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Da_Shocker
10-23-2011, 05:23 PM
Why on earth did the market leader not even bother to bring this out here. Instead they allowed those awful red and blue cheap glasses to come over here. NoA wasn't willing to take any risks over here it seems like it. Even though they were in a much better position than Sega was.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_3D_System


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Bastardcat
10-23-2011, 05:45 PM
Probably because only a handful of games were ever made for it. And good old cardboard Red/Cyan glasses did the trick for games like 3D World Runner.
hashiriya1
10-23-2011, 05:46 PM
Yep, I have 'em. Got it for 100 yen at the junk bin at Hard Off.

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm64/tragedy623/hashirya1blog/DSCF1397.jpg
Da_Shocker
10-23-2011, 05:50 PM
Yep, I have 'em. Got it for 100 yen at the junk bin at Hard Off.

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm64/tragedy623/hashirya1blog/DSCF1397.jpg

Nice are they any good though?
hashiriya1
10-23-2011, 05:53 PM
They do the job. They work just like the 3D glasses for the Sega Master System.
ApolloBoy
10-23-2011, 06:09 PM
They work just like the 3D glasses for the Sega Master System.
They're also interchangeable with the SMS glasses.
Joe Redifer
10-23-2011, 07:15 PM
The glasses themselves are, yes, but you still need the proper adapter to plug them into.
Baloo
10-23-2011, 07:27 PM
3D has come a long way since then! Though I don't remember there being any special 3D games on NES like there were on Master System, and the one game I do remember having 3D (Rad Racer) was your simple old red and blue stuff.

At my local game store that a friend of mine owns, I remember seeing a SEGA brand pair of 3D Glasses, regular red and blue but with thick lenses like a real pair of glasses. They weren't the Master System glasses though, these were regular old 3D Glasses. Anyone remember anything like this?
Da_Shocker
10-23-2011, 08:10 PM
The glasses themselves are, yes, but you still need the proper adapter to plug them into.

Why didn't ya'll cover these in that video about the 3D stuff?
SpaceFlea
10-23-2011, 08:14 PM
I also have a new pair of these Famicom glasses. Just one of them quirky things you gotta have.
StarMist
10-23-2011, 11:08 PM
At my local game store that a friend of mine owns, I remember seeing a SEGA brand pair of 3D Glasses, regular red and blue but with thick lenses like a real pair of glasses. They weren't the Master System glasses though, these were regular old 3D Glasses. Anyone remember anything like this?
Seen those on ebay for round $250 used in box. No takers. Wonder what they'd do for Silpheed.
Joe Redifer
10-24-2011, 12:17 AM
Why didn't ya'll cover these in that video about the 3D stuff?

I definitely would have, but nobody donated any.
profholt82
10-24-2011, 12:20 AM
Well, Nintendo did release these 3D glasses in the US.;p
http://maximizedemulation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/virtboy1.jpg
Thunderblaze16
10-24-2011, 01:10 AM
Yep, I have 'em. Got it for 100 yen at the junk bin at Hard Off.

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm64/tragedy623/hashirya1blog/DSCF1397.jpg

I like how you took the shot right next to the forum. :P


I definitely would have, but nobody donated any.

Well, no offense dude, but I don't anyone would donate rare, expensive game glasses to video game show that was just made this year. Which btw, you guys are doing an awesome job at.
A Black Falcon
10-24-2011, 01:23 AM
3D has come a long way since then! Though I don't remember there being any special 3D games on NES like there were on Master System, and the one game I do remember having 3D (Rad Racer) was your simple old red and blue stuff.

At my local game store that a friend of mine owns, I remember seeing a SEGA brand pair of 3D Glasses, regular red and blue but with thick lenses like a real pair of glasses. They weren't the Master System glasses though, these were regular old 3D Glasses. Anyone remember anything like this?

In Japan, Rad Racer, 3-D WorldRunner, and the other Famicom 3D System games (there are only a few more, the only first party one being 3-D Hot Rally; no other ones got Western releases), all support SMS-like 3d glasses. That red and blue glasses mode in those two games was a replacement for the real shutter-glasses mode of the original games, and it's definitely nowhere near as good.

On that note, I have 3d glasses for my SMS, and they're pretty cool. I'd kind of like to get an import Famicom 3d game, I could likely play it with my SMS 3d glasses, I'm hoping. Unless it actually only runs in 3d when you have the glasses adapter plugged in, just having both systems on at the same time seems like it should work, if they really do use the same exact technology. Either way it might be interesting to see if it would indeed work. :)
hashiriya1
10-24-2011, 02:24 AM
I like how you took the shot right next to the forum. :P.

Haha, well, they were just sitting about 10 feet from me when I read the thread. ;)
kool kitty89
10-24-2011, 02:43 AM
Well, Nintendo did release these 3D glasses in the US.;p
http://maximizedemulation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/virtboy1.jpg
See, this is something I've mused on before . . . Nintendo and Sega both used LCD shutter technology synced to an SDTV's scan rate to manage relatively decent stereo-optical 3D effects on home consoles back in the late 80s.
Both later attempted to push very similar tech with the "virtual reality" craze of the early/mid 90s that ended up far more cumbersome and less practical in general (and Sega abandoned their project outright due to problems in testing -mainly the same complaints/problems that many Virtual Boy users experienced, aside from the red screen).
And now, many years later, we see a resurgence of that old LCD shutter technology (albeit at higher refresh rates) and alternate 3D methods (as well as a resurgence of 3D cinema), but even for the early/mid 90s the LCD shutter mechanism for SDTVs was still pretty decent and probably would have had some merit to push further. (more so since the 3D glasses should have been cheaper to make and likely smaller and lighter weight as well -possibly slightly better functioning too, due to faster LCD response)

It's somewhat like how Nintendo and Sega both screwed up light guns with the SNES and Genesis, except light guns caught on again (in practical form factors) in the following generation.
xelement5x
10-24-2011, 11:15 AM
On that note, I have 3d glasses for my SMS, and they're pretty cool. I'd kind of like to get an import Famicom 3d game, I could likely play it with my SMS 3d glasses, I'm hoping. Unless it actually only runs in 3d when you have the glasses adapter plugged in, just having both systems on at the same time seems like it should work, if they really do use the same exact technology. Either way it might be interesting to see if it would indeed work. :)

Sadly, as far as I know you need something to sync with they signal that's coming out of the system to the TV or else the 3D effect wont work right. That's what the little box in the OP picture is.

What might work is (caution ridiculous coming here): Set up your master system and turn it on with a 3D game and the goggles shuttering, but then have your Famicom game on the TV and look at that with the SMS goggles. It might work but I'd guess the sync would be different. Alternatively, there are goggles you can get that sync to the video off a composite line, that's similar to what the LaserActive goggles are.