3DO Betas/Previews/Pre-Releases

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:01 am

Hello all,
I thought I would share some photos of some of my beta/pre-release/preview 3DO titles. I've only tried out Need for Speed, and it has a couple of differences that I noticed (I only played a couple of minutes). The opponent videos are not available (maybe this should be considered a positive feature

), and some other options for the cars don't seem to be included. A couple of the cars seem to handle a little differently as well. I have many many many hours on the released NFS to compare the handling with, and it seems a little tighter (believe it or not) on the pre-release version I have. Go figure. On Deathkeep, the controls for the game are mapped to different buttons.

I play them on this:

If the pictures are too big I'll edit them.

T2KFreeker · Post by **T2KFreeker** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:08 am

DAMN! I say again; DAMN! You crazy Bastard! That is awesome! I know for sure I wish I had that Deathkeep disc. That would be awesome as i collect Dungeins & Dragons 2nd edition stuff! Other stuff is "sweet like candy" as well!

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:28 am

Haha, poor 3DO is relegated to the "Other" checkbox...

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:26 pm

Mobius wrote:Haha, poor 3DO is relegated to the "Other" checkbox...

Yeah, that is kind of funny that they couldn't even silkscreen their disks with a simple 3DO caption and check box.

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:40 pm

Anyone else have any betas or pre-releases they care to share? I'm kind of interested to see what else is possibly out there.

Lemmi · Post by **Lemmi** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:23 pm

bitrate wrote:Anyone else have any betas or pre-releases they care to share? I'm kind of interested to see what else is possibly out there.

nope not i
does your testing station have a switch on it, for encrypted and un-encrypted games?

i almost bought one on ebay long ago but then i thought why? as im not gonna buy stuff that works on it

Zangardo had 2 Captian Quazar betas, Save Yourself (i think that was the name) and probably 10 others i cant remember

T2KFreeker · Post by **T2KFreeker** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:31 am

3DOSanctuary.com, huh? I'll have to check that out here soon as well.

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:48 am

Lemmi wrote:
nope not i
does your testing station have a switch on it, for encrypted and un-encrypted games?

i almost bought one on ebay long ago but then i thought why? as im not gonna buy stuff that works on it

Zangardo had 2 Captian Quazar betas, Save Yourself (i think that was the name) and probably 10 others i cant remember

Yep, it has the Encrypted/Unencrypted toggle switch on the back. Did that Zangardo fellow end up selling off his entire collection a little while back, or did he just up and disappear without a trace? I'm pretty sure I remember him from another forum.

T2KFreeker wrote: 3DOSanctuary.com, huh? I'll have to check that out here soon as well.

Heh, as long as you don't expect too much

I'm just messing around with the site right now. Actually, it is extremely pathetic at this point. I have uploaded all of one image. Eventually, I will get rid of the template page and give it a real go. It will probably wait until I get most of my collection photographed though.

Lemmi · Post by **Lemmi** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:06 pm

bitrate wrote:
Yep, it has the Encrypted/Unencrypted toggle switch on the back. Did that Zangardo fellow end up selling off his entire collection a little while back, or did he just up and disappear without a trace? I'm pretty sure I remember him from another forum.
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he used to post at assembler and FreeDO, from what i saw he sold off some of his bigger priced items then disappeared, but i dont think he sold everything off, he wouldnt tell me why he was selling the stuff off either.
i used to have alot more pictures of his stuff he sent me over the years but a hard drive crash killed most of the pics i had

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:41 pm

God I hate hard drive crashes. I've dealt with 3 in the last 3 years. That sucks that you lost all of those pics and info. You are correct, the name of one of his beta's was "Save Yourself". I have a small picture of that one. Do you remember if he had any unreleased stuff?

retro · Post by **retro** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:18 pm

Sorry for digging up such an old post, but I just wanted to say that's an impressive collection! Has it grown since you posted the pics?

I need to find me some of those Interplay CDs with the Saturn box ticked! heh.

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:24 pm

retro wrote:Sorry for digging up such an old post, but I just wanted to say that's an impressive collection! Has it grown since you posted the pics?

Here is a more recent pic I posted. This isn't all of them either

Post by **3DOKid** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:00 am

That's new carpet too folks.

Bitrate = Trip Hawkins. Them's are the facts

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:15 am

3DOKid wrote:That's new carpet too folks.

And it looks suspiciously like mine.

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:41 am

3DOKid wrote:That's new carpet too folks.

Haha... nope, just clean

Post by **3DO Experience** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:47 am

ooooo and a man who knows how to keep his place clean!