Happy 20th Birthday Megadrive!

[Stevorooni]

Ok it's cheating because it just turned 20 years old in the US, not Australia, but it's close enough and I was feeling nostalgic after reading the stories on Kotaku

Did YOU have a Megadrive?

I did, and I still do:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/Stevorooni/collectionMegadrive.jpg

I'd play it right now in celebration except the controllers are kind of shagged, the buttons are screwed on one and the dpad is screwed on the other. Plus cartridges require a bit of belting before they work properly. I wonder if I could get replacement controllers somewhere cheap.

What were your favourite Megadrive games? The Sonic series did it for me, and my brother and I would waste many hours hurting each other in Street Fighter II, and even Super Street Fighter II which was essentially the same game that we paid another $100 for.

It may have had less graphical capability than the Snes, it may have originally had a 3 button controller while the Snes had 6, it may have had expensive add ons that no one wanted to buy (That's the Wii's job now) but it was a sexy black beast of a machine that reminds us all of Sega's glory days.

I might play my Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection on 360 this weekend. Remember your fun times with the Megadrive in this thread.

[Marble]

The Mega Drive has an excellent library!

Shining Force 1, 2
Herzog Zwei
The Revenge of Shinobi
Shinobi III
Rocket Knight Adventures
Casltevania: The New Generation (Bloodlines)
Strider
Probotector (Contra: The Hardcorps)
Bare Knuckle trilogy
Golden Axe trilogy
The Punisher
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone Heist
Street Fighter 2: Special Champion Edition
Super Street Fighter 2

Shadow Dancer, Alisia Dragoon, Gunstar Heroes, The Adventures of Batman and Robin, Double Dragon 3 (Ok maybe this one isn't so good. The ports of the first 2 games are apparently the most accurate to the arcade, but they are very rare so I've never played them), decent ports of some SNK fighters like Fatal Fury 2 and Samurai Shodown, Road Rash trilogy, the Thunder Force games... there are probably a ton of great STGs actually, I wouldn't know because a lot of them are Japan only and for me, Mega Drive emulation is no good. Oh and I guess those Sonic games are mostly okay.

I play my Mega Drive more than any other system. It has nothing to do with nostalgia (as I didn't have a Mega Drive until '99 or so and I don't really like most of the games I played back then), there are just so many quality games for it.

[Australian Ninja]

Nice bunch of game there Stevorooni...

I still have mine, but it's in another country (my father's place, along with my Saturn). I plan to pick it up this year though and bring it back with me.

My favourites were / still are:

Flashback - So technically impressive for the megadrive, and one of the most engrossing games I've played.

Streets of Rage 3 - best side-scrolling beat 'em up ever. People say SOR2 is the best, but they are sorely mistaken. SOR 3 has 6 playable characters (7 in the JAP version), great variety in the stages and bosses etc. SOR 2 has a slightly better soundtrack, but that's it's only advantage.

Sonic 2 - Gorgeous and highly replayable. Especially once you discover the cheat codes and what those chaos emeralds are for.

Landstalker - Lovely game, shame for those who can't / won't play isometric adventures. The controls can be tricky, but are fine once you get used to them. The first action-RPG I ever played. One of my all time fav games, that is unfairly compared to Zelda - the similarities are superficial - as anyone who has completed it will know.

Street Fighter II Turbo - Still my favourite (and most played) SF game. No supers, no bullshit, just pure skill and excellent fighting.

Oh and...
Gunstar Heroes - I played this one so many times I just don't remember. At least 20-30+ time I finished it. And to think I picked it up cheap, before Treasure was a name gamers knew = AWESOME games. Recently bought Gunstar Future Heroes on GBA and look forward to playing this one again in December, when I go on holiday and collect my MD.

[Marble]

Ooh man... you're making me want to expand on a few of my favourites!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone Heist - Essentially a remix of Turtles in Time with all new levels and bosses. Sprites and stages are very aesthetically pleasing; in fact this looks like a SFC game. The upbeat music suits it perfectly and fits in well with the TMNT universe. Boss patterns absolutely suck, and one of the five stages is just filled with enemies and bosses that you’ve already beaten (as well as a boss that can be milked infinitely). Though overall, a very solid and fast paced beat ‘em up.

