally on the front page, news article written by a big german computer magazine
I bet he will sell it to some retarded collector "for a good price" and we will never hear anything about it again

>>2515621
look harder. it's not written by heise.

>>2515618
>faggots still claiming its fake based off made up conspiracy theories.

I would pay the guy just to document everything properly and dump it, not even to take it from him.
Too bad I'm not in America.

>>2515664
That should be the go to procedure for everything in a civilized world.

>>2515639
I really want to know why people think this is fake. Legit prototypes of old games show up for sale with some regularity, and while this is hardware and first party, is still just another piece of rare gaming memorabilia. Unless you have solid evidence beyond standard fare Internet doubting, I think this should be assumed legit until shown otherwise. I know no one wants to believe anything and no one wants to appear to be an over eager fool, but we really stand to lose more by scaring him away with "fake and gay" claims than we do from just believing it.

>>2515618
No reason to believe it's not, so far.

Try to not be so cynical, the world becomes a nice place.

>>2515621
Please don't post FB screencaps, for chrissakes. I get that you use FB, you don't need to post proof.

>>2515664
The guy really has no clue and is probably a little stressed that it blew up like this. I have faith that it will get properly documented and dumped in time, but it's definitely getting sold before that.

>>2515273
>mfw nintendo has had every CoD release to date except CoD 3, AW and PC exclusives

>>2515693
>I have faith that it will get properly documented and dumped in time

Right, as with the tons of other hoarded stuff that got d-.. never mind.

>>2515683
The guy has done fuck all except take photographs and make a crap video.

The next big things on the list would be what it looks like on the inside and figuring out if it works at all.

Neither of which have or will happen because it's all fake.

Reading AG is so painful. There are like 3 knowledgeable users in a sea of fucking retards making shit up. I think they deleted all the posts claiming it was fake so they dont look bad.

>>2515713
He showed a believable looking unit in a video. I'm more inclined to believe this is real than to believe that it is a hoax.

This makes me wonder, since it was already called PlayStation from this (relatively) early state, maybe the X in PS-X was added to help employees internally distinguishing this machine (which has had its fair share of prototypes) from the actual PS1 since both project were really close in time.

That should clear PSX's name mistery.

>>2515393
The faggots on the assemblergames thread are already discussing how much it will go for and trying to convince the guy to sell it. What the fuck.

>>2515634
Oh well, you're right

>>2515735
Actually he hasn't posted on AG for the past 2 days. I dont think he is going back there anymore. I am 100% sure they are flooding his inbox with offers though.

>>2515745
>Dnldbld was last seen: Today at 12:54 PM

He's probably negotiating something with someone at this point.

What happened to this thing again?

>>2515759
Sold for around 20k back in 2013 and we haven't heard anything about it since. Doubtless locked in some proto hoarder's storage.

>>2515751
Yeah, based upon the video / pics this guy is from a poor family and this old "Nintendo thing from the attic" is a new house.

>>2515751
He's probably busy with that crate of sealed Earthbound cartridges he found in his dad's basement.

>>2515759
Same thing thats happening to the snes-cd as we speak. Some dude hyped up his ebay auction on AG. It was going to sell for $15,500 but the owner backed out. Why? Because he wanted more for it. It is now in storage and NO further documentation was made. No photos of the pcb or anything.

>Those retarded "gaming let's player" youtube comments

>>2515761
Talk about foreshadowing. We've been warned, we just didn't listen.

>>2515773
Only 2 Sega Plutos were ever made, and both are confirmed to exist. One was found by a Sega employee, not sure if he still has it, he said he was gonna take pics of the insides but he never did.

The one you're talking about is owned by some fag who found it at a garage sale and tried to sell it.

>>2515786
I forgot there was another one. Its ridiculous these people cant uses a simple screwdriver and take a photo. I have taken apart every console I own and put them back together.

>>2515797
I took my DS apart and put it back together last night. It made me feel very clever.

>>2515365
>Then again, if you could transfer a full screen of character data and nametables to memory faster enough, you could have FMV on SNES.

We know for certain that the SNES can do FMV if set up properly because of the MSU1.

>>2515350
You do realize that the Playstation was just supposed to be an SNES with a disc drive right? Kind of like the Sega CD.
Go back to /v/ if you aren't caught up with the topic.

>>2515846
More like the CDX.

>>2515393
>>2515453
poorfags detected

>>2515489
nintendo has repeatedly denied shit nikkei has reported that ends up being true, just saying

>>2515693
Steve Lin is probably going to buy it and stick it in a museum

>>2515735
you mean people are trying to buy a one-of-a-kind item?! outrageous!

>>2515786
the "fag who found it at a garage sale" still has it because no one will give him $10k for it.

Excite.

>>2516014
>poorfags detected
Fuck you, I actually have a one-of-a-kind legendary item that I found back in the late '90s and I damn well made sure to dump the hell out of it.

This is going to go to (I'll say it again) some greasy-fingered hoarder asshole who is just going to stick it in a closet, and by the time we see it again, it'll be in full bit rot with no dumps.

>>2515270
>Maybe it could even cause Nintendo and Sony to partner once again and bury any hard feeling left from the past.
>They could lend each other franchises through licensing, so to speak.
>This GameFAQs tier wishful thinking
Why the fuck would either company care about some stupid failed project? Companies aren't people you dummy, they don't give a shit about it either way, all this is is a failed business venture that made neither group any money

>>2515404
Well it just broke out like 2 days ago in America, the japs are all the way in the other side of the world. Besides, what would they do to bring anything new to the table?

Good news is that he at least logged onto Assembler Games today. He's probably going to make bank off of an exclusive interview off some blog. In the short term, doubt he's going to sell it.

>>2516084
If I had a rare collectible I would try to meet up with someone who I believed I could trust in a public place who could help preserve it. I would only want to sell it to someone who would preserve it.

>>2516075
>the other side of the world
>thinking this matters in the age of the internet

>>2516084
>make bank off of an exclusive interview off some blog
Make bank? This isn't fucking Frost/Nixon.

>>2516117
>b-but muh free market!1

Good thing reasonable people like you and pretty much 98% of this thread exist. Threads like these usually end up pretty bad.

>>2516125
So you don't think IGN wouldn't pay 1k+ for an exclusive interview? Please.

>>2516129
My question always is though, what do I do in this crazy scenario? I would only want to give/sell it to someone in person because my whole goal would be to find someone who is going to document and preserve it, possibly writing an emulator.

>>2516142
he already did an "interview" with polygon.

>>2516142
Pfft, no. They have no reason to pay the dude, he's posting for free on Assembler and Reddit, and gave an interview to Polygon. No one's paying him, he's not a fucking celebrity.

>>2516163
You get into contact with people known for their stances about public preservation, which will get you into contact with some other people specialized in studying hardware, dumping and what else, even though decapping will not be necessary in this case and I would discourage it for a rarity of this magnitude. These people have to be confirmed legit and trustworthy by a fuckton of sources, do whatever you can to verify this.

You go and meet them, they do all their kinds of stuff and then they give you back the thing and you can do whatever you want.

>>2516183
Has there been cases when someone gave someone a rare item to one of these dumpers and got it back?

>>2516163
We don't even know yet if we have ANY software for it.

>>2515701
COD3 was on Wii.

>>2516196
the guy said he has a cd also that cartridge

If this is documented...while it would be nice, would it serve any point? Would anyone actually bother to develop software for it?

