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Snes extension port

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On the model 1 Snes they have some sort of extension port at the bottom. Does anyone know what that was used for? I know on the super famicon they all sorts of assesories like a flopy drive, but did anything come out to NA that uses it?
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I don't think peripherals that use that port were ever released. similarly, the nes has a port on the bottom that is quite useless.
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That expansion port was going to be used for the PlayStation! There is great info about that failed business deal on wikipedia.
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Mathius wrote:That expansion port was going to be used for the PlayStation! There is great info about that failed business deal on wikipedia.
Yeah, similar to the N64 DD
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Yeah I noticed it's not the only console to come out in America with a never-used extension port. The Sega Master System, NES, and the N64 all had that feature and in the case of the Master System, I'm not sure anyone can even say what it was supposed to be there for in the first place!
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Segatari2002 wrote:Yeah I noticed it's not the only console to come out in America with a never-used extension port. The Sega Master System, NES, and the N64 all had that feature and in the case of the Master System, I'm not sure anyone can even say what it was supposed to be there for in the first place!
Yeah, it's amazing all these consoles had extension ports that were never utilized with peripherals/accessories in US. Although, some ext. ports were utilized in Japan with some of the older consoles... 8)
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Wasn't the SNES expansion port also used for some kind of multiplayer device in Japan? SattleView or something like that?
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The Satellaview, basically a dish that let you download Satela games to play, like some of the Fire Emblem series.
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That's what it was. I was too lazy to look it up then, partially because I knew some one here would know of the top of their head.
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