Trying to FIX a Faulty 1995 US Panasonic 3DO Games Console
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Hi, this 'trying to fix video shows me attempting to repair a Panasonic 3DO games console donated to me by Asher from the United States. He has also donated a bunch of games and another surprise!!! This particular 3DO is a US based console and it is from 1995. I don't normally accept donations but on this one I thought it would be interesting as personally I had never heard of the 3DO before :-)
Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things.
I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series.
Many thanks, Vince.
Hi Vince it’s Asher glad it made it there haven’t watched the whole video yet. It’s so cool you uploaded this on my Birthday hope you enjoy the raspberry Pi 👍 the pi slides out of the case from where the usb is.
Nice one Asher, Happy Birthday!!!! Hope you have a great one :-)
My Mate VINCE ohh my gosh serves me right I tried everything. I even tested that ribbon cable haha. That’s amazing that’s why it wasn’t getting power. Guess all my years of fixing stuff and I missed that haha but super happy you got it and fixed it.
Lol, well it is nice to have a simple fix every now and then :-) It was easier than trying to get through those screens on Dragon's Lair!!!!! I don't remember that game being so hard :-) Thanks for all the other games as well - it's a great collection. Enjoy the rest of the day.
My Mate VINCE I feel so silly haha I tried everything but glad you got it and it’s working and you will enjoy it that’s all that matters.
@@ashersarchives Does happen to all of us. You try to fix something for hours without luck, only to fix it in seconds the next day.
Damn "Out of this World" also known as "Another world" you need to know dear Vince that this is a masterpiece of game, and i really like the artwork on the box.
Thanks, I will forward to playing it :-)
Heart of the Alien was very good as well
One of my favourite game! Great catch!
I am a proud owner of a 3DO and Out of this world. great game. still holds up, if it weren't for the slow load times of the 3do =(
That was an amazing game
3DO often gets thrown in with the Philips CD-i as one of the crappy multimedia consoles of the early 90s. However 3DO was actually a cool design created by the same people who came up with the Amiga. The founder of Electronic Arts, Trip Hawkings then formed the 3DO company to sell it. Unfortunately all the companies that they sold the license to, ended up having to sell the machine at way too high a price. Trip really believed in the machine and even left EA to try to make 3DO succeed (EA quickly turned into a monster without his lead). Personally I think 3DO is a fun machine especially if you are into cheesy Full Motion Video games.
Yeah I think it was a stupid price like £799, I remember working someone while at University in the 1990s and someone trying to tell me how wonderful it was but it was never going to succeed at that price.
3do was a pretty awesome console, it had killer graphics for its time the only downside is they really didn't make that many games for it hence why it flopped.
Full playthrough of the Supermodels game on an unlisted video?
You got a lot of us Americans loving your videos.
@LCARS DATA NODE Where is America? Is that a country?😁
The 3DO was the first console I bought with my own money. It was quite difficult to get one of these here in Brazil, I saved 1000 dollars in a year to pay for a smuggler to get one of these for me. He would go abroad almost every month and for almost 2 years he'd bring me new games. Unfortunately in one of these trips he got shot on a armed robbery and died in 1997. Sad that to this day we have to rely on smugglers to bring new consoles to the country (an illegal PS4 costs only 300 dollars while an official sony ps4 with taxes costs almost 1000 dollars). Nice video btw.
The rest of the world doesnt know the dire situ in Brazil, lots of love. Happy gaming.
~Wow yes I heard Argentina is the same. Huge taxes on imports.
Am I the only one staring at the progress bar hoping the system DOESN'T work so we can continue to listen to that matter-of-fact voice lead us through a fix? Please don't let it read the disk.......yet.
Haha, yes - I am like that too - I like a good long repair!!! I love it when there are twists and turns and new discoveries are made within the video. His GameCube video was like that the other day.
Cannon fodder is a brilliant game. Also worth trying to get for it is Road Rash.
RIP Panasonic 3DO, PlayStation was better 😬 great vid vince!! 🔥
I have a feeling that one of your fans just sent you a gift wrapped up inside a 'fix video' .. zero chance that ribbon just popped out by itself :)
also inside it is in mint condition
Yeah I also think this was just a fan sending in a pressie - the green PCB inside was so clean it had a mirror finish!
At least I wasn't the only one who thought that then.
