What are 10 Things You Would Like to Change about the Genesis?

1: bump the color specs all round
2: allow sampled sounds to play through any sound channel at once
3: SMS cart play without an adaptor & Start button becomes "Pause"
4: substitute fm instrument sounds for optional fm sound in SMS games
5: fully region free, carts and CDs
6: quality composite, stereo & S-Video out without special cables
7: cheap CD-ROM available or all-in-one system at launch
8: fully compatible (SMS and all) Nomad that can connect to a CD-ROM
9: Game Gear cart playing, even if it rerquires an adaptor
10: full color transpancies of any layer or individual sprites

Since everyone is revising theirs...

(Rev. 1.1)
1) Larger blue LED.
2) A small text LCD that scrolls "bue ledz rule all other color ledz suxors lolz!11!11!!1"

(Realistic list)
1) 4bit palette.
2) Single 12bit DAC with a small amount of ram(something like 512bytes) with a range of playback rates up to 30khz.

Those are simple and realistic upgrades. The sound DAC is very simple and effective, and adding the 4bit(4096) palette support was basically already there. Increase the color palette and the small amount colors on screen doesn't matter so much. Either that, or give sprites its own 4 palettes.

I don't know what sega were thinking, this is much better!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.ja...megadrive7.png

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Originally Posted by playgen

I don't know what sega were thinking, this is much better!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.ja...megadrive7.png

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What is with the four 3.5 mm jacks in the front left under the volume control? Are they headphone jacks? Why four? Splitters are easy to acquire if you really want to hook up four headphones to one Genesis.

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Originally Posted by playgen

I don't know what sega were thinking, this is much better!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.ja...megadrive7.png

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Tmee, can you do this for us!!!????????

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Originally Posted by Psy

What is with the four 3.5 mm jacks in the front left under the volume control? Are they headphone jacks? Why four? Splitters are easy to acquire if you really want to hook up four headphones to one Genesis.

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4 head phone jacks for 4 players, if people don't want to buy a seperate sms adaptor they wont want to buy audio splitters either!
They also double up as 4 ports for sms 3-D glasses! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

My goodness this incredible piece of art should be on display in the louvre, would it ever be possible to create this behemoth, I would be willing to fund and estonian lab to the tune of $1,000,000 to create this gorgeous fantasy!

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Originally Posted by playgen

I don't know what sega were thinking, this is much better!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.ja...megadrive7.png

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actually, yeah, that would have been pretty f'n awesome. Obviously the A/V stuff would go on the back, the 4 headphone slots are a little much, and the blue LED is nonsense, but the cartridge slots, 4 controller ports, 50/60 switch, memory card slot, etc. would've all been great.

The only thing i would change is to give the genesis better composite video, i like the differences between the snes, pce and the genesis, well, thats because i have all three.

Looks like someone had fun with photoshop.

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Originally Posted by TmEE

and Mega Drive is lot better name than Genesis IMO. Mega Drive, damn it sounds so good :)

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You have that backwards. Mega Drive sounds incredibly generic. Genesis is much, much better.

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Originally Posted by playgen

4 head phone jacks for 4 players, if people don't want to buy a seperate sms adaptor they wont want to buy audio splitters either!
They also double up as 4 ports for sms 3-D glasses! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

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Why not one 6.25mm jack then those with professional headphones can get the most out of them?

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Originally Posted by Psy

Why not one 6.25mm jack then those with professional headphones can get the most out of them?

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oh it has those too; they are on the side of the console, just out of sight in the photo :)

It's the Super Ultra Mega Turbo Drive! :p

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Originally Posted by CMA Death Adder

4). YM3812 (OPL2) sound chip instead of YM2612.

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Originally Posted by xbrinkx

Why this chip?

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The OPL2 was used for the AdLib sound card on the PC, and later, for the Sound Blaster, to provide FM music. It's my favorite FM chip. I don't think many people would agree with me on this one... so it's more of a personal preference. I could dredge up examples of YM3812 music versus comparable YM2612 music (such as the Dune II soundtrack, for example), but I'm not here to prove anything, just stating opinion.