Author Topic: 3DO Recommendations? (Read 2585 times)

esteban · « **Reply #15 on:** September 29, 2006, 06:56:07 AM »

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"

BTW the best way to enjoy 3DO games is with the 3DO BLASTER by Creative. It s a ISA card for pc,and lets you run 3DO games perfectly in VGA 640x480.Many people dont even know about this item.

Wait a sec, are you telling me that I can play 3DO games on a PC? Send me some links / info on this!

I own an FZ ?? 3DO already

td741 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 29, 2006, 07:25:12 AM »

Quote from: "stevek666"

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"
BTW the best way to enjoy 3DO games is with the 3DO BLASTER by Creative. It s a ISA card for pc,and lets you run 3DO games perfectly in VGA 640x480.Many people dont even know about this item.
Wait a sec, are you telling me that I can play 3DO games on a PC? Send me some links / info on this!

I own an FZ ?? 3DO already

Creative's 3DO Blaster:
http://www.heimcomputer.de/english/konsolen/3doblast.html

It wasn't on th emarket for very long... They probably produced one batch and it just didn't sell. I don't remember the cost compared to the FZ-1. (I had an FZ-1 before the first price drop.

)

hizaygizirlz · « **Reply #17 on:** September 29, 2006, 07:59:03 AM »

Wow,

I thought i had clicked "email me w/ topic" replay, i just figured it was a dead topic and noone had replied i was pleased to see all of the responses.

Sorry i only glimpsed at the responses so if these are answered ignore i'm gonna read everything after lunch.

1. Is Star Control II the one w/ Mark Hamill or was that Wing Commander?

2. Can the 3DO already play import games?

Thanks

td741 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 29, 2006, 08:08:05 AM »

Quote from: "hizaygizirlz"

Wow,
I thought i had clicked "email me w/ topic" replay, i just figured it was a dead topic and noone had replied i was pleased to see all of the responses.

Umm... Well I navigate the forums by clicking on the "New posts" link, this showed up so I replied.

Quote from: "hizaygizirlz"

1. Is Star Control II the one w/ Mark Hamill or was that Wing Commander?

Wing Commander III is the game with Mark Hamill. (Oh and also Wing Commander IV, but that's not on the 3DO)

Quote from: "hizaygizirlz"

2. Can the 3DO already play import games?

I'm not 100% certain as all of my games are North American releases, but as far as I know, there is no region lock. I could be wrong however.

Michael Helgeson · « **Reply #19 on:** September 29, 2006, 11:11:25 AM »

Quote from: "hizaygizirlz"

Wow,

I thought i had clicked "email me w/ topic" replay, i just figured it was a dead topic and noone had replied i was pleased to see all of the responses.

Sorry i only glimpsed at the responses so if these are answered ignore i'm gonna read everything after lunch.

1. Is Star Control II the one w/ Mark Hamill or was that Wing Commander?

2. Can the 3DO already play import games?

Thanks

Yes,you can play imports just fine. There was a thing going around,and I dont know if this is speculative rumor,because I never had the problem on any FZ-1 or FZ-10,but sup[posedly a few of the japanese titles wont run on US systems due to the kanji fonts or soem such non-sense. Prob I have with this is that they listed Alone in the Dark demo as being one of these few titles that wouldn't work,and I had this title,and it worked. I had it because it came with a really nice foil embosed bookmark with ribbon. I had around 40 import titles for the system,back when I collected heavy,and all of them played.

Michael Helgeson · « **Reply #20 on:** September 29, 2006, 11:16:38 AM »

Quote from: "stevek666"

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"
BTW the best way to enjoy 3DO games is with the 3DO BLASTER by Creative. It s a ISA card for pc,and lets you run 3DO games perfectly in VGA 640x480.Many people dont even know about this item.
Wait a sec, are you telling me that I can play 3DO games on a PC? Send me some links / info on this!

I own an FZ ?? 3DO already

YES Stevek666!!!!! But you need to hunt one down,and you need to have either a high end 386,486,K-5, or Pentium 90 type system. Anything newer,esp anything with intel BX chipsets,may produce problems Ive read. Also youll need Windows 3.1,and you have to have a certain cd-drive if you find the kit without one included. The cd drives needed were the ones Creative used with their soundblaster line if I remember right. Nothing else would work pretty much. I know one of these drives is a Sony 2x,but I no longer remember model numbers.

