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How many players could 3DO support in theory?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:09 pm
by Virtual Audio QSound
What game/homebrew currently uses over 2-Players and what's the maximum number a 3DO game has ever supported?
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:24 am
by 3DO Experience
Eight players is the most I've ever seen in a 3DO game. Anyone seen one with more?
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:43 am
by Virtual Audio QSound
3DO Experience wrote:Eight players is the most I've ever seen in a 3DO game. Anyone seen one with more?
Anyone to insert their two cents would be greatly appreciated. Btw which 3DO game(s) support 8-Players? Let me guess, is it Madden?
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:30 am
by 3DO Experience
Off the top of my head Decathlon does.
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:34 am
by sneth
Fifa was at least 6.
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:37 am
by Mobius
According to the development documentation...
Because a theoretically unlimited number of peripherals can be daisy-chained, the control port has no fixed maximum number of devices. The number of devices that can be daisy-chained is limited only by the bandwidth of the port. When too many peripherals are linked (usually more than eight), the port becomes overwhelmed and fails to recognize the last device in the chain.
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:24 pm
by 3DO Experience
According to
Trip Hawkins...
I was very passionate about the multiplayer EA Sports games. Even with 3DO, I produced another multiplayer game called Twisted, and we made a daisy chain of joysticks so that a game could have as many as 16 players in the same room.
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:55 pm
by BryWI
While this thread has been bumped back into exsistence...
I am not sure if this has been tested on real hardware yet...
In 4DO shortly after version 1.1.5.0 it was found that Super Wing Commander would not respond to any controls when 6 controllers were emulated as connected.
Interesting little tidbit. Anyone want to test this out on real hardware?
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:14 pm
by Trev
EA's Virtual Stadium Baseball was another game that (I think) supported up to 8 players.
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:04 am
by JohnnyDude
Perfect General's minigame bomberman-clone supports 8 players, I think.
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:31 am
by TEKTORO
Family Feud I think supports up to 10 players,although I have never tried.