GAMES FROM THE FUTURE!

[Black Tiger]

That's what the Sega MarkIII modem used.

I want to see this.  Pictures!!!  Did Quake 3 or Halo 2 ever come out for the Mark III?

No, but if the Intellivision can do a 3D dungeon crawler and the Mark III has Phantasy Star, I could see them getting the homebrew treatment in the future.

I had some better pics of the Sega Mark III Telecon on an old PC, but am too lazy to dig them up.

Here's a few images and info in japanese-

http://www6.airnet.ne.jp/tera/sega/item/tele.html

I enjoy being a dick sometimes, sorry.

Then you've come to the right forum where you'll be among friends. 

[Keranu]

That Telecon Pack is so awesome!

[Black Tiger]

That Telecon Pack is so awesome!

Here's the Google translation of the description-

Basic the constitution, transmitter and the receiver of UHF. Because antenna connection is prerequisite, if it does from game machine connection of these days, either image is not clearing particularly, a little there is a white elephant impression.　By the way, the type which this telecon it can pack and can connect seems that is limited to just MARK-III, perhaps, but the wrapping must be processed a little,… perhaps (the installation to of MASTER SYSTEM possibility,)

Sound familiar?

[Keranu]

"a little there is a white elephant impression"

WTF?

[Joe Redifer]

The TeleGenesis modem still kicks its ass.

[Dark Fact]

Well, this thread sure went down the toilet!

[termis]

"a little there is a white elephant impression"

WTF?

   That should've been "...and it seems a bit useless..."  長物 can be either "useless" or "white elephant".

[Joe Redifer]

What a horrible language if you can get "useless" confused with "white elephant".  It's creators should be ashamed, even though white elephants are quite useless.  Bitter Japanophile tears fall.

[Keranu]

Haha, that's krazy!

[Hobo Xiphas]

That link wasn't enough information for me.    That seems like one bizarre piece of technology, much like the FamiCom stock trader.

I'm still trying to figure out how they would do matchmaking on that thing.  Do you enter the UHF frequency of your friend's Mark III on yours?  Is there some sort of broadcast mode that tells other Mark IIIs that you are available to play?  What the heck is the range on that thing?

I can see why this never was released in any form in the US, the FCC would have had a heart attack seeing the specs of that thing.

[Dark Fact]

Y'know, after reading over that little article again, I'm going to have to agree with GUTS here.  It does seem pretty logical that when you have a new piece of technology or craze come out and is popular enough to stay, it'll tend to become more convenient over a period of time.  Take the new Blu-Ray and HD-DVD systems for instance.  Right now, these suckers are pretty big (the size of the original DVD player when it first came out) because it needs a lot of air circulation.  However, over time, developers will find a way to reduce the size of the players where not only can air circulate properly but be small and wide enough to fit into a 1 x 4 slot.  It is common sense once you really sit down and think about what you just read.

[Black Tiger]

That link wasn't enough information for me.    That seems like one bizarre piece of technology, much like the FamiCom stock trader.

I'm still trying to figure out how they would do matchmaking on that thing.  Do you enter the UHF frequency of your friend's Mark III on yours?  Is there some sort of broadcast mode that tells other Mark IIIs that you are available to play?  What the heck is the range on that thing?

I can see why this never was released in any form in the US, the FCC would have had a heart attack seeing the specs of that thing.

With the Saturn Netlink, you enter the phone number of the person you're going to play and then their Saturn answers the call and you're hooked up.

[Joe Redifer]

That's the way it should be done with modem gaming.  No servers to cause extra lag.  Plus that means you can still play online with your Saturn today.

[Michael Helgeson]

That's the way it should be done with modem gaming.  No servers to cause extra lag.  Plus that means you can still play online with your Saturn today.

Yea and these days you can get unlimited long distance plans,although you have to be careful,because they sometimes stipulate in the service plan agreement that you cant use it for data transmissions.

[GUTS]

Wow that's rad, so you can still play Virtual On against people through the netlink?