>>2516210
no. It would just help give better details on what the system was capable of.

>>2516214
Would it actually be possible to write an emulator for this? Do you think an emulator might actually be made to preserve it?

The question is: Is it just a slightly modified SNES or is there already a faster CPU inside of it.

>>2516216
I get why you would want to from a curiosity standpoint, but what would there even be to emulate really? A BIOS, or possibly some crude tech demos?

>>2516210
"Would anyone bother to develop for a piece of hardware that only 5 of exist and is incredibly outdated even if we could magically get complete specifications by looking at it?"

I don't even know where to begin describing how fundamentally retarded this is.

I would hope you are the same idiot that is posting similar things in the reddit thread, but I doubt it.

>>2516220

I'm sure there's a crude tech demo of FF7 sitting around somewhere, that would certainly be interesting to see.

>>2516175
He's definitely going to get his fifteen minutes of fame. I wouldn't doubt that he gets an interview with a few new stations begging for this type of story. Hopefully, we'll get an update sometime this week.

>>2515382
>Sony logo practically everywhere

wow no wonder Nintendo went to Phillips

>>2516247
I really hope you're joking.

>>2515338
yes, test stuff can be weird, what other revolutionary observation do you wish to grace us with?

>>2515204
I love shit like this, so I sure as hell hope it's some weird ass test cart

>>2516368
it's not that uncommon for prototypes of products that are being designed by a third party to have their logo on them rather than the logo of the party that will actually release the product.

>>2516368
And look at >>2516023
That one has the Nintendo logo on its plug.

This system is definitely in the middle of an identity crisis.

>>2516368
>>2516403
Stuff like this was common with third-party units.

The JVC X-Eye is a prime example. Nowhere on the system do you see Sega's logo. Not even on the end piece of the controller that plugs into the port.

>>2515212

I don't even know why but the name of that thing just makes me pop like a million boners. I'm surprised Yuki, Ai, or even Terry never ended up with an SDM with that name.

>>2516014
I'm all for someone buying it if they have the tools and intent to dump it, which the owner isn't able to do.

I'm just afraid it will sell to a proto hoarder who ensures nobody will see it ever again. Assemblergames is full of faggots like that, the owner even brags about having protos he will never mention, let alone take pictures of, because they're "buried somewhere" in his dump of a house and he's a lazy dipshit.

>>2516472
>the owner even brags about having protos he will never mention, let alone take pictures of, because they're "buried somewhere" in his dump of a house and he's a lazy dipshit.
For fucks sake then what's the point of even bringing it up or HAVING THEM if he won't even tell us what the fuck they are

How do people like this exist

>>2516038
put your money where you mouth is and buy it then, fucker, instead of complaining about people not doing what YOU want them to do with things THEY pay for with THEIR money.

i should buy it and run it over just to teach dipshits like you a lesson.

where is this "one-of-a-kind legendary item" available for download? or did you just dump it and hoard it like the assholes you spit so much shit about?

>>2516117
usually these high-dollar sales go down either with cash in airports (past security checkpoints) or in airport hotels with multiple friends/family present and the money transferred via escrow.

>>2516472
ultimately, people are able to do whatever the fuck they want with things they pay for.

funny, I know.

if you all dont want it to rot in someone's private collection, get jobs, rob a bank, start a gofundme to pay the guy to donate it to a museum and document it.

>>2516491
>i should buy it and run it over just to teach dipshits like you a lesson.
Fuck off Assembler.

>>2516491
lmao I'm gonna screenshot this for cringe threads :^)

>>2516491
Yeah, whatever you want.

>>2516482
he wants you to go "assembler's so cool, I wish I was him" and then sign up for the forum and kiss his ass at every opportunity. you can't find a braggart that doesn't have a god complex.

>>2516516
I admit that it is fun to own rare stuff, but at the end of the day I didn't make them. I don't understand people who brag about things they have rather than things they can do.

>>2516491
Fuck off.

>>2516491
>i should buy it and run it over just to teach dipshits like you a lesson.
Whoa we better watch out guys this big bitch manchild hoarder is going to destroy a valuable piece of history in a fit of pettiness and impotent rage just to teach those 4chan kiddies a lesson.

Christ you're fucking pathetic, shouldn't you be on Assembler sucking more mod dick or something? It's funny you manchildren keep telling us to get a job and grow up when you're the one who actually gives a shit about hoarding some toy like a 4 year old.

>>2516368

>>2516491
good post, my friend

>>2516491
Well meme'd, my friend.

>>2516954
why is this a completely different person from the OMG REAL REAL REAL!!!! guy in the related youtube vids?

>>2516954
NO
EWAN

I TRUSTED YOU

>>2516958
he didn't sell it to this kid, it's just some friend of his or something...
though the post he made on reddit saying that he "got a pic with the SNES Playstation" as if it was some sort of tourist attraction or something was a bit sickening

>>2516967
If you look carefully, there's a cardbox with some bubble wrap on it.
At least they know it's fragile.

>>2516954
Honestly I want these retards to sell this ASAP, they're obviously shitheads with no clue. It's not like they'll know how to dump the disc and cart.

>>2516974
why is it automatically a bad thing if he does sell it to you? if you have seen his videos you would realize that this guy isn't the brightest bulb in the world, maybe if he sold it to some one else they can finally get the thing running and also rip what ever is on that cart.

>>2516976
>disc
why does this come up every once in a while, there was literally never any mentions of a disc and no pics of one, just the cart, but you are right, if these guys really had any interest in this thing beyond becoming temporary internet stars they would have bought a plug for it and tried it out at least, it clearly states what voltage it uses on the back.

>>2516980
You obviously don't know about retarded hoarders that don't give a shit about videogames or their preservation and just want to hoard expensive crap to rot forever on their mom's attic.

>>2516491
>put your money where you mouth is and buy it then
Because I really don't give much of a shit about SNES stuff, it's just the general principle. And I know better than to get in a money war with autists.

>>2515713
I think they are just too dumb/scared to try to get it running or take it apart. Also I think this would be too elaborate of a hoax for these bozos to pull off. Right now they are just riding high off of the temporary internet fame it's gotten them. Though I hope they sell it soon to some one that has more brains then them.

>>2516994
yes, because a small amount of people on a single forum is like this everyone everywhere that would buy this ever are, your stupid black and white thinking belongs on /pol/ or /r9k/, not here.

>>2516493
>>2516524
>>2516536
thanks for proving my point.

stay poor.

>>2516503
>>2516557
>>2516898
cheers lads :-)

So, shitposting aside, is there any news?
Has this been confirmed or deconfirmed legit?

>>2515172
>tfw some rich collector buys it to hide away in some dark corner of the world, never to be seen or disturbed again

>>2517431
TOP
MEN

>>2516954
>wiggers

>>2516954
I'm willing to bet it's been dropped a few times, and if it did work at some point after it was found, it's broken now.

>>2516954
>shotglasses
>drinking mugs
>wigger
Everything is fucked

>>2516023
It really is the sexiest console I've ever seen I think, although I'm not sure about the weird reset button placement and redundant eject buttons

>>2516954
What the fuck

>>2517885
>redundant eject buttons

One for the cartridge and one for the disc drive, you silly.

>>2516954
just give him some sunglasses and he would look pretty rad.

