These large grey rectangular metal boxes are about 18"h x 12" w x 13" d. They are marked "Emulator SE". It has two standard Super NES controller ports and a standard Nintendo A/V output. All Super NES compatible output cables will work with it. On the back are two 50-pin SCSI ports, a terminator came with the kit. There is also an 8 position DIP switch with an unknown function. The device was meant to be connected to PC running MS-DOS (via the SCSI port) and the development software. It uses 120v and 40 watts and uses a standard PC power cable. Some units had a MIDI port, marked "MIDI" and may have accepted MIDI signals, these units also had RCA stereo input. Another unit had a sprite-design option and included an "Analog RGB" port that seems to be identical to a Commodore RGB output. Four internal slots allowed for the various expansions. One of these expansions added the parallel port like the ones found on SNES consoles. Another expansion added a standard SNES cartridge port. Another expansion contained a DSP1 chip. All the guts of a SNES are contained inside plus a SCSI controller, an NEC V20 CPU, a 32k ERPOM chip, and 4 MB of socketed RAM (the maximum non-bankswitched size of an SNES game). There was also a battery backed RAM card, like what was found in SNES cartridges with SRAM. Although a 16 MB version was also discovered. It also has a jumper setting that exceeds the memory map of the CPU.
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