Maybe its been asked before, but I am not familiar and found nothing using the forum search tool, so vote away. And money is no obstacle in this decision.
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Maybe its been asked before, but I am not familiar and found nothing using the forum search tool, so vote away. And money is no obstacle in this decision.
Don't make me post the scanners gif again.
Sega Genesis/CD/32X model 2 combo.
The Sega Genesis, of course. When I think of so many great consoles, the Genesis has the largest number of great games, and has many games of every genre. While the NES has many great games, the number of crappy ones are very high as well. The Genesis to me, is an equilibrium, it has all the "Right Stuff", and a great variety of it. What more could you possibly ask for?:)
I'd probably end up voting for the SNES or PSX... I can't choose!
Why the PCE CD is not there together with PCE?
MD + MCD FTW!
Megadrive, not even close for me
Yeah, now that I see the poll the Genesis CD 32X is the obvious choice for me. If my house was on fire and I had time to save any electronics my Genesis 1 CD 32X and original Revenge of Shinobi would make it in the box.
i find it difficult to think of GEN/SCD/32X as 1 system.
it can also do SMS just as easily as it can do 32X.....
In fact, it's much easier to do the SMS. Any flashcart will do the trick since a basic SMS is inside the Genesis shell. The PCB is something just to take care of the different cartridge format.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThugsRook
GEN/SCD/32X is one system + upgrades.
It's not very different from on-cart enhacement chips. Sega just used an expansion slot for the Sega CD and the cartridge slot for the 32X.
IMO the 32X is closer than Sega CD to be a standalone console but both integrate with the Genesis hardware and use it for all games in some extent.
The Sega CD and 32X are part of the Genesis library because they use the Genesis for their graphics and sound, each system becomes one system in their games. If either add-on was designed to be totally all inclusive it would be different.
The Master System is actually included in the Genesis, but the Genesis can only use the PSG, so I don't see how the Master System is part of the Genesis' library.
How the OP would have read had I started the thread;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
I'd have to save my Saturn and my namesake's Shining Force III Scenarios:D
I'd look like Freddy Krueger from trying to save stuff:p
There was no winning trying to fit all the systems I wanted to into just ten poll choices. I included SCD and 32X with MD/Genesis because SCD and 32x cannot stand alone as systems without the addition of a Genesis console. In hindsight, I should have added the Turbo CD to TG-16/PCE, but I cannot redo it now.
This was a tough choice, NES, and PS have the best veriety+Quuality ratial out of every system, the DC has two of the best 3 fighters ever made+some oddball game not found elseware, then the Gen/CD has some damn good unique games, where there just aren't games on other system that can really compare, because they're so different. Then there's the SNES which has ton of RPGs(one of my main genres), among some amazing oddball games that no other system has+ great games for every genre, just not a ton of games for every genre.
In the end, I had to go with the PS(it has ports of a bunch of the SNES RPGs, + first US releases of games that weren't brought over when the SNES came out), it has a big veriety+high quality games for "almost" every genre(tactic, Tactic/RPG, Diablo-Diablo clones, racers, puzzle, arcade compilations, platformers, exc).
Lets face it, if you can't find a ton of games you love on the playstation, you don't like gaming in general(unless if the "only" genre you like, is fighting, in which case the DC, because yea the Playstation is rather lacking there, well as faq as quality goes, anyway).
A PC! :p
That is the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
actually, SCD does have a stand-alone system.Quote:
Originally Posted by agostinhobaroners
SMS just needs mushroom like 32X, so SMS is also included like 32X is ;) :D
Pick a genre, it has it, and some of the best from said genre too, not just random games for each genre.Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
Yeah, but most of the games contain 3D polygons, and while there are some 2D games for it, it's just not enough to compete with the Genesis. While I love RPG's, I also love Platformers just as much, if not more, and the Genesis has the best variety of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
While most of the completely "original PS" platformers are 3D(shockingly very good 3D ones at that, and I don't care for 3D myself) it has a bunch of 2D platformers as well (includuding a ton of Mega Man games).Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
Yes, but a decent amount of those 2D games are also on the Saturn, and are much more enjoyable on the Saturn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
Perhaps, but It's shocking that anyone would even pick the Saturn in such a topic, when there's a bunch of better rounded/supported systems, so It's fair game. It's not like the PS, and Saturn has about the same library, with the Saturn just having better versions of most of the games.Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
I suppose if you really only liked the one genre, then ok, but otherwise no.