I thought the license model of the 3DO turned out pretty good since most titles are at least professional looking unlike the CD-i or Amiga CD32 which got some very amateur quality software a lot of the time. I mean yeah 3DO did get Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. ^_^ Dang what a package, great way to start. :D
Trip Hawkins had this crazy idea that a game console could be like a video player or microwave, unchanging with little to no hardware generations. The multi manufacturing setup did lower the 3DO cost eventually but the ever advancing console scene released the Saturn/PS1/N64 showing the obvious matter that you can't just sit still in that market. :\
I like all of your video because you try to fix random things and thats what i like about your video. Like your channel Vince. Keep it up. 👍🏼. Done like and subscribe. 😁
The laser in that 3D0 might actually be a Helium Neon Laser Tube and therefore has high voltages present inside, a Helium Neon Laser should not destroy any discs, Your LCD TV is actually a Multi-Standard LCD-TV, I do think that you are curious about how the system works but if you take the metal screen off and have a look around. I really thought that this 3DO had a Helium Neon Laser.
This console looks like the phillips cdi from the same era i remember playing the demo of dragons lair in comet! lol
No wonder that system failed.Those games are very annoying
The old 3DO was my favourite in the day and i would buy the edge games magazine and the 3DO magazines also which would come with a demo cd and there was articles i read about a chip that was going to be 64 bit and plugged into the expansion slot on the 3DO that chip was going to make the system way way ahead of anything else out there but it never made it to reality and then everyone wanted a playstation but the 3DO is a more powerful system and didnt need memory cards
either and if i remember correctly when you put in a music cd there was a screen that created mesmerising colour effects and you could change them with the controller.
I'm guessing if that first game is representative of the 3DO library that would be the reason it wasn't popular. I hate "fixed rail" games! I did play a lot of them back in the day though (House of the Dead!).
3DO had some affiliation with New World Computing
i know this because one of my most favorite games of all times is Heroes of Might and Magic and those 2 logos were in the intro (before Ubisoftication)
23:15 (shame in life)
i am more dismayed at the fact that some things can be allowed to muddle through on subpar quality when something much beter is niped off inspite of being objectively much beter(Star Trek Enterprise vs Firefly for example, or Jaguar vs Arrows F1 or VW vs SAAB or *insert your underrated studio killed off by corporations* vs E.A. (formly known as electronic Arts now pressumingly standing for Evil Arseholes))
Honestly HMM was the only reason I was intrigued by a console called 3DO and clicked on this video. :)
I'm glad I did because it was interesting but I still heard that 3DO and New world computing introduction from HMM3 as soon as I read the title.
I had Dragons Lair on the Spectrum. Wow it was awful!
Hard as buggery too!!
It could be a broken solder joint, with bumping around in travel it makes temporarily contact
Fantastic pickup!!! There are some great games for the system - things like Space Hulk, Cannon Fodder, Wing Commander, Street Fighter 2 etc. No protection on these I think - pretty sure you can just burn a CD with the ISO. It might be worth removing the PSU board to check for dry solder joints (maybe on the under of the mains lead socket?). If you decide to sell any of the games please let me know! Do you keep all the things you collect - I've always wondered where you store all this stuff lol.
Yup i repair some of these ans dry solder are common main connector an switch connector are garbage also
Cheers Chris, I will pop out the power board and have a close look. I did hear something about the lack of protection but now that emu***adise has gone I haven't looked into any other ISO websites. I do have trouble with storage, bit by bit the house is slowly getting taken over!!!! It is only a matter of time before I start getting grief :-) If you are interested in any game(s) let me know and I will send it up to you (after I have played it/them for a bit). It can be a thank you for the advice and help you dish out on here.
Excellent, thanks for sharing the info :-) I don't have a huge amount of spare time at the mo. The most things I play are PS4 (online and shareplay), and the Switch. I like testing out different controllers and stuff on different systems so the more controllers and obscure consoles I have the more options it gives :-)
No problem =D Yeah, I find myself playing PS4 mostly at the moment too! Mostly Battlefield V and COD Black Ops (Blackout) recently. Just ordered Resident Evil 2 though, looking forward to playing that.
Haha, I can relate to that! I have stuff in storage crates all over the place (mostly out of sight, but there's no more room here lol). Yeah, I don't expect anything for free - quite happy to pay! I've been after Alone in the Dark for a while! But I can understand if you decide to keep it - it's a long game but I just have so much nostalgia for it. The emuparadise thing is a pain, but there are quite a few other sites hosting ISOs still. I suspect over time they are going to get gradually shut down =/
I bought a Philips CDI player back in the 90's, cost me 500 quid, and then had to buy the motion video cartridge for an extra 250 quid, thought it was the bees knees at the time...not all retro gaming is viewed with rose tinted spectacles lol!
