3DO Console

[fiery halo]

prepare to get banned

[crystal cypress]

This is borderline obscene !

[dull vault]

Let’s fight to keep this above Sega master system. This is war

[dull vault]

3DO is the best system of its generation

[crystal cypress]

And roadrash

And best home version of super stII turbo

[crystal cypress]

Trip Hawkins!

[dull vault]

This picture of Trip is like when the Joker dresses like a normal person to commit a crime or trick Batman

[olive oak]

ah good, all the 3do chat can now be isolated here so it's easy to ignore

[jade sleet]

👍

[fiery halo]

you fool! /s...sorta

Really, this was gonna happen at some point, was only a matter of time

[dull vault]

Step 1 will be to recruit some weirdo with a lot of time on their hands, I mean developer, to dedicate their whole lives to this core no exceptions.

Step 2 will be to break into Trip Hawkins house and use his bathroom without him knowing.

Step 3 will be to steal all the IP about 3DO to give to our sucker, I mean dev

All right let’s go team 3DO! Break!

[jade quartz]

Aww yeah, time to bust out this beauty again!

[crystal cypress]

Step two completed !

Over and out

[ocean zephyr]

Is a 3do core actually feasible?

[frozen condor]

3DO is feasible

look at how good this PSX document is: https://problemkaputt.de/psx-spx.htm

That's one resource. 3DO has nothing close to this right now.

[ocean zephyr]

True, we have 4do and that's about it

We also just barely got an ode

[dull vault]

Isn’t there some secret cache of info that @jade sleet or someone has alluded to that for reasons unknown hasn’t been anonymously “leaked” to one of the usual spots? It’s easy, claim you were hacked, upload the docs via no log vpn. Deniability ✅

[ocean zephyr]

The SDK and stuff is out there already I think

Not sure about any more detailed documents that cover the hardware though

[dull vault]

Unless whoever has that stuff is holding onto on some weird power trip. Like those weirdos that won’t dump roms from rare stuff because that makes them feel good?

SDK is for making games not making 3DOs

[bold burrow]

@fickle tusk I’m jealous of your brilliant troll post.

Adding the fantasy label was just

[ocean zephyr]

Fair lol I don't really know a lot about the 3do hardware wise

[jade sleet]

Erm what the spruce

3dodev.com
Phoenix emulator
Opera (RetroArch)
Real 3DO Player (android)
4DO and Freedo (Abandoned)

[jade sleet]

There's been an ODE since around 2012

[ocean zephyr]

my bad lol I've only started to look at the 3do in the past few years

[jade sleet]

Ah well you might want to stay away from "informative" YouTube videos and almost every website on the internet. Most of it is incorrect or inaccurate in some manner

[fierce seal]

in terms of preservation, the 3DO core would be a very good contribution. It's a pity that such an unpopular system like this requires such a great effort to be carried out. In any case, if someone tried it, I would be happy to contribute to the developer's patreon. I don't understand why there are people who hate this system so much

I seem to remember that fpgazumspass commented that the development of this core would be relatively as complicated as the PSX core

[frozen condor]

Yes, and with a lot less information available. Writing a core itself doesn't help with preservation. It is the research required to write a core that helps preservation efforts.

[fierce seal]

For those of us who do not have this talent or the necessary time, we can only dream about the systems that we would like to see implemented, and support when the time comes.

[frozen condor]

Find working 3dos, rip the chips out of them, carefully touch each pin to the tip of your tongue and try to taste what it does.

[fierce seal]

In fact, it would be the last fifth-generation console to start developing a core in fpga if I'm not mistaken. (we know there's one in development for N64, but that's out of mister's realm)

[jade sleet]

Someone is doing some development now. Close to arm being FPGA and the rest in software as of now. All the documentation of progress is in the 3do server. Not very far along.

[jade sleet]

They are here last I was aware. Would be better for people genuinely interested to join the 3do server, because they have loads and loads of back and forth with trouble shooting. Would rather not divide their attention

I'm also not exactly sure it's mister related, but it might be. I do know it's FPGA, and right now the arm portion is being worked on with some preexisting arm stuff that was already done

[dull vault]

Damn 3DO why you gotta hoard

[jade sleet]

Meh, just a ton of messages back and forth. Other devs privately trouble shoot often I'm sure, just not in this server 100% of the time

[dull vault]

Yeah I’m just goofing around, I don’t care about 3DO dev, all the games I’ve tried are shite

[vale pond]

Road Rash 3DO is really good

[bold burrow]

What about that captain quasar game

[jade sleet]

Damn that's crazy

[jade sleet]

Best playing CQ co-op

[olive oak]

thanks 🙂

[bold burrow]

Nah, it’s just banter and having fun. The 3DO is a cool console and was pretty inventive for the time. It’s awesome you love it, lots of people in this chat love it.

If someone put out a 3DO core tomorrow then I’d celebrate it. It’s a console I never had the chance to check out in detail and another core is always wonderful.

No one is making fun of anyone for liking something, just the thing itself. You’re great and you have interests that other people don’t share. No one thinks your tastes or preferences are wrong or bad. I wouldn’t associate yourself with what you like because that object does not represent you or your worth.

I love the Virtual Boy and people shit on it. I mean they’re right for doing so but that doesn’t take away my misplaced fondness for that mistake of a handheld/portable, god knows what it is lmao.

No one thinks less of me for liking it. Ok maybe @olive oak does lol. But that doesn’t bother me. It’s all good, at the end of the day we’re all allowed to like the stuff we like.

How about this. Instead of feeling bullied about it, use it as a challenge. Think of it as an opportunity to demonstrate to people who don’t like the 3DO why it’s a cool console and the fun games it has.

@fickle tusk not sure if any of that helps but I hope it does. I think it’s cool you like the 3DO and hopefully some day we get a core! 🍻

[olive oak]

I just added tags to all the threads to try it out, since this core doesnt exist it got the fantasy tag, that's all

[bold burrow]

I reached out to them. My bad for joking too much, apologies. I'm super passionate about this stuff as well but I forget some people don't share the same humor as me.

[olive oak]

who?

[dense canopy]

Fran

[olive oak]

they deleted anything they said so I don't even know what took place

but if you look at the usage of the tag it's on the other wishlist of arcade cores too

[fickle tusk]

Crap that Kitrinx and Robby think is a joke.

[olive oak]

k, I guess i'll delete this then?

3DO Console

ah no need, it lets me edit

is there some context here i'm missing?

why is there random hostility from fran over a meme console in a post she started with a meme?

[jade sleet]

"meme console"

Meh I like @bold burrow

[unique moat]

Probably that people are referring to it as a meme console

[bold burrow]

Nooooo @fickle tusk I don’t think it’s a joke! 😭

I think it’s cool! I actually wanted one as a kid but my dad said no, lol.

[olive oak]

plumbers have ties isn't a meme?

[bold burrow]

Let’s talk in private. I’m sorry.

I was genuine. I really did feel bad.

[olive oak]

It seems like you're taking something personally that isn't personal, and isn't even bad natured

[bold burrow]

How can I make this better. I really do care.

[olive oak]

if there was personal attacks i'd be all over that, but it's people just repeating the same 3do jokes that have been around forever

im not sure why you're acting like you're being attacked here, is there something that was deleted that I didn't see?

[bold burrow]

Let’s chat in private. I think this is a great thread and loads of people love 3DO. We’ll figure it out.

[olive oak]

nah I like the thread, it's not yours to delete

people have contributed things to it

[unique moat]

I actually got a 3DO a couple of years back but it needed a recap that was a faff, and now I reads CDs fine but not CDRs, I need to find time to play about with the laser setting to see if I can get it to read CDRs.

Once I get it up and running again what games to people recommend I check out, ideally exclusives of best ports

I'm most excited about playing a decent version of Wolfenstein on my TV

[bold burrow]

@unique moat Dr. Hauzer got a translation

Lucien’s Quest is something I want to check out myself

[jade sleet]

I have a very long recommendation list for anyone interested

[fickle tusk]

Sorry for being an idiot 😦

[unique moat]

You big into the 3DO Fran? Good any game recommendations for when I get my laser working properly?

[fickle tusk]

Wolfenstein 3D, Star Control II, Super Wing Commander, The Need for Speed, Road Rash, GEX, Killing Time, Alone in The Dark, Total Eclipse

[frozen condor]

Apology accepted! 😛

[jade quartz]

I genuinely love the 3DO. I was fortunate enough to have one back when it launched (also had a friend that had one!). So I was neck deep in the 3DO ecosystem at the time. I also really really wish I didn't sell my 3DO later on...

[frozen condor]

Someone needs to butter up Trip Hawkins and get him to release some internal docs

[jade sleet]

Trip has nothing hardware related, the engineers have most of the sensitive hardware docs. As stated before though, there's legal issues surrounding their public release

[olive oak]

legal issues are only as relevant as who is going to waste their money suing over it

and the answer in the modern world is nobody

nobody is going to care

such things can "leak out" pretty safely, end up on archive

whoever filed those patents probably retired 12 years ago

[jade sleet]

Every main person who worked on those patents is still developing or working with stuff in the hardware/software business.

Other than David Needle. He passed away.