>>2516954
"YO DUDE LMAO CHECK ME OUT REDDIT!"

>>2516954
Can't wait for a photo of some sorority-ho doing a duckface while pressing the system against her boobs.

>>2516954
>those earplug things
Why do people wear those? They look fucking stupid and they fuck up your ears so you can't take them out.

Was the SNES CD an expansion like the Mega CD and 64DD or its own thing? I always thought it was the former

>>2518021
They were supposed to make an expansion which looked exactly like the Satellaview, then they went the CDX route, and this is one of the last prototypes before the project was abandoned.

>>2518030
>the project was abandoned
This became the PS1, they just removed the cartridge slot
The add-on was the one which was abadoned

>>2516954
this fucking picture along with all the assemblergames shitfest with mods and redditors acting like asshats. This shit is horrible. I dont see how this whole situation could get worse unless he drops it like a fucking retard. This is what retro games have become. After he sells it we will never see it again.

>>2518021
Both. There was going to be an expansion for the SNES like the Mega CD as well as a stand-alone SNES Playstation, sort of like the Sega Multi Mega.

>>2518039

I foresee that all of this hype will lead to him asking some insane price, to the tune of $500,000 or something.

>>2518039

I foresee that all of this hype will lead to him asking some insane price, to the tune of $500,000 or something. The sad part is that all of the game collecting cuckolds and self-deniers will come out of the woodwork to insist that it is a "very fair price for something so rare and unique," and other dev item investors will do the same in some misguided attempt to boost the values of their own collections.

>>2518038
>This became the PS1, they just removed the cartridge slot

And created a new console hardware from scratch. Other than the name, nothing carried over between SNES-CD Play Station, and the 1994 Playstation.

>>2518058
Thats the vibe I get too. There is a real cancer in all the hype of retro collecting and anything "rare".

>>2518065
Well, the sound hardware had similar capabilities

The CPU was obviously different since the snes was underpowered since it's release

>>2518097
quick wikipedia search says it's entirely

>>2518058
You forgot the part where somebody actually spends that much on the stupid thing and then proceeds to lord it over everybody and really bringing the point home how he'll never dump it or do anything worthwhile with it

>>2518097
Nigga it was literally a SNES board interfaced with a CD drive and a bunch of other chips.

>>2518097
Yeah, sound was similar, in that it used the same compression scheme, but to be honest that's a superficial similarity at best.

>>2518119
The SNES sound hardware was designed by Sony too, it's not a farfetched assumption that they would reuse the chip or produce a very similar chip for the Playstation

>>2518124
44khz rate on 24 channels with advanced reverb and 512kb of dedicated RAM..on an SNES which already had its own dedicated sound chip.

Nah, I think they just slapped some PCM decoder with a new DAC and called it a day.

>I actually think the console holds more value in it's current untested state than if he powers it on and documents what's on that cartridge. People will pay far more to be a part of the discovery process. Right now that cartridge could contain anything.

>>2516987
because you are retarded and he has mentioned a disc multiple times?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3c5rtt/i_got_a_picture_with_uanalogueboys/csswmqy?context=3

>>2518242
with any luck maybe he will get it vga graded to get the maximum profit and to make sure it rots away. ;^)

>>2518258
>From the desk of Mr. Nolan
B R A V O N O L A N

>>2518124
>The SNES sound hardware was designed by Sony too, it's not a farfetched assumption that they would reuse the chip or produce a very similar chip for the Playstation

The sound synth in the Playstation was essentially the same as the SNES, just much more powerful (more channels, more RAM, higher sampling rate). It essentially worked the same way however - pcm synth with BRR hardware compressed samples.

We don't know if the SNES CD had any such thing as extra, however. The documents online only say that it "includes two units of ADPCM decoders (one unit = two channels). This makes it possible to output the sound map ADPCM audio while playing the CD ADPCM audio.". And that much info is not enough to know exactly what it could do, at what sampling rate, and how. Maybe this meant that it could do four channels of higher quality sound plus CD Audio. We don't know.

>>2518065
After Nintendo publicly cucked Sony at CES for Philips I'm sure the CEO of Sony told his engineers price is no object, bury Nintendo.

Nintendo goofed. Sony could have just been spinning wheels on a little used piece of hardware for an aging platform but they went full revenge.

>>2518558
>I'm sure the CEO of Sony told his engineers price is no object, bury Nintendo.
Actually funnily enough, the PSX was scrapped UNTIL Ken Kutaragi reminded the CEO about how embarrassing that was

>>2518258
This is so incredibly pathetic.
It's like every art investor that doesn't know anything about art.
Leaving protos undumped and stored forever is literally condemning them to a slow but sure death.

>>2518686
To be fair, the Nolans do dump their prototypes if I am not mistaken. They release some publicly as well.

>>2518719
So what's he doing? He got a cable, but he's not gonna even attempt to power it on?

>>2518880
I think he's trying to be cautious. He should probably open it up and make sure there's nothing funky going on inside. It obviously isn't a final model off of the production line, so who knows what's going on in there. There could be a bunch of hand-soldered wire, some of which could have come undone over the years and might be bridging things that should not be bridged.

>>2516368
And?
Nintendos cooperation with Sharp was exactly the same. (Twim Famicom, TV, etc.) you also don't see the Nintendo-Logo anywhere.
Even the name "Famicom" was invented by Sharp, not Nintendo, the original by Nintendo still is called "Family Computer".

>>2518887
I know that's what we're thinking, but I don't know if he is. Hopefully he does take it apart, because I want pics

>>2518786
they do release them once they've finished making money off of them, which is totally fine by me

but probably not fine by the rest of you impoverished shitlords.

wahhhh give me free stuffffff i deserrrrveeee ittttttttttttttttt

give away things that cost YOU money so I can keep begging on the internetttttttttttt

>>2518562
not quite, Kutaragi continued to work in secret because Sony had very little interest in pursuing video games. It was mainly Olaf Olafsson and some random guy in Japan who pushed for the PSX to happen (and kept Kutaragi working in secret in order to do so)

>>2518058
it isn't worth more than 5000-8000, even less common prototype hardware that actually works has sold for about that amount.

>>2518985
>Olaf Olafsson
Holy fucking shit I nearly spit out my drink

>>2518880
Well, if you use a SFC power cord with a SNES or vice-versa, you'll fry your console.
So you should take every cautious step you can.

>>2518997
Wrong. Even if you could plug then onto one another (the barrel plugs are totally different sizes), both SNES and SFC power bricks output DC10v 850mA. You're thinking of NES vs. FC. The NES can take literally anything as long as it's over 600mA, the Famicom can only take DC down to about 4- or 500mA safely, and even then, certain games with multiple/high current chips won't power up or function properly (FDS gives battery err. 02, Lagrange Point refuses to boot, MMC5 games crash on startup)

>>2518991
That was the president of Sony Interactive in the 90s, that's his real name.

>>2519027
Informative post, laTM. Do you have any resources on this type of information for someone that's a novice?

>>2518991
>>2519030

It sure as hell beats being called "junior".

>>2516373
Not that guy, but development started on the SNES.
http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/11/final-fantasy-7-beta/

>>2516954
This guy has a really punchable face.

>>2519175
Technically his name means "Olaf, son of Olaf".

And yeah, there are countries which still use that type of surnames, Iceland being one of them.

>>2518991
A name like that isn't weird at all. It's fairly common in Nordic countries.