Streets of Rage 2 - The engine is far superior to that of the previous game. The controls feel more fluid, and bombs have been replaced with the more versatile Final Fight style desperation attacks. Characters are much more diverse than in the previous game, where the only differences were variations of strength and speed. Now they all have their own separate abilities that make them all very fun to play. Yuzo Koshiro’s work in the sound department is easily on par with that of the first game, and the graphics are so much better. The scenery changes many times throughout levels, no longer do you walk down the same street until you meet the boss. This creates an atmosphere just like the first game, which makes the experience so much better. The sprite work? Leaps and bounds ahead of what was in SoR. Although I do not understand why team attacks have been removed, nor why the levels are not as interactive as in the first game - I want to throw some punks off an elevator! It is way too easy to 1CC on defaults, however there are more enemies and more complex AI patterns on the harder difficulty settings that really make this a blast to play. A fantastic game.

I agree with Street Fighter II, though the Mega Drive never got Turbo. I think you mean Special Champion Edition, a port which contained Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting. New things specific to this port was increased difficulty in the AI and some team battle mode. I played HF on it quite a bit - probably my favourite version of SF2.

I'm also looking forward to getting SoR3 one of these days. It looks a lot better than the first two, which is saying something.

[JubeiSaotome]

No wonder boy in monster land?

[Jickle]

An in celebration you can vote for the next Megadrive XBLA release. (http://www.genesispoll.com/) Earthworm Jim is winning by a mile, which is great.

[Vindik8or]

It's 21 years for the Megadrive (Japan Release) and 20 years for the Genesis (American Release), and finally 19 years for all other places.

[Xanafalgue]

Aww, that long ago? :(

The amount of time I sunk into the Sonic series, Phantasy Star IV (finished it 9 times now!), Mortal Kombat II/3, Shining Force 2... those were the days (that I didn't have to pay)!!

[Ryan Hayward]

Phantasy Star 4, still one of the all time greats.
And lets not forget Revenge of Shinobi & Puggsy.

[proofreeder]

I still maintain NBA Live 95 is the best basketball video game I have ever played (sim, not including NBA Jam). They've had 14 years since then and videogame basketball is shitter than ever. Mind you, I haven't played Live '95 since '96, so it could be partly nostalgia.

NHL was great also. And Madden, even though we didn't really understand the rules. All of EA Sports, that's why I bought one over a snes.

"If it's in the game, it's in the game! Only it'll be slightly blocky and probably isometric..."

[Stevorooni]

Played through Golden Axe II yesterday (Megadrive collection on 360). Ran out of lives and continues on the final level and died.

So I played through Golden Axe III. Ran out of lives and continues on the final level and died.

**** games were harder back then.

[Ryan Hayward]

Mate, the golden axe games were actually considered easy for their time period. Goes to say generally how much easier games have become today. Look at the Neverwinter Nights series. People complained that the Baldur's Gate games were too hard and complicated so the developers created a game that made it impossible to die and can transport you back to base at anytime to get supplies and replenish your health for free. You are also limited to just one partner in battle so your brain doesn't fry keeping up with it all.

[Stevorooni]

Yeah I probably could have made it through easily back in the day, but modern day games with their save points and lack of a 'lives' system have made me sloppy.

[Xanafalgue]

Yeah I probably could have made it through easily back in the day, but modern day games with their save points and lack of a 'lives' system have made me sloppy.

I was playing the Mega Drive Collection yesterday and thought the same thing.

[AranchineD]

I think I'm the only person in the world who managed to finish Fantastic Dizzy on Megadrive without using a walkthrough.

Also had good times with the Sonic series, Rocket Knight Adventures (and Sparkster to a lesser extent), Warlock, Wonder Boy in Monster World, Zero Tolerance, Super Hang On, and probably a heap more I can't remember off the top of my head.

[Stevorooni]

Tried to get through the Streets of Rage series

Streets of Rage - FAIL
Streets of Rage 2 - WIN!
Streets of Rage 3 - FAIL

Some of those boss fights are impossible.

[Ryan Hayward]

I think I'm the only person in the world who managed to finish Fantastic Dizzy on Megadrive without using a walkthrough.

Also had good times with the Sonic series, Rocket Knight Adventures (and Sparkster to a lesser extent), Warlock, Wonder Boy in Monster World, Zero Tolerance, Super Hang On, and probably a heap more I can't remember off the top of my head.

I really didn't like Monster World too much, found it was too easy and basic.
Have you played Wonderboy 3 : Dragon's Trap on the master system? Easily the best of all the games, even the wonderful Monster Land.

