Panasonic 3DO

[Anonymous No.10087495]

This is a very strange console. I finally got around to emulating it.

Pros:
>Best version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo (imo)
>Excellent port of Samurai Shodown as well
>Excellent rail shooters (especially Burning Soldier, Starblade, and Total Eclipse)
>Platformer selection is surprisingly good
>Adult games are a fun quirk, even if they're bad

Cons:
>Almost nothing else besides shovelware

The racing games are okay, nothing spectacular (I enjoyed Road Rash on SEGA CD more, oddly). I have yet to try the FPS games, some of the other FMV games like Strahl, or Lucienne's Quest. The JP/KO exclusives I played so far were all pretty bad. Any recommendations for 3DO?

[Anonymous No.10087506]

>>10087495
>Almost nothing else besides shovelware
machine had no lockout/copy protection so yeah, you're going to find tonnes of shovelware for this. had some amazing games for the time. that street fighter 2 version is really good.

[Anonymous No.10087509]

Brain Dead, captain quazar, need for speed

The 3DO is such a weird console, the library feels like a shit post at times. It’s just in this uncanny valley of game development where consoles released and were immediately underpowered or close to it, how to do 3D from a technical and gameplay/artistic perspective was up in the air, there was more competition, etc.

I always keep a library of 3DO roms but once you’ve played the great and the decent/good it falls off hard.

[Anonymous No.10087514]

>>10087495
It's not "Panasonic 3DO." It's "A 3DO made by Panasonic."

[Anonymous No.10087515]

>>10087509
>It’s just in this uncanny valley of game development where consoles released and were immediately underpowered or close to it
3DO development was supposedly a pain in the arse for everyone involved due to its relatively new hardware. programmers not familiar at all with ARM, the tools were apparently terrible, and a hardware base that wasn't completed until the last moment. this is why many games look mid, because they simply couldn't take full advantage of the hardware.

[Anonymous No.10087516]

>emulating console arcade ports

[Anonymous No.10087519]

>>10087516
3do version of street fighter 2 has way better audio than the arcade and plays nearly as well, zoomy.

[Anonymous No.10087521]

>>10087516
Yeah, I have fun doing it. They’re games meant for children (maybe not on the 3DO lmao) that came out 30 years ago, it’s not a big deal.

[Anonymous No.10087528]

>>10087514
They literally developed it and licensed it to other manufacturers. It is a Panasonic 3DO.

[Anonymous No.10088421]

>>10087516
Y-you are just a sweaty ef gee cee b-bastard that wouldn't understand !!!! >:(

[Anonymous No.10088909]

>>10087495
my favorite system from when i was a kid
we got ours in the late 90s from a yardsale\trade
i had: total eclipse, road rash, mad dog, and stellar 7
i remember being disappointed\carrying the delusion that i could "find some more good games like these" kek

everything on paper about the system seems like a homerun
>pc graphics ala xbox1
>all in one media device
>shows mf video cutscenes pre-ps1 era
>god tier cd quality audio
>arcade ports nearly 1:1
>3 FUCKIN D

its a weird historical curiosity for most
for me its some of my most comfy core-memories

i still listen to the bands from the roadrash ost to this very day
>8yrs old
>a fucking shoegazer
god tier
simple as

[Anonymous No.10089001]

>>10087495
It has the only home port of Alone in the Dark for some baffling reason. The sequel got a PS/SS release. This is historically important, since Shinji Mikami says that during development of Biohazard (Resident Evil), he came across Alone in the Dark, and used that as the model for the game which up until that point they weren't sure what to make. Given the time-frame, the 1994 3DO version is the most likely version Mijami came across. meaning without the 3DO, it's entirely possible the Biohazard series would have never been anywhere near as big.

We may very well have gotten a first person zombie game with crude graphics called Biohazard that everyone forgot about.

[Anonymous No.10089019]

3DO is fascinating as the only western console the Japanese truly seemed to embrace.

[Anonymous No.10089113]

>>10089019
It was just the lack of standards that devs found attractive.
>Famicom in Japan is a bit of a wild west in regards to releases with fuck all quality control
>When it's introduced in the west as NES, Nintendo also comes up with the Seal of Quality
>This quality control is so succesful that it's gonna be imported back to Japan when the Super Famicom comes out
>SFC games are released when Nintendo wants, if Nintendo wants, and they'll be whatever kinda games Nintendo wants
>a lot of devs are either forced to close their doors, shift platforms or spread wide open for Nintendo
>many of them move over to the PC Engine CD and PC-98
>a few years into the terror reign of Nintendo however word is coming out that there's gonna be a new guy in town
>3DO is a console coming from some of the people behind Electronic Arts, in partnership with Panasonic
>devkits are simple plug-n-play cards for common Macintosh computers, dev documentation and support in Japanese is provided by Panasonic and it's fantastic, games costs almost nothing to publish and there's barely any creative control from 3DO or Panasonic
>on top of that the system is fairly powerful with 3D capabilities
And so developers moved over to the 3DO for a brief moment. Until the PlayStation came out with pretty much all the same advantages less than a year later, but with Sony marketing behind it for much increased game and console sales.