Michael Helgeson · « **Reply #21 on:** September 29, 2006, 11:28:30 AM »

Quote from: "td741"

Quote from: "stevek666"
Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"
BTW the best way to enjoy 3DO games is with the 3DO BLASTER by Creative. It s a ISA card for pc,and lets you run 3DO games perfectly in VGA 640x480.Many people dont even know about this item.
Wait a sec, are you telling me that I can play 3DO games on a PC? Send me some links / info on this!

I own an FZ ?? 3DO already

Creative's 3DO Blaster:
http://www.heimcomputer.de/english/konsolen/3doblast.html

It wasn't on the market for very long... They probably produced one batch and it just didn't sell. I don't remember the cost compared to the FZ-1. (I had an FZ-1 before the first price drop. )

Good link,but the guy listed some things wrong. More then just the Panasonic cd-drive would work,the Sony one Creative used would too,and that it would be a terrible idea to use a 1 meg ISA video card. 1 Meg graphics cards tended to flake out badly,I mean,they only had a meg of video ram,and come from the 1990-1992 generation and alot of them were only capable of 256 color,and a few of 16-bit color. The best to use is a Trident Pro Video 4 meg pci card. These have vga,s-video,and composite output,in pal or ntsc by jumper.

esteban · « **Reply #22 on:** September 29, 2006, 03:07:05 PM »

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"

Quote from: "stevek666"
Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"
BTW the best way to enjoy 3DO games is with the 3DO BLASTER by Creative. It s a ISA card for pc,and lets you run 3DO games perfectly in VGA 640x480.Many people dont even know about this item.
Wait a sec, are you telling me that I can play 3DO games on a PC? Send me some links / info on this!

I own an FZ ?? 3DO already

YES Stevek666!!!!! But you need to hunt one down,and you need to have either a high end 386,486,K-5, or Pentium 90 type system. Anything newer,esp anything with intel BX chipsets,may produce problems Ive read. Also youll need Windows 3.1,and you have to have a certain cd-drive if you find the kit without one included. The cd drives needed were the ones Creative used with their soundblaster line if I remember right. Nothing else would work pretty much. I know one of these drives is a Sony 2x,but I no longer remember model numbers.

Hmmm, the oldest desktop I have is a Pentium II

. It seems that it's easier just to pull out the 3DO console, but it would have been neat to use the 3DO Blaster. Maybe I'll get lucky and find one, boxed, in a thrift store this weekend

.

Keranu · « **Reply #23 on:** September 29, 2006, 03:51:09 PM »

Whoa, didn't know about that 3DO-Blaster card, that's cool.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #24 on:** October 03, 2006, 09:01:16 AM »

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"

Quote from: "hizaygizirlz"
Wow,

I thought i had clicked "email me w/ topic" replay, i just figured it was a dead topic and noone had replied i was pleased to see all of the responses.

Sorry i only glimpsed at the responses so if these are answered ignore i'm gonna read everything after lunch.

1. Is Star Control II the one w/ Mark Hamill or was that Wing Commander?

2. Can the 3DO already play import games?

Thanks

Yes,you can play imports just fine. There was a thing going around,and I dont know if this is speculative rumor,because I never had the problem on any FZ-1 or FZ-10,but sup[posedly a few of the japanese titles wont run on US systems due to the kanji fonts or soem such non-sense. Prob I have with this is that they listed Alone in the Dark demo as being one of these few titles that wouldn't work,and I had this title,and it worked. I had it because it came with a really nice foil embosed bookmark with ribbon. I had around 40 import titles for the system,back when I collected heavy,and all of them played.

What I read online years ago, was that certain games like Policenauts use game saves with kanji or kata/hiragana names and the U.S. systems can't read them. So such games play fine, you just can't save.

I'm still waiting to pickup a japanese 3DO to play Policenauts and the Pilot Disk.

As for good 3DO games, I can't recommended Lucienne's Quest enough.

I bought and a 3DO during the early days of the Saturn/PSX and it lived up to all my expectations for a 3D traditional RPG.

Michael Helgeson · « **Reply #25 on:** October 03, 2006, 09:17:21 AM »

Quote from: "Black_Tiger"

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"
Quote from: "hizaygizirlz"
Wow,

I thought i had clicked "email me w/ topic" replay, i just figured it was a dead topic and noone had replied i was pleased to see all of the responses.

