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It's not a key feature though it was a bug caused by the original arcade hardware something that they chose to correct themselves in the SNES version but not in the Mega Drive version. If it was a key feature it would have been advertised by Capcom and not removed on the CPS2 games. It maybe more arcade accurate but it's not how Capcom envisioned the game to play so no key features are missing from the SNES version.

@smoreon With Sega I would actually like them to do a store front of their own through a separate app with individual games at this point that can be used on any compatible system. Since they tend to also release the same compilation of games at least once a generation with one or two extras to tempt people who purchased the previous ones. I am sure that way they could also get many third parties to also sign up and probably charge a little more for the licence fee of each game over their own games. Pretty much any system on the market can emulate all Sega consoles at the point even Saturn so they would have a huge library of software to start with even if it was just their own. But I have given up hope on that and will expect a fourth collection of Mega Drive/Genesis games at some point.

@-wc- you are taking this a little personally and yes I think as far as retro systems that is all Sega is capable of as far as retro systems go and definitely what is the single thought when it comes to anyone releasing one on the market.

There is a difference between making a new product and seeing if it sells on the market and making a product that is designed by it's vert nature to invoke nostalgia. Since it wouldn't be a retro console if that console didn't technically get released in the first place it would just be a box with 32X games on that doesn't look like a 32X.

Loving your passion though.

@-wc- it's not simply about me it's the fact that why release a product that is a mini retro game system that will have next to no mass market appeal the reason why Sega to this day still rely on the Mega Drive/Genesis name is because they know the name sells. That is thinking about it from business perspective and how Sega would look at it.

Got to love a bit of Simon Miller in the trailer

@mus422 why though? Even the 32X wouldn't hold nostalgia for near enough anyone and a never released prototype would just be even more confusing to release not to mention the limited and overall poor library of games. Doesn't sound like a winner to me.

I remember finally getting this just after Christmas because it had sold out everywhere locally to me but once I did get a hold of it me and my brother spent a good couple of week exploring every little corner we could.

Games that used those kind of digitised sprites back then often played like a brick due to a lack of fluid animation compared to hand drawn sprites I can't see this being any better but at least they are giving it a go.

My original comment seems to have ages well on this one although as long as it doesn't aim for being just a skin changed Metroid like it still does then it will be of some interest to me.

Well this definitely has fuelled people after 30 years. From owning both and learning more about them over the years while the Mega Drive could simply brute force a lot of things because of it's faster processor many of those things often took up way more rom space because of how much extra coding was needed. Many SNES games were also made to look like they couldn't run faster because publishers often chose slower rom speeds to save production costs. His sole reason for saying it is better is all down to the CPU without taking into account other pros and cons.

@michaelf I would imagine it will simply be based on the design of the A500 seeing as it is the most recognisable model but still have all the ability to emulate those more powerful systems like the mini does.

I am definitely more interested in picking one up as having the keyboard makes it so much more of an authentic experience much like the C64 version.

So the mod that got someone noticed in order to make Sonic Mania becomes a mod of that game? That may be a first.

While I am a big fan of the N64 I can imagine this will be really expensive and in all honesty even though I have a large collection I can't say I go back too often to playing the games since I have played through all of the ones I wanted to years back and the library is so small it's not like I missed any hidden gems.

@RootsGenoa I can see the logic behind that but it does seem like a way to sell every different handheld they release to the same people rather than have one model that has access to all the games. Oh well would have been nice.

They definitely look like more rugged versions of the Game Boy Color. Annoyingly I would prefer the colour of the Taito model but with the Capcom games on it. I wonder if they will release these collections on cartridge? As they seem to like having certain games licenced only for specific handhelds.

While I can see this being real I would imagine it would never get completed due to the huge undertaking it would be for a single person. Also using this tech demo to settle a debate that the Saturn couldn't handle 3D games as well as the PS1 isn't exactly proving much as again it is simply a tech demo of one small enclosed area with no enemies or anything else to tax the system. let's also take into account people have had nearly 30 years of coding knowledge and better tools to work with since then so I would imagine if people tried to make a new 3D game on the PS1 now they could achieve even better results that developers from back then.