>>2519545
>Nordic countries
Why do the vikings always get the best names?

>>2518985
>it isn't worth more than 5000-8000, even less common prototype hardware that actually works has sold for about that amount.

That's mainly all prototypes of still RELEASED consoles. Also in this case it is unclear if there will be ever a chance to get another one + very huge historical factor.
Not sure it will be half a million, but it will go up a very huge amout, no question.

maybe you already saw this but posting it ajyway cause just found out about the whole thing...

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0501456A2.pdf

could it be a proposal made by sony just after the rupture with sony, hence the 1992 date and the lack of "Nintendo" in the console, but why keep the cartridge?

>>2519898
*rupture with nintendo

>>2519545
I'm not saying it's weird. It was just one of those moments, y'know? You see a word or combination of words and it's just hilarious.

Now it ain't funny at all.

>>2519898
See >>2518895
That's why there's no Nintendo logos on the system.

>>2519768
if you really think it'll go for more than 10k, you are clueless.

and that 5-8k range I quoted was for unreleased hardware.

>>2519768
>>2520275

I wasn't trying to say it is worth half a million, just that if this thing gets hyped up any more he very well might ask for that. As for what it would sell for, the only thing that might make it go to crazy town is the hype. You'll get "investors" who don't know two shits about games beyond thinking they are "good investments" and articles about Stadium Events or NWC Gold carts selling for crazy amounts who might plunk down tens of thousands because they think this too is a "good investment."

>>2520275
The truly rare NES games go for that amount, I can see this thing going for $5k or more easy. The fact that it's complete and has a cartridge and CD are a huge deal, especially once it proves to boot up and run whatever's on the cart. Someone will pay a ton of money for that, probably 10k or above. This is almost certainly a one of a kind item.

>>2520290
Let's see if he finds the CD

>>2520290
>one of a kind
one of five surviving exemplars according to handle name Brian in that thread

>>2520425
Which may, or may not be different revisions.

>>2520425
>>2520436

Also you have to take into account how many are in accessible positions. Something might be, say 5 of a kind, but if 4 are in the collections of people who do not sell, museums, in company archives, or forgotten about in a storage unit, it may as well just be 1 of a kind, in terms of potential for documentation and exploration.

>>2519761
WTF are you talking about?
tell me more

>>2520290
the only NES carts that go for anything close to that are NWC carts and Stadium Events, don't exaggerate. and even then, only the gold carts typically exceed 10k, with the grey carts running for $5-$12k depending on the condition and how motivated of a seller you're dealing with.

>>2520284
people have said this exact same thing when extremely rare prototypes have popped up in the past, and it just didn't happen.

the people with that kind of disposable income who are that into the hobby are few and far between, and most will not be willing to pay that for essentially a very interesting paperweight.

playable cartridges have far more appeal and resale value than this.

>>2519164
The first part involves just looking at the power adapters for both consoles (I have a friend that own both SNES and SFC, and I own both NES and FC [SFC aand FC use the same power brick]), and the second part it just simple electronics knowledge. The 7805 voltage regulator in all of the four consoles mentioned is a hearty beast, capable of a max input of about 20v (that doesn't mean try it, it will get extremely hot and will melt something in the worst case), and since the NES is equipped with one of these and a full-wave bridge rectifier, it can take AC and DC, center positive AND negative all the way up to those 15-20v (the SFC and FC DON'T have one, so they can only take center negative DC).

The last part is from personal experience. It took a while for me to get an official Famicom power brick, so I used a cheap 5v 500mA power supply, most games worked, those with really complex innards didn't.

I just realized something. This is the fabled egg from the story of "The Giant Who Had No Heart In His Body". How else do you explain the fact that Sony not only still making consoles while losing money, but actually dominates the market, despite losing their entire worth with the PS3, and making nothing with the PS4? This prototype is how Sony is still around and dominating the console market, and if this were to be destroyed, real life physics will apply to Sony and force them out of the console market because, how they hell can you just keep yourself in the market if you have to rely on insurance and bail bonds for the money you lost from just being in the game market? Something doesn't add up.

Mark my words.

>>2521543
>if this were to be destroyed, real life physics will apply to Sony and force them out of the console market
Come again?

>>2519304
>What Yuffie looks like (and her level) is determined when she first joins.
>(This is based on the last wanted poster that was viewed)
That sounds pretty awesome. A shame, they didn't implement this.

>>2521543
What the hell are you going on about

>>2521589
>>2515459
>but people were tripping over themselves
Yes, everyone with a post count of <50 and a join date in the last few months was tripping over themselves. kek

>>2521543
how on Earth is Sony losing money if they dominate the market?

>>2521717
selling hardware cheaper than it is to manufacture

I think that only happened with the very first PS3s though

>>2521717
He's talking shit.

The Playstation division of Sony is currently the only profitable division they have - it's everything else they're doing that's losing money.

He's also wrong about profit recouped from console sales, which they have NEVER sold at a loss. He's getting them confused with Nintendo, who do that shit all the time.

>>2521735
I'm not sure about the PS4, but the PS3 was sold at large losses early in its life

>>2515759
>>2515773
>>2515786
>It would be perfect if Sega called copyright on the Pluto's BIOS, and demanded that system back

>>2521735
What this guy said. They ruined their music division with the rootkit scandals, standalone MP3 players have been made pretty much obsolete, their TV division is getting reked by Samsung and others, and their movie division just suffered a hack that leaked 3 entire movies.

Aside from vidya, Sony is doing pretty badly.

>>2519304
Yes, but it started development long after the PS became its own thing.

>>2521735
>He's also wrong about profit recouped from console sales, which they have NEVER sold at a loss
Are you serious? Sony's strategy was always to sell at a loss. It worked great for them in the PS1 and PS2 eras because of the huge software support but really fucked them over in the PS3 era.

>>2516954

>>2522061
pretty much this, >>2521951 has it ass-backwards.

Sony has ALWAYS sold at a SIGNIFICANT loss. Even the PS4 is sold at a loss, although much lower than the past.

Nintendo never sold hardware at a loss until the Wii, and even then, it was very low. In fact, Nintendo did not include backwards compatibility on the SFC/SNES because it would have increased the cost per unit by $85.

Nintendo has historically avoided selling hardware at a loss. Sony has historically not cared and sold at a loss to get market share.

>>2522205
sorry, I meant >>2521735 not >>2521951

>>2521951
Mmhm.
I'm actually an analyst (not for the vidya market, but I like to focus on that as a hobby as well) and I've been predicting that in the next 10 years, Sony will no longer be in the games business, Nintendo will have been bought out by Disney, Apple and Google will both release their own dedicated home consoles (one of them will fail but I'm not sure which one), and Microsoft will still be going fine.

>>2522207
I don't want to live in that future.

>>2522249
Why?
Disney buying out Nintendo is the most exciting prospect to me due to the theme park possibilities.

>>2522251
I want to play video games, not visit theme parks.

>>2522254
Disney would be able to run Nintendo just fine.
Probably much much better than they are already doing. They'd also have a lot more money and would probably also refocus their strategy on making consoles that can actually compete with its competitors on a power level.

>>2522258
>M rated games can no longer be on a Nintendo Console
>Have to deal with shitty Disney Popstars in my Nintendo games
>All Nintendo games are going to have shitty morals and a shitty pop song to go with it

>>2522258
>Disney would be able to run Nintendo just fine.
They're doing a better job handling Marvel IPs than Marvel themselves ever did, so I'm inclined to agree.

