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Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Collection Announced for PS4 & Xbox One
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Lionel Richie
Member
To be fair, my goal in life is to be able to play The Revenge of Shinobi on every single console I own.
MilkyJoe
Member
Jesus Carbomb
From Water into Guinness
I wonder who's handling the porting duties. M2 would be nice but I'm thinking it's probably Digital Eclipse.
Klart
Member
Official list is out. Strangely enough no Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles.
More info:
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...ng-over-50-iconic-games-hits-ps4-on-29th-may/
More info:
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...ng-over-50-iconic-games-hits-ps4-on-29th-may/
- Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
- Alien Soldier
- Alien Storm
- Altered Beast
- Beyond Oasis
- Bio-Hazard Battle
- Bonanza Bros.
- Columns
- Columns III: Revenge of Columns
- Comix Zone
- Crack Down
- Decap Attack
- Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
- Dynamite Headdy
- ESWAT: City Under Siege
- Fatal Labyrinth
- Flicky
- Gain Ground
- Galaxy Force II
- Golden Axe
- Golden Axe II
- Golden Axe III
- Gunstar Heroes
- Kid Chameleon
- Landstalker
- Light Crusader
- Phantasy Star II
- Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium
- Ristar
- Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
- Shining Force
- Shining Force II
- Shining in the Darkness
- Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
- Sonic 3D Blast
- Sonic Spinball
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Space Harrier II
- Streets of Rage
- Streets of Rage 2
- Streets of Rage 3
- Super Thunder Blade
- Sword of Vermilion
- The Revenge of Shinobi
- ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
- ToeJam& Earl
- Vectorman
- VectorMan 2
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair
- Wonder Boy in Monster World
The Scrivener
Member
50,000 Gamerscore?
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Hope it hasn't got that achievement for Dr Robotniks MBM again...
That one drove me crackers.
That one drove me crackers.
Naked Lunch
Member
Alien Soldier and Gunstar being on there are the true winners of the collection. They werent on the 360/Ps3 comp.
cireza
Member
Virtua Fighter 2 is fine considering the hardware it runs on and how they managed to emulate pretty well the 3D mechanics of the game. Not bad at all.
Still not a good enough effort in my opinion. They should have looked for more third party games.
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RAIDEN1
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VF2 isn't the first name you'd think of for the Megadrive/Genesis collection, and with that inclusion in there it makes me think of the Saturn version, hell they could have been more comprehensive, and called it Sega Generations...spanning the Sega CD to the Saturn...I don't understand why Sega seem to ignore those platforms full stop....depending on your viewpoint they were fairly successful, the Sega CD sold respectively well considering it was an add-on, and the Saturn was Sega's only successful console in the heart-land which was Japan...
Crew 511A
Member
I had to keep using save states to get that one. A rewind feature should make it a lot easier.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
TheDuskwalker
Member
*smacks you*
Now I want this game.
Now you make me wish my typo wasn't a typo you bastardo!
Now that the official list is out, I'm hoping like the 360/PS3 collection they have surprise non Genesis unlockables like Phantasy Star 1 and Shinobi, although if they don't then it will make me feel less regret for getting that collection on PS3 just 2 months ago.
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So exactly what's been available on Steam forever? Hopefully, it's just an update to support online multiplayer and achievements on Steam.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/102625/
Edit: The current Steam version also supports Steam workshop which other people have used to include other games into the interface.
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RAIDEN1
Member
So unless not mentioned here already some of the features to be included in this release are: Online Multiplayer, (anyone up for Streets of Rage online?) A "rewind" feature like the SNES mini..a "horizontal flip" mode so you can play the games horizontally for an additional challenge..achievements/trophies...and a retro-esque navigation menu, save states included etc.. Enhancement filters so that the "CRT" look isn't killed by playing it on HD-TV sets...
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I really hope that this has some really good quality scaling options, it would be good to have integer stalling options rather than just using a slider which doesn't actually give you any useful information. It's good to see that it is branded as "Sega Mega Drive Classics" in the UK.
pixelperfect
Member
Unfortunately its likely the same as before . Just too many ganes missing. Genesis has hundreds of good and interesting games to check out.
DrSerigala
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bronk
Banned
I played a Columns game for about 6 hours straight on Dreamcast. It was so fun. I thought I set a world record or something, ofcourse I was no where close haha. Long story short I'm ready for some beers and Columns.
DryvBy
Member
These are now on Amazon FYI. $30 ain't bad.
TheDuskwalker
Member
Nice. A little over 50 cents per game.
Now where is someone from Nintendo so I can show them this, and then repeatedly beat them on the nose with a newspaper?
bitbydeath
Member
Is Sega Genesis the American version?
Europe has it titled as the Sega Mega Drive version.
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...ng-over-50-iconic-games-hits-ps4-on-29th-may/
https://www.megadriveclassics.com
Europe has it titled as the Sega Mega Drive version.
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...ng-over-50-iconic-games-hits-ps4-on-29th-may/
https://www.megadriveclassics.com
Is Sega Genesis the American version?
