Famicom 3D System - Nintendo's First 3D Hardware / MY LIFE IN GAMING 

hey it's guru Larry how you doin buddy .. I enjoy ur show too!

What are you doing here? The technology is outside your sphere of interests (according to the data I gathered from your comments in 2014) did you change your mind regarding technical stuff?

Sorry Larry but you are very wrong about your facts. I am reposting my comment so you don't have to hunt for it: "Most people seem to forget that Rad Racer (which predated the FC3D) was done in simulated 3D. I believe this was actually Nintendo's first experiment with 3D. It was gimmicky and still is gimmicky. Their release of the 2DS is de facto confirmation of this. The people who don't care for it are hardly a minority of oddballs. Whereas I can use 3D with glasses or goggles, the approach used on the 3DS will give me a migraine in no time flat. I have a condition known as exophoria. I believe the uneducated term is "lazy eye". While I have normal vision performance, the very slight misalignment of the eye gets magnified by the prismatic shutter of the 3DS, causing eye strain and intermittent diplopia (double vision). There is nothing I want less when I am heading into a serious boss battle than to start seeing double! (except for maybe diarrhea, or an asteroid landing on me). It would be nice to see Nintendo develop their next 3D tech so it can be used with polarization type 3D glasses. As much as 56% of the population may not be able to comfortably use the 3DS technology. It is unlikely the problem is fully known to Nintendo, however, because most people with binocular vision anomalies already know they are not going to do well with the system. Therefore they just simply don't buy them and Nintendo misses out on millions of interested customers." EDIT: Then there is also the fact that they need user adjustable parallax due to the wide variation people have in their pupilary distance. The 3DS was only "well received" because of confirmation bias.

[Try4ce] That's exactly what we hope comes across, thanks for the kind words!

Question? Do you still have eyes

You alright Zixon?

@@cdfactory you don't need to spam

+HomeStarRunnerTron [Try4ce] Ah ha! So you were the one who pointed that out! I'm sorry I couldn't remember who it was to have credited you! This was definitely the big addition that I felt needed to be added to the existing entries. I listened to the song so many times after reading your comment, it's just so freaking catchy! :)

Try thank you so much for putting the effort in and adding in double the games shown on the episode on rerez!!! You really didn't have to do that but I'm so glad you did!! And yes jj does look a lot like big boss from metal gear, I thought so too.

Mistake in the script

@@RallyLancer95 It's funny, I remember they put an annotation there to correct the mistake but of course RU-vid decided to kill those off despite their usefulness.

Virtual Boy that is... sorry Ive been busy making vids.

It would be more involved than that, as instead of giving each eye a simultaneous image, it rapidly changes which eye sees the screen, adapting this to work with modern headsets would be a pretty involved process to adapt it

+Jon Turner [Try4ce] Thanks! And yeah, early days of piracy is kind of something I have wondered about, how all that even got started in the first place... I've never really known what kind of equipment was used in the early days to dump the ROMs, and such.

***** As far as I can remember, the SNES variant that I saw personally was basically a SNES cartridge-header type interface which lead via some kind of cable (maybe just an IDE or floppy?) to a standalone floppy drive. I wondered whether the transfer was unidirectional, i.e. the console only able to read *from* the floppy, and game dumps done with another piece of hardware/a computer, but then that would mean game saves weren't possible so perhaps it was bi-directional...! I'd be interested to see what, if anything, you could find out! :-)

[Try4ce] Yeah! Pretty crazy, right? Whether intentional or not, I bet there was at least some subconscious influence going on there.

Jarrah White | Well I'm glad it wasn't just me who thought of that.

+8bitDNA [Try4ce] This is definitely something I am considering. My own N64 should be coming back my way soon, but I'm not sure when I could get around to a dedicated video on the subject.

+Jim Leonard [Try4ce] That was footage shot directly off a CRT. :) My PVM, which I just recently got, and is in the background!

Awesome. I've had a jvc broadcast monitor for a decade; the broadcast world's loss is our gain :-) I appreciate the crazy amount of post production in your videos. You guys are nailing it.

and at 2:54

@@ellaquin sounds like you need a safe place in your parents basement for the next 50 years.

