M2 info wanted

[wheelaa]

M2 - anyone remember this? Did it ever come out? Any info anyone?

All I remember is seeing the same 3 piccies for about 18 months, one of which was of a T-Rex or some other dinoasur...looked like it could have had great potential but then I got out of gaming...so info wanted please.

[bangaio]

It never camre out. There were loads of renders of fake games, none of them real. The T rex was a psx demo. Total load of rubbish - remember 2 guys standing infront of the m2 cpu schematic in edge and that is as real as it became.

[Baseley09]

It did go into consumer production as a car showroom dvd touch screen browser, and the Konami arcade hardware http://www.system16.com/konami/hrdw_m2.html

There's a fair bit of banter over at Assembler, its prolly the main talker over there through the years, there are mock ups & DVD drive betas but afaik no proper software....well, that anyones going to admit.

[wheelaa]

Cheers.

Although do you know how far it was actually developed? Was there proto hardware/software at all..or was it all just pipedreams, plans, schematics, bull****?
Sorry to go on but I swear the peeps in my local retro store at the time swore they had not only seen the fugger but also seen the fugger playing a couple of 30 secomd demos...lying gets no doubt.

Edit..just seens baseleys post...

[sj33]

I'm pretty sure some people on Assembler have prototypes.

[anephric]

D2 was shown running as an M2 demo, wasn't it?

[Leon Retro]

It looked good imo, and note the N64 style joypads

• CPU: IBM/Motorola Power PC 602 Dual CPU @ 66MHz
• RAM: 8MB
• Cache Menory: 32KB
• BUS: 520 MB/second, Dual 33MHz
• Graphics: High-Speed Texturing, High Quality Filtering, MIP Mapping, Z Buffering, Anti-Aliasing, Alpha Channel: 128 degrees or transparency
• Resolution: 640 pixels x 480 pixels, 24-bit colour
• Polygons: 1 000 000 per second (textured triangles)
• Pixels: 100 000 000 per second
• FMV (Full Motion Video): MPEG 1 (VHS Quailty)
• Media: 4X CD-ROM
• Storage: Memory Card 128KB - 32MB
• Expansion: PCMCIA (modem, etc)

D2 by Warp was looking amazing for it's time and that fighter looks decent enough for a first gen title. The specs speak for themselves; this was a machine that would of outperformed the PS1 and Saturn in every department.

Anyone got shots of the British RPG that got quite far in to development?