The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis turns 38 today, what are your favorite games on the system and overall thoughts on it?
>>750586601Sonic 3&K is still an impressive title. Length, style, music, design. I watched this a while ago and it gave me an even bigger appreciation for it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwxB2iDpA6w
I played it recently. I forgot how uncomfortable the controller was.
>>750586601Sonic & Knuckles without Sonic 3M.U.S.H.A.Grind StormerThunder Force IV / Lightening ForceGaiares (even though the bosses are garbage)Zero Wing
Contra Hard Corps
>>750587173Oh shit, nigga, I forgot to post that in >>750587008, along with Gunstar Heroes and The Adventures of Batmen & Robin.
>>750587008>M.U.S.H.A.My nignog
>>750586601Turn based: After Armageddon, Aisle Lord, Arslan Senki, Cosmic Fantasy, Dark Wizard, Langrisser 1&2, Lunar 1&2 [unworked hack], Phantasy Star 2&4, Pier Solar, Shining Force 1/2/CD, Shining in the Darkness [Antigrinding Hack], Vay [Unworked], Vixen 357, Legend of Wukong Narrative: Illusion City, Rise of the Dragon, Snatcher, Space Adventure CobraSide Scrolling Action: Alien Soldier [6 button hack], Annet Futatabi, Alisia Dragoon, Astebros, Demons of Asteborg, Black Jewel, Blades of Vengeance, Blaster Master 2, Castlevania Bloodlines, Cave Story, Comix Zone [Easy Hack], Contra Hard Corps & Invasion, Cyborg 009 CD, Daemon Claw, Dahna, Demolition Man, Dynamite Heady, Earthworm Jim 1 CD, El Viento, Gargoyles Ultimate, Gunstar Heroes, Hayato, Mazin Saga, Megaman The Wily Wars [Mega Hack] & The Sequel Wars, Mega Turrican, Midnight Resistance, Popful Mail [unworked], Pulseman, Ranger X, Rent a Hero, Rocket Knight 1&2, Shinobi 2&3, Shadow Dancer, Pirates of Dark Water, Streets of Rage 2 & 3DX, Strider, Tanzer, Terminator CD, Tinhead, Ultracore, Valis 3, Wolfchild CD, Monster World 3&4, XMen 2, Ys III Platformer: Animaniacs, Alter Ego, Another World (AKA Out of this world), Chiki Chiki Boys (AKA Wonder Twins), Ecco 2 CD, Escape 2042, Flashback, Generations Lost, Flink [speed hack], Garfield, Highseas Havoc, Lost Vikings, Taruruuto, Maui Mallard, Mickey Mania CD, Castle of Illusion & World of Illusion, Pantufa Extended, Pitfall CD, Prince of Persia 1 CD & 2 Remastered, Quackshot, Ristar, Socket, Sonic (Classic Heroes, 3 Complete, MegaMix CD, Hellfire Saga, S-Factor, Mobius Evolution),Top Down: Arcus 1/2/3/Odyssey, Beyond Oasis, Mega Bomberman, Crusader of Centy (AKA Soleil), Chaos Engine, Dungeon Explorer CD, Landstalker [Mijet hack], Light Crusader, Mercs, Metal Gear MD, Rambo 3, Skeleton Krew, Shadowrun, Techno Clash, Tougiou, Traysia, True Lies, Twinkle Tale, Xenocrisis, ZAMN [wide hack] & ZAMN Roguelike
>>750587373>BatmenBatman*
I love the Mega-CD. There's something extremely soulful about early CD consoles/addons.
A crazy idea I had for homebrew years ago, I think claude could do it today: Mega CD BIOS reads sectors 0–15 of the CD to check for copyright, then hands off to the game. Game assets are accessed via an ISO 9660 filesystem.Neo Geo CDThe BIOS ignores sectors 0–15. Instead, it starts at sector 16. It also uses ISO 9960.This means you could hypothetically create a game that works on both Sega Mega CD & Neo Geo CD. They would mostly occupy their own area on the disc because graphics are formatted differently, though you could potentially share audio files which is the biggest part of 16 bit cd games. Another possibility: dreamcast supports multi session discs. On a multi-session disc, each session has its own independent sector 0. Session 1 gets the Mega cd & Neo cd header; session 2 gets the Dreamcast header. They never overlap. It might be possible to create a triple boot game.
