The Official Pioneer LaserActive Player thread-

[RyuHayabusa]

Well I'm sure the idea is to make it harder to turn off the unit when playing a game.  If you want to watch a movie you need to eject the PAC anyway, as with a PAC inserted it only outputs in 240p, as opposed to the 480i that most LD's are recorded in.

Personally I don't really care about my missing PAC cover.  To me the LA is strictly a gaming device, if you want to watch movies, you can get a better player for cheaper anyway.

I thought it goes to 240p only when you have the LD controls displayed. I had my Ys anime laserdiscs in and you could tell a decrease in the picture quality when you bring up the LD controls and then it goes back when you cancel the LD controls. Plus you can only access certain LD features like frame by frame with a PAC in from what I read.

[xelement5x]

And lo, a new level of insanity has been reached:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Laseractive-Sega-Mega-LD-full-set-All-24-titles-Myst-Extras-/171225341989

Any ideas how he came up with that price?  Even valuing Myst at $2500 there seems like a of extra dollars in there...

[Necromancer]

Crazy!  If Myst is $2500, that works out to an average of $520 each for the other games.

[Bonknuts]

I thought it goes to 240i only when you have the LD controls displayed.

 240i??? Never heard of such a thing

[RyuHayabusa]

I thought it goes to 240i only when you have the LD controls displayed.

 240i??? Never heard of such a thing

Ok, typo police. lol I meant 240p.

[Opethian]

And lo, a new level of insanity has been reached:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Laseractive-Sega-Mega-LD-full-set-All-24-titles-Myst-Extras-/171225341989

Any ideas how he came up with that price?  Even valuing Myst at $2500 there seems like a of extra dollars in there...

Games located in France

dealbreaker lol

[SuperDeadite]

Also that's not a complete set either.  Liar!  I wouldn't mind that Myst though....

[xelement5x]

So I finally got my other old Pioneer LD player to work again, so I decided to see if it would play the video on any LA discs.  The model of this player was a Pioneer LD-717, a really old and heavy model, but I figured it would be around before there was any LA copy protection put into their players.  Once I got the player reading discs again, I pulled out a LD ROMROM known to show the video in certain players: Angel Mate.

DISCLAIMER: I was testing this on my LCD since I was fixing the player at the same time and there is more room to work.

Once I put it in, everything spun up and this screen loaded:


Boo!  No boobies!  It sat there for awhile and then I decide to just try and skip tracks to see if that would help.  Skipping to the second track worked and I finally got the video to display.




SUCCESS!

The video was pretty decent, I'm not sure what surprises anyone would expect for a boobie game, but there were boobs.  The final scenes were actually pretty racy, closer to softcore porn than just a gravure vid.  :oops:  I guess it's a well deserved payoff since apparently this game cheats a lot. 

Once I get more time I may try it with other LA games and see what is viewable on them.

[TheClash603]

I see no boobs, you lie!

This game is f*cking brutal.  When you say "apparently it cheats a lot," that may be the understatement of the millenium.  I have put more time into this game than any man should and it is infuriating.

I need to get an old LD player to just get in on the boob action like you did.

[DragonmasterDan]

I see no boobs, you lie!

This game is f*cking brutal.  When you say "apparently it cheats a lot," that may be the understatement of the millenium.  I have put more time into this game than any man should and it is infuriating.

I need to get an old LD player to just get in on the boob action like you did.

The roulette wheel cheats. The actual card playing is fair.

[Punch]

Upload the vids from the game so I can, ahem, "appreciate" the contents.  :-"

[xelement5x]

Lol, if there is really that big of a demand for the video I will have to dig out that capture card I had and see if it still works.  Quality would only be composite, but I'm sure you could all appreciate it

[SuperDeadite]

LOL, Angel Mate is the game I posted the cheat codes for.  No need for all that bs for that game. ROLF.

[Opethian]

but what about Paolo caps

[SuperDeadite]

with Paolo, all videos are 3d native, when in 2d mode the game cuts out the doubled half in real time.  If you watch Paolo's vids on another player, will only see the 3d ones.  However the final secret vid is 2d only oddly enough...