I remember hearing about the Nuon from anti-PS2 folks back in the day who used it in console war debates. Nuon was supposed to serve as too good of an alternative to PS2'S DVD support and would cost Sony customers. Its fun to think back on how passionate we all were when it came to our favorite systems back in the day.
I know one he many not have the Discover console. I was just DVD video player running Windows XP at 1st; "With all Windows XP games". Never happened so daied in the saem year it cam out in "2004".
My first Toshiba DVD player looked just like that. I remember the Circuit City salesman basically yell at me for pushing on the disc tray instead of using the load button.
My uncles old DVD player looked just like that right after I watched this video I asked him what he did with it he said he had it in the attic but he tossed it long ago
It's honestly hilarious that the Nuon was the technical successor to the Jaguar CD, and somehow ended up failing harder. How do you fail harder than the Jaguar CD? It just doesn't seem like that should be possible.
Especially ironic given that the whole premise was "They screwed up on the Jaguar. We're not going to do what they did." Well, I suppose they were right... just not how they intended.
I seem to remember reading about this "console" back in the Dreamcast/PS2 days on Gamespot. I remember them saying Project X is now Nuon or something like that, and then it disappeared. I assumed it got cancelled, but nope...
2:28 "If you took the PlayStation 2, the Philips CD-i, the Atari Jaguar, and the 3DO, and put it in a blender, [the VM Labs NuOn] is what you get" *blendtec: will they blend? **_CHALLENGE ACCEPTED_*
This console is the reason why I waste time looking at DVD players at garage sales and thrift stores. Maybe someday I’ll get lucky and find one. Great video by the way! It was very interesting to hear this history of this console.
I very much remember Nuon getting coverage in various magazines and online. Not anything significant mind you, but people definitely did know about this thing at the time, they just didnt care.
I remember it getting a decent amount of coverage as rumors back around 97 or 98 when no one knew what it was really going to be, and it was speculated that it might be really powerful compared to other consoles. But by the time it finally release, the magazines were like, "Oh yeah, this is a thing..."
I swear there was some systems that came out in the mid 2000's that failed. This isn't the last one like this. It will take me some time to figure out.
11:41 "it plays VCD's, which I don't have any to test" I can hardly wait till someone sends you some to play on the Nuon if I ever get around to pulling them out of storage lol
thanks youtube for reminding me that channel exists, ah the nostalgia from just seeing that intro after so many years lmfao ahahaha, happy that you seem to still make videos :D
Only 8 games and Tempest still managed to squeeze in there. :D Tempest is the only video game series that went from the arcades to the Atari Jaguar, to the Nuon, to the Playstation 4. Respect.
Nuon apparently did have one success, that ironically probably killed it. Apparently one of the people in the audience when Samsung demonstrated their first Nuon dvd player, was Ken Kutaragi. He was impressed by the idea of a console that could play dvds, so went back to the ps2 design team, who, rather reluctantly, added that functionality to their ps2 designs.
I remember reading about this in the games mags back in the day. Never seen one, but I remember a big deal being made of Tempest being made by Jeff Minter
The generation recap videos are amazing. I'll listen to you for as much time as you want to take. Learning about retro gaming and especially obscure retro gaming is so satisfying! The details and research that go into these videos are something to be admired! Thank you Adam!
Geez, how many companies that make relevant electronics nowadays, actually made video game consoles back in the day? You had Bandai, Casio, Apple, Philips, and even Samsung, which I didn't even know existed until this video. I always look forward to these videos when you have another console to talk about, but still.
I wanted one when they originally released, but the players were just too expensive. About a year and a half ago myself I found the Toshiba model at a Goodwill for $6. My friend was absolutely clueless as I was stunned to see the Nuon logo. I only own Tempest 3000 myself for it, but the same story, no controller.
