Sega Megadrive mini

The Last Bandit · 24-12-2019 12:14pm

Currently in closed BETA!

The hack hasn't been released yet, there are some demos of it on youtube alright but probably not ready for the great unwashed yet.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 24-12-2019 12:31pm

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Currently in closed BETA!

The hack hasn't been released yet, there are some demos of it on youtube alright but probably not ready for the great unwashed yet.

Ah I knew I missed a detail somewhere. Not a bother at all. I look forward to seeing how it progresses!

DaveyDave · 24-12-2019 1:04pm

I wonder if we can expect these to drop in price in a few months. Would love to get one but preferably under €50. The GF is asking what I want for my birthday in February so I suppose I could throw that on the list of ideas.

The PlayStation Classic will stay on ROM duty for now

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 24-12-2019 1:14pm

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Ah I knew I missed a detail somewhere. Not a bother at all. I look forward to seeing how it progresses!

There's a video of it up by Restalgia on the previous page - Project Lunar. I think that's the main one at the moment. You'll be able to load the stock UI, it will search for cover art, and be able to overclock the machine.....or CPU? Not very technical myself :eek:

Chris_Heilong · 24-12-2019 7:50pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I've beaten it.

It's not too bad once you get the hang of it with Stage 4's boss and Stage 5 being the only sticking points that can screw you over with RNG.

Also if you aren't playing the game on hard you are missing out on extras from the arcade game

Also the megadrive version is some ways is tougher than the arcade game as the hit boxes are much bigger and less forgiving.

Agreed, Ghouls and ghost is not too bad, I finished it twice(as you have to in order to get the true ending) back in the day after a rental, good stuff. I actually find Super G&G harder and have not finished it but maybe I was better at games when I was younger.

Limpy · 24-12-2019 8:07pm

Is wonderboy in Monster land on it?

Danick · 26-12-2019 1:37pm

It's awesome - I have all the mini consoles released to date but nothing matched playing Sonic 2 on it last night - controller is exactly how I remember - can't wait for project lunar just so I can play Mercs and Speedball 2 on it - also Terminator just for the sound track - I don't remember it being a brill game but I had gone from a C64 to a Megadrive and it was one of the first games I bought - so the megadrive was a huge step up for me - still love my trusty C64 but the step up to new hard ware was night and day back then.

Kidchameleon · 26-12-2019 4:56pm

Limpy wrote: »

Is wonderboy in Monster land on it?

It sure is....

Mine was under the tree yesterday, have been enjoying Darius and Tetris mostly. I forgot how good Eternal Champions was

lmimmfn · 26-12-2019 11:41pm

The Mrs picked one up for me, shame the controllers are only the 3 button variants, SF2 is a bit crap because of it, can only punch, maybe its configurable but still missing lots of moves, might look at getting 6 button controllers.

Kidchameleon · 26-12-2019 11:44pm

lmimmfn wrote: »

The Mrs picked one up for me, shame the controllers are only the 3 button variants, SF2 is a bit crap because of it, can only punch, maybe its configurable but still missing lots of moves, might look at getting 6 button controllers.

Press start during gameplay to toggle punches/kicks

mondeo · 27-12-2019 2:27am

I started Road Rash 2 and ECCO the Dolphin today. Road rash 2 has hairy graphics imo. Not the best for it's time. Ecco is kinda cool, it's different... Had this on my game gear back in the day, never played the megadrive version of it before.

Chris_Heilong · 28-12-2019 4:20pm

Project Luna is out now.

Doge · 28-12-2019 4:24pm

Well that didn't take very long!

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 29-12-2019 2:29am

Have had some trouble with Konami roms not booting up. Also I'd recommend you download NTSC roms if you can, you end up with the blue border on EU roms. You can try force NTSC mode on a EU rom but I got mixed results. Virtua Racing also doesn't work.

Pique · 29-12-2019 5:03pm

lmimmfn wrote:

The Mrs picked one up for me, shame the controllers are only the 3 button variants, SF2 is a bit crap because of it, can only punch, maybe its configurable but still missing lots of moves, might look at getting 6 button controllers.

