Super-CD

The Super CD is a peripheral for the Super Atari-Nintendo Advanced Video System that reads CDs. It was released in 1992 in Japan and North America, and the rest of the world in 1993.

Apparently, it was devloped by Philips after Nintendo broke their deal with Sony. However, this time, Nintendo oversees the game development. The peripheral allows bigger games, videos, and audio to be played on the SANVAS. Animated cutscenes are developed by the animation team of Nintendo themselves. The quality of audio and video on the console are slightly higher than that of the SEGA CD's due to the Super CD having its own hardware that connects to the SANVAS similar to how the Famicom Disk System connects to the Famicom while having a save system and expanded audio. However, FMV videos and audio are slightly bitcrushed to avoid damaging the base console. Another measure taken to avoid hardware damage while maintaining game quality is that only animated content made by the SMMWA team is used for FMV videos.

A few prototypes were made to also play regular CDs, but the feature was scrapped in favor of unleashing the SANVAS's full potential in gaming in the 1990s.