buzz_n64 Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 My new video is up on Youtube! Nuon 20th Anniversary Complete Game System Review & History. https://youtu.be/_ijzCs06tqQ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sixersfan105 Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 1 hour ago, buzz_n64 said: My new video is up on Youtube! Nuon 20th Anniversary Complete Game System Review & History. https://youtu.be/_ijzCs06tqQ Well done! Extremely thorough. Long live NUON! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefMan Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 On 7/1/2020 at 5:10 PM, buzz_n64 said: My new video is up on Youtube! Nuon 20th Anniversary Complete Game System Review & History. https://youtu.be/_ijzCs06tqQ Well done, really enjoyed this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefMan Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 So I tried the 54MHz crystal on the N505 and it was a no go, as expected it screwed with the video timing and I could only get a scrambled image output over Svideo. Also when trying to load Tempest 3000 it would get stuck on reading for about a minute and then eject the disc. I didn’t think it would be so simple but had fun trying. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefMan Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Does anyone else get an audio glitch or pop every minute or so while playing Tempest 3000 on an SD2300? It’s the only problem I have with this unit, other games and music CD’s are fine, so annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sixersfan105 Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 1 hour ago, BeefMan said: Does anyone else get an audio glitch or pop every minute or so while playing Tempest 3000 on an SD2300? It’s the only problem I have with this unit, other games and music CD’s are fine, so annoying. No I haven't had this issue with the Toshiba. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefMan Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 If anyone was curious what would happen if you were to swap the N501 firmware rom chip onto the N505, not a hell of a whole lot, seems to function identically between the two roms. I didn’t test DVD movies though. SCART RGB output also continued to worked with both roms. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefMan Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Was anyone else looking forward to aMaze at the time? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefMan Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Bonus stage in T3K is tripping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 14 hours ago, BeefMan said: Was anyone else looking forward to aMaze at the time? Yeah - I may still have a video of it. I remember at the time, the maze reflections on the ball were touted as an awesome graphics feature 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sixersfan105 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Rev2 Yak Twister Board update below. Figured it was worth posting here since the original thread is in the Jaguar forum. Cheers... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb13081 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Hey I finally got around to trying the Nuance emulator. And I just played my first game of Tempest 3000. Wow what an awesome amazing game. I love Tempest 4000, but there's something about those cheesy 1999/2000 year graphics that are really something special. I couldn't get the sound to work without it crashing on level select. I tried doing the music test trick, but every time I tried to pick a song it would crash instantly right there. So I just disabled AudioInterrupts, which disables the audio completely. But I did the vector test trick and that works at least. You can play 2 or 3 levels but it always crashes eventually. It plays at a decent framerate like 15/20ish I would say. I played it for about an hour and I beat the first 15 levels. It's a great game and now I know for sure I need a Nuon in my life. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra! Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Hey, I recently got myself a Toshiba model Nuon, being a huge fan of 5th and 6th generation hardware (as those were the eras I grew up in), and I really like how quirky the whole thing is, and the mystery around everything they planned but never got around to implementing. Tempest 3000 is also an amazing game! I've decided to get myself a Nuon N501 as well, to play and make homebrew for, and downloaded the SDK from Nuon Dome and decided to try it out on a Windows XP VM, and followed the docs to compile the hello-world demo, and it gave me a lot of compile errors out of the box. Anyone know what I might have done wrong? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra! Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) Update, I got it compiling, I forgot to set the "%PATH%" variable. I got it compiled and running on Nuance! I'm able to edit the text to make it display something different, too! Anyone know of any good programming tutorials so I can do more with this? Edited September 8, 2020 by Cobra! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Cobra! said: Update, I got it compiling, I forgot to set the "%PATH%" variable. I got it compiled and running on Nuance! I'm able to edit the text to make it display something different, too! Anyone know of any good programming tutorials so I can do more with this? Been probably more than a decade since I did anything with it. You can find some info here http://www.nuon-dome.com/download.