The Official Pioneer LaserActive Player thread-

[BlueBMW]

I use a remote from another old Pioneer LD player with mine.  Works perfect!  I've got a few original remotes, but they just dont feel as cool as the big blocky one I use.

[xelement5x]

Also, i've run into some information about the AIWA Sega? Pac.... anybody have picture so we can put them up at the Preservation Site? 

(Keep the 'NEW LA Game' Thread going... i need information into what people would like to see...)

OldSchoolGamer had an AIWA PAC but he sold it to someone here I think.  Can't remember who but they might pipe up.  There is also a dude up in Denver that Sadler and I ran into who besides having a bunch of arcade stuff had basically every LA game out there.  Though that might be who you bought the MYST from already, since that guy was up in Denver area.

As for a new LA game, Ninja Hayate (Revenge of the Ninja for the Sega CD) would be pretty badass. 

[laseractiveguy]

The person I bought Myst from was a House Hunter who had no idea what it was.  He said it was with only with 9 other titiles... and except for Don Quixote... they were VERY average games.

[laseractiveguy]

The Full Story will be revealed sometime in the future at LaserActiveGuy channel....  its going to be incredibly HARD to believe.

[SignOfZeta]

I use a remote from another old Pioneer LD player with mine.  Works perfect!  I've got a few original remotes, but they just dont feel as cool as the big blocky one I use.

I love the CU-CLD114 since it has the jog dial and shuttle on it. Several functions won't work on the LA (key change, side flip) but its a very great remote ergonomically speaking and its as good as it gets for old school nerd frame-by-frame analyses of movies. You can get them for $30-40 on eBay (peanuts for anyone buying $500 LA games) or just buy a broken player on Craigslist for $20 and junk everything but the remote.

[nectarsis]

I have a CU-CLD121, works like a charm

[BlueBMW]

That jog wheel looks all sorts of awesome though, I want one now!  I had a VCR with that kind of remote and it was pretty slick even on VHS tapes.

I have a james bond edition CU-LD007
Behold it in all its blocky square awesomeness....

[SignOfZeta]

The jog mode is f*cking awesome, especially on CAV disc. Home video has advanced a lot since the day of LD, but no format has ever had better search/seek/scan features than LD does.

[laseractiveguy]

Hey BlueBMW... that is the exact remote I have that goes to my 'Palcom' Refurbished Player!  I haved used the player less than1 hour since 'total rebuild'.. but i use other remotes for my normal players/LAs.  Now if only I had the Palcom itself!

[EvilEvoIX]

I so want one of these things.  My Shitty Sony unit just died on me today so I was looking into one of these things and man the Laser-active is EXPENSIVE!!!  Amazing Composite quality, especially via a CRT.  Anyone wish to part with a regular LD?  Is S-video out better to use?

[laseractiveguy]

The LaserActive is a 'quality' player.  However, sometimes the problem lies in what people expect from it.  With a Pac unit inserted, it is indeed does not have hi-quality output due to the video basicly being downgraded digitaly.  Its cool that it can freeze frame any disc, even the CLV ones.  The reason why is expensive is because people use them also for its games... so people seek out CLD-A100  as far as other players, except the DVD players... all the others are pretty much lumped into two groups... cheap players/good players, so there is a far much larger pool of Sku #s to choose from... thus less demand for a specific player, and lower prices.  LaserActive and its discs are super obscure in comparison to almost any other game unit... and even "Pyramid Patrol' which seems to pop up on ebay a lot is even much rarer than one realizes... in comparison to other games from other systems. 

If you ever opened up a CLD-A100.... there is no room for anything except Disc mechanisms and 'lot of computer circuits'.  I think its just about as advanced as a normal computer from the time... minus hard-drive and ram.

[SignOfZeta]

I so want one of these things.  My Shitty Sony unit just died on me today so I was looking into one of these things and man the Laser-active is EXPENSIVE!!!  Amazing Composite quality, especially via a CRT.  Anyone wish to part with a regular LD?  Is S-video out better to use?

If you mainly watch movies the LA is not a great choice. The video quality is basically the same as a CLD S201 or other low end Pioneer. For the price of a LA you could have a CLD-704, CLD-99 or even an R7G, all of which are vastly superior for movies since they have noise reduction, 3D comb filters, Both Side Play, etc.

Of course basically all of these players, including the LA, would probably be better than any Sony LD player.

[xelement5x]

Of course basically all of these players, including the LA, would probably be better than any Sony LD player.

Ooooh, BUUUUUUUURN!!


I'm glad modern remotes don't have buttons that are all the same size, and are all the same freaking tiny rectangle on a slab of plastic.  The LaserActive stock remote is pretty crappy, and mine is so light I feel like I'm going to break it most of the time.

[laseractiveguy]

Well, I guess thats it for ideas on new game!  What a small group. I'll tell you my idea for a game, go ahead and chime in.

First off, we start with a detective/free roaming world.  A lot of elements similar to Blue Chicago Blues, but now to go to places, walk in a world like Don Quixote, except the environments are commic book style.  I'd add a lot of spice to it, making the world 'interactive' and instead of using the same scenes over and over, each part of town is different, and uses different animation.  Each 'door' can be unique.  A futureistic Tokyo style city, half 'Rachet And Clank' style, the other style "Vector" with deep blues, purples.  Walking will be kept to a minimum, since its not the best way to 'show' laseractive capabilities.  There wont be needless wandering for hours.

Interacting with charrecters, static images like Manhattan Reqiuem, but they are 'cartoony' and commic book style... rich voice work.  Durring the game, theres a shooting gallary at a local bar, and even 1 car chase scene, similar to Rocket Coaster.

I wasnt going to say anything quite yet, but excitement is WAY low for this system.  Almost every other system has homebrew... why cant we?   I'm propose this is going to be Sega coded... not everybody has the NEC pac.

[SignOfZeta]

I'd say that the near impossibility of anyone ever pressing any kind of LD ever again make homebrew for LA hugely unlikely. I suppose once the emulators are perfected then you could make something that way, but that's not much fun.