All Genesis Vs Sega CD Games Compared Side By Side 

By comparing the two, you can see how producers at the time were a little lazy with the Sega CD.

A lot of ports were made with just CD music added, but there's a lot of worthwhile versions with extra stuff. Spiderman vs Kingpin is the best example, they made a great remaster of the old game with a ton of new stuff, it would be great to have more "remixed" games like these in the time.

Terminator on Sega CD is one of the system's best games. Gameplay, graphics, and the incredible Tommy Tallarico soundtrack.

Man..... I hate to poopoo on your hard work but the two screens are identical! Just kidding! Thank you for putting these together. I owned the SEGA CD and ohhh... The waisted potential...

I appreciate the effort of putting such a comparison but it can't do anything else than being a disservice as it compares exclusively short portions of gameplay, which are often the same because the SEGA-CD was not meant to change how the MegaDrive renders its visuals. Even in games where the base is the same, you always get more content, more animations, more stages, excellent Redbook soundtrack, videos etc... and it makes it totally worthwhile as it builds a very different atmosphere and some people simply enjoy all of these additions. Why should I play Mickey Mania or Pitfall or Flashback on the base MD if I have the SCD games ? And this is only to talk about games that were MD to SCD ports, because th add-on also had a ton of exclusive games...

I think the sega cd was never used to its full potential. With all data available on cd the developers could have added many more sprites, animations and backgrounds instead of using it just for high quality music and fm videos

I will update with a greater response, I just want to make note to send to Batman... "Yo Batdude, it would have been easier to fly just above the bridge..." lol An amazing coding marvel on the Genesis tho! I am looking forward to watching this in full! A fun surprise drop my good buddy!!!! Keep up the badassery!

For me, soccer games were more fun in 16 bits than in the era of realistic 3D games

I just found out your channel today, I was looking for Expandable comparisons between DC and PS1. Such irformative and interesting videos. Great work!

26:00 Was there ever a version of classic Pitfall! on the Genesis? Could not find anything on the net.

16T on Sega CD... Who would have known...

Nice comparison. I saw the MK one! 😂😁I think i actually liked the genesis version a little more though the CD sounded better. Also I consider these videos the big boss fights of your videos lol. Every now and then you do the big video compilation 😅

It's amazing how the Sega CD underachieved on the 3 ninjas game like it barely looks different it's just a tiny bit better. But then again I've always heard that it was hard to develop for the Sega CD

Another big comparison here, Bill. For the vast majority of the titles that appeared on both, Sega CD owners barely got an upgrade: usually some CD-Audio or maybe some soundtracks mixing the Genesis FM with some PCM samples and maybe a few more or better sample for sound effects or voices. That's about the total amount of extra effort that many of the developers put into the Sega CD versions. But, maybe you were lucky and got a bit of FMV. Or, in a few cases, you actually did get more effort: The vehicle stages in Batman Returns, the snowboarding in Cliffhanger, Mortal Kombat, etc. And then there are the few that are different takes on the title/series, and at least that's at least interesting: Batman & Robin, Jurrasic Park, Road Rash, Shadowrun, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy (actually my favorite by far of the 8 and 16-bit Jeopardy games), Bram Stoker's Dracula (I'd much rather play the Genesis game, but the Sega CD game, though I don't like playing it, is at least pretty cool looking), Frankenstein, Power Rangers, etc. Samurai Shodown gets a new port too from FunCom though; IMO, though it's better in some areas, it's not better enough than the Genesis port plus is worse in a few things. There's a number of games here I'm not familiar with, but most seem to be of the 'new soundtrack only' variety. I didn't have a Sega CD during the 90s (though my friend Devin and his brother did), and when I got one off e-bay in '02 the only games I ever got were Vay, Popful Mail, Mortal Kombat, Samurai Shodown, Final Fight CD, Puggsy, Mickey Mania, Jeopardy, and Sonic CD. So, of the ones I own that appear on both the Genesis and Sega CD, I think Samurai Shodown is a wash, Puggsy is better in someways though I slightly prefer the Genesis soundtrack, MK is slightly better (I love Matt Furniss's Genesis MK soundtrack though I do also like the arcade rips used in the CD port...and, the better animation is nice, but, man, is the Shang Tsung fight annoying and load times are a little annoying but not the worst), while Mickey Mania and Jeopardy I prefer on the Sega CD. Some day I need to play the Sega CD version of Flashback. I think, even though the vast majority of these games just add a bit of sound enhancement, I would say that still puts the Sega CD overall in this particular comparison just slightly ahead, since that *is* an enhancement and the games with more care put into their Sega CD versions help to push the Sega CD ahead. Some of these games, IMO, are great on the CD (the Chuck Rock ports are great), but where the Sega CD shines are the games that DIDN'T appear on the Genesis: Vay, Popful Mail, Final Fight CD, Sonic CD, Shining Force CD, the Lunar games, Heart of the Alien, Eye of the Beholder, Rise of the Dragon, WWF Rage in the Cage, Fatal Fury Special (not the best port though), etc.