[jade sleet]

Also a court case surrounding the 3do console exclusive Killing Time is on going. Who would have thought someone would go to court over killing time source code

[olive oak]

is it over distribution rights?

someone probably thinks they can make money on the IP

you can't really do that with 30 year old hardware

the only other reason is spite

[jade sleet]

No, it's some stupid reasoning I cant even remember. They bought the rights to the pc version and claimed they owned the 3do version after they heard a dev was wanting to release the 3do source

[olive oak]

yeah distribution rights

somehow their sales contract was unclear about property ownership

[dull vault]

Killing Time? I bet it was @white narwhal who bought the rights

Also sorry I said the games I tried on 3DO were shite. That’s my opinion and my opinions are not fact. They aren’t even good. Except about CRTs. #tubemen #basketwaswrong

[fiery halo]

No, it was Ross Scott

Do note that Ross took a look at the PC version of Killing Time

Which was a rather different animal

[white narwhal]

There’s a 3DO channel!? Hot damn

[white narwhal]

Haha I am friends with the dude who did. I did a custom conversion of one of his arcade boards some years back

Funny enough he just emailed me a few days ago asking again to buy something off of me KT related

So I gave him a wild price that I’d have to say yes to lol

[dull vault]

$3

PLUS SHIPPING (evil chuckle)

[white narwhal]

1K even lol

he will say no...but if he said yes, I'd live with it

its original concept art that hung in the walls of the 3DO offices

[dull vault]

Offer him an NFT of a png of it for a $500 price break

[bold burrow]

I’m interested!

[jade sleet]

Posting it here

Multi game
Demolition man
Jurassic park interactive

On rail shooter
Burning soldier
Starblade

Party games
Family feud
Twisted
Zahodnost party

Platformers (2D)
Gex
Phoenix 3
Flashback

Flight simulator
Starfighter
Flying nightmares (real simulator)

Puzzle games
Bustamove
Gridders
Icebreakers 1 and 2
Incredible machine
Trip'd

Military combat
Return fire
Scramble cobra

Shooters
(Run n gun/shoot em up)
Total eclipse
Offworld interceptor
(3rd person)
Bladeforce
Virtuoso

Space combat
Wing commander 3
Shockwave series

Fighting
Samurai showdown
Street fighter
Way of The Warrior (mediocre but good graphics)

FPS
killing time
PO'ed
Monster manor
Wolfenstein 3D

Sports
Foes of Ali
Fifa
Madden
Jammit
Slam n jam

1st person RPG's
Slayer
Deathkeep
Immercinary
Robinsons requiem

Strategy
Space hulk
Syndicate
Panzer general
Perfect general
The Horde
Star Control 2

Racing
Road rash
Need for speed
Quarantine
Some people recommend Crash n burn

Cinematic
D
Out of this world (platformer)

Isometric shooters
Captian Quasar
Mazer

Tycoons
Theme park
Dinopark tycoon

Japan exclusives
Goal FH (soccer)
Sailor moon s (fighter)
Yu Yu Hakusho (fighter)
Vgoal (port of arcade soccer game)
Ultraman powered (fighter)
Doctor Hauser (horror/suspense has English patch)

3do euro fan suggestions
Soccer kid (platformer)
Striker (soccer)

Korean exclusives
Battle blues (has English patch)
Armageddon (may get English patch)
Eye of typhoon (is in English already)

[bold burrow]

@jade sleet first of all, awesome list! Could you mark which ones are your favorites from each category if that’s not any trouble?

[jade sleet]

These are all personal picks mixed with community praise of each title. So I guess technically they're all favorites. Not just from myself but abroad

[bold burrow]

Ohhhh I see!

[dull vault]

Didn’t realize there was a samsho port

[jade sleet]

Almost a perfect port

[bold burrow]

Yeah it was very good I heard

[dull vault]

At the time which was cheaper, 3DO + samsho or AES + samsho?

[jade sleet]

3do wasn't $700 it's entire life cycle despite sources claims. You could buy 2 3dos and 2 samurai showdowns for the price of one AES and one samurai showdown

3 3dos at one point in it's market life cycle.... There's a reason it sold 2 million units with a bad launch and early high price tag, versus low price tag and "superior" hardware of the jaguar.

[dull vault]

Oh is there a 3DO / Jaguar rivalry?

Now we’re talkin

[jade sleet]

If you read atariage forums, sure lol

[bold burrow]

After having used the amazing BigPEmu, it’s a no contest victory for the 3DO.

[jade quartz]

Twisted was a legit fun party game. Used to play it all the time with a group of friends back in the 90s. One of my sister's friends loved playing it so much back then that only a few years ago she actually had her boy friend track down a used 3DO and a copy of the game just so she could relive those memories of it.

[crystal cypress]

3DO is way better than the jaguar!

[jade sleet]

Muh tempest means auto win for jaggy !!1!

[fiery halo]

Someone's gotta port Tempest2K to 3DO

[jade sleet]

It's been discussed, and would definitely run very well. But there's cooler titles out there being ported that are much more impressive from the PS1 and Saturn.

[fiery halo]

I get that, like that Tomb Raider port was pretty darn good

Still, I know the 3DO gets memed on a lot (especially here), but I always thought it was an interesting system

[jade sleet]

It's still not been worked on since last year in it's demo form. wipeout is being worked on right now

Lara's model still needs to be reworked, along with the other models. They're all still high poly count. Since there is no dynamic shading on the chipset (it's all flat), you can remove lots of polygons with zero impact on the models appearance

[fiery halo]

Ah, good to know
Proger's probably still working on that GBA port, so that might be why

[jade sleet]

He did some optimizations on the GBA arm that can be used on the 3do arm as well. Some of the 3do arm asm was beneficial to the GBA port. It's a neat process.

He's also the one working on the wipeout port.

[fiery halo]

Ah, nice

[bold burrow]

r u a hacker

[jade sleet]

This was a picture proger sent of his latest build of wipeout running

[rustic night]

if someone were to work on such a core.. which brand would it be based on?

[frozen condor]

Are there brand differences?

[jade sleet]

It would be based on the 3do brand lol

[jade sleet]

No

[rustic night]

🤣🤣🤣👍

[rustic night]

Panasonic are the first models, then there's Goldstar and finally Sanyo

As for actual the differences in the hardware, that's what I was wondering.

[jade sleet]

3do is the hardware standard. There is no branding differences

[crystal cypress]

OLD SCHOOL LGR! https://youtu.be/hsLfXQUhik8

Fuck .. now I want a 3DO core more than ever ..

That port of the incredible machine looked dope!

[crystal cypress]

Don’t forget to flush when you are done using it ..

[jade sleet]

Most baller kiosk display on the internet (with matching TV set)

[jade sleet]

Ironically enough 1 and 2 were poorly optimized and had their original triangle models. If they had been reworked with quads the gameplay would have been much smoother

So I wonder if the 3rd instalment models were a bit more intricate and they just didn't bother with the game.

Doctor Hauzer also had that issue. The textures are all max size, the character model isnt necessarily 3do friendly, even though it's a 3do exclusive.

[bold burrow]

@jade sleet how is Dr Hauzer and Lucien’s Quest?

[jade sleet]

Doctor Hauzer is a great game. It's short if you already know all the puzzles... But it's longer if you know nothing. I recommend watching no playthrough videos before hand. Ruins the experience.

Lucienne's quest is just another JRPG honestly. I don't care for them

[bold burrow]

Dr. Hauzer looks pretty cool. I’ve got nostalgia for Alone in the Dark so it looked up my alley.

Lucienne’s Quest, being a JRPG blows my mind it even exists on the 3DO. I played it briefly at a friend’s house and it was pretty neat how it had a 3D environment. That’s all I remember though lol.

[jade sleet]

It's okay I suppose. There's other RPGS on the system like Battle Blues, Guardian Wars, and N.O.B. (I think that's what it's called)

Battle Blues got an English translation recently.

From Korean

[bold burrow]

Oh shit I didn’t even know there were other RPGs!

[jade sleet]

Yeah, there's other RPGs too. But they're either japanese or weird. Those above are the most normal

[bold burrow]

@jade sleet thanks for all the info! That's really cool.

[jade sleet]

You have the 1st person POV RPGs I listed here too #1052057593654284329 message

[bold burrow]

damn dude, the 3DO is a lot cooler then I gave it credit for

I shouldn't have been so ignorant

[jade sleet]

@olive oak or @unkempt wren can either of you pin this game list to this thread please? #1052057593654284329 message

[jade sleet]

Meh I've encountered some pretty ignorant people regarding it. You're hardly mildly ignorant in that regard compared to other people lol

[bold burrow]

admittedly the first game I'd want to play on the 3DO is that batman animated series demo disc. I was mesmerized by that as a kid at a in-store kiosk while my parents shopped lol. I think it was at a Macy's.

[jade sleet]

You want the Sampler CD pack in, if that's the case

It's purple and pink gradient. Says Sampler CD on the front

There's some very significant demos related to pre-retail 3do history on that disc

[jade quartz]

No forgiveness.

[jade quartz]

Oh man, I watched that disc so many times back in the day.

It also had an episode of Two Stupid Dogs on it.

[jade sleet]

Thank you @olive oak

[jade sleet]

That disc seems to be burned into a lot of 3do owners minds from back in the day. I've helped multiple people who couldn't remember where they played the "red race car game", pointing them to Road Race on the Sampler CD

[jade quartz]

I mean, one of the reasons it was burned into our minds was that it was basically either the Sampler CD or Crash'n Burn. 😅

At least at launch anyway.

[jade sleet]

Yeah I was gonna mention that but didn't lmao

[fickle tusk]

https://youtu.be/eCp-Duiu6EU

Nostalgia.

[jade sleet]

Trust me, if the 3do community had the man power, we'd have a lot of original homebrew and ports than what's there now. but our community is kinda stretched thin as is

[white narwhal]

I mean our community is what...ten people? lol

[jade sleet]

Yeah not to mention out of the ten main always active people we only have a few who program or code.

[white narwhal]

I can code...except I can't. I did it once lol

[jade quartz]

I took a computer science class once in college over 20 years ago. That has to count for something right?

[white narwhal]

I had all the credits and AP math / science classes to go into engineering. But I couldn’t see myself doing it. I liked cameras too much. So I got a fine art degree 🤣 (no complaints)

[jade quartz]

Yeah, I ended up going into graphic design.

