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More troubleshooting progress - I opened it up, and there was some kind of black wire from the special testing unit board that was unplugged from a contact. I connected it - but no difference in anything. Although when I took it apart the console apart, the CDrom drive started spinning, so that's a ...

Tried a different video cable, tried a different TV, and tried using a nintendo RF unit to plug directly into an old TV. None of it works. Which leads me to ask this question - if a 3DO cd rom drive isn't working and you press the power on an FZ-1 ... does any bios logo or anything pop up? Or would ...

It came today. It also came with a CIB not for resale copy of Total Eclipse, which wasn't pictured in the auction :) Unfortunately it has a weird problem. The seller shows it hooked up to a TV displaying the video just fine (open tray graphic). But when I connect it to my TV, I get a black screen wi...

Yeah I was just thinking that after I did a little research on the testing stations last night. That will be the first thing I try at any rate

I was glancing around at broken FZ-1s as I've been doing for the past couple of weeks, and I noticed that a newly offered one said "Testing Station" rather than Panasonic on the disc drive. I got it for $50 with the shipping and a goldstar controller included. This would have been outside the range ...

Can I ask what the price was?

Mega bump. (sorry) I'm very interested in getting a long box of Crash n Burn. I can't find any record of them on any merchant sites, suggesting it is fairly rare. Any knowledge as to what price to expect one to come up for would be appreciated - I would like to see if this is something within my ran...

Ridiculous

Fujisanよろしくお願いします！良かったら、日本語でもOKです。実は大学生の時、自分が日本語の専門で、東京で留学しました。日本人の3DO興味を持っている人に会うことをとてもびっくりしています！

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm definitely very interested in Flashback and will be picking that up for sure regardless of whether it requires hour long+ plays at a time. Thanks also for reminding me of Icebreaker. I used to have a demo for win95 (and a pc demo of Quarantine, and the pc version ...

Thank you for the advice Grimm. Oddly enough, the retro game shops near me have vastly inflated prices that are at least 2X the price of similar items on ebay. This is possibly because they buy stock on ebay and try to resell it at their shops. I've searched completed auctions in the US (Where I'm b...

Thanks for the advice! I'm planning on going for an FZ-1. In fact, I'm somewhat hoping to find a broken FZ-1 as I have some good experiences with fixing cd based consoles, it will give me an excuse to open it up and get more familiar with the hardware, and hopefully I can increase the overall number...

Well, this is a fairly open ended question, but I'm about to try and narrow the focus a bit. Even though I'm interested in getting a 3DO, I have to say that I'm not really a big fan of FMV centric games (at least, where FMV is part of the core gameplay). Rather I enjoy sprite based games (fighters, ...

Hello! I don't even own a 3DO yet, but I am planning on picking up an FZ-1 at some point in the next couple of months via ebay. I like older games. I have a substantial dreamcast collection, and just bought a Sega Saturn to check out some of the games I never played in the mid 90s (PSX was my first ...