Fun fact; because the 1925 silent film "The Phantom of the Opera" was films with two side by side cameras at slightly offset angles, it is possible to screen it in 3D. Even when the technology didn't exist, it kind of existed.

+Michael Wieczorek [Try4ce] Heh, you know, I totally forgot about that spat of 3D support for the PS3. Never did get a chance to play any of them on a 3D-capable TV.

+johneygd [Try4ce] To be honest, I don't actually know what specific kind of technique it's doing. I imagine it's something similar to what you see in Genesis games like Road Rash, but it's crazy to me that the NES can even do something like this. Though I'm sure the SNES method is easier (and results in smoother gameplay and overall better visuals), I do feel like something was lost by abandoning this primitive technique... it's pretty neat, especially considering the age of the hardware. I honestly never played games like Rad Racer or any of these back in the day, so seeing stuff like this running on an NES/Famicom is a relatively new experience for me. Sorta blows my mind.

[Try4ce] It's not a console even though it's called "system," it's an accessory for the Famicom.

+Jordan Davies [Try4ce] I am not positive, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't, if Famicom game's look like normal on it.

Any idea how to get the 3D to work?

[Try4ce] It will work with any system that has the extension port. I was using it with an RGB modded AV Famicom for this episode.

@@mylifeingaming Ok, thanks!

+Ruko Michiharu Virtual Boy games too: if nothing else, Virtual Boy Wario Land is a full-blown and pretty good Wario Land game that few people have ever played.

Adam Zey That could be nice too, but well, if they did it it would be better if they gave us an option to have it in black and white instead of black and red...

+Ennui Go Jarred [Try4ce] That's pretty neat! I guess it's not surprising that there would be artwork like that used. Mario was everwhere... my mom used to make cloth book covers for my school books using fabric with Mario printed on it, and he was driving cars and flying planes... so it makes sense that there would be stuff like that, even if there was no game over here associated with it. I don't think I had anything with that particular image, but I can't remember for sure.

[Try4ce] I still feel like Nintendo themselves probably had some misguided notion that the Virtual Boy might be portable. I don't think they had a clear vision for how and where people would use it at all. Good point on the naming scheme. Nintendo is pretty hit-or-miss in that regard. They have a bad habit of trying to ride on the coattails of their own success by giving new products similar names to their most recent hits, and it kinda just doesn't work.

I thought the Virtual boy WAS intended as a portable device. I'm sure I remember on the Angry Video Game Nerd episode he showed an advertisement in Nintendo Power (maybe) showing somebody using it lying down in the grass outside. I maybe mistaken though but I did think they marketed and intended it as a portable device.

[Try4ce] I found an eBay seller that somehow had a stock of several new-in-box 3D System units that actually weren't very expensive. Seemed smart to just go for it!

Wow! I would have bought two just to keep one in the box haha. Also I love that it shows the adventurous side of Square which died with the PS1.

+ChrisKewl [Try4ce] It's actually a motorized turntable! However, the round wood surface on top actually IS a lazy susan, ha. The footage with the stuff spinning on top of it was actually shot a while ago. I just got a PVM, and you might notice a little wood platform just underneath... that's where it is now! Thought it might be handy to be able to turn it.

+My Life in Gaming Indeed, I saw you doing your setup last week live. I am on the hunt for a PVM or BVM as well, though my space is limited.

Cosmic Epsilon seemed to achieve those effects with the help of the MMC3 chip. Easy to pull off that kind of magic when an extra chip adds processing power to the host machine.

+Red Ronin IX [Try4ce] Doesn't it look kind of amazing? It's got some really cool designs, and it's a great technical showcase. I just wish the gameplay had been balanced a lot better. It would easily be a top-tier Famicom game if only it were a lot more fair.

+My Life in Gaming That game really has no business looking that good on that console. Makes me wish Sega would have put more effort into their super scaler games on the Master System and Genesis.

+abyssea [Try4ce] We try to keep them in good condition in general, and always do light dusting when we shoot them. Funny you should say that, we get comments from time to time acting like we don't even try to make our consoles look good! It's tough, dust is everywhere, and a good camera lens will show specs in clear focus that you eye might not catch.

+theimporter [Try4ce] Someone did say that the SMS would probably win on the quality of the 3D game selection!