@-wc- it's fine I can be pretty blunt at times and to the point at times. I was hyped when it was announced looking back but they did announce it pretty much with the N64 when Zelda was shown off and it's something I think back on as if they had the storage medium all the way back then why not just launch with that over cartridges as they were apparently cheaper to produce too but let's not think too logically about this.

Those sticks look like an afterthought and stuck in the only place so it still manages to look like a Saturn controller. I can imagine they are pretty unusable on any modern games and only the left one has any use for the Saturn.

@-wc- I wasn't arguing with anyone just simply pointing something out that people wanting something doesn't change something being a flop. All I am doing is putting my point across and you have mistaken that as starting an argument. To be fair it stood no hope of succeeding anyway as it released after the Dreamcast did and just months before the PS2. It was smart to cancel the worldwide release at that point.

@HoyeBoye there was a mouse released with it and came bundled with it so I can imagine it would be a nightmare with a standard controller.

@-wc- because simply knowing people who want something doesn't mean it wouldn't have been a flop especially when you only possibly know a small section of people who would potentially be interested in one and not the wider audience. Many people over the years have wanted things that have went on to fail so the same could be applied to every failed game console that some one some where wanted it.

I never had much interest in getting a Mega CD at the time since there were so few games that I wanted and the vast majority were simply Mega Drive games with and intro tacked on and better music or FMV games. We also seemed to get robbed again here in the UK with not getting any of the RPGs. I have one now but even then I only really played a small handful of games on it that ever interested me like Snatcher and Dune.

@Kiwi_Unlimited Well it was a hardware flop because even in Japan so few people wanted it and in all honesty I doubt it would have sold too well anywhere else as there is one thing that really confuses the consumers and that is various hardware add-ons for a system that usually only sell a small fraction of what the main system does. Just because you personally knew several people doesn't mean it wouldn't have failed to sell and Nintendo quickly realised that fact.

@Guru_Larry 1999 so it replaced the Adidas Power soccer games after the third game.

FIFA tried tried doing some backhanded business? Yes it was through a licensing firm but I am not totally surprised they attempted something like that. Admittedly in the late 90's there were a load of football games coming out and few stood out. Even when Sony started getting it right with the This is Football series they were a distant third behind the likes of FIFA and PES so even with the license I don't think people would have picked up Sony's offerings over the two that were starting to gain traction even by the late 90s.

The fact that they were trying to make it and acronym rather than just come up with a name that sounded good says it all. The TSO one is kind of amusing as they obviously kind of liked that one in the long run in a way.

@Daggot no hardware like that is needed as it comes on a single cartridge file so is only using stock C64 hardware.

Not sure about the lights and they really missed a beat having in not have interchangeable cables seems almost pointless having a usb-c connection and not just having it hard wired since it won't work with other devices.

Was never really a fan of older FIFA games especially the 16 bit ones as I always thought they were way to slow and controlled poorly yet they always seemed to get high review scores in magazines. FIFA 95 was definitely a big deal though for how much it offered and being a Megadrive exclusive. But even at the time I never found them fun to play. Really is interesting that EA had to essentially be talked into making the game by a few employees based in the UK. How times have changed.

@smoreon well 16 times as many textures that are on show still isn't going to make a game that has much variety or be very large in size as a result. While I am not doubting all of what you said but any game made using this kind of technique would have to be very small or use the same repeating for most locations. This is also without any interactable objects or enemies or something like that on screen too then even 16 times the amout of texture shown here wont go very far.

How can this possibly have any value to anyone? Well the fact that it has received so many bids that is more than I expected that's for sure. For those wondering how much much 510 Canadian Dollars is in British pounds then it is just under 310.

@smoreon while that is true even having multiple of the same textures at those lower resolutions would quickly use up space in just several areas. So any game made with those size of textures would still mean it would have to be very small overall as they would quickly use up that 64MB limit.

I seen this the other day after following him for the Portal demake. it's a great tech demo but until someone removes the 64MB sile size limit that even flash cartridges have to stick too then this kind of method wont be practical. It really does show that such a small maximum capacity held back the N64's potential although understandable for the time as producing anything larger would have cost way too much at the time anyway and CDs probably would have loaded too slowly for this to work effectively.

