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oldskool

Why emulate?

Don't get me wrong, I am an emulator freak. But the nice thing about the 3DO is you can play burns on it very easily, so why emulate? Does not everyone on this forum have a 3DO console to enjoy? If not, I can understand that. But if you do have a 3DO then what's the point? Just burn and play in your console right? Or are many like me, and like to play retro games on the go on their laptop?
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3DO Experience · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:47 pm Post subject:

And for testing a game to see if you wanna put down money for the cart... in 3DO's case the CD.
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Beef Supreme · 3DO ZERO USER Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 68

i do it so i don't wear out my console , they aren't going to be making any new ones.

BryWI · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject:

In my case, the laser on my 3do no longer likes CDRs. So I mostly emulate 3do. Also my older consoles, like my nes, I let my sister have. I can emualte that and get the same enjoyment.

oldskool · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:05 pm Post subject:

All valid excuses.. errr I mean reasons. Laughing

I didn't know that the 3DO could get finicky with the burned discs. Maybe I should not use them much.
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alaterale · 3DO ZERO USER Joined: 16 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

I've never had a problem with burned discs on my JP FZ10. But the reason that I typically use an emulator over the console is because for some games I want to be able to back up my save data. Granted there are only a few games like that, but there are a couple RPGs and I love the port of Wolfenstein Very Happy

It'd be nice if someday someone releases some hardware that lets people back up their memory, but until then I emulate any game I care about keeping the saves for Smile

oldskool · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject:

If I recall correctly, you can back up your game saves with the Game Guru CD. But you have to manually write down a bunch of code to do so.
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Trev · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:33 pm Post subject:

I'm with you oldskool (one of the few it seems, but I'm used to minority status Wink

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Oh, btw ... w/the exception of the Goldstar unit, burned discs always run like a dream for me ... FZ1 is built like a tank!
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BryWI · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:45 pm Post subject:

I've been running a gamecube emulator lately on my new laptop. It runs quite nice actually since the machine is a beast. I run it to the tv via hdmi and It looks better than the original gamecube. I was also doing the same with a ps2 emulator. What stinks about the gamecube discs though is I have to find images for the discs I already own because I have no way of dumping the discs. Sad

But I already found the ones I really wanted so i guess it's all good. Just annoying that I have to find them.

Axelord · 3DO ZERO USER Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 5

I find its not the quality of discs, though I only use Sony which are notoriously known for being cheap trash, but rather the speed at which they are burned. Most games for 3do won't work burned faster than 4x I find. I prefer 2x or 4x. Every game I've ever burned at this speed, which is a lot, has always worked!

Unfortunately, the discs wore out and now I have to burn them again as I play Sad

Auto-Fox · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject:

No faster than 4x? Really? Hm. I believe my burned copies were burned at at least 6x speed, and they actually work almost perfectly on my GoldStar 3DO.
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