Happy 20th Birthday Megadrive!

[REQUIEM]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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:



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]

Originally Posted by 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

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?

[LARZ]

Originally Posted by Herr Webster

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.

[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]

Originally Posted by Roman Salute

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.