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handofg0d · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 455 Location: PA

I did not mean that design at all. I meant the design of the SFC as the one they "already had".

That picture looks like it was drawn by the same guy who did the artwork for Cheetahmen II

TheRedEye · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject:

Carnivol · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:44 am Post subject:

yeah, it is kinda funny (and neat) when it's the fans/collectors gets to contribute to official releases somehow.

Often happens with DVD releases of old stuff too, directors/publishers/project-responsible starts reaching out to the fangroups to find various stuff that's lost.

Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

It definitely is boring and time-consuming. That's why I never felt like buying a scanner. Anyway, my friend in the same city is moving back to the States, so he's giving me his scanner for free. :)

I hope it works...

P.S. I updated my page a little while ago with a timeline of the SFC's life in the press. The damn thing was already in development in the middle of 1987!!!

ArnoldRimmer83 · Staff Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 540

ProgrammingAce · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 580

Nintendo has this weird policy of trying to buy museum items back from collectors. From what i've heard, they actually keep a museum at their HQ and have gone well above market price to buy some of the items therein from collectors. Kinda seems like a cool idea.

And if it wern't for people like us, a lot of this stuff would be lost. My company has ISO guidelines to destroy any code from a game after a certain number of years. Same thing with the builds themselves.

The only reason i have the collection i do is because people give me items they would otherwise throw away. How many people can say they've pulled a Dreamcast VMU mp3 player out of the garbage?

Prototype hardware gets treated like garbage by most people in this industry. Once they're done with it, it gets thrown away. That's why i like places like lost levels.

KingMike · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898

Smeg · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:47 am Post subject:

The only lockout between the SFC and the US SNES is those little tabs in the cartridge slot. That wouldn't have required redesigning the entire chassis, but I'm not complaining that they did. It's not like the SFC was a looker.

Mister Syd · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 18

James · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 86

Smeg · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject:

Looks like a non-descript plastic blob to me! Actually, it vaguely resembles my CD wallet.

Carnivol · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject:

It actually looks like a multi-purpose kitchen device.

Like you can attach a blender or something, you just slot on the devices ontop of it and you're ready to go!

The Euro/JP version is the luxury model, while the US is the cheap pirate design rip-off version.

Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

Some more scans of the SFC's first press conference:

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/SFC_1988Q4.html#sfcbon

I found out said conference took place on November 21, 1988, two years to the day of the SFC's eventual release in 1990. The SFC was, like, totally finished even at this point and Nintendo sat on it for two years. (Kinda like Atari, but nobody wanted the 7800, anyway.)

Carnivol · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:29 am Post subject:

Cool stuff.

And, oh, that reminds me:
I know I've shown this before to someone, but I found on an old GameTV (1990-ish) tape a SFC presentation of some sort (not entirely sure what's going on in the video, though)

I'll evt. get around to uploading the full video. Just need to... get unlazy and find some time.

Asaki · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 52

Evan · Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 948

Neat stuff, Tongueman.

Carnivol · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

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