[unique moat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKoH0XVZXVY

[oak basalt]

That guy is kind of obnoxious

[olive oak]

both him and his wife went to like the same youtube training school

they have a way of speaking that tends to make one uneasy

they also both like to do sort of misleading video titles

[fiery halo]

Oh right
They got into scandals too

I forgot about that

[oak basalt]

Yeah. They are just annoying. I tried watching both of them and really didn't enjoy it.

Once I found out they constantly steal content I gave up.

[fiery halo]

Still, as much as this community rags on 3DO; one day someone's gonna step up to the plate to make a core, value be damned

If they made not one but two Jaguar cores, I believe 3DO can happen too

here comes Kit to rip my face open again

[olive oak]

I can't really ever see it happening, considering it would be similar or more work than PSX, but hey, the future is a big place

[unique moat]

Who is his wife?

[oak basalt]

3DO has value. It's just in the grand scheme of video game history they are a footnote

[olive oak]

lady decade

[fiery halo]

Lady Decade

jinx

[oak basalt]

But I agree a core would be cool.

What better way to play Sewer Shark?

I'm curious about the Japanese library I keep hearing a lot about. I've only done a shallow investigation into it.

[olive oak]

I thought the japanese actively shunned it

[oak basalt]

@jade sleet was talking about a decent library over there.

[fiery halo]

I hear some things about it
Maybe 3DO had a small following over there

[oak basalt]

I mean its better than a Jaguar.

[jade sleet]

Annoying, obnoxious, and generally factually incorrect about anything 3do

[oak basalt]

Jaguar is like a consolized UK micro computer. Not a fan, lol.

[jade sleet]

Erm... Huh?

[fiery halo]

I mean, the Jaguar is okay I guess
It's got its fans too

And I'm in the thread for that too

[oak basalt]

Every system has it's fans. Hence the game.com thread.

[fiery halo]

Indeed

[jade sleet]

Gamecom sold more than jaguar

[fiery halo]

Wow, really?
I had no idea ;P

[oak basalt]

I think the tech was ok for the Jag but it was way too complicated and Atari was bad at tech support.

[jade sleet]

Yeah, 3do also sold more than OG Xbox in Japan

[oak basalt]

3DO just came at the wrong time for the wrong price imo. If it came out earlier for cheaper it would have done better.

It got caught between generations

Better tech than SNES but not as good as ps1

[jade sleet]

It actually needed to come out later. The launch library was built up nicely by the time it came out in Japan.

6 more months would have helped it tremendously

[fiery halo]

I don't think that could've been possible, honestly
They had to launch at such a high price because they couldn't take a loss on the system itself

[oak basalt]

I think if it hit later it would have compared even worse to be PS1 and Saturn.

Yeah the model behind the 3do was interesting but not sustainable.

Sell hardware at a loss and make money on games always worked before. Why change it?

[fiery halo]

Manufacturing deals with other companies iirc

[jade sleet]

N64 came out later and still didn't hit as hard as PS1 and Saturn in Japan.

[oak basalt]

That's a cartridge issue there

Lost 3rd party support, etc

N64 is my least favorite Nintendo console

[jade sleet]

The idea was to make something more open to developers. Which was proving to be true at first. The list of developers that they had in mid 1993 was huge. The list slowed down to a trickle in comparison after talk by Sega and Sony

[oak basalt]

Yeah I think from a software developer standpoint it is was a good deal

[jade sleet]

The model would have been totally sustainable if the list of devs would have stayed as big as it needed to be.

[oak basalt]

But the hardware partly didn't sell cause of cost which was due to the model. It ate itself.

[jade sleet]

And for some funny reason japanese devs seemed to be more interested than American devs

[jade sleet]

Cost dropped within the first 6 months, and even more in the first year.

[oak basalt]

Japanese devs were the best still back then imo

Yeah but by the time the cost dropped low enough PS1 and Saturn were out right? I don't recall

[jade sleet]

By the time ps1 and Saturn dropped in the US you could get a 3do, 2 pieces of software, and depending on the store, a free controller for $350

[oak basalt]

With PS1 being 299 that's still tough sell for 3do. Too many consoles back then.

This is why I'd love a core. To play with the library.

Cause I passed it by back then

[jade sleet]

There's two good emulators for it. RetroArch Opera and a standalone app called Phoenix

[oak basalt]

I don't have a good PC anymore sadly.

[jade sleet]

There's an Android emulator too. But RetroArch opera should run on just about anything. Runs well on a newer pi last I heard

[white narwhal]

They just take without permission from dozens of channels to “make” their videos too. Just straight up lazy

Look at their descriptions. It’s all comprised of other peoples work

Both of them have taken from me without permission. To the point I sent an email (unresponded to of course) saying to stop or id copyright strike submit it the next time it happened

@jade sleet knows

[jade sleet]

Indeed

[olive oak]

oh, lady decade and top hat steal content too?

was unaware of that

[fiery halo]

There's a good reason I only resort to using footage from other people if I absolutely have to, and even then I make a good effort to reach out for permission and/or credit them in the video proper

[white narwhal]

That’s all they do

[olive oak]

even more reason to not like them

[oak basalt]

Yep.

[crystal cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/loads-of-money-lady-decade-loads-of-cash-lots-of-money-tons-of-money-gif-25642973

[oak basalt]

Fake panicked about a 500 dollar fee to use someone's image in their video. Made more money out of it. Grifters.

[unique moat]

I can't comment on the using of other people's content, but I have seen from one of videos from awhile back he is a primary school teacher and father of young kids, and his schtick comes from a heel character he played as an amateur wrestler. Have heard he is a decent chap in real life.

[oak basalt]

Possibly. but if you look you'll easily find the "repurposed" stuff from other people.

It's been a thing for years

And they outright grifted people recently

I just don't watch them. And I'm fine

[unique moat]

What was the grift?

[oak basalt]

My comment above. She did a video with her kids literally crying about a 500 dollar fee for using someone else's work in their video. She was going on and on about how they couldn't afford to pay it. This got people donating them money. Then another YouTuber just straight paid the fine. So they got their fine paid and made money off a bunch of money donated when they really didn't need it.

They have a crap ton of money in games and consoles and easily could have sold an item to pay for it. They had just gotten back from some expensive vacation too. And bought a new house so they have enough money to pay $500 or whatever that is in pounds

Just an icky situation imo.

[unique moat]

Well I don't know about this, but all I will say is that times have got much harder very quickly in the UK. Double digit inflation, big jumps in interest rates, electricity and gas prices increased several fold in price. If he is the main bread winner and is a primary school teacher then his salary isn't massive and they have been in the last few weeks (may still be) on strike to try get a reasonable (under inflation ) pay rise. It has all happened very rapidly over the last year and put a lot of people in bad situations. You shouldn't need to suddenly have to sell your wares to pay to heat your house or do your weekly shop or fill your car with petrol but that's where we are at.

[oak basalt]

I agree with that. And that sucks. But I don't feel that is the case here. They both have YouTube and Patreon along with his day job.

Either way I'd never drag my kids into a video for something I'm responsible for and can afford to pay just to get someone else to cover my mistake.

[unique moat]

No, I would never do that either, that is tacky and desperate, but I don't know their situation - for all I know their fixed mortgage came to an end and they had to get a new on a new rate and are really struggling to make ends meet. Shit like that is going to see a lot of people homeless in the next few years.

Financially I am comfortable but I am seeing huge dents in the money I have at the end of the month, and am not looking forward to the tax increases coming soon which will sting hard on top of everything else.

[oak basalt]

I hear you there. money is tight for all us non rich

[jade sleet]

Didn't they just get back from a vacation right before?

[spice mortar]

I am going to be sick...... Her and her Husband should both do YouTube a favor and disappear.

[bold burrow]

You know what doesn’t make me sick? The 3DO.

Where else can I play the best Demolition Man game??

[jade sleet]

With a light gun that game is so fun

[crystal cypress]

Snes has the best demolition man game

[bold burrow]

Does it really? I don’t know lol.

[crystal cypress]

Some prefer the genesis version but i like the better audio of the snes .. it’s not a particularly good game.. but I had it as a kid

And still play it!

[jade quartz]

Demolition Man has nothing on the true manliest game on SNES. ||Lawnmower|| Man!

[jade sleet]

Glad 3do didn't just get a port of the 16 bit version. It's the only 32 bit version of the game

[versed terrace]

waou i did not know this game existed, know i want a 3do core and guncon support 🙂 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJC4rI_JRnE)

(and i m downloading the iso right now, how can i have gone past it)

[bold burrow]

That’s the awesome aspect about the MiSTer! It’s such an amazing tool for game discovery. Although we don’t have a core (yet…👀) we at least have this chat where we can share game suggestions!

[versed terrace]

exactly, the mister in itself is the project i always dream for retro stuff and the community around it has plenty of specialists for a lot of hardware. I've spend a lot of times searching for/getting/organising the best games for each platforms. This is already not so easy but finding by yourself the hidden gem or the niche ones (i love lightgun games) takes a lot of time (well time i haven't). So thank you for bringing this one 👍

[bold burrow]

It’s both my pleasure and I’m glad you’re part of this Discord. Appreciate it my friend and I look forward to your suggestions too! 🍻

[jade sleet]

Check the pinned messages, long list of games

[versed terrace]

@bold burrow well for 3do, i never really played on real console and only few minutes on emulator (and the only one really usable is not so old) so my selection is only a mix from internet selection plus obviously famous ones (even if there are not good, just for an "historical" point of view), the zelda ones for example.

@jade sleet thanks for the list i will check with mine to see if i miss something 🙂

[jade sleet]

Zelda games were CDi

[versed terrace]

ho sorry brain fart

(i always mix 3do and cdi)

nice i was missing at least the first 3 ones of the pinned list

[jade sleet]

Don't feel too bad. I know people who know they're different but think their software libraries are compatible

[versed terrace]

it is not?

