WATCH: ‘Nintendo PlayStation’ prototype revived
Before the Sony PlayStation came to be, Nintendo once approached Sony to create the “Nintendo PlayStation”. It didn’t work out, as evidenced by the current console market.
But before the plug was pulled from that project, prototypes were made. And it is one of these prototypes that a tinkerer on the net have brought back to life.
According to Engadget, professional tinkerer Ben Heckendorn of “The Ben Heck Show” had successfully gotten the CD drive working on the Nintendo PlayStation prototype.
The CD drive on this console was to be its main feature. Unfortunately, it was not able to play games despite the number of repairs attempted on it.
Heckenddorn was able to get the drive running by replacing “questionable” capacitors and “jiggling some things around.” Afterwards, he was surprised that the CD drive started working.
Since the Nintendo PlayStation never even got off the drawing board, there are no “long lost games” to dig up, because no publisher even got to write a game for it.
On the other hand, coders can take a crack at making their own software to run on the Nintendo PlayStation prototype. Getting the console to work will also give some insights into what Sony and Nintendo were planning back in the day. Alfred Bayle/JB
