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"Mini Genesis" no longer being made by AtGames, using "proven" domestic dev
- Thread starter Shaneus
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Look at the actual Sega tweet. Sega announced this hours BEFORE Sony announced theirs.
Sega should be working with someone like M2 and handling the production of this themselves. Anything not made directly by Sega is missing that level of 'authenticity' that the NES/SNES classics have.
Cool, I guess Sega realised that it was better to do it in-house.
Never happening due to legal issues with the music.
Never happening due to legal issues with the music.
Thank god, I have one of AT's flashbacks and they're terrible. Instead of a flashback they gave me fucking PTSD
That's awesome. I wish I had the skill to make this myself.I've wanted a good Mega Drive Classic for so long, that I've finally said fuck it, and made one myself.
Got one of those Mega Drive USB hubs:
Put in a Raspberry Pi running Retroarch:
Just ordered a couple 6 button original mod kits from 8Bitdo, which will convert them to Bluetooth controllers:
It's gonna be dope. Master System, Genesis, Sega CD, some Sega arcade classics. I'm amped.
Yes. Sega has been recently trying to settle these things relatively quietly, which usually results in emulated games not getting new ports instead of getting taken down. Something similar is suspected to have happened to Ecco titles (although I don't have we have such a smoking gun there as Hard Times).
So a lot of the buzz around S3&K not getting a recent re-release have to do with the music, some of which was composed by Michael Jackson (more specifically his team) and seems to be tangling everything up.
What's odd is like you say, you can still buy them on Steam as well as the Xbox 360 marketplace (which is backwards compatible). Obviously you can't buy Wii points anymore but they're still on the Virtual Console as well.
So, who knows. No one who's not privy to Sega's internal workings is going to know why it was okay then but not now. It did come out very recently that the music for Icecap Zone was lifted from a totally different band, The Jetzons, which probably played a role in that. Christian Whitehead (creator of Sonic Mania and the 1, 2 and CD mobile ports) tried selling Sega on a mobile version of 3 a few years back but was firmly rejected.
*Checks NES classic sales*
"Huh maybe we should try to make this thing not a complete piece of shit"
"Huh maybe we should try to make this thing not a complete piece of shit"
Stop this, my wallet is crying. I thought I could safely skip this but now I'll have to add it to my growing collection of microconsoles.
Holy shit, seems like they actually listened to the complaining about AtGames.
Nope. That was never an emulation-related issue.
I felt the same way, until I just jumped right in. There are tons of resources out there to guide you through building a Retropie. I put both of mine in an NES style cases, picked up a SF30 Pro from 8bitdo for one of them, and got a PS1 to USB adapter for the other. All in, you'll probably spend about $130 all together if you buy a controller like mine, but it's not needed. I got a retrode and backed up all my physical games (save files on SNES games too). It's fun and rewarding, and I can't recommend it enough.
Of course. We should also thank Sony for the NES and SNES classic because Nintendo only made them thanks to their prediction that Sony would make the ps1 mini. And also Nintendo copied the ps1 controller when making the SNES one.
Truly. Generally they've slowly but surely just doing what we've asked for.
Well, that's good news. Hopefully sound won't be complete fubar now unlike the other mini-genesis.
Probably helps that this is a Sega Japan initiative.
If they get M2 on this that's even better.
If Sega puts out a mini Genesis that doesn't suck and has the option to use real carts, I'll be in love.
I feel bad for the people at At Games, but man they were a terrible company.
Good call by Sega. If you're going to put your brand out there, make sure it's quality, to increase your market value, not lower it.
If they could allow for cart slot again, that would be amazing if done properly!
Good call by Sega. If you're going to put your brand out there, make sure it's quality, to increase your market value, not lower it.
If they could allow for cart slot again, that would be amazing if done properly!
I was just about to ask about this!!!!!
And I was literally going to say "the lack of follow-up news and deleted AtGames tweets makes me think SEGA changed who was making it"
I'm so happy!!! The US version makes me happy too!! (ATGames was saying the US version was going to have a cartridge slot........ we dodged a bullet)
Great news!
And I was literally going to say "the lack of follow-up news and deleted AtGames tweets makes me think SEGA changed who was making it"
I'm so happy!!! The US version makes me happy too!! (ATGames was saying the US version was going to have a cartridge slot........ we dodged a bullet)
Great news!
A proven japanese dev that makes hardware ?
Now imagine how it would be if Nintendo made these things, after all they had the most success of anybody selling mini systems.
Now imagine how it would be if Nintendo made these things, after all they had the most success of anybody selling mini systems.
The original plan was to use ATGames, but it appears that Sega of Japan has moved on from them. Given the amount of flack they've gotten over the years (ranging from poor emulation, to poor sound quality), I wouldn't be surprised if Sega of Japan was not happy with the hardware they provided.
Isn't there a company that just licensed out the controllers for reproduction, and with usb connections? Seems like a no brainer to bundle at least one of those in.
Yeah, Retro-Bit is releasing some officially-licensed controllers soon: http://retro-bit.com/blog/post/retrobit-unveils-first-wave-of-officially-licensed-sega-products/
Retro-Bit is not a Japanese company though, so I guess they aren't the creators of the new mini console.
how was performance on the ps3/360 genesis collection? i'll probably just get that in the meantime
I think it does. Sega has been working with Atgames for at least 10 years now. They have launched at least 14 different sega consoles, and a few have variants.
Sega of Japan finally understands that they need to do better now that their segment has Sony and Nintendo.
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Thanks. I guess they never announced a release date, right? This means it has been technically "delayed" then.
It's for the best if it means they are going to release a quality product.