Sega Genesis Collection for PSP and PS2 73
An anonymous reader writes "Sega has announced what may be the coolest retro collection yet in a compilation of 30 Sega Genesis games for the PSP and PS2. 1up has a great breakdown of the games in the collection, which features everything from the Phantasy Star games to the Golden Axe games, to the Shinobis, to the Vectormans. Pretty cool stuff." From the article: "Sega's doing its part to give these games context with numerous unlockable interviews with the original developers and a museum with trivia on the disc. According to Sega, the games will be reproduced with 'the utmost accuracy to the originals as possible' by developer Backbone Entertainment. And as a special cool bonus, the PSP version will allow -- for the first time ever -- wireless multiplayer for several of the games. "
This is cool and all.. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Nice to meet you
Re:Err, why would you buy those on eBay? (Score:1)
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Re:This is cool and all.. (Score:1)
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It's pretty sad when it's unbelievably easier to aquire the game by alternative illegal methods.
No Shadowrun? (Score:4, Interesting)
Don't make me come over there and frag some wage slaves!
Re:No Shadowrun? (Score:1)
With the new Shadowrun coming out for the 360, I doubt you'll see the Genesis version anywhere outside of an (illegal) emulator any time soon.
Re:No Shadowrun? (Score:2)
The Genesis version of Shadowrun was made by a developer called BlueSky and was published by SEGA, so it should be feasible to re-publish unless Microsoft has control over titles produced before they acquired the rights to the franchise.
At any rate, it would be make-or-break for me for any Genesis collection.
Oh well, at least it has Phantasy Star 4, which they didn't manage to port to the GBA to go with the first 3 for some reason (they could have at least rele
Re:No Shadowrun? (Score:1)
It's missing some... (Score:1)
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Shinin', shinin', shinin' (Score:2)
That's because the Shinin' series is already on PSP [ytmnd.com].
What about the Revolution? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:What about the Revolution? (Score:5, Insightful)
Besides, exclusives are bad for gamers.
Re:What about the Revolution? (Score:2)
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Re:What about the Revolution? (Score:3, Insightful)
And gee, there might be a few of us who look forward to being able to legitemately purchase some of the games that we missed out on back on the first run of the NES and SNES. The fact that they'll be on a real console should make getting together groups of people for multiplayer a lot easier. I've never had much luck convincin
Re:What about the Revolution? (Score:1)
Re:What about the Revolution? (Score:1)
Re:What about the Revolution? (Score:2)
Thirty games for thirty dollars. Or less.
That means that the market price for retro/classic gaming is moving towards below $1/title. If this trend continues, it may not be much longer that Xbox Live Arcade can get away with charging a whole ten dollars for one 15-year-old game, and should put to rest the worries that the Nintendo Virtual Console pricing scheme will be high enough to discourage potential buyers.
no wonderboy ? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Gift Idea! (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder ... (Score:4, Insightful)
I wish they'd release PSI (Master System) and Herzog Zwei (Genesis), myself... good times, good times...
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Well, you could buy/find/make your own dumper, find the carts at a flea market or "jumble sale" and dump them yourself.
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I think it's an attempt to sell games. Just a guess though.
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Mixed feelings (Score:3, Informative)
I'll admit, when I saw this I thought "Excellent, a chance to do what I really want: play the classic games I love, portably". Then I realised that Sony wasn't doing a Good Thing (TM) at all. The Good Thing would be to stop messing with the firmware with every damn update and let the homebrew developers in. Give me the ability to run a Genesis emulator without jumping through contrived hoops (which are really holes in Sony's attempted patching), and without a chance of bricking an expensive piece of kit. Hell, I'd be willing to pay a reasonable amount, say $5-10, to 'unlock' the PSP to do homebrew stuff. I don't think such a move would be morally right (and probably not financially right for Sony, what with support), but I *really* like the old Genesis games.
As for the game lineup itself... well, it's good, but they could've done better. Golden Axe is plain fun, and Phantasy Star will keep you entertained for quite a while. Sonic 1 and 2 are *excellent*, but they missed the best of the lot: Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles. I can't believe this is by accident. I smell a "Genesis Collection Vol II" in the works.
Will I buy this collection? Nah. true, it's the right sort of idea -- and multiplayer makes it *almost* worthwhile -- but I just don't agree with either the method or the game choice. So come on Sony, let us use our hardware the way we damn well please, and do what we will with emulators and other nice things.