I tagged along to CES with a friend in electronics and came away with a Nuon press kit, it was back when CES was becoming much less about video games and more about things like DVD players, digital cameras and the first generation of MP3 players. I had just gotten a G3 Mac with DVD drive (almost nobody had a DVD player then) and started collecting movies to watch on my Mac display so the idea of dvd players that could play games did genuinely appeal to me. Dreamcast was so far beyond anything Nuon could have done let alone other consoles on the horizon. PS2 selling so well because it was most people's first DVD player is the legacy of Nuon's brief promise imho.
I had no Idea the Nuon came out before the PS2! I always thought it was from around 2004 for some reason (maybe they were trying to get rid of excess stock?) Great and informative video as always.
The Saturn was released in North America May 11, 1995 which is spring. The Playstation was released in early September 1995, summer. The Dreamcast was also released early September 1999, though it had a marvelous marketing campaign. The Turbografx-16 and Sega Genesis were both released in August 1989, which is summer, though they both had a slow start...Gameboy was also released in summer that year which was probably the exception.
Project X, which later became the Nuon was in magazine publications like EGM and Gamepro for quite some time though Dreamcast, PS2 and GBA news seemed to stuff those publications. The first time I actually saw a Nuon was in a fingerhut sales magazine as a DVD player which will play games.
The other thing I now remember about this machine was it was hyped because it was supposed to use NURBS for rendering. The Internet gaming community went crazy about this announcement. But then the party ended some months later once the PS2 was revealed with the "Emotion Engine". Where EE was probably a bigger scam than "blast processing", yet no one brings that up nowadays.
Cool to see another Recap episode. Very obscure console, hadn't heard of this until today. Interesting to see that repro games exist for this on eBay too
I knew about this console back in the day from Next Generation magazine. I still have the issue where it was on the magazine cover as "Project X". This thing did get hyped for a short while back then, mainly due to it being touted as the spiritual successor to the Atari Jaguar early on.
Pre Thanks for the Love Adam! youre the best. ive never heard sanyo pronounced the way you do it :) it sounds classy. i pronounce it like you say SA part in samsung.
this thing has tempest 3000 on it, which, as a huge jeff minter fan, is my personal holy grail of gaming. i definitely need to own one at some point, even if it's just for that game.
i think I remember EGM had one issue where they reviewed 4 nuon games at once, including Tempest 3000. that was the first and only time I heard of it. what a throwback!
Great episode Adam! You are the only guy in history to use a Retrotink and upscale a Nuon probably, nice touch there... But i was expecting (jokingly) to see you bring out a Pippin for a comparison. But seriously, love the video
"Nuon. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time." I remember seeing these in best buy back then, and thinking "why, and it's gonna bomb". I had forgotten about the whole thing too.
Towards the end of the Dreamcast lifespan, Sega was considering doing the same thing with licensed hardware according to Official Dreamcast Magazine. For context, the financial problem (according to Peter Moore) with Dreamcast was hardware sales, not software.
An HDCD is one with various enhancements like peak extension and stuff. The recording was also done with a specific ADC, I believe made by Philips. Technically TooL's Lateralus is an HDCD as it used this ADC, even though it didn't use any of the enhancements and no HDCD players/plugins will acknowledge it as such. Lots of Mark Knopfler’s early solo output was properly HDCD-encoded with peak extension, meaning that until the (slightly inferior) 2021 remasters it was impossible to hear those albums properly without having a capable player or jumping through hoops on a PC.
It's one of those formats where regular Redbook playback is gimped as an "unintended" side effect, making the HDCD enhanced playback sound better. It's not technically snake oil since the enhancements do work, it's just a pain in the ass
I love that you did this. I only knew of it from being a big Jaguar fan, but even I didn’t notice it missing from your 6th gen recap lol. And yes, I’ve always kept an eye out for the logo on goodwill dvd shelves, no such luck (yet :)
Out of curiosity I went looking to see how much Nuon controllers cost. On the UK eBay you can get one for only £400! There's one in Switzerland whose auction is currently at 90 euro; everything else, both Europe and the States, is absurd. I know you said they were expensive but this is nuts.
