added Phantasy Star I, apparently released on cart in 1994. Another case open to debate. The full updated list (912 games ATM) is in the OP
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added Phantasy Star I, apparently released on cart in 1994. Another case open to debate. The full updated list (912 games ATM) is in the OP
Good!Quote:
Originally Posted by chilled
You want to venture into the taiwanese games universe?
This site has a detailed list.
http://scanlines16.com/pt/blog-3/ret...our-megadrive/
but... but... aren't all those unlicensed (by Sega)?
It's a great site/post, but none of these games is officially licensed by Sega
as a huge phantasy star fan, this piqued my interested, not even on fan websites who claim to have all the roms for you to download nowhwere on those sites was this even mentioned. it took me a bit of research. US google and US wiki weren't helping me so I had to use Japanese to find out that this is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by chilled
a quick and harsh google translate of the wiki isthe US wiki lacked the citation for this. the game was real an existed in Japanese markets onlyQuote:
Originally Posted by japanese wiki
my Citation for the poorly translated quote: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファンタシースター
so I guess it's no longer up for debate it was a legit release
thanks for posting that, I had no idea that game existed and I'm a huge phantasy star fan. (who knows this might be on my to buy list now)
I went on Japanese amazon and found this too. https://www.amazon.co.jp/セガゲームス-ファンタ.../dp/B000148I5Y
well the game is not even a port, it's the SMS game flashed on a MD EEPROM with a switch that puts the MD in SMS mode just like the powerbase converter does. The rumour is that it was released on MD cartridge for contest purposes. I think the game is undumped but not very sought after as the resulting rom would be undistinguishable from the SMS one.
For this kind of info Sega Retro is your friend.
It's not debatable that it was a legit release, but I'm not sure if we should consider this an official MD game. Remember I'm not counting cartridge releases but games released for the Mega Drive anywhere in the world and licensed by Sega at anytime.
I'm adding Australian Rugby League: I thought it was a name/roster variation of another game: it's not.
I also cleared up a bit the list with renaming according to more standard names/sorting
thanks for the schooling, I was going to import it. but since it's literately just the SMS version I'll save my money, since I already have the SMS version. ( I guess I should have payed attention more)
I've clarified and updated the OP
Regarding the hairsplitting (but nevertheless absolutely essential ;)) subject of roster variations:
You count Premier Manager / Premier Manager 97 as two different games but not Sensible Soccer / International Sensible Soccer. Could you lay out the reasons for that decision?
There are none, it's a mistake. Sensible Soccer IE is a different game. I'm adding it, thanks for noticing
As it's a complicated matter and a very subjective one, I'm more and more inclined to count almost all cartridge releases as games as long as they are licensed by Sega. The obvious discards are re-releases, multigame compilation of already released games, REVs (Spiderman etc), games that got very little changes from one region to another (censhorship, names, etc) or plain hacks (Turma da Monica and long etc).
If this list makes this debate go on or progress it will already be a great list imho. I aimed to a different thing at the beginning: I don't understand why there isn't a list anywhere of all the official games made for the Mega Drive. As simple as that: you can find losts of lists everywhere (Guardiana, here, and long etc) but nobody cared to merge the regions and exclude compilations, etc.
Wtf happened to my post on page 1?
what post? what were you saying?Quote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi
As for Sensible Soccer, this is what Sega Retro says about International Edition:
The game was marked as a limited edition release, and features teams, groups, and players from the 1994 FIFA World Cup. It is otherwise almost exactly the same game, right down to the menus.
We are really in the limit but let's count it as a separate game
Thoughts on the lists:
* I also think MBM and PP1 are different enough to be counted separately. MBM cuts out everything of the tutorial stages and then altered some of the patterns (notably how Draco has Skeleton-T’s pattern) and visual effects, in addition to the total redraw, alterations to the sound driver, mostly different soundtrack, and completely different storyline.
* I personally feel like the Wisdom Tree games moreso belong in the same camp of the Taiwanese bootlegs. Action 52 as well. Given that these developers were small, shady, and NEVER received a permit from Sega...
* Tectoy/AtGames/Devworks shovelware originals might merit a list. They do seem to work in Kega Fusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ix0...ature=youtu.be
I'm glad to see someone put something like this together. Puts some perspective on the scale of the library.
to complex things a bit more:
do you count region optimized games as different games? for example 50hz optimized Sonic 3
I don’t think those are distinct enough. Less so than Turma de Monica, or maybe even certain rom revisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by chameleon