/vr/ - Retro Games

There's nothing maddening about that setup. It's what God aka Sega™ intended.

>>7866091
Sega wanted this but its okay, i dont play by the rules

>>7866064
>32X
I skipped out on buying one because I'm not an idiot.

>he doesn't know about the triple bypass

>>7866064
Is this piece of shit expensive now?

>>7866064
The tower of power was laughable back in the day. But now you just kinda got to admire how ridiculous it is. Completely over the top.

>>7866331
dont forget the SEGA™ POWER STRIP since you needed to plug in like 4 wall warts for this to work

>>7866064
This is my favorite combination, too. It's wide as shit but they're the best versions of the Genesis and Sega CD. The model 1 Genesis for obvious reasons and the Model 2 Sega CD has awesome bios music and is more reliable.

>>7866064
>not using the original model sega CD

>>7866423
This. Fuck you contrarian snowflake fags.

>>7866429
https://youtu.be/Q7UxwtkNSjI

The only contrarians are those who don't prefer this.

We all know the real answer.

Poorfags will never know the way it was meant to be played

>>7866423
>the Chad early adopter who went ALL-IN on the promise of 16-bit CD gaming

>>7866429
Good luck getting one that works that doesn't need recapped.

>>7866505
>>7868261
Its amazing how many different officially licensed versions of the Sega Master System and Mega Drive/Genesis, while there was very little of such for the Super Famicom.

>>7868308
Sega was a scrappy newcomer trying anything, Nintendo is an entrenched and conservative company that keeps things close.

>>7868281
>REEEEEECapping
This isn't the Standalone Turbografx CD nor original PC-Engine CD, though.

>>7868323
>Sega
>Scrappy Newcomer
Nope. They were in the business since the late 1970s. SG-1000 released the same year as the OG Famicom. Then came the SG-1000 II, and after a while the MARK III (aka the original version of the Master System)

>>7866064
>>7866096
If Sega hadn't wanted you to do that they would've made the two generations of units incompatible or not shipped the Gen 2 CD with the extension piece for the Gen 1 Mega Drive.

>>7866505
>>7868261
For me it's the Sega Discman.

>>7868325
LMAO You'll learn.

>>7866064
But that's all sane. The only thing that would be crazy is if you didn't mod for audio on the expansion port. You did do that, right?

>>7868308
Isn't that is because the X86000 and Z80 chips appeared in tons of electronics?

Now I really wonder if any of these CD player use these chips to do karaoke for whatever, and then reboot to Mega Drive mode whenever a game is inserted?

>>7866376
i also had to label each of the 3 power supplies with tape

so fucking ridiculous
the girls laughed when i brought it over

>>7866376
What do you need the Genesis 3 and the SNES for?

>>7870990
not my pic but it was a good example of the power strip in use

>>7868341
ALL YOUR BASED

>>7868341
i really think they should have pushed the sega cd harder. the genesis model 2 should have been an all in one unit like this.

>>7866376

retrogamecave makes power supplies that power all three with one plug, Trio M1

>>7870990
To laugh at.

>>7871478

The Model 2 was meant to cut $50 off the price, not add $150.

But yes, they should have pushed the Sega CD harder... and never gave it the ability to run FMV's...

>>7873012
Right because as we know, FMV was meaningless to the CD format's eventual success.

>>7873024

So?

They sure didn't help the Sega CD.

People avoided the system because they viewed it as a shitty FMV game machine. Worse, the extra chips needed drove up the price of the already costly unit. It helped to tank the systems success and drove away real developers.

Even now days when people talk about the good parts of the Sega CD, FMV games are absent from the discussion. FMV's did not help the Sega CD.

>>7873139
i always thought that FMV's were cool little bonuses to when you start up a game or something. i really like how games like Popful Mail did it

>>7873206

Sorry, I wasn't clear. When I said FMV's I meant the live action video type like Sewer Shark or Night Trap to name the two most tolerated FMV titles on the system. To do this the Sega CD needed a special chip.

Anime cutscenes like in Lunar, Sonic CD and Popful Mail were something else that the CD drive would have been able to do without FMV capability. Like the PC Engine CD, it could do animation but not live action.

>>7873206
You always thought wrong

>>7871647
I bought the Duo myself. So fucking convenient.

>>7873234
Sewer Shark is unironically one of the best games on the system.

>>7866064
Model 2s have pretty decent video output, and on some model 2s the sound is just fine, and very comparable. Honestly the original model 1s just sort of have blown out sound in a few places.

Model 2s also don't need a headphone jack because they have stereo output natively.

>>7866064
>Model 1 without "High-Definition Graphics" imprint

Joke's on you, that one has the shittiest sound chip of them all.

>>7866423
>>7866429
These are really cool but they're a fucking nightmare to repair.

>>7866423
It sure looks better, but I bought a Model 2 years ago when it was much cheaper than it is now and it works the same with my MD2.

>>7874180
jokes on you pal this is the HDG version :)