Dude I have that Planet of the Apes DVD NEXT to me as I watched this, I flipped it over and got to see the Nuon logo firsthand, which is almost cool lol
I found this same model at a goodwill store one day. When I saw it said “NUON” on it, I said in my head “Holy shit it’s a nuon!” 😳😳 😅😅Needless to say... it is now a part of my collection. 😊😊😊 Lol I also have that bedazzled DVD as well. I found that at a SwapMeet.
2TB Sandisk Extreme coming in as well as some blu ray shows. I have little time to rip the blu rays with MakeMKV. Once I do, I'll have every show to postprocess/encode/downmix into each of my consoles capable of media. Sega JVC Saturn, Xbo... Yeah I'm not doing that, Wii, and most of all-Xbox 360. I don't have an AV receiver that decodes WMA Pro 768 5.1 audio, so I'll use Xvid AVI for the 5.1 stuff and VC-1 for everything stereo.
The company Batteries Plus Bulbs sells a line of different kinds of batteries with the trademarked name Nuon, I wonder if they bought that name from VM Labs?
My friend got one of these from a goodwill just like you said. Someone needs to make some kind of controller adapter for these, it cant be that impossible
It's unlikely since there is a custom Polyface chip inside the controller that communicates directly with the Nuon BIOS. The system is so obscure that the few who possibly could replicate this chip to make new controllers aren't interested in doing so.
So both the Fourth and Sixth Generations have four great consoles (SNES, Genesis, Turbografx16, Neo Geo) (GameCube, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast). But they also both have God tier consoles in the CD-i and Nuon. Who would have thought.
I think I vaguely heard of this in magazines in the early 2000s? definitely seems like one of those ones that came and went and barely anyone noticed. Don't know that I'd go out of my way to collect for that though, lol. But that Tempest game does seem kinda cool, I'll give it that. awesome videos as always!
In a sense every dvd player is a game console. Dvd has java machine in it. It is mostly used for dvd menu but there are some games done with the technology.
Not going to lie a few months ago I low-key wanted to try and get one of these just because why not. The only reason I didn't was because I couldn't find a controller for it, those things are incredibly rare apparently.
@AdamKoralik --- Is there a list of Nuon DVD exclusives? *Also, did Nuon DVD have better menus and special features on the discs?* Or did the players have better functions?
The Sixth Generation of console is my favorite generation, I wish to have all 8 console, I have 5 of them, I really hope you can get a hold of a Xavix and V.smile.
I found one at my local goodwill by total chance. I think I saw a video by rerez on it and the logo stuck with me, so as I was doing my goodwill sweep i took a second to look at dvd players (being a movie machine collector hd-dvd players come up and get mixed in all the same) and so happened to see the logo on the machine. After a very abrupt double take i picked it up and brought it home. Very happy with it and maybe one day I'll find a game or controller, or anything really. Edit: where would I find the owners group? I'd love to join it if I can find it.
Adam Koralik my plan is to get component cables for systems that can & interject a Component switchbox, get a Koryuu to transcode the remaining systems stuck in Composite output from the switchbox. ( Colecovision, Famicon, Odyssey 2, NES...) I sketched it out I’ll send you a picture on Twitter.
This was a better DVD player than the PlayStation 2 most likely because the hardware was licensed and made by companies that made video format players.
I found mine at a Salvation Army. In my head I was freaking out but externally I had the calmest demeanor.
Anticipation of this video is probably the most excited people have ever been about the nuon
I've never been so excited to see something about the Nuon
Same here.
I remember hearing about the Nuon from anti-PS2 folks back in the day who used it in console war debates. Nuon was supposed to serve as too good of an alternative to PS2'S DVD support and would cost Sony customers.
Its fun to think back on how passionate we all were when it came to our favorite systems back in the day.
The following comment is a comment of some kind and I hope you enjoy it:
Looking forward to the review of the Nuon Optical Drive Emulator Adapter.
What about the NuonDigital HDMI mod? :P
Or how about the NuonMeister? Those manufacturers gotta go for the niche i tells ye
Or how about PS5 emulator with 60FPS ray tracing upscalar for the VM Labs Nuon
To the untrained eye it looks like any old DVD player from early 2000’s
That's why I like call it the hidden in plane site game console .
