PipPin or Neo Geo CD

[DaytonaUSA]

I need your help. I have a really good deal on a PipPin system, and a really good deal on a Neo Geo CD. Which should I get? The PipPin is really cool.. but software is a pain to find on it, the Neo Geo isn't as "odd" (I like oddball systems) but has software readily available on it.

 

Lemme know quickly!

[BSA Starfire]

I need your help. I have a really good deal on a PipPin system, and a really good deal on a Neo Geo CD. Which should I get? The PipPin is really cool.. but software is a pain to find on it, the Neo Geo isn't as "odd" (I like oddball systems) but has software readily available on it.

 

Lemme know quickly!

Really depends if you like 1- on -1 fighting games? The Neo seems to have little else readily available, I don't so sold mine after a few weeks, it's also big, and loads slowly and feels very cheaply made.

I don't know much about the Pipin apart from it was based on a Mac PPC 603 right? As far as quirky goes the Pippin has the win in my book!

[DaytonaUSA]

I need your help. I have a really good deal on a PipPin system, and a really good deal on a Neo Geo CD. Which should I get? The PipPin is really cool.. but software is a pain to find on it, the Neo Geo isn't as "odd" (I like oddball systems) but has software readily available on it.

 

Lemme know quickly!

Really depends if you like 1- on -1 fighting games? The Neo seems to have little else readily available, I don't so sold mine after a few weeks, it's also big, and loads slowly and feels very cheaply made.

I don't know much about the Pipin apart from it was based on a Mac PPC 603 right? As far as quirky goes the Pippin has the win in my book!

 

I love fighters, but yea.. the neo geo seems very cheaply made. I love the pippin.. i really do. I just want to be sure I'll be able to play something on it. Bungie.net has the precursers to Halo, Marathon 1, 2 and 3, that were on the pippin for free on download. But im not 100% sure if i burn these to a cd, if the pippin will recognize it..

[STGuy1040]

I need your help. I have a really good deal on a PipPin system, and a really good deal on a Neo Geo CD. Which should I get? The PipPin is really cool.. but software is a pain to find on it, the Neo Geo isn't as "odd" (I like oddball systems) but has software readily available on it.

 

Lemme know quickly!

Really depends if you like 1- on -1 fighting games? The Neo seems to have little else readily available, I don't so sold mine after a few weeks, it's also big, and loads slowly and feels very cheaply made.

I don't know much about the Pipin apart from it was based on a Mac PPC 603 right? As far as quirky goes the Pippin has the win in my book!

 

I love fighters, but yea.. the neo geo seems very cheaply made. I love the pippin.. i really do. I just want to be sure I'll be able to play something on it. Bungie.net has the precursers to Halo, Marathon 1, 2 and 3, that were on the pippin for free on download. But im not 100% sure if i burn these to a cd, if the pippin will recognize it..

 

 

The Neo-Geo CD front-loader system was notorious for having tray issues and I/O disc read errors. The double-speed Neo-Geo CD system was better in construction and more durable than the front-loader and the single-speed top loader. The last fighting game released on the Neo-Geo CD was KOF '99, and while there are plenty of Fighters on the system, you can still find a treasure trove of shooters, sports titles, puzzle games, and strange indefinable titles worth your while. I'm not familiar with the PipPin so I can't offer any advice there.

[STGuy1040]

I forgot to mention that SNK's classic Neo-Geo library is also available on the Neo-Geo CD (i.e. Magician Lord, Baseball Stars 1 & 2, Nam 75, etc) so these are worth the purchase of a Neo-Geo CD system alone.

[BSA Starfire]

I need your help. I have a really good deal on a PipPin system, and a really good deal on a Neo Geo CD. Which should I get? The PipPin is really cool.. but software is a pain to find on it, the Neo Geo isn't as "odd" (I like oddball systems) but has software readily available on it.

 

Lemme know quickly!

Really depends if you like 1- on -1 fighting games? The Neo seems to have little else readily available, I don't so sold mine after a few weeks, it's also big, and loads slowly and feels very cheaply made.

I don't know much about the Pipin apart from it was based on a Mac PPC 603 right? As far as quirky goes the Pippin has the win in my book!

 

I love fighters, but yea.. the neo geo seems very cheaply made. I love the pippin.. i really do. I just want to be sure I'll be able to play something on it. Bungie.net has the precursers to Halo, Marathon 1, 2 and 3, that were on the pippin for free on download. But im not 100% sure if i burn these to a cd, if the pippin will recognize it..