😉

so far i miss a few ones, i only watch the videos and it was a strange time, the omnipresence of fmv with bad acting/directing/... I'm glad they did now (it is like watching a b movie) but what a waste of resources but they had to justify the use of cdrom...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uspxLj2o1Ts

[jade sleet]

I love this game

[versed terrace]

The game seems interesting and the cinematic are perfectly bad. I finish getting all the missing game and i will make a small session tonight on phoenix 🙂

[bold burrow]

It’s time to put away your toys, time for a 3DO core

https://youtu.be/0Zaikv_yR0I

[versed terrace]

https://github.com/ElectronAsh/sim_3do/commit/5e2376adffa27e2830fd1c7fe6baf595bf945007

[olive oak]

probably best to wait for something to materialize there before getting excited

[jade sleet]

He's been posting stuff periodically in the 3do server. It's far from operational though

[unique moat]

Ash is good at doing initial investigation, he did that in the Jaguar and was doing some in the CDi last I saw, but doesn't carry on to get the cores to a releasable state before moving on to something else, so is good he is looking at it but not holding my breath we will get a core out if this.

[bold burrow]

too late, already excited, bought like 40 different accessories for the 3DO for the eventual SNAC adapter

[versed terrace]

if you read the readme, he is not the only one on the core ''This is now a joint effort between ElectronAsh and Revanth"

[unique moat]

Who is Revanth?

[olive oak]

I dunno but I always find it weird when people downgrade GPLv3 to 2

once and for all NO, GPL2 is NOT excluded from being viral, it still applies to the whole project

someone started some bad info that GPLv2 was not a strong copyleft

it definitely is, the only major difference is the tivo loopholes got fixed

which have little to do with anything we do

[unique moat]

Does this GitHub have a GPL that means it could not be merged into Main one day if it were ever a strong core?

[olive oak]

no

most mister code is gplv3 or 2

I just noticed in the linked commit history that the license was changed from 3 to 2

[jade sleet]

A guy who does ARM emulation in FPGA I think

He was helping with some trouble shooting on a few things ash ran into trying to set up other registers if I recall

Those few hiccups have been worked through and addressed. I think Revanth may not be needed from here forward, but I supposed we will see.

[olive oak]

he's the copyright holder on every file, are you sure?

[jade quartz]

A new physical 3DO game release in 2023. What a time to be alive!
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1620491973990973440

Limited Run Games (@LimitedRunGames)

A full moon rises over L.A. National Hospital...

D returns with a new physical release from Limited Run! PC and 3DO Editions will be available to pre-order starting on Friday! Learn More + Wishlist: https://t.co/GxWgBnjyoL

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Well re-release anyway.

[bold burrow]

the D stands for Dracula, I saved you $50

[dapper oar]

You can't spell 3DO without having the D.

[hushed sleet]

Friend had a birthday gathering last night and Eye of Typhoon for 3do was quite a hit

[white narwhal]

I ordered it and I don’t even know why. I own this many copies of D

[jade quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/mando-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian-star-wars-gif-18467370

[white narwhal]

I just couldn’t help but not buy something Eno developed

[jade quartz]

I'll admit that I actually haven't played a D game before, despite owning both a 3DO and a Dreamcast back in the day (still have the Dreamcast, but have insane regret about selling the 3DO in the late 90s). It's just so cool seeing a new printing of a 3DO game in 2023. Makes me want to buy it myself.

[olive oak]

you can just buy a new one

they aren't rare or anything

[white narwhal]

Haven’t played D!? I thought I liked you too

[jade quartz]

Yes, but it wouldn't be my 3DO.

[olive oak]

it would after you paid for it

[bold burrow]

@white narwhal I've only played the PS1 version of D, how does that stack up to the others and which one is the best one?

[white narwhal]

D’s Diner: Directors cut is the most complete version story and content wise

The fmv isn’t as good as PS1/Saturn but only by a couple percent

[bold burrow]

Thanks, appreciate it.

[jade sleet]

Very cool

[jade sleet]

It's better because it's 3do and the first release, where it is meant to be played

[bold burrow]

Ah right, it was first released for the 3DO.

[alpine peak]

Hello. How is the 3DO core coming along?

[olive oak]

there isn't one

[copper kiln]

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=6310

[unique moat]

Beat me to it, looks like we have a keen-bean

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=70716#p70716

[versed terrace]

nice but perhaps difficult for a first fpga project

[jade sleet]

Direct him to the 3do discord server.

[white narwhal]

I invited him. To the best server around…because it’s 3DO related

[jade sleet]

Damn right

[dapper oar]

Now I'm curious.

[olive oak]

I think it's a bit more than ambitious to make 3do one's first fpga project

especially on a board that has no existing framework or anything

[white narwhal]

Eh I mean some peoples first films win academy awards. May as well go for a moon shot if you want

And we’ve amassed a metric shit ton of documentation / knowledge on 3DO as an architecture / platform the research is there to help

[olive oak]

really? when?

im pretty sure most film makers have the equivilent of a "hello world" somewhere

I think it's good to be realistic

it's a fifth gen console, with limited low level documentation. It would be hard for anyone, even an experienced dev.

[white narwhal]

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54575/21-first-time-directors-nominated-academy-award

[olive oak]

sure but I doubt its the first movie they ever made

just the first one that made it to theaters

they didn't just walk in and say "okay people we're making a movie. I've never done this before but im sure someone will let me know what all these terms mean"

[unique moat]

It's not a good comparison. In theory you could make your first film on a phone with your mates in one room and it could win an oscar. In theory that could happen and beat out a 200 million dollar studio production.

That's a bit different from deciding you want to make your first MiSTer core and pick something that would be more complex and time consuming than most of the cores even advanced devs have managed to pull off.

Best of luck to him, but you need to learn to walk before you run a series of ultra-marathons.

[radiant crow]

I certainly hope it works out, but can’t help but feel this is a Laxer situation all over again with the PSX. Starting out on another board while maybe porting to the MiSTer at a later target date is a bad omen if you ask me

Wouldn’t you want to develop on the MiSTer board to make sure that you can fit it? Seems like backwards logic to me

[copper kiln]

in that list almost everyone there first worked on many films in other capacities before directing

[olive oak]

exactly

[waxen violet]

A big problem is the assumption "Get open source emulator, which is proven to be working". There are 3DO emulators, but as far as i know, none of them is really accurate. And we are not even talking about cycle accurate. I took a short look at the ARM cpu of 4DO and....lets say most GBA emulators do better and GBA being like 10 years later is less dependend on timing

It's easily good enough to get games running, but using this as only source is just not enough

[fierce seal]

It could be said that 3do is one of the worst consoles of all that the DE10 nano could handle, in terms of the difficulty to perform the core and the popularity and enjoyment of the system itself by most people... it would be a coincidence that a specially skilled developer was also in love with this system. If you make such an outright statement that the first core you're going to develop is going to be 3do, you can only be a damn genius or someone who has no idea what you're talking about. there is no middle ground

[white narwhal]

I say optimism always beats "but its hard"...thats just me

[bold burrow]

@white narwhal you talking to that guy who wants to do a 3DO core?

[fierce seal]

I hope that he can do It, really!

[white narwhal]

trying to

[bold burrow]

Nice, see if you can convince him to fix up the Jaguar core first. It’ll serve as a nice tutorial for getting familiar with the MiSTer framework.

[white narwhal]

lol asking a 3DO fan to help with Jaguar? why dont you ask me to shove needles under my fingernails (kidding)

[bold burrow]

lolol

Is this like a gang scenario, Jaguar fans stay on that side of the tracks?

[white narwhal]

haha no we have Jaguar fans on the discord too. We are equal opportunity

[jade sleet]

Yeah all 5 of them out of 1100 lol

[bold burrow]

So you’re saying you’re the bigger gang?

[jade sleet]

My favorite light gun coin-op game happens to be on jag coin-op hardware

[bold burrow]

Ohhh what game is that?

[jade sleet]

Area 51

[jade sleet]

Maximum Force too, given both run off the same engine.

[white narwhal]

I judge you for that opinion 😂

[jade sleet]

Digitized art is what makes it what it is

[white narwhal]

I mean Jaguar has AvP and that game is a banger so I can’t fault it too much

It’s no Killing Time but I mean what is

[olive oak]

it runs at like 4fps

[radiant crow]

So does Star Fox 🦊

[olive oak]

also a terrible game

[bold burrow]

I still have nostalgia for Star Fox but playing it with fresh eyes today I’d probably think it’s not great due to performance issues alone. Star Fox 2 is outright terrible and the only great game in that franchise is 64.

I played ‘em all.

[radiant crow]

I love Star Fox Adventures even though it's not a "real" Star Fox game. Haven't played Assault or Command though and I don't even want to entertain the thought of playing Zero lol

[bold burrow]

Zero is a decent game marred by a shitty feature that was forced onto it.

Assault is fine, not great not awful. I feel the same about Command.

I have fondness for Adventure but man it’s hard for me to go back to it.

[hushed sleet]

Star fox 2 rules

[jade quartz]

Finally, the 3DO revival we all deserve. (via the new Neptunia game!?!?)

Named "Ridio" apparently. 😅

[spice mortar]

Are we going to have to sacrifice a 3DO (decap chips etc) to work it out for an FPGA implementation? If its just based solely on current Software Emulators, it won't be Accurate and thus doesn't really fall into the Mantra of MiSTer which is aiming for Hardware Accuracy and would be a shame.

[jade sleet]

3do has already had chip scans

[olive oak]

chips that dense are going to be tough to work from, but if they are fully traced they might be somewhat useful

i'd be pretty surprised if someone took the time to trace them though

[radiant crow]

The 3DO has a hardcore and dedicated fanbase, even though it's niche. I wouldn't be surprised if they traced the hardware

[copper kiln]

I wouldn't be surprised either considering the amount of arcade hardware being traced these days

it's only a matter of when

that's only going to help with the documentation side of things though

making a 5th generation CD based console core is still going to be very difficult

[white narwhal]

Sexy centerfold scans for 3DO

[unique moat]

Are there many people out there who are tracing decaps? I only really know of Furrtek for gaming chips and he decaps a lot more than he traces.

