Songbird Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Posting here because historically a number of Jag fans were also NUON fans and of course IS fans too. This is a licensed reprint of the elusive Iron Soldier 3 game for the NUON DVD system, and will include full-color DVD wrap, professionally mastered disc, and 28-page booklet. Planning to open pre-orders soon once I figure out a suitable system to use. https://songbird-productions.com/2020/12/02/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-part-1/ 10 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I'm in for 1! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I guess someone has to ask. Are you also going to back port it to the Jaguar? Mitch 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songbird Posted December 5, 2020 Author Share Posted December 5, 2020 "Now including a NUON multimedia processor with every purchase!" 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I already have it for the PlayStation, don't even own a Nuon, and I'll still probably buy one. ? 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutterminder Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) That is so awsome! I have most of the games, but Iron Soldier 3 was always hard to get, even back in the day. Where do I sign up? Edited December 5, 2020 by mutterminder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Very very cool. Congrats on getting the rights to publish this. It's the best game on the Nuon, very much deserving to be played by more people. I wonder how many Nuons are around still. I've got mine ? Carl I have a semi-related question, so not hijack this thread but asuming that you talked to someone from Eclipse to get IS3 released, do you happen to know anything about their Jaguar game projects that never made it out the door? Marc Rosocha once told me about a textured car game he was working on. And on one of the €-Jagfests Daniel showed us some work in progress artwork for a very colourful jump 'n run. Any chance that any of this might make it out to us as well sometime in the future? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jguff Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 14 hours ago, Songbird said: Posting here because historically a number of Jag fans were also NUON fans and of course IS fans too. This is a licensed reprint of the elusive Iron Soldier 3 game for the NUON DVD system, and will include full-color DVD wrap, professionally mastered disc, and 28-page booklet. Planning to open pre-orders soon once I figure out a suitable system to use. https://songbird-productions.com/2020/12/02/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-part-1/ Are Nuon controllers available at reasonable price? Or perhaps other controllers can be hacked to work with Nuon enabled dvd players? Controllers looked expensive on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Helper Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 4 hours ago, jguff said: Are Nuon controllers available at reasonable price? Or perhaps other controllers can be hacked to work with Nuon enabled dvd players? Controllers looked expensive on eBay. Not really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songbird Posted December 5, 2020 Author Share Posted December 5, 2020 @PeterG Sorry, I don't think Eclipse has any nearly-finished (or even half-finished) Jaguar projects from back in the day... @mutterminder Pre-orders coming soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 21 hours ago, Songbird said: "Now including a NUON multimedia processor with every purchase!" Oh wow - put me on the list for an Aries 3 processor then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 17 hours ago, racerx said: I already have it for the PlayStation, don't even own a Nuon, and I'll still probably buy one. ? It looks a little bit better on the Nuon - better filtering on the textures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 7 hours ago, jguff said: Are Nuon controllers available at reasonable price? Or perhaps other controllers can be hacked to work with Nuon enabled dvd players? Controllers looked expensive on eBay. At this point, sadly no. However, there's a possibility that the specialty chip (Polyface) required for Nuon controllers has been located en masse. If this turns out to be true, we finally have options for custom controllers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 I'd buy this and a Nuon if controllers existed. Seems like they were all snapped up about 5+ years ago now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 4 hours ago, Songbird said: @PeterG Sorry, I don't think Eclipse has any nearly-finished (or even half-finished) Jaguar projects from back in the day... @mutterminder Pre-orders coming soon! Thanks for the answer Carl. Well I didn't know anything about how far along they were, just very curious. Ok, too bad, I thought this would be a good time to ask this as I wasn't aware if anyone had been in contact with them in the last years. I always hoped something more would surface because in my view Eclipse was a top devteam. Good that we got the three IS games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy the Atarian Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Awesome, very happy to hear this! IS3 was the only game I missed out on, since I was out of the country when it launched (was gone for a couple of years, so when I got back, it was already a big rarity). Glad I also bought an extra controller or two back-in-the-day, but would still be happy to see something new come along 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Played IS3 on the Playstation many years ago. I think it was the year 1999 or 2000. As much as I'm glad to hear this game is getting a re-release, I don't have a NUON and I don't know if I plan on getting one. I'll just have to be content with my IS2 on Jag CD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 This is excellent news. The game has been prohibitively expensive for a long time, not to mention quite uncommon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Helper Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 11 hours ago, Austin said: This is excellent news. The game has been prohibitively expensive for a long time, not to mention quite uncommon. Most of them were recalled for some kind of bug. Very few original boxed copies exist in the wild, the only one I know about K3V from NUON-Dome has. It was supposed to be released again with the fix for the bug but VM Labs went bustola and about 300 copies were distributed as a free Demo in the NUON-Dome forum at the end. Awesome that it is getting released again but I bet it does not have the bug fixed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 30 minutes ago, Chris Brockman said: Most of them were recalled for some kind of bug. Very few original boxed copies exist in the wild, the only one I know about K3V from NUON-Dome has. It was supposed to be released again with the fix for the bug but VM Labs went bustola and about 300 copies were distributed as a free Demo in the NUON-Dome forum at the end. Awesome that it is getting released again but I bet it does not have the bug fixed. Yeah - but if memory serves me (and it probably won't), it was a very obscure bug that only manifested on one type of machine. I honestly do not recall ever hearing a single person that got the Nuon-Dome version to have an issue (myself included, I have a Samsung DVD-N501). I never tried the game on my SD2300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Helper Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, Stephen said: Yeah - but if memory serves me (and it probably won't), it was a very obscure bug that only manifested on one type of machine. I honestly do not recall ever hearing a single person that got the Nuon-Dome version to have an issue (myself included, I have a Samsung DVD-N501). I never tried the game on my SD2300. Same here. Never heard of anyone having a bug. I never even ever saw where they said what the bug was. Mystery.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turret Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 very cool to see this getting rereleased, if only i had a nuon though haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songbird Posted December 8, 2020 Author Share Posted December 8, 2020 Correct, this is a straight reprint of the previously released game. No changes to the code, and no enhancements either. Still working on a pre-order system... should be ready by the weekend. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sixersfan105 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Stephen said: Yeah - but if memory serves me (and it probably won't), it was a very obscure bug that only manifested on one type of machine. I honestly do not recall ever hearing a single person that got the Nuon-Dome version to have an issue (myself included, I have a Samsung DVD-N501). I never tried the game on my SD2300. My understanding is the bug only manifested on the Toshiba SD-2300. Also, re your comment on the proprietary polyface chip for the controllers, Lee Olivares has had the only remaining stock for a few years now, handed over to him by Nick Persijn. Glad the boards/new controllers will be available soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Helper Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 (edited) 25 minutes ago, sixersfan105 said: My understanding is the bug only manifested on the Toshiba SD-2300. Also, re your comment on the proprietary polyface chip for the controllers, Lee Olivares has had the only remaining stock for a few years now, handed over to him by Nick Persijn. Glad the boards/new controllers will be available soon! What about these? https://www.avspares.com/parts/search?parts=POLYFACE1+NUON+TQFP-48 Part Number Description Qty Units Cond Cert Price ($) POLYFACE1 POLYFACE1 NUON TQFP-48 IC component Email: sales@eis-ic.com 92968 Piece NEW ROHS COMPLIANT / COC 0.01000 or this? or this https://www.jotrin.com/product/mfg/NUON https://www.thehelper.net/threads/whatever-happened-with-the-controller-boards-to-build-spinner-controllers-and-what-not-for-the-nuon.167315/ Edited December 8, 2020 by The Helper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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