Don't know if they will work or not, but I had a Powermac 6200(603 75Mhz CPU, 48mb RAM) back when they were new and they struggled to achieve any kind of frame rate, if the pippin is ased on similar hardware that i suspect it is them, good Luck!

Edited March 26, 2009 by BSA Starfire

[BSA Starfire]

OK I just looked at the Wiki entry for Pippin, what a funky looking system! love the Pad, but Yep it's based on a 603 66mhz cpu(Slower than any 603 mac used) & only has 5 mb RAM using sys 7.5. marathon2 is going to be tedious unless the Pippin version was heavily optimized or the Pippin had a damn impressive video accelerator that wasn't used in the 603 mac's.

[DaytonaUSA]

OK I just looked at the Wiki entry for Pippin, what a funky looking system! love the Pad, but Yep it's based on a 603 66mhz cpu(Slower than any 603 mac used) & only has 5 mb RAM using sys 7.5. marathon2 is going to be tedious unless the Pippin version was heavily optimized or the Pippin had a damn impressive video accelerator that wasn't used in the 603 mac's.

 

It had games made for it though, just like a playstation or saturn.. just more like a 3DO in popularity haha.

 

games are VERY hard to come by but again, some places let you dload their old games for free, like Bungie's Haloish game, Marathon. I'm hoping I can get that to work on it >_>

 

 

 

Btw, I bought the Pippin for a dang good price, and it came with the box, all the baggies, packaging ect. After I told him I was afraid I might not get anything to work on it, and that I coudlnt' find any retail games for sale anywhere, he threw in his only game, a Tamogachi game, for free .

 

The system is in mint condition.. not faded at all. I can't wait to play with it as the controller is very interesting. Trackball in gaming pad??? BRILLIANT! haha. I'll let everyone know if I can get Bungie's Marathon dload to work on it. If so, this thing is already well worth the money.

Edited March 26, 2009 by DaytonaUSA

[98PaceCar]

If it's a US pippin (@World and not @Mark), it's pretty rare and much harder to get than the Neo CD.

 

Where did you find Marathon for download? I found all of the open source stuff, but not that. I do have a couple of backups that seem to work and was able to burn a copy of a proto browser and have it work on mine, so it is possible. Don't think it required any special settings to do, just a standard burn.

[DaytonaUSA]

Here is a pic of the game I'm getting. I've never seen a retial game for this before, so this is a HUGE deal for me, even if the game might not be much to talk about. It's called Tamogachi Greetings:

 

 

Edited March 26, 2009 by DaytonaUSA

[DaytonaUSA]

If it's a US pippin (@World and not @Mark), it's pretty rare and much harder to get than the Neo CD.

 

Where did you find Marathon for download? I found all of the open source stuff, but not that. I do have a couple of backups that seem to work and was able to burn a copy of a proto browser and have it work on mine, so it is possible. Don't think it required any special settings to do, just a standard burn.

 

So burned games should work? Great!

 

Oh, and I got Marathon 1, 2 and 3 off of Bungie's own site. The URL is at my home machine.. I'll paste it here when I get home. But you should be able to go on bungie.net and find it there. There's a dedicated page for it somewhere in that site.

 

Btw, since I'm providing you this, can you let me know where to get the open source stuff you have already find, wink wink?? I'd be your best friend lol.

Edited March 26, 2009 by DaytonaUSA

[aftermac]

OK I just looked at the Wiki entry for Pippin, what a funky looking system! love the Pad, but Yep it's based on a 603 66mhz cpu(Slower than any 603 mac used) & only has 5 mb RAM using sys 7.5. marathon2 is going to be tedious unless the Pippin version was heavily optimized or the Pippin had a damn impressive video accelerator that wasn't used in the 603 mac's.

 

Marathon 2 should run just fine. It only requires a 68040. My Quadra 950 handles it without a problem.

[BSA Starfire]

OK I just looked at the Wiki entry for Pippin, what a funky looking system! love the Pad, but Yep it's based on a 603 66mhz cpu(Slower than any 603 mac used) & only has 5 mb RAM using sys 7.5. marathon2 is going to be tedious unless the Pippin version was heavily optimized or the Pippin had a damn impressive video accelerator that wasn't used in the 603 mac's.

