AVGN: Sega 32X (Higher Quality) Episode 26 

fattoler I remember watching this around 2010 and thinking "man its already been a couple years". Well now its about to be 10, good lord

Where did the hair go?

IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR

Joshua Moon 2016 was the last current year.

fattoler ikr, that's already 10 years ago

It all comes full circle

@@kennethmelo6336 The circle is now complete

Here in 2024, they have at least fixed up some of the problems addressed here.

Yes & the power strip still cost a fortune used.

+Akaihiryuu77 "Funny fact"? The hell is that?!

+Son Goku it's funny because it's a piece of shit

googled it, looks pretty cool

Yup. That's what the power strip shoud be

Even this RU-vid upload is double that (well the 7 part at least) and it's almost 10 years later now

happy pasta Yeah. It's been a long time...

***** "Goddamn! I probably made alot of people feel really old now. My apologies." I hate this. You're not a bad person for being a certain age. I'm younger than you. I'll bet you were born in '98. I was born in '00.

***** Turning 16 in October. To be fair, some my age are really immature, but we're the same age in my opinion. I used to play with a '96er until I was about 11 (because his mother died...)

***** Yeah. He doesn't speak to me or my mum anymore. He couldn't possible handle the emotional pain of it.

MCPRO1210 X who cares? Aside from you with your obsession for yammering at strangers. Whose names are in a language you don't understand?

"Humanity sucks" You're name is fitting because that's our condition at the moment, but it's not fitting because you commented on an anime hater, and hated him. To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd :"SHIT LOAD OF FUCK!" And:"I gotta send this fucking shit back to the fires of hell."

Humanity Sucks:"SHIT LOAD OF FUCK!" "i"m mamba24":"I gotta send this fucking shit back to the fires of hell.

like sonic in these days

Both of its slots are getting fucked at the same time.

Thanks for that, now I feel older.

N-n-no, that's impossibleeee

Now I feel like an OLD FUCK

I love this kind of thinking; it's my main mode lol. "More time has passed since this video was made, than since the 32X was launched and AVGN did this video". MY kind of logic!

why is this a thing?

Yeah let me guess you bought a Sega 32x

@@retrostar-qe6hl No A Soulja Boy

Why

Yeah. People are actually buying Last of Us 2.

Hu

the nintendo switch too :D

Only things I own with a box are my speakers and my 3DS charger. Everything else either ends in an actual plug or a compact USB adapter I can easily fit other adapters next to.

xbox one s puts the box IN the console, so that's a thing they can do. They just choose not to.

Joe Blow yup exactly why so many 360s red ringed too much hardware too compacted with no air flow shit suckkkks.

@@Kaissaz You're joking right? The Switch has a box???? What the actual fuck, Nintendo?

FUCK BOXPLUGS!!!!!!!

Fuck Obama!!

maxime clermont Shows how much you know about electricity.

glitchsmasher can you explain why they are not a fucking piece of shit? I'm actually curious.

Unpanted Lord Because if you have a box halfway through the wire, the wire will snap because it is too thin and if there is no box your console or whatever will be fried with hundreds of volts of AC electricity, that's why.

*2021

@@FunBoysGaming *Why are we still here? Just to suffer?*

We live in the year 2021, and they’re still around.

My switch charger? Has a fucking box. I mean come on, how much fucking shit goes into that box that makes it take up so much space?

I come from the future and the future sucks. Let's go back to the past, and play some shitty games that suck ass.

its 2014 now.

Bravo Hawk its 2015 stupid

Mr. StephanoCrazy It's 2032.

no its 19XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Mr. StephanoCrazy What kind of a remark was that? You're not even trying. :3

I didn’t start watching AVGN til around 2012, and Thinking back on the crap I used to watch on RU-vid back in 2007, I’ve never considered how high the production value something like this on RU-vid was at that time.

+trollskullkid69 IKR. I Just noticed that

+trollskullkid69 Took me nine years to notice that, until just now.

+trollskullkid69 what the hell? James you perv nerd

DA HELL wheres your pants

That's pretty funny actually

It’s got great stutter loops, that’s for certain

+Catty Mintgum No way, on what? I haven't seen any of those boxes anywhere

+ZaBuKra My external hard drive, digital camera and iPod docking station all have one. Granted, I didn't buy them this year, but they're still pretty recent.

Vuoto Well my mind is fucking blown then...