[scenic kite]

I've actually seen a few others on twitter, though it seems to be older computer chips not gaming

[radiant crow]

There's that Japanese dev that traces boards I think: https://twitter.com/RCAVictorCo

Does atrac17 trace boards too? Then there's Jotego's team

[unique moat]

Ah yeah, forgot about JT

[jade sleet]

https://youtu.be/7Vwuw7ehSEc

[copper kiln]

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=71596#p71596

updated progress from Roman

[bold burrow]

I have no idea what any of that is but any progress is better than no progress! 🥳

[reef copper]

Problem is I don't understand enough to even know if we any closer to a 3do core than we were B4..lol

I guess with the hate it gets the fact that someone thought about it is maybe closer..🤷

[copper kiln]

The synopsis is basically: His approach is probably flawed and Robert spelled out the reasons why but he plans to go forward with it for now anyway. He's trying to start by implementing the video hardware in FPGA but he lacks the documentation so far to do so.

[reef copper]

its kinda funny people keep saying such documentation exists but you never see it..lol

[jade quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/m-and-ms-christmas-commercial-they-do-exist-they-exist-commercial-gif-19390949

[waxen violet]

where do you see it gets hate? The plan can work, but the way is long

[unique moat]

I don't think anyone has given his plan hate, but there is always someone who pops up to tell us all how rubbish they think the 3DO is whenever a conversation starts. You know, because people like the system and want to talk about really appropriate someone telling them how shit they think it is...

[reef copper]

It not hate forward his plan just hate towards the console and the idea of making a mister core of it like it's a waste of time

[unique moat]

Let's be honest, someone could do the seemingly impossible and drop an N64 core and there would still be some ass who pops up to tell us all how shit they think the N64 core is and how it is a waste of time. It's the internet, there is always at least one myopic clown with their bizarre opinion and devoid of any empathy.

[reef copper]

I used to own a 3do..it wasn't the greatest console in the world. But it has a few games you couldn't and still can't play anywhere else.

[waxen violet]

oh ok, understood. I think every system is worth your time if you like it yourself. If you don't, maybe not so much. With the more complex systems, it's of course harder. Who will invest 1000+ hours into it? Some weeks or even some months for a arcade or older system is one thing, but years...

i hope he goes forward. It doesn't happen often that time is spend on the less popular 5th gen

[unique moat]

Yeah, it definitely feels like this would need to be a passion project for someone who really likes the system - same with CDi and PC-FX.

I can't for example ever see anyone spending that sort of time on the really obscure 5th gen ones like Bandai Playdia.

[reef copper]

The way I'm looking at it is unless mister gets new hardware that opens the door for newer stuff. Someone is eventually gonna have to examine the obscure stuff. The popular stuff in the console space is just about covered.

Unless we just gonna say welp mister is finished that's all we can do with it..lol

[scenic kite]

Looks like Roman actually joined the 3DO Discord and is actively seeking resources.

[wet crown]

You've probably answered this before here, but if you and to guess on PSX hours, what do you think you're at?

[waxen violet]

i spend roughly 1.5 years with on average 4 hours a day i would guess. So should be around 2000 hours. Maybe more or less, it's just a rough guess

Would estimate 40% went into building the core in VHDL, 20% for understanding stuff together with writing my software emulator and 40% for bugfixing

[copper kiln]

The PSX has a catalog of 4100 games so that averages out to less than 30 minutes per game

[waxen violet]

unfortunatly there is no number of hours spend playing the core by various people, but i bet it would outnumber my time spend easily. That alone makes me really grateful and happy 🙂

[reef copper]

Well the psx is 1 of my 2 favorite cores on the mister..the other being SNES.

And I don't think there is anything that's feasible on the mister that could knock those 2 off the hill unless you really pull a rabbit out of your hat with the next project.

[copper kiln]

a better x86 core is the only thing I can think of

there's nothing else left with a large enough library to be better than PSX or SNES

[jade sleet]

https://youtu.be/FMKAmrmZeVw

[jade sleet]

1v1 mode being worked on. 2 player or 1 player vs CPU (CPU is max difficulty here lol)

[jade sleet]

https://youtu.be/PQK5xDJ434w

[white narwhal]

FPGA when

[clear nest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0adoiAjyzw

[crystal cypress]

https://youtu.be/awCnI6zQ2pI

[jade sleet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FogG1A0dI5E

[white narwhal]

@jade sleet Minecraft 3DO edition

[jade sleet]

Getting there I think lol

[clear nest]

https://youtu.be/we8R5PTFXz0?t=55

[jade quartz]

Seeing a new post in the 3DO thread is like a ray of light beckoning me to bask in its warmth. Or something to that effect.

[jade sleet]

@lofty reef
https://archive3do.com/software-preservation-center/

Links to homebrew can be found on this page

[bold burrow]

Someone buy me a 3DO please, thank you.

[twin wing]

No.

[clear nest]

Dont do that to yourself Robbie

[jade sleet]

I have no more extra systems or else I would give you one. I had a stockpile for a while

[bold burrow]

Thanks anyways, I appreciate it

[unique moat]

I got my one with 240p switch from Japan 2-3 years back, on eBay, didn't break the bank

[jade sleet]

Yeah you can often get them for cheap with easy to repair issues too

[unique moat]

I had to do a not-so-fun recap on mine, but it worked fine after that

[jade sleet]

Some times the Japanese just cut the cord on them. Sell them as is. Replace the cord and it works fine lmfao

[lofty reef]

I have a Japanese FZ-10

I installed the 240p switch on it.

[strong zephyr]

Wow, I just found out that the mystery console we had on our bookshef when I was a child was a 3DO (I never saw any instance of anyone playing it).
Bummer, thought we had an N64.

[drowsy raptor]

I came very close to buying one back in the day. With sf2, road rash and need for speed and sam shodown i’d prolly have loved it. But it was very expensive…i got a saturn instead a year (maybe 2) later and yeah i think that def was the better purchase for me. Still very interested and would def try out stuff if we get a core. Especially with fast loading and cpu overclock goodness.

Oh and star control 2. Loved thst game on pc! (Played it emulated with a friend last Saturday!)

• the 3dO version that is

[tulip scaffold]

3do core sounds dead in the water

[wet crown]

https://tenor.com/view/no-god-please-no-nooooo-no-please-no-no-god-no-gif-26334009

[stable flint]

On 3do discord, there is a FPGA section and you could follow the work of a possible core

[unique moat]

Oh, do you have a link?

[stable flint]

Sent

[dapper oar]

@stable flint Do you also have a link?

[agile zenith]

Was there something said or mentioned somewhere?

[tulip scaffold]

the thread on the misterfpga forum looks pretty hopeless

[agile zenith]

Is that the thread where the user who states they've no experience with core development wants to make a 3DO core?

Someone will do one at some point, I'm certain of it.

[jade sleet]

The Roman guy that made a thread about his FPGA experience and asking about 3do?

He's in the 3do discord. Hasn't posted updates in a while but claims some basic functions are working. I guess we will see with time, I'm not even sure what platform or anything he's working on with it currently

[white narwhal]

3DO wen? We can’t have FPGA without our beloved 3DO

I need FPGA Killing Time

[jade sleet]

Killing Time core for mister

[white narwhal]

It has to happen. So everyone can learn about the glory that is Killing Time

[jade quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/amen-anchorman-will-ferrell-gif-10865461

[dapper oar]

Well I am killing time. It's 11:21 PM AST over here!

[gritty oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/fz1-fz10-real3do-3do-road-rash-gif-26444507

[bold burrow]

so if there are REAL 3DOs, where all all the FAKE 3DOs?

[jade quartz]

They are all R•E•A•L in our hearts. 😍

Except for those evil GoldStar models. Those are fake as fudge. 😡

[gritty oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/fz1-3do-panasonic-real3do-trip-gif-26444347

[olive oak]

this gif makes me want chocolate

some extra fancy milk chocolate, maybe something german

maybe with hazelnuts

maybe even a chocolate tart, one of those three layered ones with the milk chocolate layer above two chocolate mousses

with hazlenut confectionaries on the top, in the form of little puffs

yes

that's what I want

[gritty oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/chocolate-kiss-gif-26291278

[jade quartz]

3DO is ❤️

[zealous dune]

Any 3DO fans who played Super Wing Commander? I'm curious about how it compares to the original.

[jade quartz]

I remember playing a Wing Commander game on 3DO back in the day. Was that the one with Mar🐫 in it?

[unique moat]

That was WIng Commander 3

[jade quartz]

Yeah, that's sounds right.

[zealous dune]

Yeah, Super doesn't have live action cutscenes.

[jade sleet]

Such a good game, WC3

[jade sleet]

Pretty sure SWC is the same as it's pc counterparts. Could be wrong though. I know WC3 is missing a few things, but there's other things to make up for what it's missing

[zealous dune]

Nah, it looks pretty different on all fronts based on the screenshots that I see.

Also, remember Spoony?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgA7-jVtO3E

[jade sleet]

Im not sure what is different you're spotting. I'm not well versed in WC stuff, so maybe I'm missing some context when I look at some of these screenshots.

Or gameplay

[zealous dune]

That's from the original DOS version.

Looks pretty different to me, but I was wondering about the gameplay.

[bold burrow]

Keep the dream alive!

[jade sleet]

Oh yeah it's like 32bit-ified. The Mac version I saw gameplay of looks just like the 3do version

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(video_game)

" An enhanced remake Super Wing Commander was made for the 3DO in 1994, and later ported to the Macintosh."

[zealous dune]

That's one way to put it. Reason enough for my interest in a possible core to lift from zero.

[bold burrow]

Where’s the 3DO core? I’d love to see one!

