Super NES Emulator SE

The Super NES Emulator SE was a Nintendo-sponsored game development system for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was designed by Intelligent Systems, and sold only to licensed Nintendo development houses.

The device is in the form of a large, rectangular metal box, approximately 18 inches high, and 12 inches wide, and 13 inches deep. The box is painted grey, and bears the marking "Emulator SE" on the front in grey.

The device has two controller ports at the bottom that are standard Super NES controller ports. The rear of the device featured two 50-pin SCSI interface designed to connect to a PC running MS-DOS. One of these ports came with a terminator. The rear of the device also has a port labeled "Multi-Out", which is identical to the Multi-out port on a normal Super NES control deck.

Below that, it has an 8 position DIP switch. Because there is no known copy of the documentation of this machine, the function of the switches is unknown, although it is possible the switch is used to set the SCSI ID of the device.

The units bear five-digit serial numbers.

The device is rated to consume 40 watts of power at 120v, and bears a 1991 copyright date. It has an IEC 60320 C14 connector.

The units came in at least two and possibly more configurations with a song-compositing subsystem and a sprite-design subsystem as an option.

One configuration option adds a port labeled "MIDI" that contains a standard MIDI jack (though it's not known if the port is actually MIDI compliant), and a single RCA-Style connector in red. Investigation of the internal circuitry of the device suggests that this RCA jack is used to record sounds into the device for use in music composition.

Another configuration option adds a port called "Analog RGB", and presents a female DB-9 port. Internal circuitry again suggests that the port is an EGA port, though is probably closer in design to the ports used in Commodore 128 computer.

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