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And, regarding this product vs. the elusive IDE adapter, what's the size of a full 3DO ISO image set? Interesting question. I've got ~350 unique titles listed in a spreadsheet (copied and edited from a user who was working on a complete list), so if you figure an average of 400MB per title, that'd ...

Thanks, y'all!

Just posted a review of the Mac OS Classic version of Kingdom II: Shadoan , the sequel to this game that was never released on 3DO (though it did come out on CD-i, apparently). It doesn't belong in the 3DO section, but I thought it might be of some interest. Also, to keep continuity with the above p...

Kingdom II: Shadoan review (Mac OS Classic) As I posted here in the review thread , my fiancée and I recently beat Kingdom: The Far Reaches on the 3DO, after setting it aside for a year. With Christmas coming up, I thought it'd be nice to pick up the sequel, Kingdom II: Shadoan , which unfortunatel...

Some extra bits: Here's a favorable review of the game in French , with some screenshots and a box image for a Macintosh/Windows version of the game (which isn't surprising if it exists). Here's a Japanese page with some more screenshots . It looks to be an educator's page, related to lesson plans f...

Peter Frankl: Tower of Puzzle Japanese title: ピーターフランクル パズルの塔 / Peter Frankl: Puzzle no Tou alternate translation: Peter Frankl: Pagoda of Puzzles (Warning: this is a long one!) There has to be an interesting story behind Peter Frankl: Tower of Puzzle . One wonders what led TBS Multimedia to decide...

I'm glad to hear you made some progress in Tower of Puzzle. I played a few of the puzzles then put it down. Yeah, I got all the way to the final puzzle, and then something came up and I packed it in. That last puzzle is very nasty! If/when I do beat the game, I'll probably write a review for the bo...

Wizard mode done and beaten! It took us about three hours, and we had no real problems figuring out any of the puzzles. The timed sequence was a little tricky, but the game drops such heavy hints about respawning items that it was all feasible. Funny that we got so utterly stuck on something complet...

I think the actual puzzles themselves are easy ... but there's lots of trial & error before you can get to a point where you can even attempt them. Time sensitive type things which makes it a game that isn't really challenging, but nonetheless difficult. You wouldn't want hints from me anyway, as I...

The puzzles don’t share the aforementioned challenge however, and though this may disappoint some it does lend a sense of balance to the game. I’ve encountered nothing that was even moderately difficult. One example … I’m standing in front of a stone that has ancient writing in an unknown dialect. ...

My fiancée got me a copy! I've only had time to skim the article but it looked great.

I don't know if this affected any of the ports, but: aren't all the emulation compilations of Primal Rage completely screwed up and gutted because of some obscure copy protection issue that got overlooked? If so, then Midway Arcade Treasures 2, etc. don't fully represent the quality of the original....

Never, ever did understand what the thinking was behind that box art for Turtles on NES. I mean, Raphael was always my favourite Turtle, but still... Didn't they originally all wear red? Your comment made a vague bell ring, and it looks like Wikipedia confirms it -- the color scheme was introduced ...

Enjoyed this very much!

As for future choices, thirded on Immercenary...and for a more sadistic/masochistic possibility, Mazer in 2P mode.

Huh, that sounds vaguely familiar. I can look back at my/our notes to see if we found something along those lines. Certainly, I remember hitting Laina and not getting the angry/indignant reaction we expected.

Oh, duh. I figured it was something like that, but I forgot to look under Announcements and only checked for stickies under the "Topics" heading and Devin's Mission Statement post. I'll let him know where to look. (EDIT: Or, never mind, he's figured it out already.)

Missed this one back in May, but enjoyed watching it today. I was very pleased to hear more concrete information on the 3DO's price drops after the infamous initial release price. It was especially interesting to hear it was cheaper than the PlayStation when the latter had its US debut. I've played ...

Really enjoyed this, and it certainly opened my eyes to what this game has to offer if you stick with it long enough! Maybe I'll make this the next FPS I tackle on the 3DO, instead of Killing Time or Wolfenstein 3D as I'd planned.

There's a gentleman over at Digital Press (and AtariAge ) who recently found pre-release discs (don't know which) of Primal Rage and BC Racers. I'm not sure what stage in the process this represents -- are these the discs that get sent back to devs for testing after they've been signed with encrypti...

I quite enjoyed this! I was especially intrigued by the comments near the end about developers who wanted to bypass the OS for speed. I know there's been some interest in doing that on the homebrew front, but some sources claim it's impossible. Did anyone ever successfully bypass the OS, either abov...

- Region Free? Naah, there were a bunch of region-free consoles before the 3DO. Intellivision, Vectrex, and Game Boy are three that come to mind, and games from any region work on any console (with the exception of a couple Intellivision games which are buggy on PAL systems, and were reissued to fi...

Maybe this will help with burnt CDs. My Jaguar, especially in the winter has trouble reading some burnt discs 'cold'. Which means I gotta put in a regular Atari release first and let it boot in the CD player and read for a few minutes. Then I can pop in a burnt CD and it will read it fine. My best ...

a31chris wrote:You got Starfigher in that bundle? Hell that usually cost lots of money all by itself!

I don't know about PAL (is there a PAL version?), but the NTSC version of Star Fighter isn't expensive at all. Are you thinking of Star Control II, maybe, or...?

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a31chris wrote:I like the new name! Don't forget to change the '3DO Zone User' tags for our avatar area.

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But then how will you get un-ZERO-ed?

(I think he meant that it still says "ZERO" next to our usernames instead of "ZONE", unless there's some very clever subtext that I'm missing.)

Huh, how far did the TNG game get? Was it released on other platforms? Has a 3DO proto surfaced? Do androids dream of sheepish electricity? Could it possibly have been a home version of this game ? Jeez, that looks downright likely. At the very least the art styles are quite similar indeed. Good ca...

^Good call, Casper is a very nice-looking game. Lost Eden is also very pretty. The two flagship driving games (CnB, NFS) are really quite impressive, as are the better fighters (SSFII Turbo, Samurai Shodown). Heck, even Eye of Typhoon looks very good. I was trying to think of Japanese exclusives tha...

Steven Anthony Jones (also in Shock Wave) ^Awesome, thanks! :D Really glad to know, somehow, that he had a career; Mr. Jones, and the actor that played Max Mirage (Jarion Monroe), struck me as having the strongest screen presence/acting chops of anyone in the game. If I'm feeling ambitious maybe I'...

^You're welcome! :D I looked the game up on IMDb and was disappointed to see that Lance is only credited as "Bouncer". Or at least I think it's Lance, i.e. the black henchman who gets so angry when Jeanine calls him "Troy". Assuming that's correct, the actor who plays him, Steven A. Jones, is pricel...

Since I had this out for Donkey Kong I figured I'd post a shot of my 100% complete Super Game Boy 2. Ooh, I've been wanting one of those. Unlike the original SGB, which runs games a bit faster than normal, the Super Game Boy 2 runs at the correct speed. Are you sure about that? I've never noticed a...

Awesome! Looking forward to checking it out sometime tomorrow.