I never had a Nuon DVD player. Just a PS2, which I still have to this day.
Nuon and 3DO had a lot of reason to succeed but failed, neo geo had a lot of reason to fail but succeeded. Game consoles were so unpredictable.
The 3DO had one good reason as to why it didn't succeed:
*$699*
@@LaskyLabs more than the ps3 at launch and more than a decade earlier. Legendary price point
@@sarahdidntwantthischannel6071 mmmhh, PS3 at launch...
@@sarahdidntwantthischannel6071PS3 or do you mean *PS5* ?
Congrats, after 2 hours this video is now the top result for "VM labs nuon" on youtube
Hahahahaha.
Every time you think Adam has covered every console he owns he says "Hold my beer! I've got another one!"
LOL isn't that the truth!
I know one he many not have the Discover console. I was just DVD video player running Windows XP at 1st; "With all Windows XP games". Never happened so daied in the saem year it cam out in "2004".
My first Toshiba DVD player looked just like that. I remember the Circuit City salesman basically yell at me for pushing on the disc tray instead of using the load button.
My uncles old DVD player looked just like that right after I watched this video I asked him what he did with it he said he had it in the attic but he tossed it long ago
This is one of my favorite series on RUclips, and the series that got me into retro gaming. Thank you.
It's honestly hilarious that the Nuon was the technical successor to the Jaguar CD, and somehow ended up failing harder. How do you fail harder than the Jaguar CD? It just doesn't seem like that should be possible.
Especially ironic given that the whole premise was "They screwed up on the Jaguar. We're not going to do what they did."
Well, I suppose they were right... just not how they intended.
I seem to remember reading about this "console" back in the Dreamcast/PS2 days on Gamespot. I remember them saying Project X is now Nuon or something like that, and then it disappeared. I assumed it got cancelled, but nope...
2:28 "If you took the PlayStation 2, the Philips CD-i, the Atari Jaguar, and the 3DO, and put it in a blender, [the VM Labs NuOn] is what you get"
*blendtec: will they blend? **_CHALLENGE ACCEPTED_*
I love how much information your videos have!! And there’s so many for me to watch, when I binge I’ll never run out!!
It's odd to think that in an alternative universe the CDi and Nuon actually might have been on top of the PS1 and PS2.
This console is the reason why I waste time looking at DVD players at garage sales and thrift stores. Maybe someday I’ll get lucky and find one. Great video by the way! It was very interesting to hear this history of this console.
I very much remember Nuon getting coverage in various magazines and online. Not anything significant mind you, but people definitely did know about this thing at the time, they just didnt care.
I remember it getting a decent amount of coverage as rumors back around 97 or 98 when no one knew what it was really going to be, and it was speculated that it might be really powerful compared to other consoles. But by the time it finally release, the magazines were like, "Oh yeah, this is a thing..."
If Nintendo successfully made that deal with PlayStation, the current console wars would be Nintendo-PlayStation Switch VS. Sega Series X/S VS. Nuon 4
Oooo, another Sixth Generation Retrospective DLC Video, I love it
Could have been worse, the dad could buy a DiVX DVD player in the late 90s, because "The discs are cheaper".
"It's almost impossible to believe DIVX will go under!"
A friend ive known since school has had a samsung one since the early 00's, I remember playing tempest on it when he first got it.
I swear there was some systems that came out in the mid 2000's that failed. This isn't the last one like this. It will take me some time to figure out.
8:19 just imagine how successful the Nuon could be if the exclusive features had a bunch of Elizabeth Hurley lewdpics 😈
The only dude that understands the Nuonces.
Heyooooo.
11:41 "it plays VCD's, which I don't have any to test"
I can hardly wait till someone sends you some to play on the Nuon if I ever get around to pulling them out of storage lol
I have some
thanks youtube for reminding me that channel exists, ah the nostalgia from just seeing that intro after so many years lmfao ahahaha, happy that you seem to still make videos :D
Freefall 3050 has one of the longest intro i‘ve ever seen, it felt like watching it 5 minutes o.o.