>>2522272
Just how stupid are you? You do realize that a Disney owned company made Pulp Fiction right? Not to mention countless other hard R films.
You have absolutely zero idea what you're talking about.

>>2522272
Disney owns Touchstone and used to own Miramax. Both have made quite a few movies that are very very not kid friendly or are aimed at people who actually care about film. They even put out the motherfucking three colors trilogy by Kieślowski and most all of Wes Anderson's and Quentin Tarantino's early films.

>>2522280
This.
From a creative and auteurial standpoint it can be a bit frustrating in certain regards, but the Marvel Cinematic universe is probably one of the most innovative and original projects in film history. Disney is a smart company and it's obvious they want a monopoly on most all markets. They've been close with Nintendo in the past, and Nintendo's existing properties would blend very well with Disney's mostly family friendly operations, but they also wouldn't be afraid to go after adult gamers as well. It's pretty much a match made in heaven.

>>2522292
>Implying the Marvel Cinematic Universe was Disney's idea
Disney bought Marvel after that whole project started

We are incredibly off-topic here.
But then, what are we supposed to talk about while we wait for this guy to power the unit?

>>2522309
I don't know, maybe about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2MBzjFAKI8

>>2522353
So... if it powers on, it's a fully functional unit?

>>2522281
>>2522287
Well, with money makers like Nintendo franchises, Disney will want a lot of input into it, and we'll get Nintendo themed shows on the Disney Channel so they can milk the franchises for all they're worth

>>2522397
>Nintendo themed shows
Please bring back the Super Mario Show. PLEASE bring back the Super Mario Show.......

>>2522425
Super Mario Super show was okay at best, it only took a while for the nostalgia goggles to wear off that we saw that it wasn't really that good

>>2522397
What's wrong with that? Most Disney shows aren't actually that bad. Especially their animated stuff. If you were a young kid wouldn't you want a new Mario or Zelda show to watch on TV?

>>2522461
If I was a young kid I would want to watch Minecraft on youtube.

>>2522467
Okay, but most kids don't suffer from autism..

>>2522460
Blashpemy. Who doesn't love getting high and watching a cartoon based on an 80's game?

>>2522468
Actually most kids these days would far rather watch videos of games on YouTube than actually play them.

>>2522425
>Who doesn't love getting high and watching a cartoon based on an 80's game?
Only if said cartoon is written and animated well. In Super Show's case for the most part, it isn't.

>>2522478
I have two kids. A boy who is 12 (I've actually caught him going on 4chan before and he doesn't know I've also been using the site since he was a baby which I find funny) and a girl who is 8.
Neither of them enjoy watching LP's and while my son is not as into video games (he's more of an anime kid which I like because I've gotten to show him a bunch of stuff I liked when I was his age as well as got him into watching seasonal stuff) he does play a lot of JRPG's (like me which is cool). He doesn't have a lot of friends but he has a few that come over and I've talked them on occasion to see what kind of stuff they're into and they also like playing video games. Mostly shooters it seems, but at least they play games.

My daughter is literally always on her 3DS, she doesn't really use the internet much and just plays games I put on my old DS flashcart I gave her as well as 3DS games I buy her and I feel like I'm shaping her to have pretty good taste. I recently got her playing the Tales of Innocence translation for the DS she's been playing off of the Supercard and she's having a blast with it.

So no, you don't have experience with this and don't know what you're talking about

>>2522468
Lots of kids are into Minecraft and FnaF these days, and watching people play those games, hell, they're pretty fucking big now. I remember walking into a BAM and seeing a bunch of shitty Minecraft fanfiction novels by "Gamerknight999" for sale... I'm not making this shit up

>>2522492
I'm >>2522493
My kids don't play Minecraft.
My son tried it out but didn't care for it much, I know it's popular, but I still think kids would rather play games than watch other people play them.
That's from my own experience with my own kids.

>>2522397

If Disney did it, we might finally get a decent series based on a Nintendo franchise.

>>2522503
>I'm >>2522493 (You)
You're not me though...

Still though, I've been in retail, and I've seen a lot of kids go crazy over minecraft toys, like those foam swords

>>2522493
There's a reason Microsoft paid Notch ten billion dollarydoos, Minecraft is THE biggest thing among kids, bar absolutely none. I volunteer at a library twice a week and that's what all the kids are talking about.

>>2522353
Jesus. This dudebro is getting all types of media exposure

>yfw Disney buys Nintendo

>>2522510
Flip the two posts. It was an accident.

>YFW this might end up happening sooner than we thought
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/16/e3-2015-disney-wants-to-see-mickey-mouse-meet-mario

>>2522549
Disney poisons everything it touches.

>>2522586
No it doesn't.
You don't even have an argument for that either. I've studied Disney's history for years, you just hate them because they're massive.
Stop being an autist.

>>2522592
>Disney's history

Exactly, they are but a former shell of themselves.

>>2522586
Except for briefly losing their way during the 1980s, Disney's track record is pretty incredible both in terms of quality and profit.

>>2522596
Not really.
Bob Iger is kind of a kike and is definitely no Eisner (who I think that with the exception of all the drama prior to him leaving the company he was easily their best head), but they still have a lot of talented people still at the company.
Especially since they now have fucking Marvel and Star Wars.
Imagine Nintendo first parties getting the chance to work on a Marvel or Star Wars game?
There's really no backside to this deal if it were to happen.

>>2522603
I'd argue that they were in a huge slump between 2004 and 2008 in terms of quality, at least outside of pixar

>>2522614
>National Treasure
>Sky High
>The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
>Bridge to Terabithia
>Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
>Enchanted
>Bolt
>High School Musical
>The Prestige
>Apocalypto
>Kill Bill Vol 2
>Cinderella Man
>Hollywoodland
>Gone Baby Gone
>No Country For Old Men
>There Will Be Blood
>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
>Doubt
>Adventureland
>Sin City
>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
>Memoirs of a Geisha
>Wanted
>The Terminal
>War of the Worlds
>Munich
>Monster House
>Flags of our Fathers
>Letters from Iwo Jima
>Howl's Moving Castle
>Ponyo
>Alias
>Desperate Housewives
>Ugly Betty
>Pushing Daisies
>Kingdom Hospital
>Boston Legal
>Lost
>Grey's Anatomy
>Criminal Minds
>Phil of the Future
>Cory In The House
>Wizards of Waverly Place
>Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
>Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
>Kingdom Hearts 2
>Spectrobes
>Hong Kong Disneyland
All of these were pretty well received as far as I'm aware.
I could list quite a few more properties if we were talking about good financial returns rather than simply critical success.

>>2522614
Animated films aren't their only business and haven't been for a very long time.

>>2522683
>Maximum autism

>>2522683
The High school musical series sucks along with a lot of other Disney Channel shit during that time and I'd argue that the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is one of the worst kids shows of all time, not to mention ruined the face of Mickey mouse

>>2522693
I'm not familiar with all the properties on this list, but you can't deny that a lot of things listed were incredibly critically acclaimed.
I mean fucking There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men are on there and they are both considered to be two of the best English films of their respective decades.