Trip Halkens was the CEO of 3do he left Electronic Arts to start the 3do company
LOL. It looked like it was rigged. It's easy to explain why 3d0 flopped? 1. Expensive 2. Different machines 3. Almost same path as cd32, but less attractive 4. PlayStation took a new grip with popular game titles and soon also a lot of fun with n64. Multimedia PC's also rocked in 1994. I have seen a 3d0 in a 90's toystore but it was a rare odd expensive thing so why buy it?
The 3DO was a nice machine, but the price point was terrible
No one wanted to build them, they finally got Panasonic on board to build them, but the cost was way too high
considering that the SNES was competing with it for $99 and carried the Nintendo name, and the Sega machines and Sony had the PS1 coming out soon after, and Sony built their own hardware and had the buying power etc to keep the cost way lower than the 3DO who was only licensing a design for someone else to build and sell.
The 3DO was like $700 dollars in 1993, so not exactly enticing to parents to rush out and buy one for the kids.
As far as the hardware itself goes though, for 1993 it was great, if they could have built and sold it for say $299 on release
it would have probably have had a much nicer fate.
Furniture polish. Or a wee touch of WD-40. Makes the plastic cases look nice :)
In 1995 I was patiently and excitingly anticipating the UK release of the Original PlayStation so the 3DO wasn’t of any interest to me.
The 3do was far too expensive when it came out and only had a few games on release and the games library was very small add to that the ps1 come out with cheaper with alot of games on release then that was the final nail in the coffin.
You know what I love? Is that he is so excited and happy and i love seeing his enthusiasm in this project and video. So big thanks to ASHER For making his day and probably his whole first of the year experience. Especially since its something he has never heard of xD Love this,.
This was really a good video I have never seen one of these and what a easy fix I am sure the guy just overlooked it well enjoy you deserve it
Out of this world was my favorite game on the 3do, I loved it so much that I now have it on my Nintendo switch, limited run games made it for the switch under the title "Another World" I think you'll enjoy it 😊
It's a Panasonic, and yet it uses "Goldstar" components commonly known as "LG" it also uses "NEC" "National Electronic Components", and I am pretty sure I saw a Sanyo Component in there as well.. Shame 3DO never took off, just goes to show greed via an overly bloated release price can kill a killer product..
I had a 3DO when I was little. The games came in those huge boxes in the beginning but they switched to the smaller jewel cases later on. I don't recognize many of the games you have but there are some good games on the system. The only game you have that I had was Gex which I remember as being one of the better games. I think it was the most powerful console at the time but the price was really really high, like $650 US dollars. I was only able to watch the first bit of the video so far, I really hope you're able to fix it!
Most Americans didn't know these existed when they came out. And those of us who knew they existed and bought one, wished we hadn't. 😂
As I remember during this time, Most of us kids had PCs with Win95. The 3DO was very expensive and couldn't match the functionality of the PC. Also, I believe that the game boxes were huge as to deter theft in the stores.
The ribbon cable wtf XD Easiest fix in life :D
When i was younger i wanted one of these thay looked really good kept going into Dixon's were i live every weekend and watched fighting game but the name escapes me but thay were meger expensive but then i did get a play station one when thay come out nice bit of a blast from the past
Great vid again. Pleeeease give us a ps3 fat 60gb teardown 👍👍👍
Over here we have 120 volts 60hz and over there you guys have 240 volts 50hz
I was one of those in the uk that bought a Panasonic 3DO FZ10 in 1994 and i loved it and still have it to this day.
Then the PS1 was released in 1995 and the 3DO was killed off.
That is an easy fix - working very well - not missing out on anything with the model's is right
dragon's lair was on the Spectrum as well as on the Commodore 64 back in '86
Vince is like a kid let loose in a toy shop :)
I remember the first time i saw this console in a video rental store that also had games and game systems. They had all the consoles hooked up and you could play them with demo games and the 3DO video quality had me in awe by how awesome it looked. I am sure it doesn't compete with the new game systems but back then it was awesome.
I still have mine but it's the first gen model with the motorized CD draw -this was the cheaper version -demolition man was shit but funny.
A very nice "fix"/"gift unwrap" this one. Never seen one working but it really looks like CD-i gaming, well at least the ones shown. Wonder what cannon fodder looks like on that baby.