Sorry i only glimpsed at the responses so if these are answered ignore i'm gonna read everything after lunch.

1. Is Star Control II the one w/ Mark Hamill or was that Wing Commander?

2. Can the 3DO already play import games?

Thanks

Yes,you can play imports just fine. There was a thing going around,and I dont know if this is speculative rumor,because I never had the problem on any FZ-1 or FZ-10,but sup[posedly a few of the japanese titles wont run on US systems due to the kanji fonts or soem such non-sense. Prob I have with this is that they listed Alone in the Dark demo as being one of these few titles that wouldn't work,and I had this title,and it worked. I had it because it came with a really nice foil embosed bookmark with ribbon. I had around 40 import titles for the system,back when I collected heavy,and all of them played.

What I read online years ago, was that certain games like Policenauts use game saves with kanji or kata/hiragana names and the U.S. systems can't read them. So such games play fine, you just can't save.

I'm still waiting to pickup a japanese 3DO to play Policenauts and the Pilot Disk.

As for good 3DO games, I can't recommended Lucienne's Quest enough.

I bought and a 3DO during the early days of the Saturn/PSX and it lived up to all my expectations for a 3D traditional RPG.

I had no problems with saves either,which really makes me wonder. I only saw a few on this list,like I said,and a couple of them I owned and they played fine. I think Powers Kingdom was another of th esupposed trouble makers too,but I had no problems with it either. So who knows.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #26 on:** October 03, 2006, 09:20:31 AM »

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"

Quote from: "Black_Tiger"
Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"
Quote from: "hizaygizirlz"
Wow,

I thought i had clicked "email me w/ topic" replay, i just figured it was a dead topic and noone had replied i was pleased to see all of the responses.

Sorry i only glimpsed at the responses so if these are answered ignore i'm gonna read everything after lunch.

1. Is Star Control II the one w/ Mark Hamill or was that Wing Commander?

2. Can the 3DO already play import games?

Thanks

Yes,you can play imports just fine. There was a thing going around,and I dont know if this is speculative rumor,because I never had the problem on any FZ-1 or FZ-10,but sup[posedly a few of the japanese titles wont run on US systems due to the kanji fonts or soem such non-sense. Prob I have with this is that they listed Alone in the Dark demo as being one of these few titles that wouldn't work,and I had this title,and it worked. I had it because it came with a really nice foil embosed bookmark with ribbon. I had around 40 import titles for the system,back when I collected heavy,and all of them played.

What I read online years ago, was that certain games like Policenauts use game saves with kanji or kata/hiragana names and the U.S. systems can't read them. So such games play fine, you just can't save.

I'm still waiting to pickup a japanese 3DO to play Policenauts and the Pilot Disk.

As for good 3DO games, I can't recommended Lucienne's Quest enough.

I bought and a 3DO during the early days of the Saturn/PSX and it lived up to all my expectations for a 3D traditional RPG.

I had no problems with saves either,which really makes me wonder. I only saw a few on this list,like I said,and a couple of them I owned and they played fine. I think Powers Kingdom was another of th esupposed trouble makers too,but I had no problems with it either. So who knows.

It may depend on the model of the 3DO. Has anyone successfully saved Policenauts on a U.S. 3DO system? If so, which model(s)?

Keranu · « **Reply #27 on:** October 03, 2006, 12:04:59 PM »

I have a 3DO FZ-10 and the Policenauts Pilot Disk, but I'm not sure if you can save in the demo or not. I'll mess with it later tonight and post the info.

BonkThis · « **Reply #28 on:** October 05, 2006, 06:25:08 AM »

I remember people at a video game store by my house saying SF 2 Turbo was the best port out there at the time.. I remember playing it but I cant remmeber how solid the game was.. any chance you could fill us/me in once you get your system?

hizaygizirlz · « **Reply #29 on:** October 05, 2006, 09:10:03 AM »

Sure,
I got the system yesterday but only tested (not played a few games). Ill let you know how the SF game is, but i never played any of the other SF games outside of the SNES one. From what i have read intially the 3do had 5 button controllers which made some of the fighting games awkward at first. A bunch of 3rd part six button controllers came w/ mine. Again ill give a sort of update over the weekend probably on saturday.