Europe has it titled as the Sega Mega Drive version.
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...ng-over-50-iconic-games-hits-ps4-on-29th-may/
https://www.megadriveclassics.com
Correct, Mega Drive in EU and Genesis in US.
If I remember correctly, Mega Drive was the intended name for all three regions after they initially announced it as the Sega Mark V but I seem to remember reading that name was trademarked by another company in America so they weren't able to use it there.
I'm not sure if that's ever been confirmed either way by Sega though and I've not really been a massive Sega home console fan, unlike their arcade games, so that may well be corrected by somebody who does know their home console history better than me.
GenericUser
Member
This is a bad collection imo. Similar collections released on the PS2 and PS3/360 and iirc they had S3&K in it.
The games are still just emulated Genesis roms with little to no effort put in. Cool for people who started with PS4 or are not into emulation at all, but I think this is a very low effort try to grab some cash.
The games are still just emulated Genesis roms with little to no effort put in. Cool for people who started with PS4 or are not into emulation at all, but I think this is a very low effort try to grab some cash.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
That's a pretty impressive list for a Genesis collection. Still, we're mostly getting the same titles that Sega reissues over and over and over on every platform known to man. Licensed titles continue to be left behind, including sports games, which was the Genesis' bread and butter. Capcom's games are conspicuously absent (Ghouls N' Ghosts, Forgotten Worlds, Strider, The Punisher, Street Fighter 2, Mega Man.
In the end, it's only a question of money. Sega has to crack open the wallet and sign a lot of checks. Give Disney a check, give EA a check, give Technosoft a check (they already have Thunder Force 3 on 3DS), give Sunsoft a check (assuming they still hold the Telenet library).
All that said, this is a very fine collection and Genesis fans will be busy playing for a very long time.
In the end, it's only a question of money. Sega has to crack open the wallet and sign a lot of checks. Give Disney a check, give EA a check, give Technosoft a check (they already have Thunder Force 3 on 3DS), give Sunsoft a check (assuming they still hold the Telenet library).
All that said, this is a very fine collection and Genesis fans will be busy playing for a very long time.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
If that's the case, then there's no excuse why Sega can't bring back Herzog Zwei and the Thunder Force series. This is also a good reason to reissue Saturn games. We want a reissue of Hyperduel that doesn't cost $300!
Crew 511A
Member
Sega doesn't need an excuse for bad decision making. The only reason I'm buying this is because now it's apparent Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection will never be backwards compatible. Neither of my 360's are long for this world, so I guess it's cheaper to spend 30 bucks on this than to buy another 360 that will die in a year.
I loved Sega in the 90's, but it's disgusting what they've become.
Crew 511A
Member
I wouldn't even say the Genesis version is solid. Pictures of the game look ok, but when you see it in motion, it looks like some kind of hack job pirates in Hong Kong put together. Throw the 32X version of VF 1 on there and it would be a much better deal.
theclaw135
Banned
2011 (or prior) versions of Sonic 3 continue to be sold. But circumstantial evidence suggests that Sega has barred new releases of the game.
In any event, the Atgames Genesis Flashback is weird in its own way. It includes Sonic & Knuckles only.
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Fox Mulder
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theclaw135
Banned
That was a tight deadline. There's bigger forces at work now.
Doesn't anybody find the lack of a mobile port, or 3DS 3D classics, the least bit suspicious? Even though Sega could outsource it and rake in the profit without lifting a finger.
Doesn't anybody find the lack of a mobile port, or 3DS 3D classics, the least bit suspicious? Even though Sega could outsource it and rake in the profit without lifting a finger.
Crew 511A
Member
I don't think there's anything at play here other than laziness.
theclaw135
Banned
I was referring to how there's been no further new releases of Sonic 3 since 2011. Strikes me as more than a little odd.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
Crazy speculation: maybe the Michael Jackson estate is demanding royalties for Sonic 3. I can't think of any other reason why the game would be omitted from this Genesis release. That said, weren't we showed a revised list that did include S3K? If not, something is wildly off the mark.
It's important to remember that the people who currently run Sega/Sammy have almost no connection to the Sega of the 1980s and 1990s. It's a completely different set of clueless corporate blowhards. Mind you, Sega in the '90s was also run by clueless blowhards, but they also loved what they did and were spectacular risk-takers. The Saturn and Dreamcast eras often felt like being stuck on tour with a wildly out-of-control rock band that was always 12 hours away from fatal overdose. But that was what made them so much fun. This "modern," sober Sega? Pfft. Useless.
It's important to remember that the people who currently run Sega/Sammy have almost no connection to the Sega of the 1980s and 1990s. It's a completely different set of clueless corporate blowhards. Mind you, Sega in the '90s was also run by clueless blowhards, but they also loved what they did and were spectacular risk-takers. The Saturn and Dreamcast eras often felt like being stuck on tour with a wildly out-of-control rock band that was always 12 hours away from fatal overdose. But that was what made them so much fun. This "modern," sober Sega? Pfft. Useless.
Klart
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