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If you’ve ever encountered the dreaded “LOAD” error on a Samsung DVD-N501 NUON DVD Player (where the system powers on to a black screen and the disc tray becomes completely unresponsive) this video documents how to fix it! CabriDIY walks through diagnosing this issue, which leaves the unit unable to properly read discs or function [ ]
Ring Flyer Songbird Productions recently opened up preorders Ring Flyer, the first new game release for the NUON in more than 20 years. Ring Flyer is a third person, 3D action game set in space where you pilot your ship through (as the title implies) an obstacle course of rings that increases in difficulty as [ ]
Songbird Productions has partnered with Atari to present a licensed reprinting of Tempest 3000 for NUON. The release will feature a glass-mastered DVD with full-color offset printing, a 16-page full-color manual, full-color outer wrap and a black Amaray DVD case. The game is also shrink-wrapped. The game itself is 100% identical to the original NUON [ ]
NUON enthusiast V-SNES is back with his latest deep-dive into NUON history, this time focused on Troma Entertainment’s short-lived relationship with VM Labs and NUON. Troma is best known for such films as The Toxic Avenger, The Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Mother’s Day and Tromeo and Juliet, and had planned to use NUON technology [ ]
After a long, hard search, NUON enthusiast emceebois tracked down a complete-in-box Samsung DVD-N591 — the NUON DVD player released in Korea. With the unit came a copy of Crayon Shin-Chan 3, one of the most elusive games in the NUON library, which he graciously dumped and uploaded to archive.org. But, since the game is [ ]
Retro and classic gaming news site Time Extension has put the spotlight on NUON via a new article titled Nuon, The DVD Player That Tried To Be A Games Console. In it, author Ashley Day covers the history of the platform, gives a brief overview of each game in the NUON s small library, offers advice [ ]
Pre-orders are now open for the Aries64, an adapter from Songbird Productions that allows NUON users to connect any Nintendo 64 controller to their NUON-compatible DVD players. The first run is limited to 125 units and expected to ship beginning on March 15. According to a post from Carl Forhan of Songbird in the NUON-Dome [ ]
NUON controllers have become a rare commodity over the years, which has driven eBay prices into the hundreds of dollars for certain models (remember the days of $15 HPI Warrior controllers?). With interest in NUON on the rise thanks to Songbird s re-releases of Iron Soldier 3 and FreeFall, cracked authentication and new development on the [ ]
Today, Songbird Productions announced pre-orders for a limited re-release of FreeFall 3050 A.D., a game that went to retail production for the NUON DVD platform in 2000, but has recently been back in the spotlight after an originally-canceled Xbox port was unofficially released as open source, followed by an official port of the game released [ ]
The NUON community reached a big milestone today thanks to a programmer named EdgeConnector. According to NUON homebrew developer Gameblabla, EdgeConnector cracked the NUON authentication keys, allowing homebrew games to be burned to DVD, rather than using the old NUON.CD procedure that restricted homebrew to the DVD-N50x and RCA model NUON players. With this development, [ ]