 

Marathon 2 should run just fine. It only requires a 68040. My Quadra 950 handles it without a problem.

Perhaps I remember 3 being slow, the 6200 was a real dog of a Mac, didn't really perform better than my old Quadra 700! Been a lot of years Anyhow the pippin looks really cool, hope to see lots of updates on it here, I love old mac's still have a 540c, G3 powerbook 250mhz, 6500/275 & LC. All bought new, shudder to think of the cost now! I have been using Mac's since the 512K Plus, wouldn't have anything else!

[aftermac]

OK I just looked at the Wiki entry for Pippin, what a funky looking system! love the Pad, but Yep it's based on a 603 66mhz cpu(Slower than any 603 mac used) & only has 5 mb RAM using sys 7.5. marathon2 is going to be tedious unless the Pippin version was heavily optimized or the Pippin had a damn impressive video accelerator that wasn't used in the 603 mac's.

 

Marathon 2 should run just fine. It only requires a 68040. My Quadra 950 handles it without a problem.

Perhaps I remember 3 being slow, the 6200 was a real dog of a Mac, didn't really perform better than my old Quadra 700! Been a lot of years Anyhow the pippin looks really cool, hope to see lots of updates on it here, I love old mac's still have a 540c, G3 powerbook 250mhz, 6500/275 & LC. All bought new, shudder to think of the cost now! I have been using Mac's since the 512K Plus, wouldn't have anything else!

 

Yeah, Marathon Infinity was a bit more intensive, but IIRC it still ran pretty well on a 68040. The requirements on my "Bungie Mac Action Sack" says 68040. Maybe I'll pull out the 950 later and give it a good test. Some of the original PowerMac's were pretty crippled and didn't run much better than the 68040's. Combine that with having to translate all the 68k code in the OS and other software and that made the situation worse. I've been using Mac's since the IIsi... almost as long as you! If you like old Mac's you should check out my computer collection link in my sig! I think I have one or two of them...

[DaytonaUSA]

OK I just looked at the Wiki entry for Pippin, what a funky looking system! love the Pad, but Yep it's based on a 603 66mhz cpu(Slower than any 603 mac used) & only has 5 mb RAM using sys 7.5. marathon2 is going to be tedious unless the Pippin version was heavily optimized or the Pippin had a damn impressive video accelerator that wasn't used in the 603 mac's.

 

Marathon 2 should run just fine. It only requires a 68040. My Quadra 950 handles it without a problem.

Perhaps I remember 3 being slow, the 6200 was a real dog of a Mac, didn't really perform better than my old Quadra 700! Been a lot of years Anyhow the pippin looks really cool, hope to see lots of updates on it here, I love old mac's still have a 540c, G3 powerbook 250mhz, 6500/275 & LC. All bought new, shudder to think of the cost now! I have been using Mac's since the 512K Plus, wouldn't have anything else!

 

Rock on , I love macs as well . I'll be sure to post pictures of the little guy once I get him. I'll try to get more games, but at least I'll be able to show off what I do have. Can't wait . Rare mac = win. Rare gaming system = win. Rare gaming system that's a Mac = head explodes .

[DaytonaUSA]

PM sent, 98PaceCar.

 

Side note, DaytonaUSA sending a PM to 98PaceCar, kinda funny, no?

[phaxda]

Mac guy here; I voted Pippin. I dream that someday I will see one at a garage sale or something. They are totally funky and you are sure to enjoy it!

 

Congrats on the awesome buy.

Edited March 27, 2009 by phaxda

[DaytonaUSA]

Mac guy here; I voted Pippin. I dream that someday I will see one at a garage sale or something. They are totally funky and you are sure to enjoy it!

 

Congrats on the awesome buy.

 

Thanks bud. I think I got a good deal on it as well. 165 and I got a free game. And the thing is literally not faded at all, it looks brand new. Can't wait to show it off .

[BSA Starfire]

Mac guy here; I voted Pippin. I dream that someday I will see one at a garage sale or something. They are totally funky and you are sure to enjoy it!

 

Congrats on the awesome buy.

 

Thanks bud. I think I got a good deal on it as well. 165 and I got a free game. And the thing is literally not faded at all, it looks brand new. Can't wait to show it off .

Nice one, look forward to hearing how it goes!