Like, who is going to love the experience of waiting 20 seconds for a video to load of a goalie saving a goal, every time a goalie saves a goal? The NFL games don't use a skew transformed mode 7 pitch when the SNES versions of those games did. Which actually didn't improve the look of the game as much as I thought it might. Scaling the players would have looked pretty dope. I think using the scaling chip is a piece of piss. But you can't tell from screenshots so the devs didn't bother.

The prince of persia's Genesis version looks much better

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3 Ninjas cd also had these neat little pop up fmv’s of Victor Wong

There are almost too many "Here's the cartridge game, but with a CD soundtrack tacked onto it!" to count.

love the sega cd and the potential that came with it. Wish that there were more quality titles for it though.

Imo most of them should feel a bit like little remasters but instead they look the same with better music with exceptions like Power Rangers or Jurassic Park.

O Sega-CD era pra ser mais colorido.... exibir 64 cores de 512 de paleta já é pouquíssimo até pra época. Acho que esse é o segundo ponto principal do problema, depois do preço salgado do dispositivo, que é o primeiro.

can u do this over again but first highlight the genesis audio and then the cd audio.

that good ol genesis fart sound

can you make a video of all PS1 Vs Nintendo 64 Games Compared Side By Side please?

Of all the lazy ports here, I can't believe Sega acually tried to rerelease Columns and convince buyers it was any different from the Genesis version. Imagine the buyer's remorse after picking up that one 🤦

As a sega fan it always amused me how the mega cd basically turned the console into a snes XD I liked my mega cd back in the day but it would have really disappointed me if i had paid full price for it thats for sure. Games I enjoyed on megadrive, i thought, already sounded awesome (earthworm jim, puggsy etc) some games i preferred on mega drive as well (terminator, power rangers) games like ecco sounded better but i preferred the megadrive version as the songs stood out more and had more of a melody to them. That being said I loved the soundtrack to brutal paws of fury on the cd. sherlock homes vol 2 was cool even though i didnt know what i was doing in it.. Sonic CD was brilliant, sega classic collection was a cool way to replay streets of rage with the different voice samples and final fight on mega cd was incredible on it, so much better than the snes version and the soundtrack is spot on, better than the arcade version too!

I feel awful for asking my parents to shell out money for the Sega CD

It's a great video, but the comparision between Batman Returns and Batman Returns CD is quite misleading. The main attraction of the CD version is the fantastic soundrack from Spencer Nilsen and the great looking driving sequences, which are completely in 3D. ^^

If Sega CD Bram Stoker's ad better play mechanics it would have looked like an early 2.5D sidescroller, they had a good idea in trying it.

Thanks for this comparison! I just wonder why the genesis' version of prince of persia looks much much better than the sega cd one...

Good video. SegaCD was absolutely wasted by devs. It's a shame when consoles don't fulfill their potential

This has to one of the hardest comparisons to create in this format, and not only because of all the hours lost to load times. Most of these games are the same, but. How do you do that "same, but..." justice? My ideal solution would be showing each side of it... but I'm not making this, and my present complete ROM collections are hardware restricted to 2600 and DMG Gameboy...WAIT now there's a compari$on nobody thought of! Damn... it's actually a pretty big... I'm sure I can just point my phone at the DS and Flashback Portable... Seriously though, you always go the extra mile to keep these engaging, and, even if this video can't tell the full story, you find things nobody else calls out... Look at how much more stuff Road Rash on Sega CD is scaling using the Genesis engine. No wonder why the frame rate didn't improve. I also want to point out that SamSho CD is using the original Neo Geo character sprites, and restores more of their animation. Back then, getting anything that high quality in a home fighting game? It was worth some sacrifice. That said, it's beautiful SNES/Genesis/Sega CD all made different sacrifices, in order to teach us a bit about game development.