[Anonymous No.10089470]

>>10088909
How did you feel about the SEGA CD? It's partially how I got into 3DO when I realized they share a lot of the same games with 3DO having superior versions of the FMV titles (especially Starblade, Dragon's Lair, and Space Ace)

>>10089001
I never thought about this, that makes a lot of sense. Now I want to try it. I never really got into the survival horror genre but I know about RE and SH

[Anonymous No.10089916]

>>10087528
But there's also GoldStar 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (which might have been better than the Panasonic models), as well as Sanyo 3DO in Japan and Samsung 3DO in Korea, even an expansion card by Creative for making your PC compatible with 3DO games. I get what you're saying that OP's image is Panasonic's own 3DO model, but 3DO was trying to be like Windows, an OS, rather than its own hardware.

[Anonymous No.10089931]

>>10089113
Is (or was) Nintendo the dynastic shogunate of video games?

[Anonymous No.10089942]

>>10089019
>>10089113
May also have something to do with its first major hardware maker, Panasonic, being a Japanese company and knowing how to market it to Japanese shoppers.

[Anonymous No.10089975]

>>10089019
I think the first 2 Xbox did better.

[Anonymous No.10089996]

>>10087495
>>Best version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo (imo)
That port is fucking shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZH3I1LzK4M&t=254

[Anonymous No.10090043]

>>10089996
I played the Saturn version anon, NTSC-U version has the wonky difficulty (harder than it should be on less stars) and does not have the arranged soundtrack. They're both good but I think I prefer the 3DO on this one

[Anonymous No.10090048]

>>10089916
>but 3DO was trying to be like Windows, an OS, rather than its own hardware.
What? It's a set hardware design. Consumer graphics cards are largely made with the same model today.

[Anonymous No.10090082]

>>10089996
You can actually see from the video that the Saturn version has worse load times, lol. It does look slightly better and is basically arcade perfect, though. But that also was three years after the 3DO port in 1994. SF Collection is one of my favorite Saturn games, honestly can't go wrong with either version

[Anonymous No.10090161]

>>10089916
>multiplayer
>one control port

[Anonymous No.10090165]

>>10090161
All 3DO models are like this oddly afaik, same with TurboGrafx and TurboDuo.

[Anonymous No.10090172]

>>10090161
I was waiting for this comment. Probably ironic and I enjoyed it, but maybe someone else doesn't realize it: "multiplayer" is probably referring to the fact that it plays both games and music CDs. Nonsense that it had only one native controller port, regardless, but probably done to keep costs down as much as possible for an already extremely costly device.

>>10090048
Yeah, you're right (and clearly understand the system and its history more than I do), but I'm sure you get what I'm trying to express.

[Anonymous No.10090194]

>>10089470
i love the sega cd
I think it's library is a bit stronger
Especially if you count the Genesis and 32X

my pops had the tower of power and sega channel
Sold everything for 60 bucks
I have a working unit now
But use the everdrive pro for everything

the 3do was my first "own" system in my own room
i was just amped to have my own tv
it was a sony trinitron

my library was small (poorfags)
but i played the fuck out of it


bst = bunkbed with bottom bed removed
tv underneath with system
play it loud gameboy poster on wall
comfy

[Anonymous No.10090202]

>>10090194
i wish someone took a picture
i fit in the bst threads as a literal 9yr old

[Anonymous No.10090205]

>>10090082
>look slightly better
Unevenly resized graphics from the 3do version are very hard to look at.

[Anonymous No.10090228]

>>10090161
I've always had mixed feeling about having only one controller port, and daisy-chaining controllers together.
On one hand, there's no need for a multitap. All you need is another controller to play multiplayer games. You can have up to eight players this way. On the other, more connections means there's more to go wrong with possibility of having a bad connection. It's also way easier for one player to ruin the game by purposely disconnecting other players.

[Anonymous No.10090232]

MAME SF2 with the FM Towns redbook audio (From which the 3DO version was based on, only lower quality). You're welcome.

https://archive.org/download/bjjvh/sf2.zip

[Anonymous No.10090258]

>>10090232
Dayum, thank you based anon

[Anonymous No.10090602]

>>10087528
>They literally developed it and licensed it to other manufacturers. It is a Panasonic 3DO.
No, it was developed by the 3DO company (founded by Trip Hawkins). They licensed the design to multiple companies and collected royalties on each unit sold.
Panasonic had nothing to do with the 3DO's development, they simply manufactured them.