[BSA Starfire]

OK I just looked at the Wiki entry for Pippin, what a funky looking system! love the Pad, but Yep it's based on a 603 66mhz cpu(Slower than any 603 mac used) & only has 5 mb RAM using sys 7.5. marathon2 is going to be tedious unless the Pippin version was heavily optimized or the Pippin had a damn impressive video accelerator that wasn't used in the 603 mac's.

 

Marathon 2 should run just fine. It only requires a 68040. My Quadra 950 handles it without a problem.

Perhaps I remember 3 being slow, the 6200 was a real dog of a Mac, didn't really perform better than my old Quadra 700! Been a lot of years Anyhow the pippin looks really cool, hope to see lots of updates on it here, I love old mac's still have a 540c, G3 powerbook 250mhz, 6500/275 & LC. All bought new, shudder to think of the cost now! I have been using Mac's since the 512K Plus, wouldn't have anything else!

 

Yeah, Marathon Infinity was a bit more intensive, but IIRC it still ran pretty well on a 68040. The requirements on my "Bungie Mac Action Sack" says 68040. Maybe I'll pull out the 950 later and give it a good test. Some of the original PowerMac's were pretty crippled and didn't run much better than the 68040's. Combine that with having to translate all the 68k code in the OS and other software and that made the situation worse. I've been using Mac's since the IIsi... almost as long as you! If you like old Mac's you should check out my computer collection link in my sig! I think I have one or two of them...

Ah of course! Forgot the code translation that used to happen on the 68k/ppc stuff. Love your collection BTW

I still have (in storage), LC, LC2, Q700, 6500/275, 7100/66. I also have my PB 540C(blackbird) & G3(kanga) laptop's here, my missus is writing a book on the 540C in Claris :0

We used to have two Q950's at work, man they were big and loud, had 16 simm slots 7 loads of nubus slots If I remember right? The mac i always wanted was a IIFX, that was a beast!

[Atariman]

The Neo-Geo CD front-loader system was notorious for having tray issues and I/O disc read errors. The double-speed Neo-Geo CD system was better in construction and more durable than the front-loader and the single-speed top loader. The last fighting game released on the Neo-Geo CD was KOF '99, and while there are plenty of Fighters on the system, you can still find a treasure trove of shooters, sports titles, puzzle games, and strange indefinable titles worth your while. I'm not familiar with the PipPin so I can't offer any advice there.

 

The CDZ didn't have a 2x drive, it had more cache. Both the CDZ and front loader were only available in Japan. As for the CDZ being much more durable... they were prone to overheating. I think it's pretty safe to say that the top-loader is the safest bet. (Plus it's ridiculously easy to region mod)

[Zap!]

It had games made for it though, just like a playstation or saturn.. just more like a 3DO in popularity haha.

 

The Pippin' was far less popular than the 3DO. No one except the elite have even heard of it, while many have heard of the 3DO. Also, is the version you're looking at the US model? If it is grab it!

[aftermac]

Ah of course! Forgot the code translation that used to happen on the 68k/ppc stuff. Love your collection BTW

I still have (in storage), LC, LC2, Q700, 6500/275, 7100/66. I also have my PB 540C(blackbird) & G3(kanga) laptop's here, my missus is writing a book on the 540C in Claris :0

We used to have two Q950's at work, man they were big and loud, had 16 simm slots 7 loads of nubus slots If I remember right? The mac i always wanted was a IIFX, that was a beast!

 

Thanks! That's a nice assortment of systems you have too! ClarisWorks... how I miss having a decent and speedy word processor...

 

Yeah, the Q950's are big and loud... I LOVE IT! It's not as loud as my Sun Ultra 60 though! The Q950 was the system I always wanted... followed by the Q840AV, then the IIfx!

 

Can't wait to see some pics of the PipPin in action!

[DaytonaUSA]

Also, is the version you're looking at the US model? If it is grab it!

 

It's the Japanese system, but luckily it will play all the disks, and it's all complete.. in box, with baggies.. which is a BIG sell for me .

 

Can't wait to see some pics of the PipPin in action!

 

I'll be doing Pippin game reviews as soon as I get it . So you'll see the best (literally...) footage of the gameplay on tons of games that have never been put on youtube before.

[Jess Ragan]

May as well have made a poll that said, "Kick in the groin or punch in the face? You choose!" If I had to make a choice, I guess I'd say the Neo-Geo CD, but it's not much of a choice. A Pippen (PipPin?) would be a better collector's item, but there's not much to play on it.