>>2522697
But they don't exactly have Disney's name on them. I'm talking about stuff that the Disney company put the Disney name on, not stuff by their other divisions

>>2522704
You can't just pick and choose what constitutes as Disney.
If you actually knew anything about Disney you'd know that the hire ups were very involved with all divisions. Michael Eisner and his cronies were actually very involved in a lot of the Touchstone films throughout the 90's.

Check out the book Disneywar. It's an incredible expose on Michael Eisner's time at Disney and goes into a lot of interesting corporate drama that unfolded throughout the years. It's a fascinating read.

>>2522489
>Written and animated well

Explain how shows like Aqua Teen, Robot Chicken, China Il, et cetera stay on the air if being written and animated well are requirements.

>>2522492
So your one kid who isn't even into gaming doesn't watch LONG PLAYS, and your daughter that isn't into the internet doesn't watch YouTube videos. Your kids are a minority. You don't know what you are talking about.

>>2522503
Again, your weird ass kids doesn't set in stone the entirety of kids today. Your kids don't just watch other people play, and that's cool, but most do.

So, has anything come of this yet?

>>2522207
>Apple
They already tried with the Pippin. I don't think they'll do it again.

>>2522773
That was 2 DECADES ago and Apple is a much different company then they were then. They actually have quite a name with gaming now because of the success of the iDevice platform.
You're an idiot and shouldn't be getting involved in conversations like these.

>>2522607
>Imagine Nintendo first parties getting the chance to work on a Marvel or Star Wars game?
Doesn't EA have exclusive rights to make Star Wars games for the next 20 years or so?

>>2522784
based disney, amirite?

>>2522207
>>2522783
>Apple
I don't think so. Apple's actual model is selling hardware with the higher profit margin as possible, and consoles have the opposite philosophy. To be fair Amazon is the only company I can think with this same philosophy as consoles.

>Google
I don't think they are interested, they only care about "the future" and they are primarily an ads company (even if they want to deny it), so they don't seem to have interest in selling hardware, they even sold Motorola when they were having profits. They simply didn't care about the hardware, they were after the patents.

>>2522249
Not a problem. None of the shit that "analyst" said is ever going to happen.

>>2522903
Except Disney has openly talked about the possibility of buying Nintendo.
The most recent occurrence was last fucking week.

Oh hey the thread got bumped! Wonder if there's any updates regarding this mysterious console...
>past 50 posts are a big argument about Disney games and minecraft

wut
RIP /vr/

>>2522905
That's probably why Nintendo's trying to buy back their own stock.

cant remember where this is from but i got the full 27pages

>>2523001
Just upload it somewhere.

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=01722156642455512850

>>2523019
Thanks for sharing that.

>>2522207
You must be a terrible analyst.

>>2523032
your welcome

>>2522910
It's not shitposting , at least. People are just waiting for news.

>>2523019
>SCCP 32-bit Co-processor @ 22MHz
Interesting

>>2523047
parts would be hard to find :)

>>2523054
It's probably a very similar CPU to the MIPS R3000 used in the playstation, just with a slower clock.

>>2523058
just noticed there is no mention of playstation at all.

>>2523062
That is because "PlayStation" was Sony's own idea.

SNES-CD was a specification designed by Nintendo. Sony and Phillips were to have their own versions of the SNES-CD.

>>2522905
Predicting something today based on talks last week or earlier isn't predicting faggot.
Especially when the talks never happened and you're just regurgitating bullshit you read on redit.

>>2523118
I've actually been predicting this for several years now. I was quite surprised as well as pleased to see articles supporting this theory I've had for quite some time.
It's only a matter of time before it happens. Likely after the Nintendo NX proves to be another financial failure.

>no 3d-math co-processor
would have fallen behind quickly had they done this thing

>>2523648
So if you predicted this would happen within 10 years several years ago it better happen soon or you were wrong.

>>2523118
You're a colossal faggot. You can absolutely make predictions of the future based on current or previous talks. It's called making an educated prediction you mongoloid.

>>2523708
Dude, it's some kid claiming to be a prophet because he read a blog. Don't get so excited.

So is someone going to buy it, or is he going to test it? It would be really shitty if someone who is going to buy it turns out to be from Sony or Nintendo and we will never see it again.

>>2522773
reminder that one of the main features of the 3ds was also the primary feature of the virtual boy
ok if ninty done it etc

>>2524154
>The game stores the "10" value from the previous stack, but it
he won't test it because he "can't find the power supply"

How they can´t find a power supply? They just need a stuff like this, put the correct voltage, limitize the mA to prevent any kind of damage and find a properly connector.

Maybe they just are too scared do fucked up the console.

>>2524312
I really think it is a unit that doesn't work. it is a mockup.

>>2524323
I dont think so. The console has all the in/out conectors, and if you check the video you will see that the cartridge port has pins connected to a board. I think that is completely functional, or at least it was.

>>2523804
More like I'm a successful adult who is married with children and have a job where I work as an analyst for a living.
I've been discussing this as a possibility for years before that article came out and it's not even a hard prediction to make seeing how both companies would benefit a lot from eachother.
I don't even know why I'm responding to this though, I really hate 4chan sometimes.

>>2524552
>who is married with children

Just the fact you actually used this grammatical aberration makes it believable.

>>2524552
>married with children
You will never have as much of a life as Al Bundy faggot.

>>2515354
kek'd

>>2521735
>>The Playstation division of Sony is currently the only profitable division they have - it's everything else they're doing that's losing money.
Actually the bank and health insurance divisions where the only ones making profit, I don't know if the computer entertainment division changed with the PS4
>He's also wrong about profit recouped from console sales, which they have NEVER sold at a loss. He's getting them confused with Nintendo, who do that shit all the time.
The PS3 is well documented to be sold at a massive loss in the first years

>>2522683
Half of the crap there is the worst shit ever made, the other half are a shell of what their franchises/heritage used to be, and a few ones are barely decent
Though most if not all of them are massive money makers

>>2525269
>le edgy contrarian for the sake of being contrarian

>>2525278
>High School Musical
>good
gr8 b8

>>2525280
It's a fun musical aimed at children.
There's nothing outright bad about it.
You can't hate something just because you aren't in the demographic it's aimed at.

>>2525280
Just because you, a (pressumably) grown adult didn't like it doesn't mean it didn't make Disney millions.

>>2525282
Lots of people hated High School Musical, and most of what Disney (Yes, Disney, not their divisions like Miramax and what not) put their name on between 2004 and 2008 went against their tradition of being timeless and family oriented, instead just going right for the teen and "Kids who want to be teenagers" market

>>2525314
It did make money, but it was still a really shitty time to live, when Mickey Mouse wasn't relevant to them or anyone, and they had forgotten about what made them so great and timeles

>>2525282

I am 20 now so I was pretty young when HSM came out. When it aired I thought it was the best thing ever and adored it. Within two years I hated it and now it's awkward however not bad. It's an average film.

>>2525350

All Disney Channel Original Movies are like that.

>>2515201

If it can play music discs that would be cool

>>2524154

He'll probably break it if he tries to touch it. Someone else needs to buy it

>SNES Playstation thread
>People are discussing High School Musical
I guess this thread is over.

>>2525780
Well, until this guy tells us more about the damn thing, where can this thread go?

>>2525780
Still better than the usual shitposting.

>>2525742
I see no reason why this wouldn't play audio cds.

