In the 16-bit era of video game consoles, Nintendo released Super Famicom in Japan (1990) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991) in the United States. The two were meant for their assigned region although they have different name and hardware design. Some kind of a regional lockout they used during those time. Unlike today, regional lockouts are embedded on hardware chips or in the firmware instead. So it doesn't affect of the hardware design like what happened in the past.
First we begin by looking its boxes. The SFC box has a simplistic art outlined with four different colors. But, I prefer with the SNES box of its cool visual design. Some kind of an advertising that they printed the actual unit in the front and featured games like Super Mario World were printed at the back. Mario Paint and the SNES mouse were also printed at the side.
I really love the top view of both consoles. They both have different cartridge slot, power button, reset button, eject button, trademark logo, LED placement, and of course its color. But it still have the same controller port at the front and AV cable port at the back.
More difference if viewed in isometric. I didn't actually measure both dimensions, but when I fit them both, It has near match of size. The SFC is slightly fat, darker and heavier than the SNES. It's strange why the SFC weight''s that much. Maybe because of its plastic and metal shielding inside I suppose. The SNES is so stunning like an armored battle tank from what I see. Both really are cool, that's why I love these two so much.
One thing the SFC has disadvanatage is that it uses special screws that you can't open the console case by just an ordinary screwdriver, unlike the SNES uses standard philip screws. Again we can see differences here. The expansion port location of both are the same. In SFC it was used to the Satellaview modem, and it never came in the SNES. It was supposed to be for the CD-ROM expansion by Sony. Later it was cancelled and became the Sony Playstation. It doesn't much of a use for short.
The SNES AC adapter port is ridiculous. Again they are not following the standard. Oh well.. That's why I modified as seen in the picture. Both have the same AV port, RF port, and channel selector switch. Both have air holes at the back. The SNES has a hotline toll fee in the lower left portion. How nice to have this kind of customer support service. I should give it a call then.. hmm.
Finally for the controllers, the SNES has two colors for the main buttons and its X/Y buttons are slightly curved down for thumb grip. Both have different trademark logo in the front, but still have the same controller port. That means its a cross compatible on both consoles, and that's a very good feature. Sorry about for using a third party SNES controller, If you noticed the logo is "Super 16 bit" instead of the SNES trademark.
Many asked that can games be also cross compatible on both consoles? The answer is no. You can't insert the SNES cart into the SFC because it can't fit, and you can't insert either the SFC to the SNES. But that could be possible if you will do simple modification. For the SFC you can actually take off its console plastic cover and insert the SNES cartridge to play. On the other hand, you can break the plastic that is blocking the SFC cartridge inside the SNES cartridge port using a long nosed pliers to insert and play.
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