On this point. Any opinions on the one from Argos?
Product number 419/7524

Reviews on amazon are mixed.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 29-12-2019 11:29pm

Encountered a weird problem. 6-button controller doesn't work on some games - WWF Royal Rumble (no great loss you say!). Found a rom of Zombies Ate My Neighbours I could load but no controller would work (3 or 6 button). Has anyone tried this game yet?

w/s/p/c/ · 02-01-2020 2:56pm

My wife got me one for my birthday (Christmas Day), was the second time in my life that I was waking up to a Mega-Drive under the tree, got the original one for Christmas in 1993! Made a 38 year old man happy :-)

Have played it a bit over the last week, love it. Great to play Road Rash 2 again, had that back in the day. Not technical at all so probably won't be adding any games via hacking. Would have loved to have some of the EA hockey games on it, big fan of those back in the day.

gerrybbadd · 02-01-2020 3:09pm

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

My wife got me one for my birthday (Christmas Day), was the second time in my life that I was waking up to a Mega-Drive under the tree, got the original one for Christmas in 1993! Made a 38 year old man happy :-)

Have played it a bit over the last week, love it. Great to play Road Rash 2 again, had that back in the day. Not technical at all so probably won't be adding any games via hacking. Would have loved to have some of the EA hockey games on it, big fan of those back in the day.

Its ridiculously easy to hack and add in games dude. I did mine the other day, added in a pile - but damn, i forgot NHL! Of course, Fifa and Sensible Soccer got added in

CiDeRmAn · 02-01-2020 3:19pm

I'm probably going to get one of these for the upcoming birthday, it'll end up on the pile of hacked mini consoles, but it's too nice to pass up.

Hack it, absolutely, too many amazing shooters to mention on the MD Mini and not enough of them are on the console.

From Thunderforce IV to Flying Shark... Need them all!

w/s/p/c/ · 02-01-2020 4:35pm

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Its ridiculously easy to hack and add in games dude. I did mine the other day, added in a pile - but damn, i forgot NHL! Of course, Fifa and Sensible Soccer got added in

Cheers. Will do a bit of research and will give it a go. Yeah the early FIFA's were great too... the days of being chased by the referee and getting booked for a foul, classic!

super_furry · 02-01-2020 4:42pm

I mean it says every game but we all know that Pirates! Gold is the only game anyone needs...

Inviere · 02-01-2020 7:58pm

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

Cheers. Will do a bit of research and will give it a go. Yeah the early FIFA's were great too... the days of being chased by the referee and getting booked for a foul, classic!

Enjoy...

gerrybbadd · 03-01-2020 11:03am

Its important to note that, when applying this hack, the power cable that ships with the Mini will not work. - you will need to use a different cable. The one that came with the SNES/NES mini would be fine or even just a standard micro USB phone power cable.

The Mega Drive mini cable is not capable of data transfer.

That being said, I had to try 2 different cables before it worked for me.

DelBoy Trotter · 03-01-2020 3:04pm

Now that it's been hacked (and looks simple to do!) I'm very tempted. That means I now want to buy this and the Playstation Classic (which seems to be tricky to get now

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DaveyDave · 03-01-2020 4:58pm

The GF wants me to start making a list for my birthday in February so I've added this to it, it would be nice if the price went down a little after the holidays.

markc91 · 10-01-2020 5:25pm

Can i hack this on a macbook dont see an option for it?

chopperbyrne · 31-01-2020 5:36pm

Had a voucher from Amazon that is going to depreciate in value from 23:00 tonight, so decided to put it towards the Asian version with the two six button pads.

chopperbyrne · 05-02-2020 3:58pm

First impressions, the six button controllers are either smaller than I remember, or they have been reduced in size for this.

Mega Drive Tetris is unresponsive ****e.

The Darius port is gorgeous.

I was using headphones, and there's so much little bits of audio I've just never heard through TV speakers. When Mega Drive audio was done well it really was fantastic.

