Yep. I got the whole system and almost all the games that I've been trying to sell for quite some time. Looking for one?
Yeah, shipping would be rather high and it doesn't help that DVD players from the late 1990's/early 2000 era were so damn huge in size. Not heavy, just unnecessarily big for whatever reason.
i remember as project x back in the mid ninties.....has i think about 12 games going for it...maybe some more edutainment titles.....merlin racing looked kinda of neat......whats the system like btw...not much to be found of it.....
There were less than 10 games made for the system (with one being released only in Korea). At one point, I had every single US game (even the hard to find Next Tetris and Iron Soldier 3) but sold off all but the common stuff. Merlin Racing is my favorite of the Nuon offerings. Lots of fun and a fun quest mode too. I never really liked Tempest 3000...too blurry and unnecessarily overdone compared to the godly Tempest 2k on the Atari Jaguar. Graphics on the Nuon are sort of like a cross between the N64 and the Sega Dreamcast...sort of an in between. The NUON chip adds some special features when you watch DVD movies like the ability to change settings (subtitles, etc) on the fly, a useless strobe mode, and a few other effects. A neat curiosity and I didn't regret buying the system in 2001 when VM Labs was still alive. Find more info on NUON here: www.nuon-dome.com
We were just talking about the NUON on another forum I visit. Personally, I think the NUON sounds like a nice little system, especially with the bit of homebrew development going on on it now. I don't own a DVD player aside form my laptop and I don't plan on getting one, but if I was, I'd probably go for a NUON one. I think the Samsung N501 is supposed ot be the best. Or at least it has the best version of VLM2 which would definitely be one of the main things making me want one. Tempest 3000, Iron Soldier 3, Merlin Racing, etc. all sound fun enough, but it's the VLM I want to see. The Jag VLM is phenomenal and still unsurpassed by any visualizations I've seen on a PC. I'd love to see what Minter did with the one in the NUON players. Yak's VLM in the Xbox360 is also the only thing I'm interested in on that console, so obviously I have a fetish of some kind. ...word is bondage...
Nuon is a nice system, the poor marketing and fortunes of VM Labs notwithstanding. The Samsung N501 is the ONLY Nuon system that can play homebrews so keep that in mind. Trouble is, it also has a blurrier version of the VLM implemented. There are more effects and they are user controllable, but if you see the VLM effects on the older Samsung N2000, they are noticeably crisper and more visually appealing. Toshiba's NUON player has only 12 VLM effects (I believe it shipped first so they didn't have time to get the full set of VLM software implemented). Some say that the NUON is the unofficial predecessor to the Atari Jaguar since so many ex-Jaguar higher ups and engineers worked on the project. It's worth anyone's time to seek out a player and some games, but be aware that Iron Soldier 3 and The Next Tetris are super hard to find. IS3 was officially released and promptly recalled some 2 weeks later due to some multiplayer bug they discovered...VM Labs did give out free disc-only copies of IS3 afterwards in the hopes that people would buy a "fixed" full release, but VM Labs faced bankruptcy shortly after and that never happened. Finding a complete copy is rare nowadays as collectors are hanging onto them. Next Tetris was a disc-only promo given out only with the Toshiba system in which you had to mail out a coupon to get it. You can sometimes find it included with the Toshiba system on Ebay as some sellers don't know how rare it is.
we have a debug 360 here in the office, but the only thing we have to run on it so far is said VLM ... and goddamn, does it look nice.
Hey guys, K3V from NUON-Dome here. Saw this thread in my website stats so I thought I'd pop-in and say hi. I'm glad to see that most people have their facts straight, and that people can appreciate the platform despite its small lineup of games. If you're in the area, I will have a table at VGXPO next month showcasing NUON with some of the latest homebrew stuff along with the commercial games. I'm also sharing the table with the 3D Stooges who are developing Jaguar titles like Mad Bodies, Gorf 3D and Mighty Frog. Any questions, fire away or feel free to join up at the forums on N-D.
Love your site K3V - it was nice to find a repository of all Nuon-related info when I was in the market for a machine! :-D My 2 cents on the Nuon: I've had one of the Toshiba SD2300 units for over a year now, and it's definitely an awesome system to have. I've only got Tempest 3000 and The Next Tetris, but Tempest alone justifies my having purchased the system - it's that cool. Plus, the thing is not too shabby at all as a standalone DVD player, either. If you manage to find one for what you consider a reasonable price, I'd highly recommend picking it up. What games there are for it are pretty fun, and it's a nice collector's piece of gaming obscurity that won't break the bank, either.
I've got the Samsung N501. There are a couple decent games, especially Tempest 3000. Freefall 3050 A.D. is not bad either, different atleast. I've always wanted to try to find a copy of Iron Soldier 3 for it, I would think due to hardware alone that it would be the best version (over PSX). The DVD player itself is pretty solid too, google tells me that I can buy it for 59.99, a steal if you ask me.
Actually, the PSX version is better in some ways... Nuon does have the slight edge graphically, there are some improvements over the PSX version like better fire effects, better textures on the buildings, (and if remember correctly) more polygon cube fragments whenever you blow up a building. But the PSX version seems more polished...load screens have an animated cockpit sequence, the game controls more smoothly on the PSX pad, and saves could be loaded right to the memory card instead of using a password like on the NUON.