Hope to see some raspberry Pi videos coming in the near future, wonder what your mind can cook up with one of those.
A friend of mine leant me one of this in the mid nineties when I was at Uni, I had it for about a year. It was an awesome console with some really interesting games. It was when CDROM games were just taking off so a lot of them made use of CD technology. The games i remember most were Wing Commander 3, Need For Speed (the original one!) and Return Fire. Definitely check those out!
3do fz1s and fz10s are very know for problems with faulty power boards
Great video vince but i do agree with the guy that says that this console was working just fine and the ribbon cable was poped out intentionally just to make it interesting to you as "not working". Not that is something wrong with it, i still enjoyed the video
It’s not a bad game consoles really Iv got 3 of them great video as usual
I think we have a controller like that laying around but no consoles and definitely no cds
this is why it wasnt popular cause its not actually a playable game
My husband and i had a 3D0 not sure if we still have it or not though, will have to ask him. Loved playing road rash on it 🙂
6:46 looks like a 3D printed Raspberry Pi
No plumbers don’t wear ties
Take your damn clothes off!
Nice to see a console that has never been featured. Great item and video.
Thank you, it is definitely an interesting console :-)
Best Street fighter 2 home port is on 3DO arcade perfect
It is a market fail but a must have for a real game colector and very expensive in working condition on ebuy
$600 for that?no wonder why sony destroyed it lol 😂
Free Raspberry Pi!? Yoink!!
The only electronics repair channel who doesn't recognize a pi
What u talking about??
On the US plugs there can be a bigger prong, if that is the case than polarity matters.
Ah, back from an era of easy repairs and clean simple layouts. It looks rock solid, it's not like the power supply is working to hard.
wow that dude must really like your channel because those things are not cheap nither are the games.
£699 pound when first released
What’s the fix to fail ratio ????
Not to sure, on the older stuff I definitely have more success than failures. On the newer stuff I would say I have more failures :-)
I bought mine on day one in UK and cost me £400 I still have it but to be honest it was rubbish
cannon fodder was on the amiga :D
That’s one well built machine.
PlayStation had no competition did they, haha
That little black box is a Raspberry Pi
10:25 Mrs Vince won't be happy
You should get a patreon account! Some of your folowers would probably for sure want to make small donations to you, to help you continue create theese entertaining videos! :)
Yeah I think too the guy could pop the cable out but i think there is a chance it could came like that straight from factory where the Quality control guys wasnt paying attention....or the guy have got it from somebody else and didnt want to mess it up so rather did nothing....there is load of possibilities , nice video nonetheless ;-)
Wrnjo UK that’s Made in Japan. Quality control is their middle name, last name and the name of their first born children
You're going to love the Raspberry Pi, especially so if he has loaded retropie onto it. If not you should do it ASAP :D
Yeah, I am already thinking of the possible set ups using my little 1080p portable monitor :-)
You need to check out Return Fire, Road Rash, Need for Speed, Crash 'n Burn, Way of the Warrior, Off-World Interceptor and PO'ed. The first 4 for sure. All but CnB and WotW were on PS1, but weren't nearly as good as on 3DO.
3DO failed for two main reasons: The initial $699 price tag, and the lack of a must-have game. Much like the CDI, the 3DO had a large library of weird games that primarily looked like bad ports of PC games, or full motion video Sega CD ports. The closest they ever came was Gex, which was later released for Playstation
The raspberry Pi uses a arm Cpu as does the 3do
Retro pi will you be doing video on that almost every console on the little thing love it and on plus can be used as a pc to
I'm using a Pi 3 B+ right now to control and broadcast my 3D printer and webcam. I love the little box! It barely needs anything to run, but make sure you feed it at least 5vdc and above 2amps if you don't want to voltage throttle. And some minimal cooling if you don't want to temp throttle. Wireless and all built right in! Re-installing a system is as easy as writing an SD card!
He sent you this for free!!! In my country (NZ) these go for $500 minimum, even broken ones go for around 250-300. the games are like $40 each!!!!
I own a Panasonic 3DO and about 12 games. it cost me a fortune a few years ago. The Phillips one is even more expensive here.
The ahem, "game" plumbers don't wear ties (a global meme by now) goes for like $60 haha
Wasn't 3DO like Philips CDi?
As someone who was a gamer when (and before) the 3DO came out, it was a combination of price and not many compelling games. Road Rash was probably the only one I can think of that I was interested in.
New TronixFix Challenge? Nice I'm on!