Only 8 games and Tempest still managed to squeeze in there. :D
Tempest is the only video game series that went from the arcades to the Atari Jaguar, to the Nuon, to the Playstation 4.
Respect.
Nuon apparently did have one success, that ironically probably killed it. Apparently one of the people in the audience when Samsung demonstrated their first Nuon dvd player, was Ken Kutaragi. He was impressed by the idea of a console that could play dvds, so went back to the ps2 design team, who, rather reluctantly, added that functionality to their ps2 designs.
Thats crazy!! I was just randomly thinking yesterday when you were going to cover another console lol! Good episode man. Thanks! 👍
I have a Toshiba DVD player from 1999 that looks just like that console.
I remember reading about this in the games mags back in the day.
Never seen one, but I remember a big deal being made of Tempest being made by Jeff Minter
The generation recap videos are amazing. I'll listen to you for as much time as you want to take. Learning about retro gaming and especially obscure retro gaming is so satisfying! The details and research that go into these videos are something to be admired! Thank you Adam!
Geez, how many companies that make relevant electronics nowadays, actually made video game consoles back in the day?
You had Bandai, Casio, Apple, Philips, and even Samsung, which I didn't even know existed until this video. I always look forward to these videos when you have another console to talk about, but still.
A lot.
I wanted one when they originally released, but the players were just too expensive. About a year and a half ago myself I found the Toshiba model at a Goodwill for $6. My friend was absolutely clueless as I was stunned to see the Nuon logo. I only own Tempest 3000 myself for it, but the same story, no controller.
I tagged along to CES with a friend in electronics and came away with a Nuon press kit, it was back when CES was becoming much less about video games and more about things like DVD players, digital cameras and the first generation of MP3 players. I had just gotten a G3 Mac with DVD drive (almost nobody had a DVD player then) and started collecting movies to watch on my Mac display so the idea of dvd players that could play games did genuinely appeal to me. Dreamcast was so far beyond anything Nuon could have done let alone other consoles on the horizon. PS2 selling so well because it was most people's first DVD player is the legacy of Nuon's brief promise imho.
I had no Idea the Nuon came out before the PS2! I always thought it was from around 2004 for some reason (maybe they were trying to get rid of excess stock?) Great and informative video as always.
The Saturn was released in North America May 11, 1995 which is spring. The Playstation was released in early September 1995, summer. The Dreamcast was also released early September 1999, though it had a marvelous marketing campaign. The Turbografx-16 and Sega Genesis were both released in August 1989, which is summer, though they both had a slow start...Gameboy was also released in summer that year which was probably the exception.
Project X, which later became the Nuon was in magazine publications like EGM and Gamepro for quite some time though Dreamcast, PS2 and GBA news seemed to stuff those publications. The first time I actually saw a Nuon was in a fingerhut sales magazine as a DVD player which will play games.
The other thing I now remember about this machine was it was hyped because it was supposed to use NURBS for rendering. The Internet gaming community went crazy about this announcement. But then the party ended some months later once the PS2 was revealed with the "Emotion Engine". Where EE was probably a bigger scam than "blast processing", yet no one brings that up nowadays.
Thank you for making this video. I admire you for making these obscure finds.
I thought the Nuon was so cool and fascinating when I first heard about it, I finally got one last year with a controller for a pretty good price
I feel as if I've probably seen one or two of these without realizing it was more than just a DVD player.
If I ever get to go to a Goodwill again, I'll keep an eye out
Cool to see another Recap episode. Very obscure console, hadn't heard of this until today. Interesting to see that repro games exist for this on eBay too
On that DVD, how would you notice the Nuon logo? When you look at that area of the box, all of your attention goes to "Wait, Harold Ramis made this?"
I knew about this console back in the day from Next Generation magazine. I still have the issue where it was on the magazine cover as "Project X". This thing did get hyped for a short while back then, mainly due to it being touted as the spiritual successor to the Atari Jaguar early on.
