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3DO emulators

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Major article overhaul, changed introduction, wording and added Konami M2 as successor.
|release = 1993
|discontinued = 1996
|successor = [[Konami M2]]
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The '''[[gametech:3DO Interactive Multiplayer|3DO Interactive Multiplayer]]''' is a 32-bit, fifth-generation home video game console released by the [[wikipedia:The_3DO_Company|The 3DO Company]] on October 4, 1993. It retailed for , with an initial MSRP of {{Inflation|USD|699.99|1993}}. It had a has an ARM60 RISC CPU ARM60 at clocked @ 12.5 MHz , with 2MB of RAM two accelerated video co-processors, "Madam" and 1MB of VRAM"Clio", clocked @ 25 MHz. Due to the unpopularity of the  The system and the costwas discontinued in late 1996, as it proved uncompetitive in the emulation scene is almost nonfifth-existent. However, there are a couple of emulators availablegeneration market.
==Emulators==
===Comparison===
;[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]
:A newer, closed-source project by a long time FreeDO contributor. It is the most compatible 3DO emulator (claiming "100% ?!" compatibility). The PC versions are completely in Russian (you can download an English translation patch [http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/showthread.php?4160-Help-with-3DO-Phoenix-2-8 here]). Most of the settings are translated [[:File:3DO_Phoenix_Translated.png|in this picture]].
;[[4DO|4DO / Opera]]
:4DO is a fork of the FreeDO emulation project and is , only available for Windows. The and no longer active, with the website has been being shut down and the most recent release is a many years old<ref name="4DOSite">http://web.archive.org/web/20161213021202/http://www.fourdo.com</ref>. It can offers features such as CPU [[Overclocking|overclockoverclocking]] by up to 400% of the original 3DO clock speed, which makes making low frame rate titles (e.g. [[wikipedia:Doctor_Hauzer|Doctor Hauzer]]) much more playable. It allows upscaling the game Additionally, it's possible to force games to run in a higher internal resolution by (up to 2x, but the game is still only rendered at 480p). Severe audio glitches are very common no matter what settings are used. A libretro port renamed to named '''Opera ''' is availablestill in active development, with many of the same features, though however overclocking options present only allows up to 2.0x speed 200% (unlike original 4.0x4DO's 400%), that still may seem slow<ref>https://docs.libretro.com/library/opera/#core-options</ref>.;3d'oh!:Based on the FreeDO emulator. Seems to have lower compatibility. However, however most of the more popular 3DO titles are compatible. It's a source-only release, so it has to be compiled.
;[[MAME]]
:Has four <code>3do</code> drivers (two for the NTSC/PAL models, one for the BIOS, and one for the unreleased M2 version). Commercial games do not load in the drivers yet (as it is reported as not working and the sound as unimplemented) but MAME supports the arcade hardware.

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