There’s been a lot of talk about the Nintendo PlayStation, the aborted collaboration between Nintendo and Sony which would have seen the SNES and PlayStation 1 combine into a single console. Although 200 prototypes were built, only one has popped up in the wild (before someone paid $360,000 for it at auction in 2020).
But if you’d rather not wait for hell to freeze over and another unit to emerge, you can make your own. Kind of. Wesk, a modder known for the GC Nano, the world’s smallest Gamecube and the Ashida Wii portable, posted the 3D files for his Nintendo PlayStation shell on the bitbuilt.net forums:
I’m dumping my Nintendo Playstation model here for anyone to use. I had originally planned to use it for an actual SNES+PS1 hybrid console but I doubt it’ll ever happen with my ever shortening amount of time I have for this hobby (another baby on the way).
It should be mostly to-scale but I’ve only had pictures to go off. The current assembly for the shell has been made with 3D printing in mind.
via the bitbuilt.net forum thread
The way I see it, you have two main options: try making a Nintendo PlayStation prototype with the innards of a SNES and a PS1 or just drop a single-board computer and let emulation do all the heavy lifting. There’s also FPGA as that’s affordable and popular right now. But whatever you might do with the files, this is a pretty awesome donation to the community.
