A couple cool Genesis things happened this week. First, the
MegaSG is out and getting rave reviews. Should you want the new gold standard for modernized Genesis hardware that takes whatever old cartridges you might still have laying around, this is it.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/25/18278 ... mega-drive
I still have at least two or three old Genesis units down in the shop in who knows what condition, so I'm more interested in those fuckin' fantastic looking controllers, especially 'cause they apparently work in Windows and can be bought
on their own.
Second, Sega finally took the lid off their
Genesis Mini. Yes, various attempts at tiny Genesii have made it to market before, but they've all been licensed to third parties, and they've all had emulation problems. This one is finally coming from Sega in-house, specifically M2, the group behind Sega Ages, who've recently been putting out incredible definitive editions of old Sega games on the Switch. That alone feels like a huge deal; I'm not necessarily expecting Switch Phantasy Star levels of curation, tweaks, and bonus content from all 40 games in this package, but that's still 100% the team you want working on any old Sega things in 2019.
Only 10 of those 40 games have been revealed so far, so don't bother whining about omissions, but that early list includes
Castlevania Bloodlines (!) so they appear to be digging a little deeper into the library this time around versus previous collections.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/30/18288 ... rica-japan
http://genesismini.sega.com/
It'll be out on September 19th.
e: according to Kotaku, it'll also have all regional variants of some games, and not just the version local to the region yer Mini was purchased in, so for instance the Japanese Genesis Mini will have the Japanese, European, and NA versions of Castlevania Bloodlines. That's pretty neat and makes me wonder if the other 39 games will follow suit. Also makes me wonder if this is the first Mini console to do this.
also, the Genesis Mini's menu music will be composed by Yuzo F'n Koshiro.
https://kotaku.com/sega-will-release-th ... 1833681956