I played Twisted & Zhadnost a lot, and I had hoped this would be similar. I was wrong. 😂 but I still enjoyed messing around with it back then. Anyone own this or remember playing it? All I can remember is “what’s that smell” 👃
Moved into our new place and I'm able to finally display my complete (minus Dino Park Tycoon) North America CIB 3DO collection.
I thought I make a post about my FZ1 3DO that I have modded and repaired years ago. It was imported from Japan with Disc Read Issues, so instead of replacing it with an ODE, I decided to repair it along with some cool fancy mods. I can now say I have the Ultimate 3DO, it reads original discs and audio discs perfectly and it's fully recapped with an external universal 12v PSU. I use Leicke Brand 12v 5 Amp PSU for clean power and another option for the 3DO is to switch to the Wii's PSU or to USB C. I think the only thing left now is to pick up an External Flashcart.
It has the following mods and fixes
A New Laser
Replacement Gear Motor and Shaft Set
New Drive Belt along with a regrease of the rails and worm motor
New Capacitors from Console 5. I fully recapped the Disc Drive, Motherboard and replaced all 7 caps in the control pad.
A 12 External DC PSU mod
8 Pin Din RGB Mod with 240p and 480p support
In Game Reset Mod to be able to reset the console with a controller by pressing (L+R+Stop and Play)
New CR2354 Clock Battery Socketed
This makes my Sega Genesis and my Super Nintendo look like babies toys.
A 3DO emulator just quietly appeared out of nowhere for Android platform… and after testing it, I honestly have mixed feelings about it.
Some parts are surprisingly impressive for such a new release.
Other parts feel unfinished, unstable, and kinda questionable.
There’s also one feature inside the app that completely caught me off guard and genuinely made me pause for a second.
this might be one of the weirdest emulator releases I’ve seen in a while.
3DO Android footage
There’s usually not much material archived for the 3DO, so I think every piece of documentation has its own value.
Just thought I'd create a new post to share my progress.
After having been sick with the flu most of last week, I spent all of Sunday and Monday working on GLAND (my engine is called SCUNK and its mascot is a skunk. So the naming convention just fit, while also staying true to the tradition established by the fine folks at LucasArts with SCUMM, BYLE, CYST, FLEM, MMUCAS and the unreleased SMEGMA), a new IDE for developing (primarily*) point and click adventure games that can be run in both ScummVM and a custom bytecode VM I maintain for ports to more exotic or lower end systems (Atari ST, Amiga 500/1000, 3DO, Sega Saturn, PS1. You name it, I probably got it).
The main goal in developing GLAND is to create a user-friendly development system that enables non-developers to contribute to indie game development and even complete laymen to start (and hopefully finish) their own little games.
The final release will ship with the ability to both package and test games in emulation (for Amiga, Atari ST, PS1, Sega Saturn, N64 and 3DO) as well as transfer the final binary to the target hardware via common USB debug protocols.
The final release of GLAND will be made available completely free-of-charge.
That being said, I still need help getting my game funded so I can work on this care-free.
* Technically, the scripting language is Turing-complete so you're not really limited to just point and click adventure games. In fact, I have made several non-adventure games in that engine and GLAND will include non-adventure templates as well.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/happy-ferret/tomas-king-of-rejection/posts/4695183
Sadly i never played this game! It is the first thing i plan to do in my new house by the will of God … be well guys!
Hey all, I was trying to setup wireless controllers today so I could play some 3DO and ran into the issue described in my header. I was hoping to get some advice on maybe what is needed to get it back up and running, it had been working fine until today :( I took a video to help illustrate the sound it's making if that helps, thanks all!
Any other games we should play tonight?
I finally finished modding my GoldStar unit.
I replaced the original 110V power setup with a 15V power adapter feeding two DC buck converters — one set to 5V and the other to 12V. I originally considered using 12V directly, but because of voltage loss/dropout issues, using a 15V source gave much more stable outputs on both rails.
I also installed an ODE, so the system now runs perfectly without discs.
For the power LED, I removed the original LEDs and resistor from the old power board and rewired them to the new 5V line so the original front LEDs still work.
I also bypassed the original CTL control wire and added an external power switch instead.
Sorry for the non-professional 100% DIY work 😅 but the console is working perfectly now. Honestly, 110V power is really annoying for me, and I wanted to avoid external step-down transformers because I’ve accidentally fried too many devices in the past.
Is it possible to mod a fightstick like Hori to work with the 3DO?
I'm aware the digital stick exists but just incase I want something with a little bit more kick, are there any modern fightsticks made specifically for the 3DO? I'm looking for something that resembles the performance of the MvC2/DOA5 fightstick for Xbox 360.
That was my brother’s favorite game(total eclipse) and he was so good at it! I think i only played it once or twice. Do you like total eclipse? Or the rest? Which one among those was ur fave? I would like to know, be well guys!
I've dedicated pretty much my whole week speculating about the M2's library had it released as a game console, and along with the spreadsheet, here's some additional notes...
Nearly 80 games in total, more than 40 from Japan... what other games do you think would've made it onto the M2 had it released?
All I can seem to locate is the EU version of Road Rash. Anyone know a decent repository to find such a thing?
Im sick of all this alien stuff roaming around! Im sick of this unfair world! Im sick of seeing oppressed people, hungry people, poor people! I wish things can change for the best for every good and clean human soul out there especially kids, who are suffering everyday around the world! …. Im glad i have the chance to vent here! …..Im glad we can still talk about games, away from all the evilness in this world!
Hope u all well out there guys!
Which one would you like to play?
This early casing for the M2 shows it once had support for all these formats, so I wonder if that functionality was kept for the final kiosk model?
Also I know the 3DO has a cool visualiser for playing audio CDs, and I was wondering if the M2 has a similar function. Maybe it could give us a glimpse into what the console menu would've looked like outside of the very 90s-looking Storage Manager.
Which one is your favorite and why?
I remember the unlimited hours we spent on Way of the Warrior
Our entire neighborhood used to stay over for long night challenges… wish i can go back! That was more than 30 years ago if my memory serves me right. The good old days
I continue the quest to beat all 150 levels of Icebreaker for 3DO on Insane difficulty level.
Tonight I beat level 133: Ninth Circle
That leaves just 4 more! Too bad three of them are so hard, I have only beat them on Medium level and they are likely impossible.
Bast shooter ever. I've been addicted since 1995, and I think its great.
Just came across an absolutely insane ODE modded FZ-10 on the Facebook marketplace and grabbed it immediately. It’s also modded with a 240p flipper switch but didn’t have an s-video cable with it at time of sale. Does anyone have recommendations on a quality s-video and stereo cable for running through a RetroTink 4k Pro?