I miss playing my Sega cd... I should just hook it all up again.... My favorite system of all time I think

Best port: Samurai Shodown

Why does the turf at FIFA International Soccer CD look worse than SMD?

it's incredible how the sega cd has been like the emperor's new clothes, and the beginning of the nosedive of the credibility of sega. A brand that was on the top of the world until this scam arrived.

Awesome Comparisons Bill!

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Poucos jogos tinha diferença em algo na versão cd e alguns mais coloridos e sons melhorados

I had the CD add-on and was never impressed with it. Mostly a waste of $ since background music wasn't important to me. I did buy a few games that for some reason were cheaper on CD instead of cart but that never justified the expense. Too few titles that really needed the CD capacity.

разница есть ?

No Eternal Champions.

That's one of the reason why segaCD failed...nobody would pay a lot of money to play the same games(or worst) with long load times

Se ve muy bien el modo 7⃣

Maravilloso magistral wowwwww que video estuve esperando por años gracias

heavy nova, ernest evans, cliffhanger, batman and robin...terrible games -.-

O que a Sega fez com o Sega CD foi vergonhoso,em sua biblioteca teve sim alguns ótimos jogos mas nenhum deles usou o real potencial do Sega CD,e pra piorar a situação a Sega do Eua colocou aquele catálogo de jogos em fmv que não tinha nada haver com arquitetura do Sega CD,o que a Sega deveria ter feito era lançar seus exclusivos usando o real potencial do Sega CD,e trazer jogos famosos de outras desenvoldoras como Street Fighter 2 por exemplo,baixar o valor do add-on aí sim a Sega teria igualdade com o Super Nintendo,mas infelizmente a Sega fez total descaso do Sega CD e ainda lançou a bomba do 32X marcando de vez seu fim nos consoles,sempre fui fã da Sega mas por tantos erros a Sega mereceu perder seu lugar para o Sony,diferente da Sega que só fez seu público de bobo a Sony fez de tudo pra agradar tanto o público como as desenvoldoras.

The Terminator and (maybe) Flink are the stand-out upgrades in my opinion, most of the others are shades of meh 😒 … saying that, CD quality music can massively improve a game!

Poor Sega CD.

With these comparisons it's obvious SEGA didn't need to develop the Sega CD there was no point to it besides a couple shitty digitized games. Other than that these games are exactly the same no wonder SEGA went out of business. They put way too much money into something that wasn't needed.

COOL !

genesis win

ESPN national hockey night on Sega cd is a joke

Such a shame the dev proritised the Megadrive over the Mega CD when it comes to making games for both. That strategy contributed to the downfall of the Mega CD. I blame Sega for not creating enough incentive for the Devs to think differently.

Разницы нет практически....так что практичнее картриджи покупать,а сиди без полезная присавка

Никакой разницы в графике нету Зачем надо было покупать Сегу сиди

Sega CD is just Sega Genesis

Doesn't look all that much different from each other other than some colors are more brighter and have better saturation than the Genesis did.

Game developers did the bare minimum on the Sega CD. I always felt that Nintendo was playing dirty during the console wars vs Sega.

Looks like Sega ripped a lot of gamers off with the Sega CD. Never felt bad about their hardware downfall.

sega CD was almost pointless other than soundtracks. looks like they just used it for double dipping.

buy the sega cd just for better music in the majority of cases isn't worth the price.

more than half the time the genesis looks better with richer colors than the sega cd

Resumindo. Na época vc pagava absurdo. Só. No sega cd. Pra. Joga com áudio melhor pois o jogo são os mesmo kkkkkkkkk

no difference

31:45 ROAD RASH 2 vs ROAD RASH 3🤣

Практически не отличаются! поэтому sega cd никому не нужна была в то время, тем более за такой прайс