Yeah, but the PS's main problem was it's controller, which is awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
Seconded, and I go into a coma trying to sift through its library for all those great games people talk about.Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
Yea the Sony controllers "suck"(they're the worst for fighters), and sadly it wasn't until the PS2, when tons of 3rd party options were out there, but it shouldn't be a big problem in platformers for the most part. However I suppose if you were gonna be stuck with only one system, it would be well worth getting a custom controller made.Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
Picking the Dreamcast because it's the one in the poll that can run emulators of old systems would be cheating, right?
Um yea sorry, emulators is cheating.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Says you. I decided ultimately on the Sega Genesis because I have the ability to run homebrew and write apps for it as well. It came down to it and the dreamcast because they have large libraries and there is an active development scene for both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
Homebrew, and emulation are two very different things, don't get them comfused(and no, homebrewing a emulation program doesn't count).Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
If you wanted to count Pier Solar for the Genesis for example(and the DC has many homebrew games as well), that would be fine, It's a real game.
Definitely my Saturn, with the NES and Genesis/Sega CD/32x not too far behind really.
No it isn't, and you're not a developer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
Look moron, emulation is playing ripped games from another system, It's not a port, It's literally another system's game, if it wasn't, you wouldn't need a god damn emulation program to play X game.
Agree. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
. . . unless the parameters were so specific/narrow as to limit practical available software and performance to a tiny amount. (allowing ALL DOS/windows games -and barring things like emulators- would still leave a very large majority of workable PC games)
Well, that, and for local (non-network) multiplayer, PC gaming is a bit limited compared to many consoles.
Emulation doesn't require ripping a game per-se either, it just requires mimicking the functions of the original hardware on another platform via software (technically, you could have realtime emulation via hardware interpretation too, but that's another topic ;)).Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
Homebrew is definitely totally different from emulation . . . the 2 are not co-dependent whatsoever (though emulation makes homebrew development easier -especially emulators with debugging tools, and makes freeware more accessible to average users), but one can most definitely run homebrew software without emulation whatsoever. (be it via an actual hard-copy release or via flash cart -which is most definitely NOT emulation in any way shape or form -unless you run said cart via one of those @games boxes ;))
I know what the fuck emulation is. It's still homebrew.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
No it isn't. Unless the emulator is commercial, like the ones in the Sega smash pack, then it's (get this) Homebrew. Made at home.Quote:
Originally Posted by kool kitty89
If the PS2 was on the list, it would have easily been my pick.
As much as I love the Genny, I went with the PSX, because it's the system I feel I'd ultimately get the most out of. I could probably spend a handful of years just playing thru the RPGs and SRPGs that immediately pique my interest on the PSX before even venturing out to other genres of interest.
Technically you "could" use emulators to play physical copies of the game, yes(usually anyway, not like he would use it that way) as yea It's emulating the hardware, although It's still playing a game that's from another system, that the emulator is um emulating, and yea so different then Homebrew.Quote:
Originally Posted by kool kitty89
Also yea, it can make developing hombrew games easier, however yea most just use Flash carts instead.
I'm obviously going with the system that's responsible for me being here. Throwing in the 32X and CD on top of it is just gravy.
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThugsRook
The Sega CD can't do any game without the Genesis VDP. Also, no video encoder, no output. And it would be very limited without the integration with the Genesis hardware.
All SMS hardware is in the Genesis, nothing of the 32X is in it. You just need to select the right mode and load the SMS game for Genesis run it. The 32X is totally different.
Voted for Dreamcast, it's definitely my favorite system!
DC, please don't die! I assume, I have way too much burned games, I'm not proud of it (Mostly because I can't find the games in stores)!
Ironnicly enough, I thought my DC would be the first console for me to die, but yesterday, my Wii (probably) died for no reason.. O__o
Uh. Well, 200$ is lost. Even though I used to almost never play to the Wii. XD That's not such a big lost. XP