^a 45 year old man wrote that
Sonic 1-3 > Mario & Yoshi Shining Force 1/2/CD > fire emblemSnatcher > radical dreamersCastlevania Bloodlines > SC4 Contra Hard Corps > C3Rocket Knight 1&2 > sparkster Streets of Rage 1-3 > Final Fight Lunar 1&2 > final Fantasy 4&5 Phantasy Star 2 > insert generic jarpig herePhantasy Star 4 > ff6 Beyond Oasis > LttP Crusader of Centy > Soul Blazer, Every Shmup on sega > snes Alien Soldier, Astebros, Demons of Asteborg, Cave Story, Comix Zone, Gunstar Heroes, Daemon Claw, Demolition Man, Midnight Resistance, Popful Mail, Pulseman, Ranger X, Shinobi 3, Shadow Dancer, Strider > literally no-name action games on snes that nobody gives a fuck about like chuck rock or whatever Ecco 2, Flashback, Generations Lost, Ristar, Socket, > random shitty anime licensed games on snes Best on Sega: Earthworm Jim 1/2, Turrican 3, Valis 3, Ys 3, Out of this world, Pitfall CD, Dungeon Explorer, Shadowrun, Xenocrisis, Doom Resurrection,The only Ws SNES has is chrono trigger and Mega Man X.
>>750586601A few years ago I stumbled upon a model 1 with a bunch of games and accessories at a garage sale and bought it on a whim despite not really having any interest in it or older Sega in general. Ordered a cheap everdrive clone for it and ended up playing the shit out of it over the summer, unironically had a heckin' blast and I think it might be my favorite system when I'm in the mood for retro gaming.Favorite game is Contra Hard Corps, that game still completely destroys anything modern indies shit out.
>5 days agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wka92BkvzHEHe's back.
>>750588776I agree with everything except for Phantasy Star 4 being greater than FF6. But I'll just agree to disagree, seeing as I can vouch for everything else you typed up. Also,>Ecco 2My absolute nig.
>>750588210the rest of my list (character limit).Shmup: Arrow Flash, Assault Android, Darius 1&2, Earthion, Elemental Master, Eliminate Down, Gleylancer, Gaiares, Gynoug, Grind Stormer, Heavy Unit, Hellfire, Keio Flying Squadron, Lords of Thunder, MUSHA, Panorama Cotton, Robo Aleste, Space Invaders 91, Steel Empire, Sol-Feace, Soul Star, SubTerrania, Thunder Force 2/3/4, Trouble Shooter 1&2, Truxton, Undead Line, Whip Rush, Zero Wing, ZPFOther: BC Racers, Doom Resurrection & Fusion, Columns, Devilish, Battle Golfer Yui, Klax, Lemmings 2, Marble Madness, The Ooze, Puyo Puyo, Polterguy, Q-Bert, Rock 'N Roll Racing, River City School Fighters, Speedball, Unsure, Haven't played: Alien 3, Chakan, B.O.B, cavaleiro, Illmoore Bay, The Cursed Legacy, Decap Attack, dinosaurs for hire, Foxy land, gravibots, gunslugs, life in on earth, life on Mars, mad stalker, metal dragon, Nadia, old towers, Omega Blast, reknum, return to genesis, secret of the four winds, master system brawl, star wars holiday special, battlecorps, Ex Mutants, surging aura
sid meyer's pirates gold
Nintendo SFX2 is SIX TIMES faster than cpu. What would be the ultimate sega enhancement chip? RP2040 Coprocessor ($1):•Offload logic so CPU/VDP max out sprites. Scrolling/collision math on 32X lets SH-2s focus on 60fps full screen bitmaps. •AI for RTS or logic game (Factorio). •2D object physics, destructible terrain (Worms) •Modern compression: 20mb/s feels like 60mb/s.•Geometry: 32X fills polygons well but struggles at vertex math. Handles Transform, Clipping, and Z-position. Feels 5th Gen now. Lattice iCE40UP5K FPGA ($5): •Sprite Scaler+Compositor: Transform every sprite/tile. Psuedo Parralax. VDP bottlenecks but 32X surpasses Neo Geo. •Palette Sequencer: MD can change palette during H-Blank to reach 512 colors but CPU is too busy.Chip holds color table and blasts palettes to CRAM during H-Blank. Combine with the compositor for true transparency. •Blitter: Blasts sprites from ROM to 32X VRAM. This alone makes Doom 60fps.