Danick · 07-02-2020 12:01am

chopperbyrne wrote: »

First impressions, the six button controllers are either smaller than I remember, or they have been reduced in size for this.

Mega Drive Tetris is unresponsive ****e.

The Darius port is gorgeous.

I was using headphones, and there's so much little bits of audio I've just never heard through TV speakers. When Mega Drive audio was done well it really was fantastic.

The Sega 6 button controller was always a little smaller than the original 3 button - did you get the ghz one or the bluetooth version?

KevW24601 · 11-02-2020 12:23pm

I got this in the post yesterday and had a blast! While I have an original PAL Mega Drive, I really still had the itch to pick this up if for no other reason alone than to have the proper speed versions of Sonic on something resembling the original console. I'm also a big Street Fighter nut and for me, the Mega Drive pad is my favourite to play it on, considering I have the SNES (which is graphically better, but I think the MD music is closer to the CPS1) and Arcade versions (the definitive) as well. It does well for me in terms of execution.

For what it's worth, I think the stock game choices are great. I'm planning on making a list of which ones I want to play through and clear because I could never exactly do it when I was a kid. Started with Shinobi 3 and the double jumping on Level 6 caused much salt. It's a great game all said though.

I managed to get the hack on it as well. Hard to go wrong when Restalgia and Patton Plays have so good tutorials on YouTube. However, Project Lunar would not work for me. It just kept crashing on the title screen so I went with Hackchi instead which worked much better. Seems a majority of games work fine with the stock emulator anyway so I'm very happy with that. I'm not one of those looking to add thousands of games anyway, just a few assorted nostalgic extras and legacy games for me which weren't part of the stock list. For the others, I must still get to grips with the Retroarch and how it maps the controls on the six button pad.

CiDeRmAn · 11-02-2020 2:43pm

Danick wrote: »

The Sega 6 button controller was always a little smaller than the original 3 button - did you get the ghz one or the bluetooth version?

I never liked the Sega 6 button pad at all.
Thankfully I got one of these from a regular here, Cosmic Smash.
At the same time, this is for an original Megadrive, rather than the Mini modern thingy.

HORI-MEGA-COMMANDER-Sega-Mega-Drive-Genesis-Controller.jpg

HORI-MEGA-COMMANDER-Sega-Mega-Drive-Genesis-Controller.jpg

I can't find a D9 to USB adapter that would allow me to use my original MD controllers on the Mini, which is a pity.
I imagine they are out there but I've no idea where I'd fine one!
Apparently the hack might allow for more USB devices to be greenlit as compatible by the Mini, which would expand the number of devices that could be used, allowing stuff like my 3rd party pads and sticks to work.

Something to watch out for.

Kidchameleon · 13-02-2020 7:13pm

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Mega Drive Tetris is unresponsive ****e.

I cannot get enough of it since Christmas. The music is great.

On a side note... does anyone know of a bricks and mortar shop selling SNES mini new?

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 13-02-2020 7:56pm

Has anyone got Sega CD working on it yet? Think the latest version of Lunar lets you do it.

mondeo · 14-02-2020 11:47am

I barely touched my megadrive mini since Xmas... I must do the hack on it and see what I can get from it.

B.A._Baracus · 14-02-2020 12:56pm

mondeo wrote: »

I barely touched my megadrive mini since Xmas... I must do the hack on it and see what I can get from it.

Do it and play the greatest boxing game of all time ... ironically called greatest heavweights of all time :pac:

DaveyDave · 14-02-2020 1:23pm

Not much of a deal on these. Only a few on eBay selling for close to retail. Smyth's have it for €70, don't see anything lower than that.

I'd like to pick up a SNES Mini but it looks like they're going for €90-100?

KevW24601 · 14-02-2020 6:57pm

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Has anyone got Sega CD working on it yet? Think the latest version of Lunar lets you do it.

I got it working today with Hakchi. I think the steps between that and Lunar are more or less the same in terms of getting them to run.

I also figured out how to get the 6 button pad working with Retroarch. You have to set the pad in Options to Six Button. Then you have to remap the buttons as its native setting doesn't line up exactly with the Mega Drive controller. A little bit annoying but manageable.

