Triforce board -- a collaboration between Nintendo, Sega, and Namco

NeoLord

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Read the following:

<a href="http://cube.ign.com/articles/324/324779p1.html" target="_blank">http://cube.ign.com/articles/324/324779p1.html</a>

The following paragraph caught my attention:

More important to this announcement are that the three companies have stressed wanting to offer up new ways to utilize the arcade market in parallel with home consoles. IGNcube has also heard rumor that the said companies are working on developing a similar system as featured with Neo Geo long ago, where you can play at the arcade, save your data, and take it back home. Sega has recent experience in this area with its Club Kart Card technology. <hr></blockquote>

They must be talking about an entirely new game system, similar in concept to Neo-Geo. Why else would they develop their own memory card standard? I seriously doubt that Nintendo, Sega, and Namco would release a special adapter to use this card on something like Gamecube.

Information about their (possible) save card format:

<a href="http://www.clubkart.com/e-card.html" target="_blank">http://www.clubkart.com/e-card.html</a>

[ February 18, 2002: Message edited by: NeoLord ]</p>
 

BryLmoo

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hmm, why doesn't the neo-geo get the respect it deserves?

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Umm this isn't exactly a new thing. All the Naomi machines in Japan had VMS slots for you to bring/take home your data.

MvC 2's extra characters would only be unlocked by people bringing their home data to the arcade and vice versa.
 

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No VMU slots on American cabs because some dumb fucker always has to stick his gum in there. <img src="graemlins/blowtop.gif" border="0" alt="[Blow Top]" />
 

Devil_Gans

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Hmmm,a gamecube based arcade board.Its cool.I am curious to see what games comes out for it and in turn gets ported to the GC.

Isn't sega developing the Naomi 3(XBOX based hardware) as well?

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: Devil_Gans ]</p>
 

BioMotor_Unitron

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Originally posted by Devil_Gans:
<strong>Hmmm,a gamecube based arcade board.Its cool.I am curious to see what games comes out for it and in turn gets ported to the GC.

Isn't sega developing the Naomi 3(XBOX based hardware) as well?

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: Devil_Gans ]</strong><hr></blockquote>

X-Box hardware is PC hardware. <img src="graemlins/spock.gif" border="0" alt="[Spock]" />
 

BRANDI

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Cool... all together against Sony and Microsoft...

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: BRANDI ]</p>
 

RiotoftheBlood

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Originally posted by BRANDI:
<strong>Cool... all together against Sony and Microsoft...

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: BRANDI ]</strong><hr></blockquote>

I don't know about that... from reading today's news at
<a href="http://planetdreamcast.com" target="_blank">planetdreamcast.com</a>, it seems Sega has become partial to the PS2.
 

evil wasabi

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whats so 'revolutionary' ?

what about neogeo?

what about stv?

what about fuckin NAOMI!?

this has happened allready with other systems, why all the fuss now?

can't naomi 2 pump more power than a gc allready?

why waste money making another system?

i mean, why screw over the naomi user base for another system

i remember reading in that interview with snk/eolith/breeza whatever at mmcafe and they said they were stick to mvs for kof2k2 because the naomi was still too expensive.

i think the arcade market needs more standardization than new hardware every 6 months


sega had something with the naomi cd/naomi 2 but, now this new board seems like just another useless piece of hardware cluttering the market
 
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