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I started playing Escape from Monster Manor earlier this week, put quite a bit of time into it, and ended up beating it today. Overall I enjoyed it, which is unusual for me when it comes to FPS titles (I'm not normally a fan). But the controls are responsive, the framerate is smooth, the graphic des...

Gain Ground for the Genesis, which is easily in my top 10 for the system. It's quite hard to categorize; you could call it an overhead run-'n'-gun with a heavy dose of strategy and a huge cast of characters, but that still doesn't quite do it justice. It's brilliant in co-op.

Yeah, I think it took me more like 4-5 hours to level up enough to hang with tougher opponents. It takes a while, but once you break through in this game, everything starts moving pretty quickly.

Devin wrote:That should in theory be it!

I had to migrate the forums database over to a new system. Hopefully last another 6 years without tinkering!

Nice one! Thanks for all your efforts. I was worried the place had gone up in smoke!

OK, so -- after several days of downtime -- we're moved and all set now? The migration described here is, on the 3DO end of things, a done deal?

I keep getting "500 Internal Server Error" messages from the site, and though I can usually get through after 2-15 seconds, they seem to be getting worse. Is the server having issues?

Nah, I actually get what you're saying. I'm a big fan of some of those "outsider musician" folks, like The Shaggs and Shooby Taylor. I love it to death because it's interesting to me but most other people lose their minds when I play it. I almost had a mob started when I was playing The Shaggs at w...

Possibly interesting trivia: PDWT used vertical blank as a timing source for the slide show. As a consequence, it fell out of sync badly on PAL systems such that, after about half a minute, the audio had nothing whatsoever to do with what was on the screen. In fairness, that's close to the status q...

Do couple of playthroughs of 2 burned games kill the console within 20-40 hours of game time? I'm not sure exactly how many hours I logged on my first FZ-1 with burned games, but it was probably in the 10-20 hour range, and I noticed no decrease in performance over that span of time. Or does it tak...

Lemmi wrote:bah i clicked this link thinking someone found a new game called Laser strain

Presumably the 3DO tie-in game for this (slightly NSFW) webseries, depicting the long-term consequences of employing that form of...weaponry.

6. CD-Rs do cause strain on Dreamcast laser lenses, I know I had to take one of mine apart to adjust the pot after playing a modded version of Shenmue. A game I actually own. The whole Dreamcast issue is different, though, because the "scene" also made massive changes to the data structure of discs...

???? Uhm, yeah. Not trying to be a dick or anything, but does this qualify as a game even? Only by the slightest of margins, I suspect! There's an interesting review in French (Google Translate here ) that seems to be one of the only substantive things around about this "game". As the review notes,...

Browsing through the "unanswered posts" section and I came upon this thread, and 3DOKid's description made me curious enough to lead me to this video of the game: http://nicoviewer.net/sm15066750 :shock: I...don't really understand. BTW the Japanese title is セクレ フーミンのおもちゃ箱, and the catalog number is...

I can contribute the following if needed:

Immercenary
The Incredible Machine
StarBlade
Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge
Pebble Beach Golf Links NFR / Twisted: The Game Show "demo copy" NFR (my copies are shrinkwrapped together, is that normal?)

I just received the items from this auction on the Bay of Evil, and unless I'm missing something, I feel like I got a great deal: sealed copies of The Incredible Machine, StarBlade, Stellar 7, Twisted (demo version?), and Pebble Beach NFR, all for $16.97 shipped. They're all in beautiful condition! ...

I was vaguely poking around to see if I could find somewhere to buy this "game", and found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apWstmp47qA

What on earth?

I don't really know what that video is trying to do. Is it some sort of weird Youtube video-making spambot?

When I input the word "野郎" into translation software, such a word has been converted. I am sorry to cause you trouble. No worries! Believe me, as a (sometime) jazz musician, I've heard every profanity in the book. I just don't want our admin to get mad. :twisted: I think I'll run my translation (al...

Ah, OK, I think I understand! One note -- "m*therf*cker" is a VERY strong profanity in English. It's probably better to edit that out (since it's against the rules of the forum). More to the point, I think here "yarou" is something more like "jerk", I think? It's pretty much impossible that a Hanna-...

Wonderful, FUJISAN, thanks so much! :D This is incredibly helpful. I put the text into Google Translate, and was able to understand some of it. Some parts are, um, very bizarre after the Google translation software gets done with it... Yes, I'm Black Great Satan-sama! Lol lol! To bone or something a...

Wonderful, FUJISAN! I am very grateful, and I look forward to seeing the results.

Fujisan, this is a very bold request, but would you be willing to transcribe any of the text from the introduction to Wacky Races 2 / Chiki Chiki Machine Mou Race 2? I'm very curious what they're saying! :D Even if you can write a little bit of it down, that's much easier for me to understand than i...

^Thanks, T2KFreeker, that's very helpful. I definitely don't see myself getting a Jaguar anytime soon, let alone a Jag CD, unless I have some crazy yard sale/flea market find. But I've been getting an odd hankering for a CD-i (probably because I've been watching too many Half-Blind Gamer reviews), a...

How does FMV quality on the CD-i compare to the 3DO? Is there any consistent pattern, or is it heavily title-dependent? I've seen/read a couple game reviews where, on that particular game (e.g. Space Ace), the CD-i version's video quality was said to outshine the 3DO version. That surprised me, thou...

Very interesting post, Fujisan! By the way, my understanding is that the Wacky Races cartoon was very popular in Japan for some reason, much more than other Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Is that correct? By the way, I did not play BC Race. I thought that it was an interesting game. Is it that? Is it diffe...

I fired this up tonight in hopes of getting a quick, Mario Kart-ish fix with my fiancée. Instead, we were hit with six minutes worth of unskippable cutscenes in agitated Japanese, followed by something that looked like a point-and-click adventure. So I guess we missed the racing option, not to menti...

I played a fair bit of VR Stalker toward the end of last year, making it to the fifth mission. I actually think it's a reasonably enjoyable game if you adjust your expectations appropriately, i.e. thinking of it as a successor to the early 3D flight sims which were generally slow and careful affairs...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - the soundtrack isn't too bad.

Shadow: War of Succession - well, it's certainly memorable...

While not directly on this forum, I'd like to note that thegoldenband purchased a bunch of stuff from me, including some 3DO goodies. This is not the first time I've dealt with him, and as expected he an absolute pleasure to work with. :) Right back atcha! :) I've bought things from & traded with A...

Briefly, because (1) this discussion needs to be done with and (2) for some reason the site is taking forever to load on my machine: - The Swedish laws you describe are NOT the case in the United States. AFAIK, there are no statutory warranties whatsoever for used goods (not sure about new), and no ...

The phrase "customer SERVICE" is something i reluctantly use, since it ISNT A SERVICE. Its a right you as a customer should be able to expect anywhere. But if you live in america, i can understand why you'd think its a service you pay extra for, since your economical machine is all about selling an...