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Quagmire wrote:Wow I remember that issue

Hehe, that's one of those ambiguous sentences that makes me glad that English isn't my mother tongue.

What "issue" are you refering to? The issue that BryWI has with his PS1 or the issue of the Edge magazine?

It's not that complicated. By stealing exclusive footage or anything that contains even the slightest sign of creative work of the person who did the video (which would include any gameplay footage), he's violating copyrights. But with simple gameplay footage, that's just YOU copying an already copy...

3DOKid wrote:Right. i totally agree. What do you want to do?

No concrete idea yet. But I guess the first step would be to contact all the people who got their content stolen by him.

I highly doubt that. I never heard of any plans for that, and i collect any little bit of information about Doom since ages. Apparently, you didn't collect that hard, as that information is from the original design document, which is, at least one version, available for ages. ;) Back then, the cuts...

Actually, I think that we all should form a front against him and stop sharing photos/images/videos/whatever until that guy removes all the stuff from his channel and stops stealing other people's work. Otherwise nothing will change and he'll just continue. People "that count" may know the truth, bu...

cybdmn wrote:I want to have the FMV-Scenes, planned for 3DO Doom.

Even the original PC release was to have cutscenes, but they were dropped at some point. Seeing how bad the 3DO version is, I don't think some FMVs would have saved the game anyway.

It simply does not look as good. Fact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qAPbXNq0dc SNES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQclMTxYbU 3DO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZETvSl9Sxg0 arcade Are you aware that you compare SF2 on SNES with SF2 Turbo on 3DO and Arcade? :roll: The best version of SF2 is the ...

He took many of my videos as well, removed the watermark from some, and even discarded all the important information that went with the videos. I reported that to YouTube, but they don't give a damn, apparently. As a result, I'm not going to post any new videos in the near future. And if I ever do a...

Nothing found. The next issue only talks about the DSP used in Super Mario Kart and the SuperFX chip. There's coverage in older issues, but that doesn't contain much information.

You mean the announced follow-up in the next issue? I think I have scans of that issue as well. Have to check if they kept their promise and continued the article.

Lemmi wrote:WindowsKiller even posted in that thread, so maybe he can find a better scan of it

The funny thing is, I can.

Here you go:
http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... hlytr8.jpg

High-res screenshots of IMSA Racing:

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Screenshot #3

Those "white ones" aren't the stand-alone units. I'm pretty sure 3DOKid meant one of those with actual M2 hardware inside. :D If pressed to answer I would have to say that the item I want the most would be something that Windowskiller has - IMSA racing disk :wink: Haha, some day... maybe. What I wan...

About 7 times as powerful as the PS1 and about 3 times as powerful as N64. No way for it to compete with the DC, however.

Yeah, I know. It's easy to see by the spots on the lid that this is zappenduster's unit, which he in turn bought from sflynn.

bitrate wrote:When playing VCD's it has it's own internal on-screen-display for various functions and it shows a neat looking control pad that looks very similar to an N64 pad.

As shown here:
http://sflynn.info/M2/FZ21S1_ScreenShots.html

In fairness to Panasonic it isn't as good looking as the FZ-1 That's because this was not the final design for the M2. The final design was never revealed (cf. NextGen, Oct. 1996). And when Matsushita finally produced the units in 1998, they kept using that case design, as they had a patent on it (...

Please don't bump 2-year old threads. Second, before posting in a forum, you should read the sticky threads and announcements. It's not allowed to ask for ROM dumps or ISOs here. If you don't like that, fine. But you don't have to tell the world. No one cares. There are lots of "warez" boards where ...

3DOKid wrote:Alright this is interesting - what does the battery backup controller actually do?

Monitoring whether the system is mains-powered or not. The battery is not constantly used to power the SRAM, only when the unit is turned off.

But the fact that I've never known a 3DO to lose its data due to a dead battery strongly implies that it does not use battery backed up SRAM and uses some other form of NVRAM.

The battery simply lasts very long. I've heard about a couple of 3DOs that could no longer keep save games.

Again, NVRAM is not a technology, it only means "RAM that keeps its data when the system no longer run on mains". How this is achieved is not important. NVRAM can be flash memory these days, but also SRAM backed up by a battery. And that is exactly what it is in the 3DO, and also in the Sega Saturn,...

Pretty much a faulty video encoder.

Mobius wrote:Wait, what? The 3DO has NVRAM. It doesn't need a battery.

NVRAM only means non-volatile RAM. It doesn't say anything about the technology behind. You probably think of flash memory, but that wasn't used back then. The 3DO's NVRAM is simply implemented as conventional RAM with a backup battery.

No need to thank me, it's not me who did the scan. I only fixed rotation, dpi info, and gave it a proper filename.

Proper 150dpi version:

http://www.retro-net.de/EGM_M2.rar

WindowsKiller wrote:Could we perhaps get 150 dpi scans of all the pages, not cutted into parts?

Never mind, I found them already. There's also M2 coverage in issues 71 and 95.

Demo 1 is the GTW3DO Christmas Release, by the way.

Could we perhaps get 150 dpi scans of all the pages, not cutted into parts?

All my M2 hardware is currently packed away, so I leave it to others to capture footage from the game.

As promised, here's the GTW3DO Christmas gift: A small 3DO M2 game that can even be played on the FZ-35s kiosk unit (on dev cards as well, of course). Be sure to read the release notes, as they contain some important and interesting information. http://gtw3do.retro-net.de/GTW3DO_Christmas_2008.rar E...

Reminds me that I also uploaded a short but nice crash video:

http://www.retro-net.de/imsa_crash.avi