[AranchineD]

But you don't think it is easy or basic when you're playing the game at the age of 7 or 8! >_>

Not to mention even it wasn't extremely difficult, the character and atmosphere of the game, along with the great music themes and the just awesome gameplay meant it's still worthy to be considered one of the Megadrive greats.

[Ryan Hayward]

True, I didn't actually play the game till I was about 14. At 7 and 8 years of age, I was very much fixated with Psycho Fox on the master system. I used to walk 40 minutes to the videostore on the weekends to rent it out. **** that ice level big boss though!
So easy up to that point and then they had to throw in such a huge difficulty spike, the bastards.

[proofreeder]

True, I didn't actually play the game till I was about 14. At 7 and 8 years of age, I was very much fixated with Psycho Fox on the master system. I used to walk 40 minutes to the videostore on the weekends to rent it out. **** that ice level big boss though!
So easy up to that point and then they had to throw in such a huge difficulty spike, the bastards.

Just out of interest, is that 40 minutes one way or there and back?

[Ryan Hayward]

Both ways.

[proofreeder]

Still a good effort for a passionate 7 or 8 year old over a master system game. Man, I used to love videogames like that too. I just asked coz that sounds like something I woulda done back in the good ol' days.

[jawsy]

I used to really enjoy walking to Video Ezy on a Saturday morning to hire SNES games by the bucketload (assuming the bucket could only hold two or three SNES carts, at most). I mean, I literally enjoyed the hour or so that the whole trip would take. Now if someone told me that I had to get up on a Saturday morning and walk somewhere I would tell them to go jump and get back to nursing my hangover.

[Darren]

Good to see some Phantasy Star IV love in this thread -- one of my all-time favourite games.

Ah, the Mega Drive. Occupier of far too many hours of my youth. I still have mine somewhere, along with the games. Let's see... Sonic the Hedgehog, Aladdin, Global Gladiators, Ecco the Dolphin, Another World, Batman Returns, NBA Live '95, and a stack of others that I can't recall right now.

Yeah I probably could have made it through easily back in the day, but modern day games with their save points and lack of a 'lives' system have made me sloppy.
By sheer coincidence, I blogged about this (http://thedigitalrandom.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/too-old-for-old-school/) over the weekend...

[JubeiSaotome]

I used to really enjoy walking to Video Ezy on a Saturday morning to hire SNES games by the bucketload (assuming the bucket could only hold two or three SNES carts, at most). I mean, I literally enjoyed the hour or so that the whole trip would take. Now if someone told me that I had to get up on a Saturday morning and walk somewhere I would tell them to go jump and get back to nursing my hangover.

Spending an hour looking for what to rent, too.

[Vicious]

My sister actually has our "Genesis" . . . I'm lucky enough to still have my Nomad though. :)

I have all of the:

Sonic Series
Golden Axe Series
Streets of Rage Series

And also:

Comix Zone, which ate a lot of my time as a kid.


There's also a bunch that slip my mind as of now.

[proofreeder]

I used to really enjoy walking to Video Ezy on a Saturday morning to hire SNES games by the bucketload (assuming the bucket could only hold two or three SNES carts, at most). I mean, I literally enjoyed the hour or so that the whole trip would take. Now if someone told me that I had to get up on a Saturday morning and walk somewhere I would tell them to go jump and get back to nursing my hangover.

Spending an hour looking for what to rent, too.

Yup, those were the days alright.

[MacGuyver]

I'm actually playing through Phantasy Star IV at the moment on the Mega Drive Collection compilation and am loving it so far. Is it worth persevering through Phantasy Star II and III if I like IV so much?

I was a big fan of the Micro Machines games on the Mega Drive, I always thought it was cool that you could plug another 2 controllers into the actual cartridge for 4 player multi. Or you could have up to 8 players at the same time with 2 people sharing a joypad each in Micro Machines Tournament Edition. Good times! :D

[proofreeder]

Yep, got into MM Multiplayer too. Did you play Mashed later on? I bought a copy of that recently but it wasn't backwards compatible on my 360. Or my mates PS3. I forget which. Possibly both.

[MacGuyver]

Yep, got into MM Multiplayer too. Did you play Mashed later on? I bought a copy of that recently but it wasn't backwards compatible on my 360. Or my mates PS3. I forget which. Possibly both.

Yeah I'm a massive fan of Mashed as well, that always comes out on games nights and causes many an argument especially on Polar Wharf!