•Priority masking: Automates hole-punching in MD layer so 32X can do complex layering.8mb SDRAM ($1):•32X cart can send sprites straight to frame buffer. Allows thousands of sprites and can que up data for 32X burst mode (8 words in 12 cycles) so SH-2s never wait again.•Lighting: Freed by the blitter and RAM, SH-2s gain idle time for dynamic lighting. lmaoWith the RAM and the blitter alone you can easily port Symphony of the Night, Castlevania Chronicles, Resident Evil, Galerians, TRAG, Suikoden, Strider 2, Darius Gaiden, Gradius Gaiden, Policenauts, Baroque, Intelligent Qube, Community Pom, Brave Prove, Sexy Parodius, Langrisser 4, Rhapsody, SF Alpha 3, Neo Geo games, Parasite Eve, Oddworld, Star Fox 64, Grandia, Front Mission 3, Persona 2, Doom 64, Star Ocean 2 and Tales of Eternia. In fact, they would be the definitive versions because they would have no load times and the 32Xs bitmaps would actually look better than the compressed pre rendered Backgrounds on ps1.
>>750587008musha was so good
Gain Ground, Cyberball, Fighting Masters
>>750586601simple, altered beast.and that one game with a car that had a free mode that I only ever played to crash into the barn because it had slow-mo recap and a cow that moo'd when you drove by/crashed
>>750587385yup, amen brother *buuurp*
broadly, absolute garbage. however Shinobi III and the Bare Knuckle games redeem it ever so slightly. wish I had known I needed like a 60% low-pass audio filter for emulation sooner.
>>750586601I still replay Beyond Oasis, Crusader of Centy, Gunstar Heroes, Contra Hard Corps and Adventures of Batman and Robin occasionally.
I recently played Zombies Ate my Neighbors, but then I found out the SNES version was better...
Cinema
Cyborg Justice. It's a beat em up with robots. The controls are beyond fucked, but you can literally rip the limbs from your enemies and use them yourself, or against them. Very cool, especially for the time.
>all these foreigners
>>750586601Bonanza BrosMy older sister would play it with me one of the few games we’d play together.
>>750590047t. Nintendo baby afraid to play anything not on their console since they never learned to emulate
claude doing conversions of arcade games that never got console ports to MD using SGDK and also creating things like a "home" mode that you would see on an arcade conversion of the time is honestly fucking awesome.
>>750586601>Sonic the Hedgehog 1 - 3>Streets of Rage 1 - 3>Golden Axe 1 - 3It entertained me a lot as a child but at age 3-5 the only games I could beat were the sonic ones. I'd run out of lives by level 6 or something in the other games and gameover.
>>750591540>afraid to play anythingthe retarded shit some of (You) come up with
>>750588210>Langrisser 1&2better on the NEC consolessauce: me playing them for the past month
>>750586601off the top of my head, probably forgetting someShining Force 1WarsongGauntlet IVWarriors of the Eternal SunBuck Rogers: Countdown to DoomsdayPhantasy Star IIShinobi IIILandstalker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1lhB8ojVPI
What should I add to my Genesis collection? I also have Shining Force 2 which isn't pictured.
I re-played some Genesis games during covid and they are so fucking hard. I can't recommend any of them just because of how frustrating they can be.