High School Musical thread over here
>>2525870

The rest of us can stay in this thread that HAS NOT REACHED THE BUMP LIMIT

(Hint, look at that line at the bottom that says 310 / 34 / 125 / 4 or something and notice that the 310 is not in italics.)

>>2525795

I dunno, speculation of what could have occurred if Nintendo had worked with Sony?

>>2526186
This one hasn't reached bump limit either.....

>>2526420
He didn't say it had.

>>2526186
The bump limit is 500 on this board and always has been. The limit is 300 on some other boards.

>>2526435
What is he getting at then? That we should go to the other thread to talk about Highschool Musical, or that we should stay here, because he specifically mentioned autosage

>>2526471
Some faggot (he is an OP after all) started another thread on the very wrong assumption that this thread had reached the bump limit, without even bothering to link to it from this thread.

Then people continued to talk about things other than this console on the new thread.

>>2525819

It looks kinda I don't even know how to name that.

CHECK TWITTER

HE SOLD IT FOR 6 K

CHECK TWITTER

HE SOLD IT FOR 6 K


CHECK TWITTER

HE SOLD IT FOR 6 K


CHECK TWITTER

HE SOLD IT FOR 6 K


CHECK TWITTER

HE SOLD IT FOR 6 K

>>2526527
Shit, who did he sell it to? Will the guy at least tell us something about it?

>>2526527
heyyy at least he didn't try to sell it for 300k

>>2526527
handle?

>>2526527
Can't find anything on twitter. Sauce or didn't happen.

>>2526527
link or GTFO

>>2526513
That's exactly what I thought happened but someone told me I was wrong so I had to ask.

Thanks for clarifying

>>2526513
You failed to mention that you absolutely derailed the thread by being an edgy 14 year old crossboarder from /b/.

>>2526813
I'm sorry, and it won't happen again.

>>2526513 (You)
>>2528348
>not me
wut

So I guess >>2526527 really was trolling. Linking to twitter is too easy to not do.

>>2526527
[citation needed]

>>2528520
the owner has said repeatedly on assembler that he has no plans to sell it at this time.

>>2528884
Usually that means if they got a big enough offer they'd do it.

$6k isn't really that much money though so I'm doubting he'd sell it for tha much.

>>2515590
What is the problem with just dd-ing the disk?

>>2529192
CD-I makes use of the other CD sector formats with up to 2336 bytes per sector instead of 2048, and the Unix concept of a disk (which dd depends on) doesn't include things like CD tracks, gaps, subcodes, TOC, interleaved data, etc.

>>2515693
>Please don't post FB screencaps, for chrissakes. I get that you use FB, you don't need to post proof.

>>2529365
>replying to a week old post with le autism maymay

>>2529365
>>2529386
anon who posted the picture here, what the fuck happened to this piece of shit? Has he tried to turn it on yet?

>>2529497
For all we know, he's still looking for an AC adapter that won't fry the thing

>>2523668
>no 3d-math co-processor

It says right there that it has a cpu with powerful floating point, multiplication, and division. If it can also do matrix operations really fast, then it is perfect for 3d.

The big problem is not doing the math however, but the fact that it had no hardware 3d rasterizer.

>new about all this when I was ten, in 2003
>nobody would ever believe me
>this thing blows up and now normalfags won't get out of my face
>WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW ANON DID YOUU KNOW THAT NINTENDO AND SONYY WORKED TOGETHER AT ONE POINT??
>yes i did it was back in 1993 tha-
>OMG I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT OMG HAHA IMAGINE MARIO ON THA PLAYSTATION OMG HAHAH

>>2532295
We all knew about it, chucklefuck, no one has ever seen one before. You're not a special snowflake.

>>2532295
I bet you didn't know mario 2 was donk donk panic.

>>2532339

What's the matter? Confused by the filename? So predictable... I think I'll have to teach you one or two things about videogames...

>>2532357
toppest of keks

>>2532295
>2003
>being 10

>>2532492
It's universally agreed that anything after 1995 is considered cancer. As these people are in the middle of a cancerous turning point that's filled with social media, smartphones, memes and self-entitlement.

I'll preface this by saying that this isn't a "when I was a kid things were so much better" stories. But rather an observation that is mostly true.
Even though the Internet had been around for a while in 2003, It was still far away from the critical mass that started occuring in 2007/2008
This was still a time when you actually had to search out information on a subject you were interested in. You had to dig for it. A process which for centuries has weeded lazy and ignorant people out. Broadband was still uncommon in 2003. Most people had dial up. And people certainly didn't know how to use a computer.

Those barriers have been reduced thanks to smartphone access and social media. You might say I'm autistic or hold resent towards people like that. And that's partly true. Back in primary school I was mildly made fun of for liking video games. And certain people made a effort to ostracize me from groups because of it. Fast forward ten years and suddenly the whole paradigm shift has changed, and those people are now the one posing with Zelda tattoos and posting video game shit for their own personal social gain.

It's the difference between someone actually being genuinely interested in a interest/hobby. Versus using that for petty social gain.
CONT

>>2532756
TL:DR it's cool that we finally have photo proof of the snescd, but the amount of people losing their marbles over a basic fact that has already been known for decades is lame.

>>2532756
I think one big difference is people seem to take the internet more seriously now or something. It just baffles me when people kill themselves over Facebook or whatever. I mean who gives a fuck.

>>2532756
>It's universally agreed that anything after 1995 is considered cancer.

Sure anon, did you take your pills today ? i think you forgot what a subjective point of view is.
I'm telling you this as an 80's guy, that doesn't project his fears on the present.

>>2532803
The thing with internet suicides is the fact that its targeted and personal.
The bullying is not confined to the internet, Its happening at school too.
So back before the internet you could go home and get away from the problem.
Now the problem follows you anywhere with a wifi connection.

Used to be if you got picked on, maybe no one was around.
Its easier to get the one separated from the heard.
Now its a 24 hour theater.
All your friends, family, and foes see it.
That embarrassment is unique to the internet.

And if you think its as simple as not using facebook, come on.
Many teens go to sleep with their phones in their beds to check posts in the middle of the night.
Social media is completely ingrained in modern teens and its not going away.

School is nothing but constant pressure and social conflict.
You need to depressurize at home
Teen years are when you define your identity and build confidence.
If you have no safe place to do that, you self destruct.

>>2532827
>So back before the internet you could go home and get away from the problem.
You still can. You can still walk away from the fucking issue nothing has changed.

>>2532827
Cool retro games post, Anon-kun.

>>2532856
Your head is in the sand man.
Things have changed.

>>2532492

Yes, some people are younger than you.

>>2516491
Yeah they can do whatever they want with something that they buy, but that doesn't mean people don't have the right to hate them for not giving a fuck about the hobby.

>>2532756
>It's universally agreed that anything after 1995 is considered cancer.
No, it was always cancer.

>>2532904
No, if you get bullied on facebook, you can just go and post on 4chan anonymously, or on some completely other place with a different nickname.

>>2532904
His head is not in the sand. Your head on the other hand....
Walking away from internet bullying is the easiest fucking thing in the world. Unless you can't do it because you have serious mental issues, in which case you're going to have problems anywhere except a padded room.

>>2522683
>Kill Bill
>There Will Be Blood
>No Country for Old Men
>Gone Baby Gone

Did you just start naming random movies, cause none of those are disney, you fuckwit.

>>2537895
He listed them because "Miramax is disney" apparently. I don't exactly count them as such, because who the fuck would ever say "Pulp Fiction/Clerks is a Disney movie" and expect a straight reaction?