Anyone here a fan of Chakan on the Mega Drive? When I first got it I remember thinking "A game where you can't die? This will be easy!" But it was pretty tough in places. I think I only managed to finish it with an infinite magic cheat.

The Chaos Engine was another game that I thought was awesome on the Mega Drive, especially in co-op.

[Darren]

Just a question to those who are playing Phantasy Star IV for the first time...

How are you finding it? What do you make of the spells, items and abilities? Do you have a handle on which ones to use in a given situation? I ask because I first played it accompanied with the cart's original manual, which explained what some items were for, what some of the spells did, and how some spells could be combined. Given the lack of any such manual in the re-release, I'm curious to know how a new player of the game is approaching it. Trial and error? GameFAQs? Jedi mind tricks?

[Stevorooni]

I haven't actually tried the Phantasy Star games yet on my compilation disc

Will they be as good as those old Snes JRPGs like Secret of Mana?

[MacGuyver]

I've only just got onto Game FAQs for info on what the spells actually do in Phantasy Star IV. Through trial and error I figured out what a few of the basic spells are, like RES is for healing and ANTI is for curing poison.

Because of this I've rarely used spells in fights except for the above two, just mainly mashed things with my weapons and chucked in the occasional 'unknown' spell to see what it does.

[Ryan Hayward]

I'm actually playing through Phantasy Star IV at the moment on the Mega Drive Collection compilation and am loving it so far. Is it worth persevering through Phantasy Star II and III if I like IV so much?

I was a big fan of the Micro Machines games on the Mega Drive, I always thought it was cool that you could plug another 2 controllers into the actual cartridge for 4 player multi. Or you could have up to 8 players at the same time with 2 people sharing a joypad each in Micro Machines Tournament Edition. Good times! :D

I loved Phantasy Star 2 & 3 but haven't played them since I was very young.
I can remember Phantasy Star 2 being a bitch of a game to make progress in but ultimately rewarding when you do.
Check out the reviews at rpgfan but take note that the scores probably reflect what they would give the games today, not when they were cutting edge for their time.
http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ps/ps2/reviews/ps2rdrev2.html
http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ps/ps3/reviews/ps3strev1.html

[Xanafalgue]

I'm actually playing through Phantasy Star IV at the moment on the Mega Drive Collection compilation and am loving it so far. Is it worth persevering through Phantasy Star II and III if I like IV so much?

PSI is on there too, give that a try. Personally, I think you should download the PSI and PSII ROMs, seen as you own the games, and use frameskip to level grind as both games can be fairly difficult, II in particular is insane.

Don't expect the story to be anywhere near as fleshed out as it is in IV as the games are quite old, but PSII has a far more interesting story and larger scope IMO.

Edit: Save III for when you are on a deserted island with nothing else to play. The game is a bit of a mess, which is a shame because it has some great ideas. I've never gotten past the first hour :D

[Xanafalgue]

I haven't actually tried the Phantasy Star games yet on my compilation disc

Will they be as good as those old Snes JRPGs like Secret of Mana?

PSIV is one of the best 16-bit RPG's out there. If you want to jump straight into IV (as most do) then read up a bit on the Phantasy Star series because IV is filled with cameo's and references to the previous games.

A small example; in one town on the planet Motavia there is a statue of 2 of the main characters from PSI.

[Ryan Hayward]

PSI is on there too, give that a try. Personally, I think you should download the PSI and PSII ROMs, seen as you own the games, and use frameskip to level grind as both games can be fairly difficult, II in particular is insane.


Hold on a minute, is the first game an unlockable on the megadrive collection as I always thought it was only an unlockable on the sonic collection plus?

[Xanafalgue]

Hold on a minute, is the first game an unlockable on the megadrive collection as I always thought it was only an unlockable on the sonic collection plus?

Yes it is!

Genesis Games (40 Total)

Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Alien Storm
Altered Beast
Beyond Oasis
Bonanza Bros.
Columns
Comix Zone
Decap Attack
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Dynamite Headdy
ESWAT: City Under Siege
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Fatal Labyrinth
Flicky
Gain Ground
Golden Axe
Golden Axe II
Golden Axe III
Kid Chameleon
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
Ristar
Shining Force
Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing
Shining in the Darkness
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
Sonic & Knuckles
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 3
Super Thunder Blade
Vectorman
Vectorman 2

Unlockable Extra Games

Alien Syndrome (Arcade)
Altered Beast (Arcade)
Congo Bongo (Arcade)
Fantasy Zone (Arcade)
Golden Axe Warrior (Sega Master System)
Phantasy Star (Sega Master System)
Shinobi (Arcade)
Space Harrier (Arcade)
Zaxxon (Arcade)

[Ryan Hayward]

I see. I have the PAL sega megadrive collection that doesn't have the Shining Force games, Eswat, Dynamite Heady and a few more on that list. I guess only the ntsc has those games, unless this collection is for the psp and not the ps2?
I feel shafted whatever the reason!