(...and while you're at it, let us rip UMD games to memory sticks. Those things are sloooow. kthxbye)
Re:Mixed feelings (Score:2)
Sonic Mega Collection Plus (PS2) has both of the games you mentioned, plus many more. You might be right that they're thinking about doing more classic
Re:Mixed feelings (Score:3, Informative)
I appreciate the sentiment, but this announcement is newsworthy (to me) mainly because of the announcement of these games for the *PSP*. The PS2 is a neat system, but if I'm playing a fixed console, why don't I just fire up the games on my original Genesis (à la Mega Drive over here)? Better still, I can play them on my PC, and take advantage of save states and save state 'hacking' to make the game do interesting thi
Re:Mixed feelings (Score:3, Informative)
Wouldn't it be Sega saying that they're "into classic games," given that they're the ones making this game? If Sony is saying anything by trying to lock out emulators, it's "Hey, Sega, we're trying har
Re:Mixed feelings (Score:2)
TFA doesn't seem to mention a 'developer' / porter / publisher, but I guess Sega would be a sound guess. You make a good point actually; in a sense, Sony is getting good PR from this both ways.
To Sega, they can say:"We're good guys. We are putting up roadblocks to try and halt homebrew development, and are keeping the average user away from Genesis emulators. You guys get to rerelease old games and we both make money!"
To users, they can say:"Hey, look! We have some classic Genesis games officially and
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Enough Value Added? (Score:3, Interesting)
wow! (Score:5, Funny)
Sega CD Versions? (Score:2)
Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles? (Score:1)
Re:Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Score:2)
Agreed. I was pretty miffed about the lack of S3 & K et al, but the Shining series was a bunch of great games. I spent countless hours playing and replaying the Sonic games and Shining Force 1 -- time unrivalled even by modern games (no I don't play WoW). I'll admit the rest of the games on offer aren't bad, but, as noted above and in other comments, there are some surprising omissions. Makes you wonder - did Sony/Sega listen to the community (or even common sense) when choosing the games for publicatio
Re:Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Score:2)
Sega isn't run by idiots. Including all of the Sonic games in the package would mean that the incentive for buying the Mega Collection is close to zero. Even if it's an older title, it's still being produced and there's still some level of demand for it.
In any ca
Re:Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Score:1)
Re:Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Score:2)
Even if those HADN'T been included, though, the compilation is still well worth your $20 if you're a fan of Sonic.
Re:Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Score:1)
Re:Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Score:2)
You're right - that doesn't exist and probably never will. To be fair, though, I don't believe you mentioned the PSP once in your original post, and because the number of people who own a PSP is very, VERY small compared to the number who own a PS2, I guessed PS2 instead of PSP.
And regardless of Sega's management mishaps, you've got to admit that it makes zero business sense to remove a product that's still viable and not technologically outda
Re:Good news but where's my Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Score:1)
Yes, I hadn't mentioned the PSP, my bad. Yeah, I own a PSP and despite how wrong not being able to run open sauce on it is, I'm seeing if I can avoid exploiting/modifying it; partly because of the time it takes to learn all that, and partly because I buy my games anyways; that's why I'm very concerned regarding my favourite MegaDrive games for it, I'd like to play them without having to modify it then use an open sauce emulator.
BTW, replacing a product by a superior product is perfectly acceptable (if onl
Doesn't sound that good to me (Score:4, Insightful)
Sonic The Hedgehog - again? Sonic Mega Collection was released two years ago!
Virtua Fighter 2 - gotta be kidding me... release the Sega Ages port instead.
Phantasy Star series - now here's the most flawed part. It's incomplete, put the first one there too - anything less won't do. And in PS2 and PS3, I sure don't want accuracy: despite the good plots, these games desperately need a massive overhaul! They look crappy, sound horrible, have exceedingly complex labyrinths, characters move and level-up too slowly.
This compilation is overall very weak. It certainly could use games like Beyond Oasis, Alien Soldier, Gunstar Heroes, Pulseman, Dynamite Headdy, Kid Chameleon, Ranger X, Revenge of Shinobi, Mystic Defender, and the Shining Force series.
Re:Doesn't sound that good to me (Score:1)
Re:Doesn't sound that good to me (Score:1)
Though, I will heartily agree that we need to see some Shining Force action soon! Preferably a collection that includes all of the Genesis games and the all versions of SF3, including the ones we didn't get here
Re:Doesn't sound that good to me (Score:2)
Re:Doesn't sound that good to me (Score:2)
Yes I know I could do it on my PC but gaming in the living room comfortably with my wife in the setting intended for those games sounds much better to me.
Anyways... thanks for the list of games to try out!!!!!
Tip: Disable Javascript (Score:1)
Of course, this may be too late, as it's been
sub-expectado.. (Score:1)
"Midway Arcade Treasures 2" - Xbox(1):
Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Gauntlet II, Spyhunter II, Xybots, NARC, APB, Cyberball 2072, Timber, Total Carnage, Pit Fighter, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobe, Primal Rage, Arch Rivals, Rampage World Tour, Kozmik Krooz'r, Championship Spirit, Hard Drivin', Wacko.
-Of these, Timber i
Re:sub-expectado.. (Score:2)
Midway Arcade Treasures 2, on the other hand, contained arcade games. One of the more interesting aspects of arcade games is that developers can experiment with unconventional controls without significantly increasing the price of a cabinet. Sprint, for instance, had a really
The two I would like (Score:2)