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SNES Rayman Prototype Released To The Public

SNES Rayman Prototype Released To The Public

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Last October we reported that a prototype for Rayman on the SNES existed. The proto was from the very earliest days of development when Michel Ancel’s original platformer was intended to debut on the SNES-CD. This obviously didn’t happen, and the game would ultimately come out on the Playstation and Saturn instead. Now game archivist Omar Cornut has dumped the SNES Rayman ROM and placed it on the Internet for free download. He was asked by Kotaku how he got it. “There’s not a lot to it really, I borrowed the cartridge from Michel Ancel who kindly let me look at it and dump it.” Cornut was given permission from Ancel to release the prototype ROM publicly, so it’s all legal. Unfortunately the ROM is so early that there isn’t much you can do with it. It’s just Rayman in an empty environment. He can jump around and leap across platforms, but there are no enemies. “That prototype it is a very early build,” says Cornut. “So the stuff like

The Nintendo Playstation Is Broken! Can Ben Heck Fix It?

The Nintendo Playstation Is Broken! Can Ben Heck Fix It?

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In 2015 the world’s only known prototype for the SNES-CD, or Nintendo Playstation, was discovered at last. Shortly afterward, the BIOS files were dumped and the homebrew community got to work making a belated game library. The largest effort to date, Super Boss Gaiden, was finished not too long ago. So why don’t the solitary owners of the prototype burn a CD-R and see if that game will run? Because they can’t. For unknown reasons, the SNES-CD ceased putting out a signal. No video, no sound, nothing. That’s when they called professional console modder Ben Heck and begged him to fix the machine. This means, thanks to the documented footage, we’ll be able to see the guts of the machine. But can Heck repair console innards no one has even seen before? Just so you know, this is only Part 1 and Part 2 has yet to be uploaded. Whoever Ben Heck is, he’s a dirty teaser. In this special episode of ‘The Ben Heck Show’ Terry and Dan Diebold

“Super Boss Gaiden” Theoretically Playable On The SNES-CD

“Super Boss Gaiden” Theoretically Playable On The SNES-CD

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It wasn’t too long ago that one of the prototypes for the SNES-CD system, otherwise known as the Nintendo Playstation, were discovered. Shortly after, the BIOS files for the system were dumped (basically, the operating system that would have made it run). There were no games released for it, of course, so that left the homebrew community to fill in the gaps. Super Boss Gaiden isn’t the first SNES-CD game to be created by the fans, but it’s the most elaborate (and interesting) one to date. You play as the CEO of Sony, furious that the SNES-CD and its BIOS files are now out in the wild. You’re so angry that you decide to wreck the entire company with your own fists, and there the game begins. Presumably Super Boss Gaiden would boot on an SNES-CD, but with only one surviving machine, there’s no way to tell for sure. Fortunately it was made in two formats and the first of these will work with any SNES emulator. Super Boss Gaiden

The Nintendo Playstation Seen In Action

The Nintendo Playstation Seen In Action

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One of the most pivotal moments in video game history happened in 1991 when Nintendo signed a deal with Sony to produce a hybrid console that ran cartridges and CDs, called the “Playstation.” Midway through the deal, Nintendo suddenly snubbed Sony and went with Phillips instead (and wound up never making the device anyway). Sony made the Playstation on their own and changed the entire market. If the deal hadn’t gone south, the game industry would be very different. A few months ago the prototype for Nintendo’s version of the Playstation turned up in photos. Some people wondered if the thing really worked, and this week we got proof that it did, when Engadget interviewed father and son Terry and Dan Diebold, owners of the prototype. Wait’ll you hear how much they paid! “The company I worked for, Advanta Corporation, they filed for bankruptcy (November 8th, 2009). When they did that, we purged the buildings. What you do is you take pictures, you itemize, and then they had an online

Sony Studios President Reacts To “Nintendo Playstation”

Sony Studios President Reacts To “Nintendo Playstation”

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Last week a real prototype of one of the most significant would-be consoles in gaming history, the Nintendo Playstation, showed up on Reddit. Nintendo and Sony were once to work together to bring the Playstation to market, but after Nintendo broke the deal, Sony made the Playstation on their own. The current console market would be a lot different today if the events in this debacle were changed even slightly. The website Engadget caught up with Shuhei Yoshida, the President of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, at an event in Hong Kong hyping Project Morpheus…and they couldn’t resist whipping out their smartphones and showing him pictures of the prototype, to get his take on it. He was working with Sony at the time, and he did remember that machine! Yoshida joined the Sony corporation in 1986. The Nintendo Playstation project would take place five years later. “When I joined Ken Kutaragi’s team [in 1993], there was a system called ‘Play Station’ that had both Super Nintendo cartridge support and some