Edit - Ahh crap its on PS3 and xbox 360 - Ultimate Megadrive Collection. Haven't bought one of those yet, I still live in the past.

[Hotaru_oz]

it's been awhile since I've played my megadrive.
I remember my brothers and I getting one for Christmas years back. It came with a 3 in 1 cartridge containing Sonic 1 & 2 and Dr Robotnik's mean bean machine. She also bought us NBA Jam.
God it's been awhile since I've played it, I might hook it up later on and play it for awhile.

[Ezri]

PSI is on there too, give that a try. Personally, I think you should download the PSI and PSII ROMs, seen as you own the games, and use frameskip to level grind as both games can be fairly difficult, II in particular is insane.

You know it's still illegal to do that in Australia? That reasoning only applies in the United States.

[Lazlow]

An in celebration you can vote for the next Megadrive XBLA release. (http://www.genesispoll.com/) Earthworm Jim is winning by a mile, which is great.

Toejam & Earl comes from behind to win.

[Xanafalgue]

You know it's still illegal to do that in Australia? That reasoning only applies in the United States.

Oh. >_>

[Xanafalgue]

Toejam & Earl comes from behind to win.

Yeah, **** that. Why Wonderboy didn't win I'll never ****ing know :mad:

[Manny M]

Yeah, damn shame that. At least Earthworm Jim is being remade.

My megadrive came for my 8th or 9th birthday. It was a pack with Jurassic Park, Columns... and a couple of other games I can't remember. I was obsessed with dinosaurs at the time, and loved the JP game... even though it was a glitchy bitch (that raft level SUCKED).

I didn't get a Nintendo console till well into the SNES' life, so for me SEGA was the shit!

[Ryan Hayward]

I had a neighbour who could play Columns for hours and hours before he lost. His wife hated him cause that is all he ever did on the weekends, lazy fat bastard :-)

[Stevorooni]

Sup Megadrive fans

Kmart have a new Megadrive for sale for $50 and it comes with 2 controllers and 15 built in games. It can also play PAL and NTSC carts.

It looks a little cheap and nasty but my original controllers are screwey and I wanna plug in via AV instead of tuning it in through RF so I might take a look at Kmart on my way home tonight

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7619/art16999id5.jpg

[dinopoke]

For someone who has never owned a Megadrive before, should this be an instant purchase over the original thing?

[Stevorooni]

Probably not. Most of the games included can be found on the 360/PS3 Megadrive collection discs, or on XBL Arcade. I'm mostly getting it so I can still play my old cartridge games.

[REQUIEM]

Probably not. Most of the games included can be found on the 360/PS3 Megadrive collection discs, or on XBL Arcade. I'm mostly getting it so I can still play my old cartridge games.

That would still be a great buy for replays of the classic golden axe and fantasy star and the unbeatable NBA JAM. I bought that Atari 2600 rerelease a couple of years back.

[Stevorooni]

Shitmart didn't have any because THEY SUCK

[Australian Ninja]

Ok it's cheating because it just turned 20 years old in the US, not Australia, but it's close enough and I was feeling nostalgic after reading the stories on Kotaku

Did YOU have a Megadrive?

I did, and I still do:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/Stevorooni/collectionMegadrive.jpg

I'd play it right now in celebration except the controllers are kind of shagged, the buttons are screwed on one and the dpad is screwed on the other. Plus cartridges require a bit of belting before they work properly. I wonder if I could get replacement controllers somewhere cheap.

What were your favourite Megadrive games? The Sonic series did it for me, and my brother and I would waste many hours hurting each other in Street Fighter II, and even Super Street Fighter II which was essentially the same game that we paid another $100 for.

It may have had less graphical capability than the Snes, it may have originally had a 3 button controller while the Snes had 6, it may have had expensive add ons that no one wanted to buy (That's the Wii's job now) but it was a sexy black beast of a machine that reminds us all of Sega's glory days.

