Sega-3Dfx 'BlackBelt' system picture!

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> http://www.react.gr/Blackbelt.jpg
>
> assuming this is real, *this* is the console designed by Sega of
> America, SegaSoft and 3Dfx that LOST to the Dural/Katana/Dreamcast,
> circa 1997.
>
> found it here
> http://www.assemblergames.com/phpb [...] .php?t=170
>
> Keep in mind, the Dural, Katana and Dreamcast are all one and the
> same. they are all the same console. The 3Dfx based BlackBelt was the
> *other* console, the one that lost to Dural when Sega demoed both
> prototypes internally in mid 1997. Sega selected the Dural which was
> renamed Katana, and finally Dreamcast in 1998.
>
> BlackBelt was said to be using a 3Dfx Banshee variant, perhaps
> Banshee2 (Voodoo3).

Man, it looks kinda cool....certainly a lot bigger than the DC. Kinda
looks like the JVC X'eye...

Bel

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Looks more like a saturn. I doubt the dreamcast was ever spec'd with a cart
slot. Definatly cool either way.

-sean


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> http://www.react.gr/Blackbelt.jpg
>
> assuming this is real, *this* is the console designed by Sega of
> America, SegaSoft and 3Dfx that LOST to the Dural/Katana/Dreamcast,
> circa 1997.
>
> found it here
> http://www.assemblergames.com/phpb [...] .php?t=170
>
>
> Keep in mind, the Dural, Katana and Dreamcast are all one and the
> same. they are all the same console. The 3Dfx based BlackBelt was the
> *other* console, the one that lost to Dural when Sega demoed both
> prototypes internally in mid 1997. Sega selected the Dural which was
> renamed Katana, and finally Dreamcast in 1998.
>
> BlackBelt was said to be using a 3Dfx Banshee variant, perhaps
> Banshee2 (Voodoo3).

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> > Looks more like a saturn. I doubt the dreamcast was ever spec'd with a
> cart
> > slot. Definatly cool either way.
> >
>
> Man, when I saw Saturn, I thought at first it would run Mega Drive games as
> well. I was really dissapointed

I still remember the rumors of it playing 32X games as the slot was just
perfect for them....wished it would have been true...

Bel
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> -KKC, who can't find space to plug in the 3DO for some old Street Fighter
> action...
>

Ugh....just get the Saturn version of Capcom Generations 5, or hell the Genesis
version of SSF2...the 3DO version has to be *way* more effort than it's
worth...

Bel

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