The Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Thread

[davyk]

I had the SNES version!!      Had it on MD too.

Sorry to say in a Sega thread but it was a bit better on SNES - or at least I preferred that version. It moved faster (which surprised me) but looked and sounded a bit better too. But a lot of this comes down to taste.

I played it to death - was able to complete it. I found some hidden sections including one that gave you an enormous weapon that gave you a chance against the last boss.   But I liked the fact it had lots of little hidden treasure rooms and secret bonuses etc.

After looking at that video it looked like it ran at similar speed to the SNES version as I remember it. Assuming that video is of the NTSC version, I wonder if the SNES version was optimised for PAL.  Or maybe I just remember things wrong.

[demongene]

Just bought the mega sg from anolouge, off ebay. Comes jailbroke with almost the whole genesis and master system games library between the sd card and the flash cart thats included. I paid a lot but cant wait to get it!!

[zapiy]

What did that set you back mate?

Be interested in your thoughts when you get it.

[TrekMD]

Just leaving this here...

[RetroBones]

Hi guys! Just want you to know we are making a new game for Mega Drive, and we managed to do what was never done before - we implemented voxels on Mega Drive!

[TrekMD]

Cool!  Will the game be available for the Genesis as well or only PAL?

[RetroBones]

We're aiming at both versions. You can check our vlog entry here:

[zapiy]

Interesting development, will be watching this with anticipation.

[RetroBones]

We'd like to announce that Mr. Gary Winnick, former LucasArts art department supervisor on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure, co-creator of Maniac Mansion and Thimbleweed Park, as well as having worked on such iconic games as Rescue on Fractalus!, Defenders of Dynatron City and Star Wars, has decided to join our team!

You can visit his page and see his works for yourself: http://www.garyart.net/

Mr. Winnick will focus on the concepts, as well as creating some image art for VergeWorld project. To have such a game dev legend with us is an honor! Welcome aboard!

[TrekMD]

Oh, that's awesome!  Welcome aboard Mr. Winnick!

[davyk]

There's a very impressive looking port of arcade Shinobi in progress for Megadrive. YT video available.

[TrekMD]

There are still many good & cheap Sega Genesis games you can still find today.  In this video, John Hancock picks 10 games for the Genesis that are still very affordable and common to find.

[RetroBones]

Hi there everyone! Just want to leave it here - the free demo of our upcoming Genesis game, VergeWorld, is available to download from our website: www.retrobones.com

Here's the video from the first level:

[TrekMD]

Looks cool.

[TrekMD]

Learned something interesting today...

And then someone from Forced Feedback Classic Game Reviews posted this:  You can use a Game Genie to play MD titles on the Model 1 and Model 2 Genesis consoles.

Interesting.  So, is the reverse true?