I might play my Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection on 360 this weekend. Remember your fun times with the Megadrive in this thread.



I don't know about controllers, but the cheapest option is just to but a $20 MD markII on ebay - you'll get a controller and spare power supply.
For cartridges - mainly they need a good cleaning and you'll find they will work fine again. That's if you really want to.

I recently (January) brought back my old mega drive 2 from my dads place where it's been in a cupboard stored for the last ten years. Since then I've picked up two spare mega drives on ebay and bought about 10 or so games that I currently play etc.

I'm not a "collector" as such. My recent MD games have to fulfill certain criteria - they are mostly games that I used to own that I want to play again, games that I REALLY wanted to own, but didn't have the money to buy back in the day, and a few odd games that I may pick up becuause they were not available locally etc.

Most important, I must play / complete anything I buy. There is nothing being bought just for the sake of it (no disrespect to collectors intended), I know some folk go for complete collections for PAL etc.

[Australian Ninja]

Sup Megadrive fans

Kmart have a new Megadrive for sale for $50 and it comes with 2 controllers and 15 built in games. It can also play PAL and NTSC carts.

It looks a little cheap and nasty but my original controllers are screwey and I wanna plug in via AV instead of tuning it in through RF so I might take a look at Kmart on my way home tonight

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7619/art16999id5.jpg

Had no idea the Blaze MD had reached Australia. Considered buying one several times but decided not to due to the interior perfomance and compatibility issues, the controllers are supposed to be a bit crap - though I've not played one myself.

Still may pick one up as they are supposed to play all region carts, and it would be cheaper than modding an existing mega drive (unless you did it yourself obviously).

FYI - For anyone interested who has a Mega Drive - you can pick up AV cords for any model of Mega Drive on ebay these days for about $10, same with AV cords for most other cart based consoles etc and even your sega saturns etc. The difference in sound quality with decent speakers / surround sound is really good after playing with the old RF cords.

[Herr Webster]

Never having owned a Mega Drive (pure SNES fan through and through) I picked up the Ultimate Collection on 360.

All I can say is 'bleurghhh'

I know you ****s will flame the shit out of me, but I did not find many of those games to be enjoyable. The controls feel nasty (unresponsive) and the games feel cheap compared to SNES titles. The only games that I played on there that I enjoyed at all were the Sonic games, Golden Axe and Bonanza Bros.

What's wrong with me?

[Xanafalgue]

The controls feel nasty (unresponsive) and the games feel cheap compared to SNES titles. The only games that I played on there that I enjoyed at all were the Sonic games, Golden Axe and Bonanza Bros.

Which games?

Go play Phantasy Star IV immediately!

[T Strife]

Truth is that the quality on that compilation is pretty mixed. The Sonic games hold up, as do Phantasy Star 4, Shining Force 2, and Shinobi.

I think that Ecco might, also, but I've not really gone back to it.

Some of the stuff is pretty horrible, also, which is a shame, as there's a lot missing that can't really be there.

Toejam & Earl
Aladdin (the Mega drive version was a league of its own)
Flashback
Street Fighter 2 (this is very much an era thing - but the MD pad was much better for the game)
Revenge of Shinobi (I think this is missing from the pack)
Castlevania Bloodlines
Gunstar Heroes

[Australian Ninja]

I picked up one of those BLAZE MD's from Kmart, and posted about it in that other forum. (http://hyper.com.au/forums/showthread.php?p=1234835#post1234835)

[Roman Salute]

but I did not find many of those games to be enjoyable

Makes sense since a lot of that compilation is crap. It does have the arcade version of Shinobi though which was what I got it for, can't go wrong with that.

I picked up one of those BLAZE MD's from Kmart, and posted about it in that other forum.

Looks like it's as bad as I thought it would be, I bet the sound is inaccurate as well. I've got a mega drive/NES combo machine and it's a bit like that. I think a modded original Mega Drive is the only way to go, I got one from gametraders Chermside and never looked back.

[Australian Ninja]

Makes sense since a lot of that compilation is crap. It does have the arcade version of Shinobi though which was what I got it for, can't go wrong with that.



Looks like it's as bad as I thought it would be, I bet the sound is inaccurate as well. I've got a mega drive/NES combo machine and it's a bit like that. I think a modded original Mega Drive is the only way to go, I got one from gametraders Chermside and never looked back.

Any machine that is not an official MD will have sound issues.

EDIT: playing MD games obviously, I don't include emulators in that generalisation.