The Nintendo PlayStation is not a misnomer. before the PS1, Sony teamed up with Nintendo to create a video game console that utilized CD-ROMs as a distribution platform. These plans fell through, Sony went on to style the PS1, Nintendo the N64, however a few prototype ‘Nintendo PlayStations’ made it out into the wild. one of these unbelievably unusual consoles was shipped to a business that ultimately went into bankruptcy. The console was discovered when the contents of an office building were put up for auction, as well as last year, [Ben Heck] tore it apart.

It’s taken a year, however now this Nintendo PlayStation is lastly working. This console now plays audio CDs as well as games written by homebrewers. The hardware lives, as well as a console when forgotten lives when more.

The last time [Ben Heck] took a look at the Nintendo PlayStation, the CD-ROM part of the console was non-functional. The super Nintendo was still functional, however for this prototype, the CD-ROM was totally self-contained as well as needed a ‘boot cartridge’ of sorts to gain access to anything on a CD. somehow or one more — [Ben] believes it was a wonky cable or a dead cap — The CD-ROM came to life. Yes, jiggling a cable was the degree of the repair, after costs an inordinate amount of time reverse engineering the console.

With the CD-ROM working, [Ben] got audio playing as well as tried out of the few homebrew games for this PlayStation prototype. super manager Gaiden didn’t rather work since this game was designed to tons in chunks. one more game written for this console, Magic Floor, was little sufficient to in shape in the entirety of the CD-ROM’s buffer as well as packed correctly. That doesn’t mean the game worked; there are some slight differences between the Nintendo PlayStation emulator as well as the actual hardware that now exists. [Ben] emailed the author of Magic Floor, as well as now, after a quarter-century, the Nintendo PlayStation works.

What’s next for the Nintendo PlayStation? Well, now the emulator for this system can properly show the actual hardware, as well as ideally the homebrewers can figure out exactly how to compose a game for this system.