[jade quartz]

You cannot take back what you said in the N64 thread!

[unique edge]

I have a 3DO, I also have Super Wing Commander and Wing Commander 3 (Wingnut here)

Running WC1-4/privateer/academy/Armada is why I bought my MISTer in the first place.

Super WC needs joystick support, the PC Mac Emulators don't currently have it. I tried hacking it into Basilisk II

I got a mouse/joystick working but it only has 1 button support 😦 couldn't figure out howto get it into 8 button mode.

Funnily though I have a 3DO CH Flightstick here...

[gritty oriole]

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance!

[unique edge]

You're either an earthworm or an eagle!

[gritty oriole]

Imagine if they remastered WC3 and WC4, scanned the 32mm reels in 4k and redid the CG.

[unique edge]

Fans are, they're remaking 4 using Ai upscale. Wcrespace.com

3 hasn't officially started, but it's planned

[gritty oriole]

I just tried the demo and OMFG it's awesome

I still have my boxed copy of WC4, and the Creative DVD version

[unique edge]

I'm working on cockpits and ships from 1-4

There's a few different fan projects happening.

[kind hatch]

Is the 3DO core coming soon? I need my ass waxed by X-Man.

[jade quartz]

If only! It's not even being actively worked on as far as I know.

[gritty oriole]

maybe it'll be @waxen violet's next surprise bit of awesome after N64.

[agile zenith]

I'd really love that to happen. The 3DO, Jag, and CD-i would really complete the Mister for me

[jade quartz]

3DO is a big one for me personally, because I had a 3DO back in the day with a decent sized library of games for it. It's one of the most unfairly under rated consoles of all time in my opinion.

[gritty oriole]

Still my favorite version of Wolfenstein 3-D

the soundtrack really makes it.

ironically with the 3DO we have bost the best port of Wolf3D and the worst port of Doom.

[jade quartz]

https://youtu.be/dK6aICvy_Ds?si=c4SRaoaCSMum8eMK

[jade sleet]

Real

[jaunty badge]

3DO rocks!

[unique edge]

lol, if they can port MK2, why not MK3 or SF3? or even... Wing Commander IV. Actually I'd love to know if Strike Commander/Pacific Strike could get ported to 3DO, same engine as Wing Commander 3, but WC3 had no ground missions on 3DO.

[bold burrow]

Best 3DO exclusive?

[twin wing]

bios

[lusty crypt]

Killing Time counts, as the PC version is a different game. Not even the same graphic assets.

[bold burrow]

really, even better than star control 2

I guess there’s a dos version

[lusty crypt]

Hey, you asked a question, I gave MY answer. If you think SC2 is better, that's YOUR answer. 🙂

A lot of my favorite 3DO games ended up being ported to the Saturn and PSX. Mostly the ports are the superior versions, but there's usually changed features or elements.

[jade quartz]

Way of the Warrior! Naugty Dog's first game!

[lusty crypt]

At least you got White Zombie's album "for free" as the soundtrack 😄

[jade sleet]

I've played through the tournament mode on wotw I don't get what the issue is

[kind hatch]

I love the 3DO version of Need for Speed is crazy fun. Foes of Ali I think is a good exclusive. There are other games that recieved ports which people presume to be superior but its not that simple.

Demolition Man!

[lusty crypt]

Couldn't agree more! Technically the PSX port of Gex is superior, but it's missing the VCR save features. Plus some visual effects. Return Fire is similar in this regard.

[kind hatch]

Return Fire has exclusive expansion also.

Also Penthouse Virtual Photoshoot has double the amount of boobs than the ps1 port.

[scenic kite]

Return Fire is amazingly fun

especially with two players

[jade sleet]

https://youtu.be/Ma_zS0SYbZg?si=HB7z3oraz7wut5NM

[fickle tusk]

No one mentioned Hell or The Horde! So many great games on the 3do.

[lusty crypt]

Best console version of the Interplay Wolfenstein 3D as well.

[jade sleet]

Hell is not for everyone. Not an easy game to get into because of it's visuals

[fickle tusk]

Ouch that hurts... Yeah I get it. You gotta be into point N click style games but the story honestly brought me through and I don't like reading books.

What about the horde though? TFB, gotta respect those games.

srg32 is bringing it for saturn. Hopefully that version starts working better.

[jade sleet]

I know quite a few hell fans. But I've seen various seasoned retro gamers and normies immediately lose interest in it at the first 5 minutes of gameplay

[jade sleet]

Oh yeah? I thought it was already ported to saturn a while back, in the 90's by crystal dynamics

[fickle tusk]

Yeah when your games list is unlimited, who cares if your parents paid 60 bucks for it. but it does have its charm.

yeah, it was getting close but then one of the updates seemed to bork the horde and they were flashing. I should check the last update he made.

I would say it was one of the first best tower defence games if I had to put it in a category.

[jade sleet]

Yeah it's pretty good

Starfighter is probably one of my favorites

[fickle tusk]

Remember seeing its name a lot. I'll check it out.

[bold burrow]

truth!

[jade sleet]

https://youtu.be/5w4tDMUeGRs?si=Lq7mu5mpN4hOhniC

[lusty crypt]

That's another game where it's assumed the ports are better. Not the case at all.

[fickle tusk]

THey say gex is better on some version with 60 fps I want to try it. I loved it on 3do.

[jade sleet]

Most ports from the 3do are missing content or have extra shit that adds literally nothing to gameplay. Roadrash on ps1, colors suck and Saturn the game is high fps but the bikes are slower.

[bold burrow]

I’ve always wanted to the play the original version of Need for Speed on 3DO again. I remember being blown away playing it as a kid at Incredible Universe.

[lusty crypt]

Gex on PS1 is 60 fps. It plays better, but still missing some features and graphical effects. All minor stuff. (It's 60 fps on Saturn too, but no transparency FX)

[jade sleet]

Need for speed ports, the car model geometry is all fucked up... The only thing those ports hold over the 3do is split screen. The duel racing against the cpu wasn't necessary, ive replaced traffic cars with high geometry models of player cars and there is no fps drop. Most devs just took different directions with games after their first versions on 3do

[lusty crypt]

You lose all the cheesy but wonderful videos in the PSX version too, right?

[jade sleet]

Xman content is all gone

[fickle tusk]

Can't lose those videos and sound garden.

[jade sleet]

A lot of people these days hyperfixate on fps but back then no one really gave a shit unless it made a game actually unplayable. I know people who played doom at 10 fps on monochrome shittops and loved it

[lusty crypt]

Gex and Space Hulk were THE games for me on the 3DO. I've sold my entire collection over the years, but still have CIB copies of both. 🙂

I prefer the 3DO versions.

[bold burrow]

Oh yeah, 100%

[bold burrow]

Gex is cool but Space Hulk is freaking awesome. Terrified me as a kid.

[fickle tusk]

Well I remember buying a diamon viper, and windows 95 loaded instantly instead of line by line. Doom was butter 60 fps. I was like, Wow we living the dream lol

[bold burrow]

Hell yeah

[fickle tusk]

More than monster manner?

[jade sleet]

Doom on my 33mhz CPU is pretty good. Idk how it manages 60fps

[jade sleet]

Fun fact about that game: it's not raycasting like Wolfenstein

[bold burrow]

Never heard of that one. Unfortunately I’m a 3DO noob. I never owned one, just pined for one as a kid haha.

[lusty crypt]

You're not missing much. 🤠

[jade sleet]

I will not tolerate monster manor dissing!

[unique moat]

Space Hulk is on Saturn as well. "For the Emperor!"

[jade sleet]

It's a key collectathon/maze type game. I like it honestly. It's interesting more than anything though. Early fps games were quite experimental

Po'ed is another. First person shooter platformer hybrid

[fickle tusk]

I'll tell y ou what not to play.

Pataank. That is the defination of insanity.

[bold burrow]

Damn I really want a 3DO core lol

[jade sleet]

Pataank is fucking madness

In Soviet union, you don't play pinball you are pinball

[fickle tusk]

Thank you for that explanation. That's makes more sense of it.

[jade quartz]

I had a ton of fun with it back in the day with my friends. I remember catching a hilarious scene on video of my car rolling side ways down a hill for seemingly forever in the game after a crash.

[lusty crypt]

Ok, so hear me out...

Twisted! is a really fun party game that still holds up.

[jade sleet]

Gridders and Icebreakers

Guardian War has my vote for the best 3do game soundtrack. It's incredible

[fickle tusk]

Yes, Only so much and then I can see patterns to exploit. One night few nights a year max. Best part, the wife will play it with you!

[jade sleet]

Family feud is better imo

Family feud is so good

[fickle tusk]

I wondered. Getting that to try this weekend then.

[fickle tusk]

Ok um this is being censored by YT. This weird icon for google voice came up. When I did a refresh of the page. The icon and number was gone. eight six three eight three four 6K showed up. The reply was silently blocked and removed by YT. They shadow banned my comment on our page. I'm going to bed. Calling them in the morning to find out who they even are.

[gritty oriole]

Doom doesn't run at 60fps, it's capped at 35.

[fickle tusk]

Yeah I didn't have an FPS counter. It prolly went from 12 to 35 then. Still felt smooth though.

[fickle tusk]

so yeah family fued is good. It did pretty well with alt names of things too and misspelling or typo. Which I had a lot because I couldn't figure out how to delete a letter or entire word.

[white narwhal]

Just stopping in to see what’s new for gamings best console of all time

[vestal terrace]

that is the jaguar...

[jade quartz]

This is true. I had a lot of fun with it back in the day.

[fickle tusk]

My friends the day we have all waited for. Limited run is bringing us the definitive edition of... Plumbers don't wear ties.

[clear nest]

[bold burrow]

I genuinely don’t get why’d they do that. Is there actually a market of people who want to buy that game?

[clear nest]

No.

