Unreleased Panasonic M2 Console

[hotd34me]

[QUOTE=SOL BADGUY;1956989]I heard about this on a HVGN review of D2. I looked further into information on it, and saw on wikipedia it was scrapped before launch, but was used in a number of odd ways and as a Konami arcade board.

Has anyone played the Konami arcade games:

Polystars (1997)
Total Vice (1997)
Battle Tryst (1998)
Evil Night / Hell Night (1998)
Heat of Eleven '98 (1998)

Information on these arcade games is becoming scarce. But I do own and play Evil Night every once in a while. my username on youtube is hotd34me as well, check out the gameplay vids i made a full playthrough vid, I used a capture card. I bought my boards on ebay for 150 bucks, then I bought, reprogrammed and replaced the main chips on the boards to ensure they last me for another 10-15 years or so. These were never emulated either because all the processing chips are custom made so they are hard to reverse engineer. plus all the people who own them have the boards die on them because of the onboard suicide battery, once it dies, the timekeeper chip resets and the drivers disappear so the boards come up with an error when you start up the game.

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

I remember reading about the M2 in Game Informer and EGM back in like 1996/1997 and how the technology was sold and that it would never see the light of day as a console. They had mentioned that the technology was so advanced for the time that it was a shame because the console would have been a powerhouse compared to what was on the market at that point, but I guess that's how the cookie crumbles.