[Anonymous No.10090757]

>>10087495
>>Best version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo

-missing old characters, several of which see common tournament play
-missing frames of animation
-wrong speed
-wrong resolution
-highly compressed voices and sound effects

The only thing it has going for it is the arranged soundtrack and being decent for the time it was released.

[Anonymous No.10090946]

As weird as that may sound, the 3DO has an exclusive Yu Yu Hakusho game.

[Anonymous No.10091105]

>>10090757
I guess best was an exaggeration, but it's definitely better than Super Street Fighter II on Genesis and SNES which were released the same year...

Honestly even though it's considered a fifth gen console I feel like in many ways 3DO is like a souped up fourth gen console. Just a shame it couldn't last a bit longer (with maybe a bit more quality control/less shovelware)

>>10090946
I haven't played this game yet, was not impressed with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon or Ultraman Powered, but I'm willing to give it a shot.

[Anonymous No.10091147]

>>10091105
I've gotta say, the character select screen during the tournament is pretty awesome. The characters all line up together, and whoever you choose steps forward to face the opponent.

[Anonymous No.10091985]

Are 3DO emulators actually good these days? Like, you can get consistently-high speeds out of most games and everything?

[Anonymous No.10092209]

>>10087519
It just uses the FM Towns soundtrack. The backgrounds also lack parallax scrolling.

[Anonymous No.10092212]

>>10091985
doubt it but i am now monitoring this thread

[Anonymous No.10092228]

>>10091985
I'm using Opera on RetroArch with a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. Most games are at or close to full speed but it depends on the game it seems. I did take a break from 3DO to play some PS1 but Soccer Kid, Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown, Road Rash, Mind Teazzer all ran fine with no issues. Have not tried Gex or Johnny Bazookatone but I'm assuming they're fine as well. Some of the Japanese jankware like AutoBahn Tokio doesn't run very well but that doesn't matter since those games aren't very good anyway. I'm assuming most FMV games should have no major issues (I did get audio hiccups in Burning Soldier but it's still perfectly playable)

[Anonymous No.10092462]

>>10090172
>"multiplayer" is probably referring to the fact that it plays both games and music CDs
brainlets. lol
>>10090228
Daisy chaining controllers is retarded. Even poorfag toys from Nintendo didn't do it. Imagine thinking this was a good idea on a $700 system.

[Anonymous No.10092674]

>Doctor Hauzer

A fully 3D Alone in the Dark inspired game. Shocked so few talk about it. Frame rate is utter shit because holy hell this game pushes the 3DO's 3D really god damn hard. It's single digits in some camera view modes. You have the option of 3rd person or first person which is super interesting.

Some view into what Resident Evil might have been had it been fully 3D.

>>10090757
Oh no, a 30 year old console port isn't accurate? Heaven forbid! Call the presses! Yes, we know you stupid nigger. The 3DO port is an impressive console port for 1994 that's it.

[Anonymous No.10092680]

>>10092674
>The 3DO port is an impressive console port for 1994 that's it.
You've said that it's the best version of ST, faggot

[Anonymous No.10092701]

>>10092680
People mean "best console version at the time" fag lord. The autism my lord.

[Anonymous No.10092736]

>>10092701
You fucking idiot op said that he just got around to emulating the 3do. Nowhere he did say "at the time". Stop being a stupid nigger and own your shit.

[Anonymous No.10092781]

>>10087495
>>Best version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo (imo)

How? With what controller?

[Anonymous No.10092835]

>>10087495
I only knew one person who grew up with 3DO. Her family was rich and bought the kids all the new systems whenever they came out. She also had Sega CD.

[Anonymous No.10093519]

>>10087495
Unironically the best early port of Super Turbo was PC one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeHRSjXZ35c

[Anonymous No.10093521]

3DO bros, is there a lot of untranslated japanese Kino?

[Anonymous No.10093774]

>>10091985
Phoenix is the best emulator by far, but zoomers don't bother with it since it's russian-ware and not in rerroarch

[Anonymous No.10094143]

>>10087495
I recommend Star Control 2 - the 3DO version is the best version of this great game.
Power's Kingdom is a peculiar tactical RPG like Shining Force but with less story and more 3D. That's worth a look just for its deeply obscure and weird nature.