[fickle tusk]

Great question. The advertisement has videogame nerd in it saying oh god. It's not not on steam either, so I don't think I'm going to buy it.

Might be a great gag gift for xmas though!

[clear nest]

White Elephant game for the meanest classic gaming corporate christmas party

[fickle tusk]

I should get it for my nephew. I think he has a switch, and he's gay.

I'll tell him not to open it because it will be worth money some day.

[bold burrow]

no no, you gotta hype him up like it’s a hidden classic

[fickle tusk]

it's gonna be obvious on the back cover though 🙂

It's got a dude with no shirt playing a plunger like an air guitar on the front

and a tie!

you've convinced me. I'm ordering him a copy now tomorrow. It's gonna be hallarious.

[bold burrow]

It’s gonna be something lol

[jade quartz]

If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's that no matter how low you think society can get as a whole, people will always...always find a way to shatter your expectations. So yeah, there is definitely a market for Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/mako-makanshoku-mako-kill-la-kill-anime-no-gif-16540878

[fickle tusk]

There is a PC edition, but only in limited edition set. That's 90$

[clear nest]

[gritty oriole]

It’s a damn good thing I’m too poor to buy any games right now, I’d buy like 10 copies otherwise

[clear nest]

et tu, Linyaa

[lusty crypt]

Everyone loves still images of softcore p##n I guess 😅

[gritty oriole]

I have original copies of Night Trap and Double Switch on pc <_<

[clear nest]

https://youtu.be/P2EQiOulQDs?si=SST2R5dnhyNIAy1D

Time to start posting oddball import 3DO games in here more

[lusty crypt]

Far better FMV titles than Plumbers.

[fickle tusk]

Nice man. I thought I was the only one.

[clear nest]

Because that is the only thing Ill be playing if any crazy dev actually makes a core

https://youtu.be/RgXT5K51HUE?si=65F7c0LBoL8CyUME

https://youtu.be/XsPbbpg0Pgw?si=sN5LhBByhvqr4-lw

Alfured Hitcho-cocku

[lusty crypt]

The 3DO library is wild.

[clear nest]

If it didnt have this weird Japanese and Korean import library Id probably ignore it, but kusoge is fun

https://youtu.be/Bqk6Nb8Enls?si=rJXkYGD98GEocxRw

[fickle tusk]

Do any of these have english patches?

[clear nest]

https://www.romhacking.net/?page=translations&status=&platform=46&languageid=12&order=&perpage=20&dir=&title=&transsearch=Go

Slim pickings Im afraid

[bold burrow]

If you think about it, the English patch was inside of us all along.

[fickle tusk]

If its minimal reading google translate can get you through.

I'll definately grab hauzer though thanks.

[clear nest]

I think Retroarch has an automatic translation plugin to muddle through things

[fickle tusk]

that's amazing I never heard of that feature yet.

[clear nest]

https://youtu.be/ZZrV38f1MT8?si=-bX84VcLNd0sete9

[clear nest]

https://youtu.be/qjMSnqxZQUw?si=ffuNydHnvI9j__K5

[fickle tusk]

I remember a lot of people liked autobahn tokio back in the day.

[jade quartz]

Come on peeps, let's talk 3DO!

[clear nest]

If I must

[jade quartz]

You definitely must.

[clear nest]

https://youtu.be/we8R5PTFXz0?si=KKQRs83ymwpVzC6Y

[jade quartz]

The only time I ever bought any EA Sports games in my entire life were the 3DO versions of Madden and FIFA. Those were actually super impresive at the time.

[jade quartz]

The Japanese library of 3DO games is wild.

[clear nest]

Theres some fun Korean nonsense in there too

[lusty crypt]

More like feral than wild 😜

[clear nest]

https://youtu.be/h5Oqa0hhegM?si=RR8Xr7let9WYyVBh

[jade quartz]

It is funny just how much EA supported 3DO because Trip Hawkins was the former founder of EA.

And Crystal Dynamics cut their teeth on the 3DO.

[lusty crypt]

See this is the stuff. When you saw screenshots of that, you were convinced the 3DO was powered by magic.

[clear nest]

SHAA
SHAA
SHAA SHAA SHAA
HWUH HUH HUH

[jade quartz]

Not loud enough!

SHAA

[clear nest]

HWUH HUH HUH

[clear nest]

Arent you glad you never played it?

[lusty crypt]

Oh, my reality check was Jurassic Park Interactive.

[clear nest]

I played one Ultraman game, a rental, the SNES one. Weekend ruined, what a turd. Never again.

[jade quartz]

Oh god that game was awful. Yes, I owned a copy of it...

The first time I ever got motion sickness playing a video game was on 3DO with Escape from Monster Manor. I don't know what it was about that game, but it made me seriously motion sick.

[clear nest]

https://youtu.be/bum6tnf4m8k?si=X3NqAZy1aFS0y4cH

One was not enough

There were 2

tf

Why is Penelope Pitstop named "Milk" in Japan

[unique edge]

Super Wing Commander on 3DO would be cool to play

[lusty crypt]

3DO had a lot of fun flight games. Side effect of getting a lot of PC ports at the time, I guess.

Rebel Assault with the 3DO CH Flight stick is still my preferred way to play that game. 🙂

[clear nest]

Look I dont care about a 3DO core BUT if one does get made Im exploring this Japanese and Korean jank for sure

[lusty crypt]

That's 100% the batty brand.

[clear nest]

"Good" kusoge is a special kind of experience, like a delightful B movie

[lusty crypt]

I await your findings 🙂

Batty: 3DO tastemaker

[clear nest]

I predict the following result:

https://tenor.com/view/the-critic-it-stinks-jon-lovitz-gif-14290822

[dapper oar]

Pretty sure @white narwhal will be there first day to do it.

[clear nest]

Not if I get there first, a little friendly competition in the consumption of trash

[white narwhal]

Damn right. Will blackjack and hookers

[lusty crypt]

I'm going to start burning CDs right now and consume 3do trash!

(No I'm not)

[clear nest]

I mean, there are emulators right

[lusty crypt]

The Opera core in RetroArch is about as good as it gets.

[jade quartz]

A 3DO core would be a dream come true for me! When a finished core drops, I will say "3DO snap!"

[lusty crypt]

Any interest in these old 3DO related stacks of "treasure" I've had since the 90s? 🙂

Too bad I can't get that 3DO watch any longer.

They made Virtuoso sound so cool.

[clear nest]

Wow

[lusty crypt]

Can't tell if real wow...

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/owen-wilson-wow-marley-and-me-smooth-hd-hq-gif-977282450591946462

[lusty crypt]

I have brought shame to this channel.

[clear nest]

You should probably be king of this channel

I owned exactly one game when I had the Goldstar 3DO

[bold burrow]

I’ve never owned a 3DO game, does that mean I’m the winner?

[lusty crypt]

No.

But you're still a winner, Robby. ❤️

[clear nest]

But the one game I owned was a complete Road Rash in mint condition so..

[jade sleet]

That's because it is

https://youtu.be/JLNjmZhs9iA?si=ve-ucYzStg5xdDG9

[lusty crypt]

I had a LOT of CIB games around 2009. Down to only 3 now.

[clear nest]

Wait what, MK2 on 3DO?

I bet its better than the PSX port too lol

[jade sleet]

There's visual aspects of it that make it better than arcade as of right now. Fighters will be added after the arenas are all completed

Check out the portal stage for example when you watch the video

[jade quartz]

If you owned a Goldstar 3DO, then you never owned a REAL 3DO!

[clear nest]

Oh shit

FZ1 snob club

[lusty crypt]

batty is fake 3DO girl

[clear nest]

Oh wait, FZ-1 is what I had

[lusty crypt]

Too late

[clear nest]

This one right

Yeah I mixed it up

[lusty crypt]

You tell us

Pffft. FZ-10 is where the REAL world is

[clear nest]

🤯

[jade quartz]

Anyone who owned a Goldstar model was a fake fan!

And if you didn't pay $700 for your 3DO, you're also a fake fan!

[lusty crypt]

Dang. This level of snobbery is reaching Neo Geo AES.

[clear nest]

I paid $60.

[lusty crypt]

CIB MOTW or GTFO

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/see-myself-out-gif-21716927

[bold burrow]

more like 3D’oh

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/crash-bandicoot-bush-hiding-hide-im-gone-gif-18749766

[jade quartz]

I shall live the rest of my life knowing that I killed the 3DO thread. womp womp

[jade quartz]

Lies!

[lusty crypt]

I ain't scared of no batty.

[jade quartz]

Does...does that mean you are scared of batty?

Dang double negatives.

[lusty crypt]

So 3do huh?

Welp. See ya later.

But seriously: I love the console. Still have a FZ-10 and a pile of peripherals.

Didn't get one until 2001. Got an FZ-1 and 5 bankers boxes full of games for free from a friend.

[jade quartz]

Same. I had a bunch of games for mine.

[lusty crypt]

It's a neat time capsule system. Right before Sony took gaming super mainstream.

[jade quartz]

I had most of the Crystal Dynamics and EA games. Plus stuff like Super Turbo and Twisted.

Also...Mad Dog McCree...

[lusty crypt]

That game was on everything. No shame in that.

[jade quartz]

And Dragon's Lair. I was into that FMV stuff back then.

[clear nest]

But did you have a 6 button 3DO controller

[lusty crypt]

I did/do

[jade quartz]

I did! The Capcom one that I had to order directly through them for Super Turbo.

[lusty crypt]

Nice!

[clear nest]

Oh yeah.. well

Did you have uhm

Samurai Shodown?

[jade quartz]

I did also have Samurai Shodown! It was the first time I ever played it actually.

[clear nest]

... uhm

I got nothing

[jade quartz]

lol

[lusty crypt]

batty...

[jade quartz]

I really did have those games though.

And Escape from Monster Manor which gave me my first ever gaming motion sickness. Good times.