Pre Thanks for the Love Adam! youre the best. ive never heard sanyo pronounced the way you do it :) it sounds classy. i pronounce it like you say SA part in samsung.
this thing has tempest 3000 on it, which, as a huge jeff minter fan, is my personal holy grail of gaming. i definitely need to own one at some point, even if it's just for that game.
i think I remember EGM had one issue where they reviewed 4 nuon games at once, including Tempest 3000. that was the first and only time I heard of it. what a throwback!
Never even knew this existed. If I go to a goodwill I will see if they have one.
Great episode Adam! You are the only guy in history to use a Retrotink and upscale a Nuon probably, nice touch there... But i was expecting (jokingly) to see you bring out a Pippin for a comparison. But seriously, love the video
Also added an mClassic!
@@AdamKoralik the true Adam style!
"Nuon. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."
I remember seeing these in best buy back then, and thinking "why, and it's gonna bomb". I had forgotten about the whole thing too.
Love watching these videos and the history of video games/consoles. That’s what brought me to your channel Adam love your work keep it up dude.
Towards the end of the Dreamcast lifespan, Sega was considering doing the same thing with licensed hardware according to Official Dreamcast Magazine.
For context, the financial problem (according to Peter Moore) with Dreamcast was hardware sales, not software.
Thank you for sharing this obscure platform! I had never heard of it before.
the samsung nuon dvd units have quite good cd audio playback.
I bought 7 of these. One for each day of the week. Love this console. 5 Stars!
...it was on a publication. I remember reading about it back in the day.
That's why I showed them.
An HDCD is one with various enhancements like peak extension and stuff. The recording was also done with a specific ADC, I believe made by Philips. Technically TooL's Lateralus is an HDCD as it used this ADC, even though it didn't use any of the enhancements and no HDCD players/plugins will acknowledge it as such. Lots of Mark Knopfler’s early solo output was properly HDCD-encoded with peak extension, meaning that until the (slightly inferior) 2021 remasters it was impossible to hear those albums properly without having a capable player or jumping through hoops on a PC.
It's one of those formats where regular Redbook playback is gimped as an "unintended" side effect, making the HDCD enhanced playback sound better. It's not technically snake oil since the enhancements do work, it's just a pain in the ass
I love that you did this. I only knew of it from being a big Jaguar fan, but even I didn’t notice it missing from your 6th gen recap lol. And yes, I’ve always kept an eye out for the logo on goodwill dvd shelves, no such luck (yet :)
I put the Nuon in the same category ad the CD-i and CDTV, where they weren't designed for games but had them.
Out of curiosity I went looking to see how much Nuon controllers cost. On the UK eBay you can get one for only £400! There's one in Switzerland whose auction is currently at 90 euro; everything else, both Europe and the States, is absurd. I know you said they were expensive but this is nuts.
Same goes for the games
I need that handheld retrospective in my life.
Dude I have that Planet of the Apes DVD NEXT to me as I watched this, I flipped it over and got to see the Nuon logo firsthand, which is almost cool lol
I found this same model at a goodwill store one day. When I saw it said “NUON” on it, I said in my head “Holy shit it’s a nuon!” 😳😳 😅😅Needless to say... it is now a part of my collection. 😊😊😊 Lol I also have that bedazzled DVD as well. I found that at a SwapMeet.
I'm not convinced that Adam didn't just put a regular DVD player on the table and passed it off as a video game console.
And you never will know!
2TB Sandisk Extreme coming in as well as some blu ray shows. I have little time to rip the blu rays with MakeMKV. Once I do, I'll have every show to postprocess/encode/downmix into each of my consoles capable of media. Sega JVC Saturn, Xbo... Yeah I'm not doing that, Wii, and most of all-Xbox 360. I don't have an AV receiver that decodes WMA Pro 768 5.1 audio, so I'll use Xvid AVI for the 5.1 stuff and VC-1 for everything stereo.
The company Batteries Plus Bulbs sells a line of different kinds of batteries with the trademarked name Nuon, I wonder if they bought that name from VM Labs?
