Things I'd change:
1. Better sound chip.
2. An all in one Genesis/Sega CD/32X console. NO ADD ONS.
3. Have said console be compadible with the Power Base Converter.
Things I'd change:
1. Better sound chip.
2. An all in one Genesis/Sega CD/32X console. NO ADD ONS.
3. Have said console be compadible with the Power Base Converter.
Actually the majority of these suggestions are cost prohibitive for 1988. A 50/60Hz switch would be useless in the US.
Also, I though the four headphone jacks were for 7.1 surround sound.
All I wish is that they would have pushed it harder back in the day. Comparing old games to new games shows how much they could do with the Genesis. Imagine if something came out like Earthworm Jim came out for Genesis when the Snes did. I guess sonic did the trick at the time but it would have made the Snes look even lamer then it did. Though I guess they needed some time to pull of all those neat tricks.
who the $#&* would care if the LED was blue or not in 1988 or whenever MD came out?? Nobody!! Of all the things to change you really care about a blue LED??? Who cares!!! It tells you its ON, red usually indicated POWER and this was common for the times! It won't be soon when EVERYTHING comes with a blue LED and some dildo sees a red one and is like OMG THATS SOOO SICK! and people start modding everything to red LEDs lol!
Color pallet and HW scaling/rotation?? S-video out would be nice but at least a stereo composite cable. Like someone said the original MD had stereo sound in it so why would the even have considered not putting it out the back side??
I said that.Quote:
Originally Posted by MN12BIRD
I kinda understand with stereo TVs still being somewhat new but I don't think people were that stupid back that getting stereo cables when they had a mono-TV would get them all confused.
I am not a techy so I will take no offense if I am told I am completely wrong but I have heard that the a/v out and many other pieces came straight from the Master System. The Master System was mono. And yes at the time Rca jacks on the back of the Tv were very rare, hell even when the Saturn and Plasysation came out and the rf was excluded many were offended because few had tvs with composite video on them.
Mega Doraibu! I like the over-the-top Japaneseyness of the name. Genesis just reminds me of Phil bloody Collins.
Also, it's a really boring bit of the Bible*. (Don't ask me why, but I read it recently...)
As for what I'd change:
- Sound chip which enables better sampled speech
- Eliminate sports games library (apologies if you enjoy these - but I don't, and I feel obliged to keep them nonetheless. Excluding the occasional tennis/basketball game, and perhaps sensible soccer, quite entertaining... pff, point still stands)
- A dual language switch to translate all Jp games (realms of fantasy here, but then I could play all those RPGs & stuff...)
- Better lightguns. (They all stink in one way or another.) And more games which use them.
- More internal MCD ram (or at least, if they'd released the memory-carts in Europe...) Also, games which don't necessitate formatting before you can play them (this doesn't count, but it's been annoying me recently...)
Meh, that's all I think.
*Pronounced "bibbly".
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Originally Posted by Smii
You see, the Sega Genesis has an invisible touch, it reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart!
phil collins is f'n boss
anyway, rather than a switch it would be better (and actually feasible) to do what Neo Geo did and make all the game chips the same and pick the language based on the region of the system. With a Neo Geo, if you put a Japanese game in a US system, the text is in english, put it in a Japanese system, its in Japanese. Same goes with the US games. That way, no matter what the original region was, if you put it in a US system it would display english text. This could've very easily be done since many games were identical in Japan and the US, although, usually all the text was english anyway (at least the games I've played). Of course, for games that were not sold in the US, I guess there would've been no reason to include english text.
That's exactly what they did. Plug in Gaiares or one of many other games into a Japanese Mega Drive, and all text is in Japanese. Plug the exact same cartridge into a Genesis and the text is in English. Of course some developers chose to use this exact feature as a region lockout.Quote:
make all the game chips the same and pick the language based on the region of the system.
What I would change about the light gun situation is the fact that they're all different. I'd have one standard light gun that works for all light gun games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smii
Totally agree 100%, but still...Quote:
Originally Posted by j_factor
1. More third party support early on,
2. Mega Net Modem service / Tele-gennesis and mega cd karaoke gone worldwide as planned,
3. Better support for the menacer,
4. With an updated colour pallette it could've had a game gear converter,
5. Blue LED (But you can mod for that),
6. 4 controller ports.
7. Have the sega saturn pad - best controller EVER. PERIOD.
8. Where it says SEGA on the top, have it in blue, not white.
9. MAYBE differant colours would have been a good idea, its really taken off.
10. To be honest - no mega drive 2, original model 1s with the extra back ports and top text left on, so everyone can play the way it was meant to!
I've decided that, along with everything else said here, the Genesis needs twice the Blast Processing is currently has.
I think more pudding needs to shoot out of the cartridge slot.
Yhea but if you didn't have a VCR in 1995 you were way behind the times, most VCRs at the time had RCA input jacks thus even if your TV didn't have RCA jacks you could simply run it through your VCR.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
Well DUH. Of course that is what we did. Its all we could do or go out pay the $20 for the rf box which sucked when you where an 14 year old kid with no job. Just another case of companies cheaping out. Composite video was not exactly standard issue at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psy