Nice. I have an NTSC 3DO (FZ-1) too. I just stuck a power unit from a PAL 3DO inside it to make things easier.
Hey Vince you should do a video when you put parts from random consoles to make an ULTIMATE console and name it like some xbox one and ps4 parts maybe some nintendo switch parts as well and use the kronis maxs for the controller I doubt youll see this but if you do its worth a shot keep up the good work.
That raspberry Pi, you can buy .. ahem, dodgy micro sd's off ebay full of thousands of games for it. Just saying. :) :)
Some us plugs are polarized(only goes in one way for 2 prongs) neutral pin is bigger than the hot pin, usb power supplys can plug in any direction! 3 prongs goes in one way
I've had cheap brand tv's that would work with a pal or ntsc input and then more expensive tv's that were picky and would only work with ntsc.
Supermodels Go Wild? Someone one should have prosecuted them under the Trades Description Act.
The 3DO was released at $750.00 US dollars
Crazy money. I think it was one of the most (or the most) expensive games consoles of all time :-)
Funny thing is a Hitachi CX w700 boombox I got from eBay with a faulty cd player, was only faulty because the connector was partly out on one side. Annoyingly only realized after I had tested found it not to spin disc and bought a new laser.
Hey Vince I've got a PS4 that reads disks fine whilst vertical, but in the horizontal position won't? I wish you were my neighbor 😂
North America is 110v @ 60Hz with broadcast standard of NTSC (525 scan lines @ 60Hz 30FPS) and UK is 240v @ 50Hz with broadcast standard of PAL (625 scan line @ 50Hz 25 FPS)
1. NTSC: 60Hz (USA/Japan) - PAL: 50Hz (UK/Mainland Europe/Australia)
2. The video standards of the 1990s is no longer actively enforced in modern media distribution.
3. @6:50 That is a Raspberry Pi - get a USB plug and wire, plug in the HDMI, and input devices, and you're good to go, once you have a Raspberry Pi OS installed on a microSD card.
4. The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer has no copy protection, so you can make backups and run them off the 3DO without any system mods
Hi Vince, I was going to suggest you get a Raspberry Pi as it's something that I think you will really get into. There is a million things you can do with them. They are a great tool for learning computing, electronics and coding, which is something your viewers would be interested in. I'm not really into the coding side of things but love all the other aspects of them. The first thing you are going to want to do is install Retro Pi on it and play all the retro games. retropie.org.uk/ I haven't done so myself but it will get you started on learning how to write an OS to a SD card and get it going on your Pi. There is a huge amount of info about them on UA-cam and the net. Have fun and keep smiling. 😁
Google the words arcade punks for a ready set up image for the rassbery pie though I expect it might all ready be set up.
Thanks, I will do that. I know nothing about the Raspberry Pi so it will be a bit of a learning curve :-)
I would use RetroPi
EvilTurkeySlices they are retropie images just fully set up systems.
I had a 3DO it has the best version of Wolfenstein , way better then the DOS version
fyi
pal is 50hz
NTSC is 60hz
it's in line with the countries power grid
your 220v-240v 50hz
North America is 110-120v 60hz (although we use 220-230v 60hz for our stoves and dryers )
there is no copyright protection on this system , just get some quality CDR discs and burn them as slow as possible tons of ISOs on the internet
I had both the Panasonic and Goldstar 3D0's. The rights were sold off so both companies could manufacture them.
I'm still pretty sure Gold Star make the cheap brown sauce they use in chippys and greasy spoons 😂😂
I had one of these Panasonic 3DO consoles (the bigger first version). My older cousin just gave it to me one day out of the blue, I guess he got tired of it. I do remember the games that I got with the system were graphically way ahead of anything else out for the home console market at that time. Games were definitely a problem, there weren't that many and even less good ones.
So, The 3DO had you chaining controllers? I heard that somewhere, doing that opens up cheating and raging.... I think
Edit:
Risk of electric shock, do not open
Vince: Alright, so, uh, Lets open this up
Me: *facepalm*
Ahh the FZ-10, honestly I’m surprised the CD drive works, they usually fail. I have the FZ-1 which is a bit more reliable. There’s no copy protection on these so you can just download the ISO files for games and burn them to a CD-R. I recommend Street Fighter 2, it was the best home port of the game by far, almost arcade perfect but hard to play with the standard 3 button controller but looks like you’ve got a nice 6 button one to play with there. Need For Speed, Road Rash and Return Fire are also pretty good but If you fancy a laugh then get yourself a copy of Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties 😂.