What was the ext port on the bottom for? anyone got proto pics? Also whos doesnt have the cover over it? mine doesn't have one but my cousins does. Is That Age Differance?
Apparently, it's a different form of the Famicom expansion port, at least from what I've read about it. It also supports external audio, so you could wire up the external audio line to one on the cartridge port. I think the NESdev forums explain this in detail.
Wasn't it going to be used with that Minnesota lottery thing?
? i dont know abou these things.
I wasnt around ;D
Oh to be young...
I think Jedi's right about the lottery thing. Maybe it wasn't built into the NES for the lottery thing, but Minnesota was going to exploit it for that purpose. Jedi likes to link to the article explaining all of this...surprised he didn't...
I think Jedi is partial correct. It was made for a modem. The lottery thing was essential a modem. I looked for the page with the info on it, but it seems to no longer be an active site sadly.
There were several types of modems in dev for the NES. The most well known one was the Teleplay
http://www.nesworld.com/nesmodem.htm
I have also heard that Nintendo had plans to make expansion pak of some sort for it as well but scrubb the project.
~~NGD
Wow! thats way to cool!
Ive never seen this apparatus.
I found it, but the site is gone. :(
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Maybe they were going to make a NES Disk System
Quote from: popibros1 on January 05, 2008, 01:32:29 pm
Maybe they were going to make a NES Disk System
they were, but because the disk system was more or less a flop in Japan, NOA decided to cancel it. Becides, by that time NOA had created cartridge versions of the most popular Disk System games: Akumajou Dracula, Zelda, Metroid etc.
Plus, maybe it's a good thing that the disk system never came out in North America. NES carts are fairly indistructable as were NES controllers. Everyone knows those kids who threw NES controllers wildly when they were kids and y et the controllers were almost universally fine. The FDS disks would have all been destoryed at the hands of American kids, and now 20 some years later, the likilyhood that you'd find working disk games would be much much slimmer.
And besides, loading times?! ;D. I think they only beared with them with the introduction of the Playstation.