Super Nintendo Love/Hate Relationship

[sheath]

I always wondered what kind of games would of been released for there 32-bit system since they skipped up to 64-bit

If it came out when it was supposed to, look at the 3DO and CDI, that is what they were working for. If it came out in late 1994 look at the Playstation.

[Drakon]

I always wondered what kind of games would of been released for there 32-bit system since they skipped up to 64-bit

Mario 32, Starfox 32, Zelda 3d, Castlevania rpg, Super metroid 2.

[zetastrike]

If it came out when it was supposed to, look at the 3DO and CDI, that is what they were working for. If it came out in late 1994 look at the Playstation.

They couldn't have been designing the SNES CD like the 3DO or PSX. That would be a completely new console, not to mention expensive as all hell and essentially a combined SCD/32X. They'd be better off waiting to release the N64 as they did.

[sheath]

They couldn't have been designing the SNES CD like the 3DO or PSX. That would be a completely new console, not to mention expensive as all hell and essentially a combined SCD/32X. They'd be better off waiting to release the N64 as they did.

I agree, but that was what Sony and then Phillips promised with the SNES CD, and for under $200 if I recall. What I think the SNES CD would have actually been was a PCE/TG16 style CD-ROM with SFX chipped cartridge add-ons that were incrementally updated. So basically the SNES CD would have been an SFX CD-ROM. There are early specs given by Nintendo that point to the SFX chip on a cartridge as the central processor for the CD-ROM attachment.

[Drakon]

The snes fmv box.....*shudder* so glad that never happened.

[NeoZeedeater]

The Turbo CD, Sega CD, and early PC CD-ROM scenes weren't that bad in their amount of FMV games. There were still tons of regular games so I could just ignore the junk. I'm glad there was no SNES CD to clutter the market more, though.

[rift]

I'm fond of the snes because it's the system I *didn't* own when I was younger as we were strictly a genesis family. So now I get to back back and play the games I missed, play the different ports of titles I did play on the genesis, etc

[sheath]

The Turbo CD, Sega CD, and early PC CD-ROM scenes weren't that bad in their amount of FMV games. There were still tons of regular games so I could just ignore the junk. I'm glad there was no SNES CD to clutter the market more, though.

Definitely. People are completely insane about trashing early FMV titles like they were all that was released. It was a fairly small portion of the total libraries of each early CD-ROM system though. As small as factory defects for NES, PS1, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles actually.

[Moirai]

I wonder what the us version of the snes cd would have looked like...

[The Coop]

I wonder what the us version of the snes cd would have looked like...

A cinder block, without the holes

[Drakon]

The Turbo CD, Sega CD, and early PC CD-ROM scenes weren't that bad in their amount of FMV games. There were still tons of regular games so I could just ignore the junk. I'm glad there was no SNES CD to clutter the market more, though.

The turbografx cd can't do fmv, it's not powerful enough, which is why the library of games for it doesn't suck so much.

I wonder what the us version of the snes cd would have looked like...

like the american snes:



Fugly!

[The Coop]

The turbografx cd can't do fmv, it's not powerful enough, which is why the library of games for it doesn't suck so much.

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective 1+2, and It Came From the Desert, would like a word with you.

[NeoZeedeater]

Yeah, and the TGCD's FMV looked pretty good at the time given the colour palette.

The Sega CD and PC CD game libraries certainly didn't suck.

[A Black Falcon]

The US SNES looks great, darnit...

Yeah, and the TGCD's FMV looked pretty good at the time given the colour palette.

SNES CD FMV would have looked even better, visually... none of that "10 colors is all you get" Sega CD FMV stuff! That wouldn't make the GAMES any better, though, as the ... quality... of the 3DO or 32X CD FMV libraries show... (or the PC, PS1, and Saturn too, of course.)

The Sega CD and PC CD game libraries certainly didn't suck.

Yeah, and some games, such as Secret of Mana, were originally supposed to be SNES CD games.

[Thunderblaze16]

By the look of it's specs, the system looks like it would have done more than what people expected.