My friend got one of these from a goodwill just like you said. Someone needs to make some kind of controller adapter for these, it cant be that impossible
It's unlikely since there is a custom Polyface chip inside the controller that communicates directly with the Nuon BIOS. The system is so obscure that the few who possibly could replicate this chip to make new controllers aren't interested in doing so.
So both the Fourth and Sixth Generations have four great consoles (SNES, Genesis, Turbografx16, Neo Geo) (GameCube, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast). But they also both have God tier consoles in the CD-i and Nuon. Who would have thought.
Yesssss. Ugh I wanna play tempest on that thing.
I think I vaguely heard of this in magazines in the early 2000s? definitely seems like one of those ones that came and went and barely anyone noticed. Don't know that I'd go out of my way to collect for that though, lol. But that Tempest game does seem kinda cool, I'll give it that. awesome videos as always!
17:25 Nuon controllers "are so obscenely expensive and uncommon"
Gotta get Raphnet-tech to make a Dreamcast-to-Nuon controller adapters!
I got this same Toshiba last week at my goodwill for $6.99, haven't tested yet but looks like it's in good condition.
A great video Adam. I love these obscure consoles.
In a sense every dvd player is a game console. Dvd has java machine in it. It is mostly used for dvd menu but there are some games done with the technology.
Tbh I just heard about/read the wikipedia article on the Nuon yesterday
I think Iron Soldier 3 was also released on the PSone, but it might of been a regional exclusive or something.
Not going to lie a few months ago I low-key wanted to try and get one of these just because why not. The only reason I didn't was because I couldn't find a controller for it, those things are incredibly rare apparently.
A new AK recap video? Merry xmas...
@AdamKoralik --- Is there a list of Nuon DVD exclusives? *Also, did Nuon DVD have better menus and special features on the discs?* Or did the players have better functions?
Yeah, there's only like four of them. I think the Nuon-Dome website has all that.
And yes, the menus and features are different.
@@AdamKoralik--- Any Nuon releases better than HD DVD or BD releases?
@@antiWhiteism777 I can't imagine they would be.
@@AdamKoralik--- I mean as far as special features.
Never heard of it until today!! I knew you’d have vids! :D
17:29 - "Man, 23, gives birth to triplets"
So they knew were we are going lol
😎 nice.. The HD/cd is an improved music format. Higher frequency range and yes picture support and Windows like screen saver 😊
I remember reading about this in edge magazine and being quite excited for it!
The Sixth Generation of console is my favorite generation, I wish to have all 8 console, I have 5 of them, I really hope you can get a hold of a Xavix and V.smile.
Cheers Adam! Now I know what as Nuon is and strangely want one 🤣
My first DVD player was a Nuon, and I remember thinking the bonus features on Bedazzled of all movies was the absolute shit.
I was like seven.
I found one at my local goodwill by total chance. I think I saw a video by rerez on it and the logo stuck with me, so as I was doing my goodwill sweep i took a second to look at dvd players (being a movie machine collector hd-dvd players come up and get mixed in all the same) and so happened to see the logo on the machine. After a very abrupt double take i picked it up and brought it home. Very happy with it and maybe one day I'll find a game or controller, or anything really.
Edit: where would I find the owners group? I'd love to join it if I can find it.
facebook.com/groups/939616439566472/about
I probably did see a Nuon and didn't know what it was lots of times
I never knew of it , your channel is teaching me new stuff 👍
That’s how I handle my Composite signals [ Console Signal-> Composite switchbox -> RetroTink 2X Pro -> MClassic ... ]
Why not upgrade away from composite?
Adam Koralik my plan is to get component cables for systems that can & interject a Component switchbox, get a Koryuu to transcode the remaining systems stuck in Composite output from the switchbox. ( Colecovision, Famicon, Odyssey 2, NES...) I sketched it out I’ll send you a picture on Twitter.
Just rewatched this video after played some Jaguar games in the last few days.
I have never heard of this console but interesting find
I’ve been so excited for this
This console is the epitome of the old saying Jack of all Trades & Master of None!
This was a better DVD player than the PlayStation 2 most likely because the hardware was licensed and made by companies that made video format players.