>>750594108Like what?
>>750586601Warsong and Shining Force > Fire Emblem
>>750593649A flash cart
>>750595764souless nigger
>>750590748Japanese company. Japanese console.
Last Battle, or Hokuto no Ken 2
>>750595764I make money every time I buy and sell old carts. A flash cart is a liability.
>>750595526All the Shinobi games.
>>750586601I love rocket knight adventure such an amazing game beautiful in everyway,Comix Zone is short but its unique, probably a bit to hard but its made for multiple playthroughsRistar was an instant classic as soon as it loaded up, amazing gamesome niche titles I would recommend are Rolo to the Recue and Mr Nutz both solid titles (don't cheat with save states you casuals)
>>750595853>Japanese company.>he doesn't know
>>750586601It was nice system, one of my favorites from the 80s / 90s.
>>750586601Granada, Desert Strike, the entire strike series really, Battletech, all the sanic hegehog games, Earthworm Jim series, Vectorman, Ganres, pretty much all the light gun games were good, but Terminator was the best. Robocop vs Terminator, Alien 3. Thats about it. I think in terms of the value you got out of it the genesis was in the top three consoles of all time.
>>750596082Shinobi III is a great action game but hardly difficult. Revenge is tougher but far from impossible.
>>750596419>americans try to design a console>known as one of the stupidest ideas of all time and it gigaflopsyeah that fits
>>750588506There's basically nothing of note for the entire add-on. All the actual devs were making PCE games instead, the best Sega managed were a few ports.
>>750598785Shows that consolepoors aren't ready for American innovation.
>>750598890Ecco 1&2, Earthworm Jim, Shining Force, Final Fight CD, Robo Aleste, The Terminator, Lunar games and the better versions of Snatcher and Popful Mail. The Sega CD's main fault was not being on a console popular in Japan, but it was the better hardware to a fault. The coprocessing hardware made the addon more expensive than it had any need to be.
>>750598890Play Rami's game
>>750586601Only got to play with it once during my childhood, but I recently did a 50 game deep dive into the system and I found these games to be my favorites, in order:>Contra Hard Corps>Castlevania Bloodlines>Sonic games>Gunstar Heroes>Phantasy Star IV>Shadowrun>Panorama Cotton>Ecco, FUCK that last level though
>>750588818the lore behind that game is really nice. they really tried to do the best they could to the point the studio did nothing else because they were tired of so much work and almost broke marriages.just like alien soldier made by a programmer of gunstar heroes trying to squeeze the hardware as a passion project. it would have been a bigger game it the higher would not needed a game in a certain deadline.
>>750589502https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qg0mvWFlC2UI don't like comparisons between snes and genesis without context. without enhancements chips the snes want capable of much things unlike the genesis even when they used hiroms.I can't deny the amount of colors, mode7 and samples. but the console really struggled a lot in other areasbtw that starfos is already running like 50% faster than the snes one.
sonic 2, bimini run, Dick Tracy, super hang on, lotus 2, and Castle of Illusion
>>750598890There are more good games on the Mega CD than there are on the N64.
>>750594108You sound underage.
>>750586601Shadowrun is an actually unique experience. It's probably the second most accurate tabletop conversion of all time - only ToEE really beats it there, a full 11 years later, on PC.
>>750586601I just got one. Despite playing my mate's one a lot back in the day i never actually had one myself.I got one recently and a flash cart.I've been playing all the games that are at least decent (Review score of at least 70, user rating at least 6.5) in release order.What shocks me is just how many shitt shootemups are on the thing.Some are ok, but for every MUSHA there's 99 "Xenon 2's", "Bio Ship Paladin's" and "Battle Squadron's".
>>750594108>the wii>smart phones>death of arcadesreally affected difficulty in games. after 2007 a ton of games seems to be made for retarded people
>>750586601Skitchin
>>750588818>he's backsadly is a re-uploaded video
>>750586601Minnesota Fats Pool Legend
Pirates! Gold was so good