[Chud Anon No.10095051]

Bumping

[Anonymous No.10095061]

>>10095051
if cdbromance owner\operator is lurking this thread:

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STELLAR 7

[Anonymous No.10095225]

>>10088909
>i still listen to roadrash ost

"Pet the dog, pet the dog, pet the dog
Scratch my ear, scratch my ear, scratch my head
Please play with me, play with me, play with me
Oh, but Jessie
It's cold outside, and I'm not coming home
I don't know where I'll be, oh when the morning comes
And Jessie you're a good dog, please don't follow me
Just go on home
I ran away, dog tagged along, I lost the dog
Dog tagged along, I lost the dog, it broke my heart
Please stay with me, and play with me, stay with m
Oh, but Jessie
It's cold outside, and I'm not coming home
I don't know where I'll be, oh when the morning comes
And Jessie you're a good dog, please don't follow me
Just go on home
Just go on home
Jessie, don't follow me
Jessie, go on home
Jessie you're a good dog, such a good dog
Jessie you're a good dog, such a good dog
Jessie you're a good dog, such a good dog
Jessie you're a good dog, such a good dog
Jessie you're a good dog, such a good dog
Jessie you're a good dog, such a good dog..."

[Anonymous No.10096231]

>>10087495
If you like mahjong, I like Suchie Pai and Super Real Mahjong. Both are on PC and Saturn as well, but they are just as good on the 3DO.

[Anonymous No.10096332]

>>10087495
This game's basically a glorified tech demo but it's a pretty fun one and very impressive for 1994, with graphics rivaling most early PS1 and Saturn games. It was later ported to the Saturn and 3DO.

Return Fire is a really cool tank game that was ported elsewhere but I think it actually has an exclusive expansion called Maps O' Death.

PO'ed and Killing Time are weird and interesting Doom-era FPS's that originally came out on 3DO but honestly the PS1 and PC ports run much better.

Lucienne's Quest is the only notable JRPG for the console. Not an amazing game and the framerate is nauseating but it's there if you like the genre. Allegedly the Saturn version isn't any better and never got translated or localized either. There's also Guardian War but it's more of a tactical RPG and it doesn't have shit on contemporaries like Ogre Battle or Shining Force.

Need for Speed on 3DO is significantly different from the PS1, PC, and Saturn versions, it's a slower-paced game but some people might prefer that and the graphics were state-of-the-art for consoles at the time.

Trip'd is a neat puzzle game from the same devs as D, which was ported to the PS1 but only in Japan.

Doctor Hauzer's a neat survival horror-esque 3D Adventure game with a cult following, never released outside of Japan but it has a fan translation.

Blade Force and Immercenary are flawed but interesting and unique games that were never ported to anything else.

Wolfenstein 3D, Wing Commander III, Star Control II, The Incredible Machine, Alone in the Dark 1 and 2, Syndicate, Theme Park, Myst, Novastorm, the Putt-Putt games, Samurai Shodown, Flashback, Out of this World, Lemmings, Mad Dog McCree, D, and Space Hulk are all neat games that got decent-if-not-great ports for 3DO.

[Anonymous No.10096391]

>>10096332
I forgot to mention Bust-A-Move, Captain Quazar, and Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller which are all decent games in their respective genres.

Next I'm gonna list a bunch of shitpost shovelware that generally aren't considered good but I personally think are funny since these are the type of games the 3DO was infamous for:

>Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
>Virtuoso
>Shadow: War of Succession
>Way of the Warrior
>Demolition Man (honestly this one's kind of neat since it features Sylvester Stallone with live-action footage shot exclusively for the game)
>Sex
>Supermodels Go Wild
>Iron Angel of the Apocalypse
>Twisted: The Game Show
>Off-World Interceptor
>Station Invasion
>Night Trap, Sewer Shark, and Corpse Killer (all Sega CD ports)
>The Horde featuring Kirk Cameron of Saving Christmas fame
>Jurassic Park
>Ballz 3D Director's Cut (what an honor!)
>Johnny Bazookatone (honestly great presentation but unlike Gex the gameplay is dogshit)
>Love Bites
>The Coven
>Cyberdillo
>Escape From Monster Manor

[Anonymous No.10096835]

>>10096391
>Escape From Monster Manor
Was legitimately enjoying this game but the emulator I'm using can't render text properly in it for some reason, if there's a Doom mod or something for it that would be great. Reminds me of other early FPS games/Doom mods like Chex Quest

[Anonymous No.10096891]

>$699.99 US Dollars

[Anonymous No.10096898]

>>10096891
The only one that tops that is the LaserActive. Probably the number one reason they both flopped

[Anonymous No.10096910]

>>10096898
The CD-i was even more expensive when it launched but it's debatable whether that even counts.