@Andee it's one thing I have noticed when going back and playing games on both the Amiga and C64 recently with the option of using a controller and many of the better regarded platformers were like this. It was a smart design choice for sure.

One thing the Amiga unfortunately suffered from was the fact most joysticks available only used one button despite it being capable of using two button ones. As a result most action games really suffered especially any games that used up to jump as it always felt to me as the jumping was often made too floaty to compensate for the poor joysticks at the time. I even would question if games like Zool, James Pond 2 and Superfrog should be considered among the best since much like any of the one on one fighting games on it they were only considered good due to how average or bad the majority was. I may have also included Syndicate on this list too but that's just because I spent too long playing it over one summer perhaps.

I always find that some information from back then in magazines was never fact checked because they had such tight deadlines or sometimes they came across the information right before having to print it and put it in anyway. Something that was also probably also to do with a bad translation and the two seperate things were assumed to be one in the same. Then after years these things get passed down as facts as there are very little sources that remain from the time and others share the false information as a result.

I do kind of miss those days only to learn years later how wrong the magazines of the era got stuff.

There was a period at least in the west during the 32/64-bit era that many games coming out that used pixel art were shunned by games media as being a step back and it was mainly only fighting games for the most part that were still praised for it. If publishers and developers are still having the same conversation nearly 30 years later then it's a sign it's not going to stop being viable in the next decade because those same people seemed to think the same thing back in the mid 90's.

This could also be called the Mega Drive RPG list of all time.

@Ninfan there are plenty of places that do legit ones you just have to search. You obviously just came across sites that try to unload as much malware as possible as it gives them cheaper places to store the stuff.

@Ninfan They won't sell it with the games already on it you would have to rep the games yourself or download them from somewhere and store them on your own SD card or computer as the wifi will mean you can stream them locally.

This is pretty amazing seeing as the Plus/4 lacks hardware sprites and it one main benefit over other systems at the time in terms of graphics was its colour palette being 121 colours over just 16.

Would love a New Goemon game but that would require Konami to you know make games.

Groundbreaking? Like all of the previous ones that didn't?

@Guru_Larry Or whoever is publishing it has slapped him around a bit before sending him out in public and told him not to speak about it

The collectors edition seems like good value when you look at the price of the cartridge alone. I will admire it from afar though.

I did know that because of CUBE magazine. I used their cheap plastic nameplates for about a week or so and thought it made my Gamecube look a little tacky and the inserts they gave away weren't exactly good and just basic images of Nintendo characters. If they had given away more artistic designs I may have used it more and at the time I didn't really have a high enough quality printer to design my own.

In all honesty not to interested in this as there are loads of Super Metroid rom hacks for the SNES now that offer something a bit different and some new ideas. If it was a new game that was a metroid inspired one I think I would be more interested.

The fact that EA gave up on it in favour of adding a single player campaign to Battlefield games. It did seem at the time EA was doing to choose either one or the other long term and the one that sold better was always going to be the one they would keep. It's easy to say that the last game only sold 3 million and it was too low but when you as a publisher have a game series that is it's direct competition the some of that is on you too. They could have quite easily alternated between the two like Activision did by bringing on extra dev teams to work on different games.

Even the original cover isn't exactly something that drags you towards it and make you want to take a look. If I recall it was one of those games that reviewed well but it had zero marketing behind it. That probably had more impact than anything. People at the time were also looking for more fast paced or flashier looking games and Ico did look a little drab in comparison so the images on the back more than likely did convince people any more than the front.

@KingMike I recall that SD card adapter too they even had a picture of one in a magazine called CUBE here in the UK. I think it came down to the fact they would have made no money from people using SD cards at the time as the adaptors would have been dirt cheap to sell. Also getting a hold of there largest official capacity ones (8MB) was very hard in most places and it didn't help they had compatibility issues with some older games and was probably one of the reasons behind it not being as readily available.

@themightyant Lost Odyssey had 4 discs and one of those discs actually came in a paper sleeve due to the fact it couldn't fit in the case. So if it was released I doubt they probably wouldn't have released a special case and just used that distribution method.