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra! Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Yeah, that's where I got the SDK, but I can only get so much out of the SDK's docs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra! Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) Okay, I got my N501, and tried to burn a copy of Doom to play on it, following the instructions on Nuon Dome the best I could, and I can't get it to run consistently. It mostly hangs on the "running doom..." screen, and sometimes goes black after "loading doom...". I've only got it booting properly maybe 3 or 4 times. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong? Edited September 18, 2020 by Cobra! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Sounds like it's having trouble reading the disc. When I was doing coding on mine, I had decent luck with CD-RW discs by Verbatim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra! Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) These ones? I've been using Verbatm's "Music CDs", and they usually work great on other machines, but it seems to be giving the Nuon trouble. Edited September 18, 2020 by Cobra! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Been over a decade since I burned one but yeah - the label looks to be the same. Since we had (have) no debugger writing a CDRW everytime something needed tested sucked. I literally wore out a CDRW to where it could no longer be written to. Got tired of the hassle and just gave up on trying to code for it. I made many attempts to get an official dev kit BITD but nothing ever came of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra! Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) Ouch, well, Nuance looks like a good way to debug, especially with a new developer behind it. I had a look at the CD-Rs I have and it turns out I have some Verbatim CD-RWs. Tried them out, and they don't boot up at all, I don't even get the warning screen. I get the feeling I might be using the padding files thing wrong. I archived every Nuon homebrew game in a zip (as "a.zip") and included that. I tried to make another copy with that zip bloated to 500MB using another program, but that didn't help. Edited September 18, 2020 by Cobra! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra! Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) Okay, playing the machine more, I think it's just a problem with the disc drive being on it's way out. Even official titles struggled to read properly. I just got the thing. Edited September 19, 2020 by Cobra! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz_n64 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 I just found this video "CES 2001: Samsung Nuon-Enhanced DVD" They didn't really inspire a lot of confidence in their product. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 3 hours ago, buzz_n64 said: I just found this video "CES 2001: Samsung Nuon-Enhanced DVD" They didn't really inspire a lot of confidence in their product. But hey - it featured 45 second loading time for any DVD to hit the menu (for comparison, my 1st Apex AD-600A DVD player from 1999 did it in 2 seconds). Also, we could (get this) - we could actually zoom in while paused. I was so sad after 3 years of reading nothing but what I did not know was BS marketing and hyperbole, from Jeff Minter about this mysterious Project X that was going to be a Mario Killer. Oh the hype train. He had left Atari after releasing Defender 2000 and the VLM for the Jag CD. Years go by, and what do we get? Something on par with the 1st gen Playstation that could play DVDs. Wah, wah, waaaaaaaah. Oh well - I bought one because, Jeff Minter. Tempest 3000 and VLM2 were enough to keep it in my collection. It was hyped up like the PS5, it delivered like a wet fart Anyone else have fond (or sour) memories of the release of this? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, Stephen said: But hey - it featured 45 second loading time for any DVD to hit the menu (for comparison, my 1st Apex AD-600A DVD player from 1999 did it in 2 seconds). Also, we could (get this) - we could actually zoom in while paused. I was so sad after 3 years of reading nothing but what I did not know was BS marketing and hyperbole, from Jeff Minter about this mysterious Project X that was going to be a Mario Killer. Oh the hype train. He had left Atari after releasing Defender 2000 and the VLM for the Jag CD. Years go by, and what do we get? Something on par with the 1st gen Playstation that could play DVDs. Wah, wah, waaaaaaaah. Oh well - I bought one because, Jeff Minter. Tempest 3000 and VLM2 were enough to keep it in my collection. It was hyped up like the PS5, it delivered like a wet fart Anyone else have fond (or sour) memories of the release of this? Ha. I remember the Project X logo with a bloodied Mario hat underneath it, or something along those lines. Certain individuals definitely hyped up its "power" and some of us bought into it, stupidly. That guy's CES pitch definitely doesn't instill confidence at all. "Well, other companies do DVD zooming, but ours is a little bit better.. Oh, the games--they are casual and aren't anything special.. Oh, the visualizer, it's fun, but it's just that; it's not a huge selling point.." I got one the Christmas it was available and I enjoyed it as my first DVD player, which in and of itself was novel at the time, but honestly, it was ultimately pretty disappointing from a gaming angle given the hype that some of us bought into. Edited October 5, 2020 by Austin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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