[lusty crypt]

It's weirdly smooth running considering the console.

[jade quartz]

Uh oh, here comes Robby to say that I was a spoiled rich kid again!

[lusty crypt]

...

[clear nest]

I mean

You were

[clear nest]

Just like my fucking cousin

Got SMS, NES, Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, and SNES

Then PSX, and Saturn

[lusty crypt]

No 3DO though. Couldn't of been THAT rich.

[jade quartz]

If your cousin didn't also have an N64, then were they reeeeaallly spoiled?

[clear nest]

Mostly he just didnt want crap

yeah fine

[bold burrow]

I didn’t say you were spoiled, I just said you’re probably the son of a wealthy oil tycoon and can we be best friends?

[lusty crypt]

@bold burrow

J/k. You're cool.

[clear nest]

Robby isn't cool

He's sub zero

[lusty crypt]

Well, well, well... look who comes crawling back to the R E A L world...

[clear nest]

I bless you with a grand tour of videos showing the Korean/Japanese kusoge to explore on this platform and I get sass?

Harrumph.

[lusty crypt]

Wow

[bold burrow]

MK1 sub zero or MK3 sub zero?

[clear nest]

Oh sorry

I meant absolute zero

But no, Robby is the wonderful fellow

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-maisel-rachel-brosnahan-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-omg-gif-3575661564986748549

[jade quartz]

Fatality

[jade quartz]

Come on Robby, you already know we're best friends. 🫂

[kind hatch]

I remember the Photo cds. You could zoom in like in Blade Runner.

I zoomed in on boobs.

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/spock-fascinating-gif-10055367

[lusty crypt]

3DO RULES!

[fickle tusk]

Yeah man it was amazing. I zoomed into a window, then into a womans eye. It was crazy to think about that at the time.

[jade quartz]

So you're admitting to being a peeping tom via photo CD!

[fickle tusk]

Oh for sure

[clear nest]

"Enhance."

furious "button" tapping

"Enhance"

"taptaptaptap"

[fickle tusk]

I was running spice channel through my gamegear direct from the box haha. I was young once.

[clear nest]

TV Tuner had to be good for something

[fickle tusk]

I used it for snes too so double worth it. In the car.

[lusty crypt]

The Spice Channel...OMG... core porn memory unlocked 😂😂😂

[clear nest]

Anybody have one of those black boxes that unscrambled the PPV (read: porn) channels

[fickle tusk]

Yes. Loved it.

[clear nest]

Memories of skinemax, too

[white narwhal]

Here’s something 3DO that just came in straight from Japan for my Killing Time collection

That 3DO render of the mansion is gold 😂

[clear nest]

Are the voices dubbed in Japanese?

Oh, flyer

Er, handbill rather

[white narwhal]

They are. I have a copy of Japanese killing time. Tozesereta Yakata

[clear nest]

I am intruiged by this nonsense

[white narwhal]

Got it from an ex-dev that worked at 3DO as a gift

[clear nest]

hah, awesome

[white narwhal]

I own too many killing times lol. Red long box, black mail in disc, Japanese version, pal version, mac version, PC version, alpha 2.3, beta 2.7, near to retail beta

[clear nest]

I couldnt imagine anyone but you being the biggest 3DO Killing Time fan. M2 port when?

[bold burrow]

I’d like to be a 3DO fan but no core

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gif-23900273

The sadness

whenfore 3DO corez

[jade quartz]

Awbacon seems to enjoy killing time purchasing copies of Killing Time.

[lusty crypt]

@white narwhal - Fast Fact: the castle featured in the KT intro video is Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands. It's my home town, so when I first played the game way back when, I spotted it immediately. 😆

Sorry... nerd moment. Seeing your epic collection brought it out of me. 😅

[white narwhal]

Haha never knew that

[lusty crypt]

Happy to offer this random factoid. 😆

[bold burrow]

@dull vault

[dull vault]

What is this? have I been summoned like Bahamut or a demon to nuke their love of 3DO? VERY WELL, TRIP HAWKINS EATS PUPPIES AND THROWS THE BONES AT ORPHANS. YOU APPROVE OF THAT BY PLAYING 3DO

[lusty crypt]

If you want this daisy-chained controller, you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[dull vault]

3DO is great because it makes you appreciate other systems more when you play it’s almost 100% non-exclusive library on them.

And for what is exclusive? Woof

[lusty crypt]

Show us on the doll where the 3DO touched you, Doyle. Let the healing start here.

Because what I think you meant to say was: "It's cool the 3DO was the 32 bit pioneer. It instantly boosted the libraries of later consoles with its impressive library of titles. What a cool footnote that kicked off a gaming revolution."

[clear nest]

PCFX is the 32 bit pioneer tho :D

[lusty crypt]

f###ing weeb

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/yu-gi-oh-sevens-rook-luke-tatsuhisa-kamijo-broom-gif-19064203

[dull vault]

Full disclosure I’ve never played on 3DO hardware, only emulation. Maybe on real hardware it isn’t a deeply disappointing way to spend gaming time. Are the controllers top notch?

[lusty crypt]

Oh goodness no. They're terrible.

[dull vault]

I see

[lusty crypt]

😂

[dull vault]

Did I serve you well master @bold burrow ?

Returning to the summoning void realm

[clear nest]

Imagine having to do a switchable mod to get 240p on Super Turbo

[lusty crypt]

For myself at least; the 3DO hits that "magic" spot in video game history, where it was clearly the next leap.

It wasn't the best, but it was the first. That's important to note. It's a definite time capsule of a very specific time and place.

In hindsight it's a meme.

[clear nest]

That time and place for me being that space between 2D and 3D, where the elements were mixed together in often entertaining and strange ways. Toss in FMV in the mix too

[unique moat]

My 3DO has a mysterious switch on the back and switched to 240p

The controllers aren't exactly memorable...

[clear nest]

I had to install one of those

Its telling that 3DO was one of the only systems that I didnt RGB mod

[lusty crypt]

I put a 240p switch on mine too.

[jade sleet]

https://youtu.be/vFYNAIGpFqA?si=8sL-qqEKJLUtYQRm

[jade sleet]

Jp2x is a good controller. Jp1 and gold star controllers, not so much

[gritty oriole]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/16ttul2/i_have_acquired_the_remains_of_the_doom_3do/

@bold burrow

[lusty crypt]

And there it is

Beautiful

[gritty oriole]

it's a shame that the foam disintegrated T_T

[lusty crypt]

Even the greatest pieces of art fade away in time.

[gritty oriole]

https://youtu.be/m35pIk5wfNk?feature=shared

[clear nest]

Nice

[gritty oriole]

https://youtu.be/e0tPC8DHRlA?feature=shared

[zealous dune]

There's 3 exclusives that I'm interested in trying, and they're all from Microcabin.

Ah, never mind. Lucienne's Quest was brought to Saturn.

[bold burrow]

Oh wow! I had no idea.

[zealous dune]

And I just have no idea about the 3DO in general

Currently making a list of possible 'hidden gems' to try one day.

[jade sleet]

Only in Japan. 3do had it exclusive in the west

technically Lucienne's quest is a 3do exclusive. Swords and Sorcery (japanese release) is not

So if you can't speak Japanese, 3do is still the only place to play it

[lusty crypt]

ESPN Step Aerobics is a fun exclusive

(joking... but it is exclusive)

[jade sleet]

@zealous dune should have tagged you too I suppose since you were talking about the game to begin with

[jade sleet]

Has a PC port, pretty sure

[lusty crypt]

Dang it!

It's a title I ended up with as part of a lot purchase at one point.

[zealous dune]

Well, I figured that one day I'll probably end up taking up Japanese as there are so many titles that will probably never get a fan translation.

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/fz1-fz10-real3do-3do-3do-zone-gif-26444509

[jade quartz]

The R•E•A•L 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Truly the greatest of all time!

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/spin-record-cat-gif-21749933

[white narwhal]

@cinder wing and I are gonna do a video this December as a bonus. We each give each other one game to review on each others channels. You KNOW I’m giving his a 3DO game

[cinder wing]

If Opera (I think that's what the emulator is called), I'll try it.

[white narwhal]

Yep opera

[cinder wing]

@white narwhal has the cat trained well

[white narwhal]

That’s you and I chasing YT success lol

[cinder wing]

😂

[lusty crypt]

I am here to support the 3DO cause.

[jade quartz]

You don't have to chase success on youtube if you just change your channel to exclusively 3DO content. If there ever was a recipe for success, it's 3DO!

[white narwhal]

Or…and hear me out…I could shoot my self in my own foot

[jade quartz]

I wonder what does worse. Shmup videos or 3DO?

[clear nest]

https://tenor.com/view/how-humiliating-laughing-smirk-smug-gif-16456638

[lusty crypt]

You're right. Probably should include CD-i, just to be safe.

[white narwhal]

What else do we have to do? Lol

[clear nest]

You're doing what you need to do! I just think you shouldnt have to lol

[lusty crypt]

The algorithm hungers, batty.

[clear nest]

Unfortunately :(

[white narwhal]

Gonna replay Killing Time. Deciding between Deck or 3DO and PVM

[clear nest]

Does Killing Time not deserve better?

Can it not flourish and stretch its FMV laden legs on a larger screen, filled with the tubes?

[lusty crypt]

Confession time...

KT is best experienced...

via emulation with res boost and overclocking

...there. I said it. Shame.

[lusty crypt]

Supporting CRT usage? Batty...

I genuinely appreciate knowing @white narwhal is a giant Killing Time fan. There's literally tens of us.

[clear nest]

5s?

[lusty crypt]

It's probably more like 4.5 of us, statistically.

[white narwhal]

Oh I’m a fan lol

@jade sleet do I like Killing Time?

[jade sleet]

Possibly

[jade quartz]

You can't know Awbacon without knowing of his love for Killing Time.