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Wonder what's up with that "NEXT" port. It looks like a cross between USB and HDMI, but predates development of the former by 2 years and the latter by a decade
by excalibur 7y ago
Wonder what's up with that "NEXT" port. It looks like a cross between USB and HDMI, but predates development of the former by 2 years and the latter by a decade. Would be interesting if it were an early implementation of concepts that were later standardized as USB.
- runawaybottle 7y agoMight be the memory card?
- ginko 7y agoLooks like something akin to the serial i/o port of the original playstation: https://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/iFixit-PlayStation-teardown-2.jpg https://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/iFixit-... Also if you think that looks like an USB port, check out the link cable for the original gameboy.
- simias 7y agoI think that's right, the fact that it's called "next" seems to imply some kind of chaining as well.
- monocasa 7y agoOr it means "Nintendo EXTension" or something similar. I wouldn't read too much into their naming schemes wrt what that means for feature set.
- monocasa 7y agoFun story, the original firewire port was openly designed with the Gameboy link cable as inspiration, and the USB port was derived from there.
- trevyn 7y agoAlso looks like it could be a shrunk version of multi-out
- simias 7y agoThe multi-out is visible on the other side.