Thought this might interest some of you here. What does that controller remind you of? :P
It had fantastic visuals though.
It reminds me of the completely original Nuon controller I have. http://www.debaser.force9.co.uk/n505hack/images/nuon_spad.jpg
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: guyjin on September 16, 2011, 10:45:51 AM
jeez guys, just because Nintendo does it doesn't make it a great idea.
Or is this another case of 'we have thousands of n64 controller cases we can't sell, let's use them for...'
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: oversee on September 20, 2011, 10:08:35 AM
Maybe the Panasonic version never got off the ground because copying is a big no no. They could have changed the color - it would look cooler in black.
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: Mathius on September 20, 2011, 11:06:06 AM
I think it's a pretty cool design myself. :)
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: csgx1 on September 20, 2011, 01:20:07 PM
Very interesting, that's a console that you don't see everyday. A working console with software is really hard to find. The demo screens do look nice.
I had a M2 dev drive box, FZ-DR21 years ago. Looks very similar to the one in the link but it was only the CDrom portion of the dev system and not complete. I didn't have any software, so it was basically a fancy paper weight that I couldn't do anything with it.
The M2 'testing' controller that I still have looks nothing like N64 styled controller. I'll try and post some of my old pictures if I can dig them up.
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: Mathius on September 20, 2011, 01:54:13 PM
Very interesting, that's a console that you don't see everyday. A working console with software is really hard to find. The demo screens do look nice.
I had a M2 dev drive box, FZ-DR21 years ago. Looks very similar to the one in the link but it was only the CDrom portion of the dev system and not complete. I didn't have any software, so it was basically a fancy paper weight that I couldn't do anything with it.
The M2 'testing' controller that I still have looks nothing like N64 styled controller. I'll try and post some of my old pictures if I can dig them up.
Cool :)
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: guyjin on September 21, 2011, 02:26:52 AM
Me too, except for the controller. Heck, even the controller looks nice - except for the shape.
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: Tatsujin on September 21, 2011, 03:18:18 AM
The controller looks like cheap garbage, but the console itself would have been for sure one of the nicest looking consoles ever.
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: GohanX on September 21, 2011, 09:36:00 AM
I like the design of that pad, if the finished product was similar in feel to Panasonic's 3do controller it would have been nice.
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: ProfessorProfessorson on February 25, 2012, 06:28:19 AM
Thought I would bump this, since I sold off one of my kiosk units last year. A beta of IMSA Racing and a shooter demo were put up on the net that worked on the kiosk units. You can use a normal 3DO pad on the kiosk decks for the game stuff. I am going to list my other unit soon probably since I don't mess with this kinda stuff anymore. The kiosk units can do composite, s-video, and vga out, and some are issued with cd drives, diskette drives, hard drives and dvd drives, depending on which revision you got. The one I have still is about the best model you can get, Quantum Fireball 20gb hd/dvd drive system. I wasn't too interested in the arcade M2 titles, but the IMSA game, I mean its not even finished or polished off or anything, but it totally smokes any racing game I've played on N64 visually and frame rate wise. I cant really say how the thing would have stood up against the Dreamcast all in all, but the N64 was easily no match for it.
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: esteban on February 25, 2012, 12:53:09 PM
Thought I would bump this, since I sold off one of my kiosk units last year. A beta of IMSA Racing and a shooter demo were put up on the net that worked on the kiosk units. You can use a normal 3DO pad on the kiosk decks for the game stuff. I am going to list my other unit soon probably since I don't mess with this kinda stuff anymore. The kiosk units can do composite, s-video, and vga out, and some are issued with cd drives, diskette drives, hard drives and dvd drives, depending on which revision you got. The one I have still is about the best model you can get, Quantum Fireball 20gb hd/dvd drive system. I wasn't too interested in the arcade M2 titles, but the IMSA game, I mean its not even finished or polished off or anything, but it totally smokes any racing game I've played on N64 visually and frame rate wise. I cant really say how the thing would have stood up against the Dreamcast all in all, but the N64 was easily no match for it.
The steering wheel built into the controller (grey ring around direction pad on left)...I don't know how practical it would be, but it certainly is an interesting concept.
Its listed on ebay right now, listed it today, has a bid already for 289.99.
Ah okay. Probably going to be too rich for my blood. I wouldn't mind having it to show in MGC's museum. Ah well. :)
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: ProfessorProfessorson on February 25, 2012, 04:17:13 PM
Yeah the last one I sold ended for around 300 bucks, and it was the basic no frills unit with just a cd rom drive. Since this one has a hard drive, dvd drive, and some software included it may go for a bit more, but who knows.
Title: Re: Panasonic M2 "trade show" unit with GamePad
Post by: Mathius on February 25, 2012, 04:52:52 PM
Yeah the last one I sold ended for around 300 bucks, and it was the basic no frills unit with just a cd rom drive. Since this one has a hard drive, dvd drive, and some software included it may go for a bit more, but who knows.