Sony and Nintendo have joined forces to bring you the ultimate console collaboration, with credit to legendary console modifier, Ben Heck.
The Nintendo Playstation was the love-child of Sony and Nintendo, designed in the late 80s to early 90s before the two companies split and Sony went on to create the first ever Playstation.
Heck has a number of ‘how-to’ Youtube videos, with his latest (and what we believe to be the greatest), demonstrating how he successfully got the retro Nintendo Playstation Super to operate via a never before seen disc drive.
First, Heck took apart the console only to discover a ‘mystery chip’ that happened to be a switchboard for the console. Next, he mapped out the motherboard, replaced some capacitors, and viola! You have yourself a Nintendo Playstation prototype that takes CD-ROM discs instead of the standard, now steeply priced vintage cartridges.
Unfortunately, no games were actually created for the disc drive on the prototype. There was however, one game created by hobby developers, named Magic Floor which Heck was able to burn to a disc. The .iso file was full of glitches and only based on how developers thought the drive would run, but as we see in the Youtube video, Heck once again waves his magical wand of technology and gets it up and running.
The Nintendo Playstation was the love-child of Sony and Nintendo, designed in the late 80s to early 90s before the two companies split and Sony went on to create the first ever Playstation.
The prototype, purchased for $75 at an auction, was originally intended to be an add-on for existing consoles that were lacking either the SNES cartridge or CD-Rom system.
