Yesterware

Backstory Everything I do has a little story to go with it.  If you just want to know how I fixed the Squeal issue, skip to "Resolution" below. I bought my 32X brand new when Sega had given up on the platform and the stores were liquidating them.  I think I paid about $30 for it, then took the free copy of Virtual Fighter out of the box, went across the street to a used game shop that hadn't yet caught on and sold Virtual Fighter for $35.  So essentially I got paid $5 to take the 32X off of the store's hands. A Tale of 2 32X's It's probably not a wonder then that I didn't have very high expectations of the 32X, and simply dismissed the video distortion and audio squeal it introduced.  I legitimately thought it worked that way.  At the time I only had a Genesis Model 1, so I misplaced the spacer that it comes with for use with the Genesis Model 2.  About 3 years ago I went to a local used game shop and bought a whole 32X for $25 just to get the stupid space...

The 3DO isn't a great platform.  It's also not a particularly bad one either.  I've only ever met one person who professed nostalgia for it (specifically the game "Twisted").  There aren't really any "killer app" games for it.  Supposedly its version of Need For Speed is superior to the Playstation version in some way (I never bothered investigating the rumor).  There are a handful of interesting games.  Star Control II, a couple of Wing Commander titles, "D", etc... Regardless it's still a great piece of gaming history and represents an alternate view of the way things may have gone.  Comparing it to the other consoles of its time, the best way I can sum it up is to say that the 3DO iterated where the Playstation and Saturn innovated.  Like the Atari Jaguar, the 3DO was more of an extension of the 16-bit arc rather than the start of a new 32-bit trajectory. I'm in the process of getting ODE's for all of the platforms I can, an...