MEGA Bites Vol. 4

[Melf]

For a console that was officially discontinued almost a decade ago, it's nice to see the Genesis still making waves in the industry. We have some news about the new Xbox 360 and PS3 Golden axe game, the fate of Earthworm Jim, another attempt at making the Genesis portable, Mega Drive games on the Wii, and some great guys using the Sega CD for charity. We've laid out these tasty morsels of information for you in the latest installment (http://www.sega-16.com/2007/11/mega-bites-vol-04/) of MEGA Bites, so pull up a chair and chow down!

[Joe Redifer]

Of course, we're still more than a bit skeptical, as the lack of documentation (manuals, registration cards, etc.) for each game and the dearth of sales info available on this device has us thinking that it's most likely just a really, really good bootleg.

How about the absence of the Sega logo altogether anywhere? That'd be a good tip off. I guarantee you the life of Gary Coleman that those are bootlegs, no "probably's" about it.

[Aarzak]

Hey............I enjoyed watching "The Gary Coleman Show" on many a late night in Cartoon Network over the years. LeBeau FTW!

Racist. :)

[playgen]

Yes those are pirate games, they aren't licensed by Sega at all, their even breaking Nintendo copyright if you hadn't noticed :) . They come from Russia where you can also buy plenty of pirate normal megadrive console games such as Russian translated Zero Tolerance 2, Donkey Kong 99 and so on.

[Alianger]

If you're going that route, isn't the PSP a better alternative than some russian bootleg stuff?

[playgen]

Well if you already have a PSP then yes, but there have been interesting original (or maybe hacked) games released on those little gba style carts, like 'The Incredibles' and theres no ROMS online of such games, not yet anyway.

[Genesis Knight]

Thanks for the heads up on the Bus Ride charity. I'll help out with that. :D

[ary incorparated]

who wants to pay aggain for theyre genesis classics?,i dont.and it doesnt look that great gba alike model,how origenal.I hope they,lle find more solutions.BTW who wanst to play roms on psp,genesis roms suck compared origenal,genesis roms have glitches plus the music,sound is sometimes f..cked up.

[playgen]

The roms are exact binary images of the carts, no different. Any glitches you experience would be down to the emulator your using not being 100% accurate.

[TmEE]

That Mega Drive Portable and all its stuff is 100% pirate. And it can be very accurate, since these things are NOT emulated (there's plenty of GOOD MD on a chips in Russia, and that thing most likely belongs to one of them). But the quality of these things is not very good... sooner or later it WILL have some hardware issues.

[Kikoskia]

I want to play Desert Bus. How do I do this? :p

[evildragon]

I want to play Desert Bus. How do I do this? :p
You really don't. :?

[InternalPrimate]

Love the mention of "Child's Play" :D

[Rusty Venture]

I want to play Desert Bus. How do I do this? :p

Masochistic much?

[starphaser]

why do people asume things? why spread rumors? the fact that the new golden axe is an xbox360 exclusive is nowhere to be seen. the guy who wrote the article for play!magazine is nicknamed "Xboxygen". this, at least to me, sounds very fishy.

edit: sorry for the mistake, xboxygen is actually a french xbox magazine. still, i'm not convinced it's not a rumor.

I'm not speaking ill of the sega-16 article, which is very good btw. it's just that i hate all those hoaxes that usually storm us while browsing for news, specially video game ones.

[ary incorparated]

The roms are exact binary images of the carts, no different. Any glitches you experience would be down to the emulator your using not being 100% accurate.

i,ve used the newest gens emu but still the sound in comix zone isnt as good as on console,defnitly not and neither is Tf4 sounding as it should.

[evildragon]

Get Kega Fusion, and put on HQ sound quality mode.

ROMs are 100% of their cartridge. If you still have problems, then your computer just plain sucks.

[ary incorparated]

Get Kega Fusion, and put on HQ sound quality mode.

ROMs are 100% of their cartridge. If you still have problems, then your computer just plain sucks.

ill try it out i just got regulair gens,in some games like comix zone,superman you hear a awfull glitchy sound ramming trought the music i dont know if your familiar with that i think it will work inventually idd ill try that out for once maybe,im not that into roms.but i think a psp will work great for portable genesis i think you only something like firmware for it i've got a psp but sorely no adaptor it came with the repairations from my dad and it was for resserve parts while it was working fine.

[evildragon]

It's not that you get into ROMs, it's just that it's a fact of life, it's 100% representation of the 1's and 0's on the cartridge.

Get Fusion, it was programmed by an ex-SEGA employee, so he knows his stuff.

If you still have problems, your not setting the HQ Sound mode, or you have a shitty computer, plain and simple.

[TmEE]

Or get a flashcart and don't bother with emulators, unless you're doing some MD dev...

[ary incorparated]

Emulator Kega works fine gens was just limited back in the days,so a psp will be a perfect genesis emulator for some.

[Aarzak]

Kega Fusion is FAR superior to the old Kega and Kega Lazarus series of emus, and pretty much every incarnation of Gens. The only things Fusion is glaringly missing is Kaillera support (for all it's worth) and gameplay recording options.

Latest version of Fusion is 3.51 which was released ages ago but surprisingly has managed to be perfectly adequate to this day. Unfortunately, I hear that Steve Snake, author behind the Kega series and former Genesis developer (32X port of NBA Jam T.E and "Mortal Kombat II", though not sure about the latter) has quietly ceased working on Fusion and emulation overall, and is working with the "big wigs" like Microsoft and Digital Eclipse now. Bet they must've had him sign a confidentiality agreement or something. He hasn't been heard of in ages.

[ary incorparated]

ah lets get of the emu things and stuck with the official toppic ways more fun.