Okay, enough with this mickey mouse shit.

What the fuck happened with this thing? What's the lastest news? We're never really going to know what's in the cartidge, right?

>>2538539
Maybe he just died suddenly

>>2538539
He's in communications with someone to get bios and the cart dumped. As well as getting a new power plug made for it and having an expert in the community make sure it doesn't go boom when he plugs it in. These things take time

>>2532756
When memes became popular, I first thought that finally people would be like us. Then I realized that the only thing that happened was that things I liked were more and more becoming like the things I dislike.

>>2539216
I really do miss the days when they were sort of like in jokes, but now I can't stand to look or even hear them.

>>2539216
I think there were reasons why we were always from ebaumsworld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7t3_yrIxV4&feature=youtube_gdata_player


He made a new video, no real news though

>>2540420
>JAP JAC commented

Top laughs.

>>2540420
>this my jam
kek

I think he seems pretty level headed. Im glad he is taking his time and trying to make smart choices with this holy grail.

>>2540438
I think to some extent he's enjoying the fame. Which is fine and all, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of this winds up getting intentionally drawn out.

>>2516954
>>2540420

This doesnt look like the same person at all.

>>2540472
That is because they aren't That was someone posing with it... because reasons.

>>2532756
>knew about 4chan since middle school
>only thing I did was save pictures I liked
>wasted color print at school library to have these pictures in plastic paper holders back to back

I don't know what insecure part of society you grew up in, but everyone in Los Angeles played the fuck out of video games when they were little. Only pretentious fucks like to pretend that they left video games behind but still brag about their killstreaks.

>>2539216
>When memes first became popular

When sites like Totse where getting tens of thousands of unique hits a day, and there was an active thriving community, and we all know eachother fairly intimately. I know you guys pride yourselves on being "anonymous", but back then you formed bonds that, I shit you not, still last to this day.

>>2541065
I remember when memes were my escape from reality, now reality is full of them, and now I have to escape from the memes

>>2542434
Jesus, the reality of that statement just kinda hit me..

>>2542434
I don't know if that's really that true, since these days people think any joke on the internet at all is a meme.

>>2541065
>totse
dear christ, fuck off, that place was it's time's equivalent of 9fag and you should feel ashamed of every forming "bonds" with anyone there, it only displays what a waste of life you truely are.

>>2542453
I think you're thinking of 4chan, bro. It's okay though, maybe you were confused because it was launched 10 years before you were even born.

>>2542434
I remember when memes lasted about a week, two weeks tops, then we moved back to regular discussion about semi-serious topics.

Getting back on topic, one really has to wonder what would happen if Nintendo followed through, would it succeed, or would it fail like the numerous other CD Consoles/addons during the time?

>>2542561
Even worse: I think Sony would've attempted (and succeeded) in a hostile takeover of Nintendo as a company. The Sony branding all over that prototype speaks volumes about Sony's business plans with Nintendo.

>>2542561
Without Nintendo backing out and going with Phillips instead, we wouldnt have had the Sony Playstation, No console wars, Sega might still be around as a console maker, would we have the XBOX?, if Nintendo would have followed through the gaming landscape would be very different today.

>>2542582
It would be really bad if the console failed afterwards, and Nintendo gets phased because Sony doesn't want to pursue the games market anymore, it would mean SEGA would be on top, and maybe, eventually, we might have Mario on the SEGA Dreamcast... by SONY

>>2542474
such epic troolingz

>>2542582
as I already said, I'm not sure if in this thread or the other about this same subject, it isn't that uncommon for internal prototypes, that are created by a third party, for the prototype to have the third party's logos on it rather than the party they are creating the product for. It holds no clues to a supposed planned take over and it's quite silly to suggest such a thing.

>>2542720
It's not too silly considering Sony jumped into the game industry just a few years later on their own without Nintendo's involvement. It wouldn't be surprising that Sony internally was discussing the prospect of buying out Nintendo soley as a development division with the connections they made through the deal.

Plus it wouldn't surprise me at all if Yamauchi smelled a rat about the whole thing and canned it, the man had an instinctual sense of character, both of business friends and enemies.

>>2542705
Not really. If you were a decent troll it wouldn't be so obvious you have zero idea what you are talking about and are getting all your information from ED.

Clearly this thread has outlived its usefulness and should be left to sage into oblivion.

>>2543146
Clearly this person has outlived its usefulness and should be left to die alone.

WHY IS THIS THREAD STILL ALIVE
12 DAYS
Even the kids in The Ring didn't last that long

>>2544015
This is /vr/. I've seen threads break 3 months.

>>2544015
We still need more info about the nintendo playstation, there's so much discussion we have yet to have

So has anything useful come out of this revelation yet or is it certain that this rare find will rot in some hoarder's basement for all eternity?

>>2547558
Read the fucking thread, moron.

>>2544015
I made a AVGN thread here once. It stayed up for over a month. kek.

Did he admit it was fake because he was gonna get sued?

>>2547989
Why would he even get sued for something that's pretty much obsolete to the original owner?

>>2532756
>I was one year away from being an originalfag
Damn.

Has he powered the thing on yet

>>2548474
Actually, thinking about it for a while, who the fuck would even claim ownership of this? Nintendo or Sony? I know that it's mostly Nintendo parts and would make a cool thing to show at Nintendo world in New York city, but it does have Sony's name on it and they did get involved on the CD half at least

>>2540420
Yeah this guy is alright, I was pretty disappointed with the gamer communitys reaction of "IT'S FAKE" or "WHAT A FUCKING RETARD".

What could the possibilities of games be for this system anyways?

>>2551543
Historical value and leftovers of games from ages past. Maybe a 3D Mario?

>>2551545
I was sort of thinking what could this System exactly handle, would it be something really big, or just glorified SNES games with CD music? I'd probably imagine there would have been a lot of FMV games as well

>>2551543
I dont know all the details but Squaresoft at one point was developing Secret of Mana and possibly Chrono Trigger for the snes-cd.

>>2551558
>just glorified SNES games with CD music?
yup

>>2551543
Basically what we got on Sega CD, only on a SNES. Dragon's Lair port, check.

There would have been a few FMV rail games like Sewer Shark in there for sure. Only it would have been FMV with Mario.

>>2551559
>Chrono trigger for Snes-cd
God damn, that would have been awesome, one could only wonder what it would have been if it were on CD, probably would have been better than the later PS1 release

>>2552829

Those MSU-1 hacks popping like hell in RomHacking wouldn't be like this?

>>2548486
no, he won't until he "gets the right power cord" says he's afraid he'll fry it. which is bullshit any cord would work as long as it was the right voltage and amps.

>>2552861
I meant like maybe have the game be bigger since it would be on a CD

>>2517925
I love the /vr/ board tan because he isnt a stupid fucking little anime girl that people use to represent things

>>2552951
He probably watches Samurai Pizza Cats or Ranma 1/2 when he's not playing video games

Do you think the video quality would have been as bad or better than Sega CD?

>>2556169
Not really any question it'd be better. Sega CD is 1991 hardware that is further constrained by the heavy color limitations of the Genesis. While 64 colors is fine for a 16bit games, it is absolutely atrocious for film.

>>2552951
Instead, he's what someone born in the 2000s thinks is lol so le '80s.

Is that really better?