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Other: Sharp Twin Famicom.

Trev wrote:How does it compare to say Winning Post? More playable?

Honestly, I haven't gotten around to playing Winning Post yet. I only played Paddock Note '95 because (like most import games in my apartment) RisingStuff arbitrarily shipped it to me to review.

The NES and the Famicom are both ugly compared to the Sharp Twin Famicom.

The red one.

It burns... it burns...

It also took me the first half hour alone to figure out how it worked at all.

I spent two hours with that thing.

TWO HOURS.

Oh, how I suffer for my art...

As long as the patent has expired on what they're emulating in the country they sell it in, then I say no harm no foul. Like the current batch of imitation Famicoms you can get ahold of. The 3DOs patents are far from expiring though, and since 3DOs are relatively cheap to buy... I don't see the need...

I'm right with you on Powers Kingdom/Guardian War. I ended up stumbling across that gem by complete accident. My old roommate worked in a used game shop which at the time had 3DO games. He was intrigued by the case, and knew I had a 3DO... so he borrowed it from work (they were actually encouraged t...

I think it's just because no one knew how to port it or break the 3DO "encryption"

It's because we have a homebrew scene the size of a peanut.

Guess I should introduce myself.

I'm Trae, I've been enamored with the 3DO since I first played it at a friend's house in 1994. I didn't get my own until 2001.

I currently do a series of 3DO reviews called 3DO To Go.

That's about it.

I don't think they even got around to releasing a OSX version of FreeDO...