The way it sets it out so ye know for yourself is (supposing I'm playing Street Fighter)

X = Light Kick
Y = Light Punch
X = Medium Punch

A = Medium Kick
B = Heavy Kick
C = Heavy Punch

Also you might have to play around with which core you use for Sega CD. Picodrive gave an error about RAM Installation but Genesis Plus GX works fine (for Sonic CD at least anyway).

DaveyDave · 15-02-2020 12:26am

sugarman wrote: »

They were €50 on eBay during the week.

Currently €55 on Amazon.de.

€65 with shipping, €70 in Smyths. Don't seem to be going for bargain prices yet.

DaveyDave · 17-02-2020 12:20am

Sorted

mondeo · 17-02-2020 12:55pm

I really have do the hack on this soon, I am missing out and I consider myself Mr Megadrive.

Chris_Heilong · 17-02-2020 7:00pm

DaveyDave wrote: »

€65 with shipping, €70 in Smyths. Don't seem to be going for bargain prices yet.

Well unlike the PS classic it was not a total disaster so might be another year, I would say 60 is a good bargain price for one.

mondeo · 18-02-2020 2:37pm

Can anyone pm where I can find a Megadrive rom pack ?

mondeo · 18-02-2020 7:25pm

I did the project lunar mod, loaded 10 games, Mortal Kombat 3 is pixilated unfortunately. The other 9 games work great though.

Skerries · 19-02-2020 1:19pm

Sega Megadrive merch

https://www.zavvi.com/sega-classics-collection.list?utm_source=19022020-zuk-sega-collection-launch-everyone&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=19022020-zuk-sega-collection-launch-everyone&affil=thgemail&ecrmcid=gbRXa7wDjA0lzv9lapbrW5y26Z8xoNKn&shae=giHDOEqNo%2BIIix9vuVsH16anHzPcaSNqBxY0QUna7ZI%3D&sendTime=1582113600&widget_id=1677311

o1s1n · 19-02-2020 1:33pm

Wow, they actually have loads of you click 'view all'.

Ciderman, you'd look great in this;

https://www.zavvi.com/clothing/sega-golden-axe-unisex-sweatshirt-black/12378055.html

o1s1n · 19-02-2020 1:40pm

God damn it, I don't really wear videogame tshirts but couldn't resist that Revenge of Shinobi one, came in at 22 euro delivered.

DaveyDave · 19-02-2020 4:35pm

Forgot to post Zaavi recently, lots of merch and vinyls too, some from Mondo Media like Silent Hill 2 at normal prices! Forget import VAT and eBay prices.

Also just to note when loading ROMs on the Mini, I believe it's best to stick to 100 max as it can lock up the interface. Handy that there's plenty of room on board so no need for external space unless you're loading CD ROMs.

o1s1n · 19-02-2020 4:45pm

sugarman wrote: »

Id have bought it and one or 2 others myself if only the cover art was on the front of the shirts, looks a bit stupid on the back with a small logo on the front.

Would have been nicer the other way around, with the small logo on the neck instead.

Funnily enough, the reason I caved and bought it was because it was a back print.

Looks a little bit more understated than a big print on the front.

mondeo · 20-02-2020 1:37pm

So what are the must have megadrive games I need to install on my mini ?

I have put 13 odd on it so far, Earthworm jim 2, Micro Machines, Streets of Rage 1 and 2, Mortal Kombat 3 (some issues with it), Aladdin, The lion King, Jurassic Park, Moon Walker, Outrun, Robocop vs Terminator, Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic 3.

o1s1n · 20-02-2020 1:43pm

Few of my favourites off the top of my head that you haven't mentioned;

Rocket Knight Adventures
Gunstar Heroes
Ranger X
Phantasy Star IV
Ghouls n Ghosts
Mercs
Road Rash 2
Alien Soldier
Contra Hard Corps
Pulseman
Vectorman
Comix Zone
Granada

Could give the two new games, Ultracore and Xenocrisis a go too.

Sega Megadrive mini

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