LGR Oddware - Diamond Edge 3D (nVidia NV1+Sega Saturn)

Sorry about that oversight. It is a shame, though, that there are so few converted games, and a bigger shame that one of those precious few games is Toshinden.

Segatron

Well, as mentioned in the video, this doesn't run Saturn games. It only runs specially-made Saturn conversions for PC, and I showed most of them in this video. The other two are Virtua Cop and Battle Arena Toshinden, and I think there's footage of them online :)

LGR

This was a particularly fun episode for me personally. I'm glad you got a chance to try this. And Thank You Dave, for the loan. I would not mind seeing some other saturn games run on this if You ever get another chance.

Segatron

Yeah, I've got dozens of them. This is one of the few that has eluded me for many years though. Well, I had the card alone, but not the ports, documentation, games, or hardware!

LGR

Shame it was only on loan. Have you actually got a sizable collection of graphics cards, or have you limited yourself to ones just currently in your machines?

Takes me back. Sort of. I remember the reviews of this from BITD, and always wondered if they had traction. Still impressive… in that pre-D3D kind of way though :)

Rob Caporetto

Aw man, I love these Oddware episodes. It's sad because you'd pretty much need a stand-alone PC to have this thing hooked up, and the cost of all that wouldn't justify the purchase for me. But these videos give me that hardware fix! p.s. Does that Saturn controller double as a compact disc player? ;]

Aaron Alcorn

I played mainly inventory adventure games in the 90's so I had no need for this type of video card.

Yup, only need to upload them once

LGR

Certainly plan to.

LGR

I pretty much completely missed PC gaming in the late 90s. I jumped from a 120 MHz Pentium computer with no 3D accelerator to a 600 MHz P3 with a Voodoo 3 video card, so stuff like this kinda passed me by. I did at least have a Saturn though and one of my friends had a Playstation, so the late 90s for me mostly consisted of console gaming. :B

Kris Asick

i had one of these back in the day when i was REALLY into descent. which i hope you also review someday.

Seann Warde Ashlie

Interesting piece of hardware! That wouldn't be something I could have used back then because of the cost, especially since the first computer I owned was around the late 90/early 2000 era, when I ended owning a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card (I still miss that thing). Perhaps the ability to use a Sega Saturn controller would be interesting, but I think I would still stick with my Gravis and Microsoft controllers, anyway. Good job, as always! :)

Pandatective

Wow I never heard of this product.. I must have been too enamored with my Voodoo 2 card at the time :). Question for LGR -- when you convert your YouTube videos from unlisted to public does it then push to your subscribers, or do you upload it again when it goes public?

Lon Seidman

Ithink ff7 pc was the first game i compared softeare and hardware 3d. SSoftware mode was crap slow and tbe races were almost unplayable. Hardware though. . Wow. I mean i consider ff7s blocky graphics to be horrible now, but then? . Also had a bug where fmvs played upside down. Oh and it cane with an option to upload a special soundfont to my awe64

Jessie Cook

Considering that the vast majority of my content has nothing to do with The Sims series... that shouldn't be surprising whatsoever :P

LGR

Ah! Something that's NOT the Sims! Pretty cool!

Keith McCaffety

The 3D Blaster is another card I've been on the lookout for! Some really cool games were made for it, including one or two that never worked on any other 3D cards (Rebel Moon, for instance)

LGR

Cool card. I remember a friend had a 3D Blaster and NASCAR on a 486 but I've never seen the Diamond Edge 3D combo.

Jesse Marcon

Ah right, wasn't sure if maybe the one we have was later/better/different/something. Anywho, I hear there's an NV1 version of Virtual On. I'm getting giddy at the thought of playing that on my PC in high-res with real Saturn twin-sticks... Mmmmmm.

RetroSwim

Hehe, very similar memories myself

LGR

Mentioned this in the video, actually! It's not really worth much, as it basically just runs a Direct3D game in software mode. Cool that it allowed it to play more games at the time, but that's about it.

LGR

Being a VOGONS tragic, I hear a lot about this card, but have never seen one in action. Thanks! As it happens, there is an NV1 D3D driver on VOGONS Drivers, maybe if you have a boring afternoon to kill you could give it a go? <a href="http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=631" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=631</a>

RetroSwim

oh man, so excited to see some oddware again! Plus it's a graphics card (something I have a strange curiosity for). I think it reminds me to striving to save up for the finest piece of graphic card technology in the 90s before realising that my 5x86 wouldn't cut it anyway.

Nostalgia Nerd