Sega has released a large selection of new screens for its upcoming Sega Mega Drive compilation for the PC.
The collection features a number of classic titles from the company's golden era of the games. The selection of titles include Golden Axe, Ecco the Dolphin and platforming classic Sonic The Hedgehog.
The games are being converted for the PC and will have features such as a new UI to fully support the keyboard and new save/load options.
Sega has responded to a fan recreation of the Mushroom Hill Zone in stunning 3D and said it was very 'impressed', with it.
Sonic Colours producer, Takashi Iizuka, recently said it is 'nearly impossible' to please all Sonic fans as everyone has their own unique experience of series.
Apparently not. "Vol. 1" is the key part of that title there. How many times do they want us to pay for the same games again? It's almost as if Sega don't realise that Kega Fusion exists. Well, at least the focus is starting to shift to Dreamcast titles. Hopefully in the future, we'll see some Saturn titles too.
No Road Rash= epic fail. EA get your finger out of your perpetual sports licenses for 5 minutes and get a current gen version of this game out otherwise its peanut butter, Fido and a date with your collective sacks!
No Road Rash= epic fail. EA get your finger out of your perpetual sports licenses for 5 minutes and get a current gen version of this game out otherwise its peanut butter, Fido and a date with your collective sacks!
Can you arrange a date for me too please? I have a Fiancee but she's just not into that sort of stuff... I think the whole bringing a dog into the foray has put her off.
No Road Rash= epic fail. EA get your finger out of your perpetual sports licenses for 5 minutes and get a current gen version of this game out otherwise its peanut butter, Fido and a date with your collective sacks!
Here's some bad new for you mate. There was one in development but... It got canned. I knwo a bloody crime and make no mistake.
I have a feeling that this isn't going to sell at all on the PC, because i have a feeling that a large percentage of the PC gaming population already has the complete megadrive, SNES, NES,N64, turbo graphics, Neo Geo, Master system and arcade collections, with all the tweeks mentioned plus more, what with all of these games being available via emulators years ago.
Sega are real idiots sometimes. Anyone can download and play those games via emulation. Why not offer Saturn and Dreamcast games? The Saturn emulator SSF is pretty accurate but the ISOs are still fairly download unfriendly, and Dreamcast emulation is still very buggy/inaccurate.
I can get Sonic on my frigging iPhone, but I can't get good emulations of Sega Rally 1, Sega Rally 2, Jet Set Radio, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shenmue, Soul Calibur, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Bulk Slash, Daytona (any version), Crazy Taxi, Radiant Silvergun, etc.
Or better still, start giving us emulation of Model 2 and Model 3 games. The Model 2 emulator is rubbish with a joypad and Model 3 is only barely working in some older versions of MAME.
I'm not advocating the downloading and use of illegal roms but it is only common sense that the majority of PC owners interested in this sort of thing would have it already... unless Sega actually re-imagine these classics somehow, then I can't see why people would by it.
Personally I like the old fashioned method and blow on a cart before the commencement of retro, although I do wonder why companies don't take advantage of the emulation projects that have, in many cases, preserved thousands of games.
MPH- Sorry mate Fido don't do requests Monkey- I heard spomething about a version of RR in dev, shame it got canned, a console version would be nice. I bought a Megadrive a while back specifically to play it again, was awesome, graphics were spacked but otherwise a welcome trip down memory lane
Sega are real idiots sometimes. Anyone can download and play those games via emulation. Why not offer Saturn and Dreamcast games? The Saturn emulator SSF is pretty accurate but the ISOs are still fairly download unfriendly, and Dreamcast emulation is still very buggy/inaccurate.
I can get Sonic on my frigging iPhone, but I can't get good emulations of Sega Rally 1, Sega Rally 2, Jet Set Radio, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shenmue, Soul Calibur, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Bulk Slash, Daytona (any version), Crazy Taxi, Radiant Silvergun, etc.
Or better still, start giving us emulation of Model 2 and Model 3 games. The Model 2 emulator is rubbish with a joypad and Model 3 is only barely working in some older versions of MAME.
The model 2 emulator (0.9) is extremely impressive, but these games were never designed to be played on a gamepad. A good steering wheel is the simple answer here. Additionally, nulldc (Dreamcast emulator) is also extremely impressive, and the latest build finally includes analogue gamepad support (although Sega Rally 2 is not currently supported). Saturn games are not 'download unfriendly' if you know where to find them. Perhaps you're referring to the nature by which the audio tracks are extracted and compressed and the work you have to do to recompile them properly? Although tricky at first, they really are simple to deal with, once you've researched how to do it. Not that I'm advocating this sort of thing. Well, we have a bucket load of Dreamcast games to look forward to on XBL/PSN, although there are outstanding licensing issues with Daytona. Hopefully, after they've done re-issuing Dreamcast games, they'll move on to the Saturn classics. Bear in mind though, that some of the games you've mentioned are not Sega Games; In these cases, it may not be up to Sega at all. Regarding Soul Calibur, I'm guessing you haven't played the XBLA version.
I tend to play my emulators on my laptop so having to lug a steering wheel around isn't an option unfortunately. It mostly just needs a sensitivity tweak to fix I think, but at present steering in Daytona and Sega Rally is very twitchy. Plus I'm not 100% convinced the AI cars are moving at the right speeds in some games.
By fairly download unfriendly, I'm mostly referring to the size. A NES ROM is about 256KB, whereas Saturn games can be up to 600MB (PDZ is three discs too), so depending on one's connection it can take a fair while to download. I'm sure they're easy enough to find, but I just use my original discs!
I'm not all that impressed with nullDC any more. It was great when it was first released but development feels like it's standing still these days, and every game has some graphical glitch or missing effect. I think I'm turning into the console equivalent of an audiophile, and like to see absolute accuracy in emulation!
I've got the XBLAh version of Soul Calibur, but they've cut out quite a few of the extra features, so really I consider it to be inferior to playing it on the DC. But you're right, there could well be rights issues with some games. Hopefully in Daytona's case they'll just hack the title screen to say "Sega Racing Classic"!
@Photoboy I understand. Steering is a bit twitchy on a gamepad, but feels pretty good on a wheel. Though, like you say, not exactly portable. I've actually found Daytona to be much more playable on nulldc than on the Dreamcast itself, providing you're using 'v1.0.4 r50' which was released in June. Much of the twitchiness has been 'softened' either due to something in the emulation or differences between the 360 pad and the Dreamcast pad. It's good enough that I haven't yet bothered trying it with my wheel. Hopefully, like you say, we'll see Sega Racing Classic come to XBLA or PSN. It won't be quite the same without 'Let's Go Away' playing in the background though. Yeah, it's a pity they dropped Legend Master (I think that's what it was called) from XBLA Soul Calibur, and that's probably why I don't play it too often.
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