The "New" Mega Drive

[retrospiel]

The idea of a cheap new Mega Drive with cartridge port is great but they really should have aimed for original components with stereo and RGB (or better yet: VGA) out instead of this emulator based thing with mono + composite out.

[nissling]

I won't purchase one of these. I already have the original. By the way, I happen own one of these.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SEGA-Drive-G...m_cr_pr_sims_t
Belive me, it's terrible. It worked well for about two months, but then some of the buttons didn't work right and the screen is bad. One guy on a Swedish forum said that it was a better unit then the Nomad and that's completely wrong..

[gamegenie]

the only portable console system that I played that works well is the Play Pal (Coleco Sonic) handheld

[Baloo]

Funny how over on Digitpress some guy is trying to advertise the two new Genesis clones that AtGames is putting out, one light blue console with an infrared port (just to cater to some crappy Asian market games) and a really shitty looking Genesis portable with the worst 6-button layout I've ever seen and a Playstation like D-pad. Then when the people were more or less like "this is probably going to be junk like that last one" the guy got mad about people bashing AtGames. Lol.

AtGames sure knows how to make some crap.

[ooXxXoo]

Funny how over on Digitpress some guy is trying to advertise the two new Genesis clones that AtGames is putting out, one light blue console with an infrared port (just to cater to some crappy Asian market games) and a really shitty looking Genesis portable with the worst 6-button layout I've ever seen and a Playstation like D-pad. Then when the people were more or less like "this is probably going to be junk like that last one" the guy got mad about people bashing AtGames. Lol.

AtGames sure knows how to make some crap.

Yeap!...That dude doesn't know much of nothing at all....He is just a salesman...And of course, he has to advertise in pro of the machine, that's all....I have the ATGAMES Megadrive (Black model, 20 built-in games)...I don't even think the cartridge connector is wired correctly....
Sucks big time
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[Diosoth]

Yeap!...That dude doesn't know much of nothing at all....He is just a salesman...And of course, he has to advertise in pro of the machine, that's all....I have the ATGAMES Megadrive (Black model, 20 built-in games)...I don't even think the cartridge connector is wired correctly....
Sucks big time
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It sounds to me like AtGames is pulling a lot of last-minute legal stuff with Hyperkin to try and repackage their crappy clones into new casings. They've already confirmed that the factory that made the FC Mobile II will NOT be making the Sega hardware. Even if their prototype Genesis stuff works fine, there is now zippo guarantee the final product will be even remotely the same.

However, I still regard the Nomad as garbage since it has almost no battery life. A used game store in this area wants $100 for one of them. Not a chance.

[Ace]

The AtGames MegaDrive is an ABOMINATION to the MegaDrive and anything 16-Bit Sega. This is the worst MegaDrive clone I've ever seen: the sound pitch is all over the place, many carts have issues(no Virtua Racing, I don't think Sonic 3 works, and worst of all, SONIC 2 has problems!), and the system isn't even based on real MegaDrive hardware(32-Bit ARM system-on-a-chip as previously mentioned IN NO WAY related to the MegaDrive)! Do yourself a favor and let this console rot in hell.

[Baloo]

It sounds to me like AtGames is pulling a lot of last-minute legal stuff with Hyperkin to try and repackage their crappy clones into new casings. They've already confirmed that the factory that made the FC Mobile II will NOT be making the Sega hardware. Even if their prototype Genesis stuff works fine, there is now zippo guarantee the final product will be even remotely the same.

However, I still regard the Nomad as garbage since it has almost no battery life. A used game store in this area wants $100 for one of them. Not a chance.

Nomads specs are really good, and there's no hardware problems even though it's a portable genesis. There's no sound problems, and the graphics blur a little like Game Boy, that's all. Only game that doesn't work on Nomad is DecapAttack. Nomad isn't as garbage as you may think it is. Sure the battery life is bad but it's still a good system overall.

[Lord Dilks]

and not compatible being w/ SEGA CD and 32X automatically makes this worthless garbage.

I'd have thought that the fact it has no chance of being able to incorporate the epically tosh SEGA CD and the woefully dire 32X make it all the better a piece of kit.

Having said that, it all seems a bit unnecessary to me. I wouldn't bother getting one.

[madcrow]

Looks pretty dire... They didn't even bother to design an FPGA/ASIC clone, they're just running a crappy emulator on underpowered hardware.

[Diosoth]

The official sale # for 32X hardware is 200,000 and I'd say half of those are now useless thanks to hardware failures and those AV linker cables being lost. Not that it had much in the way of good games to begin with. As for the Sega CD, it's a bulky piece of hardware that's easy to pirate games for. For every 1 good game it had there were 5 shovelware games. Wiring a slot for the thing is probably more cost than they'd recoup.

Okay, tofu said the "Firebox Diamond" name is due to AtGames wanting to name the thing after somehting called Firebox cartridges in Asia. Yet somehow, no one can seem to find anyhting remotely like that on Google. Let alone any actual proof that a Genesis or clone would run such games, so even if they really do exist it's safe to assume AtGames is trying to deceptively name the damn thing.

He's also not answering any questions anymore.

I'd wait for any reviews of either Sega console. The change in factories and legal stuff pulled by AtGames makes me afraid the "high quality" of the prototypes won't be in the final versions.

[kool kitty89]

The figures on the 32x are odd, ive seen numbers like 500,000 were produced for NA alone, both figures are present on the wiki page...

[Chilly Willy]

The 200,000 figure is from wikipedia, and is taken from a bad article on gamepro.com. The article merely throws figures out for a number of consoles without any proof of any kind.

[Smii]

...worst of all, SONIC 2 has problems!

Why??

They have one of these up for grabs as a prize in some game, in the arcade (if you can call it that) of the cinema I go to occasionally - also one of those portables with built in games. They look so sad sitting there, but even if the stupid flashy game weren't impossible, I'd probably still rather have my £3...

[Joe Redifer]

Wow. Just wow. I have never seen such awful Photoshopping. I'm willing to bet that my dead grandmother could do better than that. That is so bad that it is just insulting. And sad.

Only game that doesn't work on Nomad is DecapAttack.

Wrong, it's X-Men because it requires you to use the resent button.