@sdelfin That's exactly the idea. The system cartridge was intended to be swappable. The first one (the one found in the prototype in someone's house a few years ago) had nothing but a pittance of RAM. It was silly.
Then came this Super FX system cartridge, before it was even christened "Super FX". It's nice, and I would've wanted it badly.
However, the final system cartridge circa 1993 dropped the Super FX entirely for the NEC V810 and more RAM.
The CD-ROM unit architecture changed several times! This Super FX era was the middle of the road model, but still much better (both processing and RAM size) than Sega CD. SA-1 happened later than either of these and is really an inexpensive stopgap not more powerful than the V-810.
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Re: The SNES PlayStation Was Going To Have A Super FX Chip Built-In
@sdelfin That's exactly the idea. The system cartridge was intended to be swappable. The first one (the one found in the prototype in someone's house a few years ago) had nothing but a pittance of RAM. It was silly.
Then came this Super FX system cartridge, before it was even christened "Super FX". It's nice, and I would've wanted it badly.
However, the final system cartridge circa 1993 dropped the Super FX entirely for the NEC V810 and more RAM.
The CD-ROM unit architecture changed several times! This Super FX era was the middle of the road model, but still much better (both processing and RAM size) than Sega CD. SA-1 happened later than either of these and is really an inexpensive stopgap not more powerful than the V-810.