ZaBuKra The universe is full of fascinating mysteries.

+Catty Mintgum We also still don't have self-lacing shoes or hover-boards. :)

Does it really suck tough

Hard AF game

Proof that the SNES is superior.

Seriously, that part shocked me! I thought the 32X was supposed to be superior hardware-wise.

Gotta love GZDOOM.

Rick Marr Nah, PC is superior to the SNES with DOOM. Better music (SC-55 for days)

PyGuy PC is better, but SNES actually TRIED to sound good. 32x was no joke, the OPL version of DOOM's DOS music, and then put on the chip. It sounds like ass because it's an Yahama OPN chip trying to play something made for at least a Yahama *OPL*

I’m happy to live in 2024. AKA, the Platinum age!

*to the past*

Nada. I’ll tell you about the future, instead.

Choatemister 10 years ago now.

+SuperDragon978, 4 more days to those 10 years now :D

Thomas Y-you too

Thomas kek

Now it's ten years ago.

Dam only 5 likes?

What are you doing here

You're here?!

What's worse is that the PSone AC adapter has a wider neutral prong making it so you can't turn it around in tight spaces

Trent Bennett They could design those to stack through the next one. So all the box power plugs go into one spot. Just design a limit to the number allowed to plug into each other or when a certain amount of amps is reached the last one won't turn on it's receptical

Trent Bennett Worst of all, companies still release electronic devices with such things, like the nVIDIA Shield Console...

Ashley Wolf Well if you want to pump hundreds of volts of AC electricity in to your shield go ahead.

glitchsmasher Morons like you can't understand that I'm not wanting the disappearance of the boxes, but the detachment of those from the plugs, like the example AVGN showed with the Atari.

Ashley Wolf Things like phone chargers and old games consoles use super thin wires that would be broken easily if there was a box like that, the only way to prevent that is to use bulky, thick cables like laptop chargers.

That requires a 4K Camera and TV. For more accuracy. Buy a OLED TV or a OLED/AMOLED Phone

DarklingGolem50 lol, no it doesn’t. 480p goes a long way in showing just enough detail, even on the worse displays.

yeah, so what XD

+JerichoDeath But it did give us Nep Nep in Hyperdimension Neptunia!

SHIT I WASNT ONLY ONE

What the hell did you say?! Neptune made to the world as a goddess with big titties and cute lolis!

NEP

Nep Nep

Did you bye it?

He should of

NathBro i found one for like $60

Pixel Man10 no. My genisis doesn't need this shit.

I got mine for $9.99 shortly after the Saturn came out. I already had the Genesis and Sega CD (the Sega CD having two of my favorite games of all time, Lunar and Lunar 2). Then I got a bunch of 32X games for $5.

*WHEN DID THE IDEA OF SIMPLE CONVENIENCE BECOME OBSOLETE?*

Right? I wish Nintendo would give us a travel size adapter for the Nintendo Switch!

@@esmooth919 I mean all you need is USB-C cable (although it's very strange that the adapter doesn't work the other way around; I've tried it).

Here in 2024, these “Box Plugs” are designed with convenience in mind.

I am seeing you everywhere lately...

UmbreonFlash Why you ask? :) You know you're not the only person that said that.

***** I am to btw I am one of your fans

mariofan649 Pleasure. :)

Word "bullshit" is so funny? Maaan, you have to have low needs :D

@Risen General Hopefully.

@Risen General even if he has extras he could’ve not destroyed it. It was 2007 though so the prices may have been way lower then compared to now.

They're power supplies used to step down the voltage of the wall into something that won't immediately kill whatever you're powering. They're bulky because they physically have to be, you can't make software to stepdown voltage, so you need actual components which take up room. If you don't want all of that heavy, bulky, heat producing components inside your system, then you have no choice but to make a box.

Teens and even younger kids already do so in some way. At least I used to be around younger people for a certain time who used to go wtf whenever they saw something 8 or 16 bitish.

I don't think you can review x360 or PS3 in the future. Because those consoles will break in few years.

Lamarfin That's an argument, most modern devices will probably although I like to think some people still will be capable of repairing those things somehow. Then again... I don't mind as long as we can somehow emulate those things. And more importantly... the actual good consoles staying alive (NES, SNES, MD/GEN, DC, GC, GB, GBA)

Lamarfin My Xbox broke after 2 weeks, while my PS3 is still working perfectly, besides a few rare crashes. I guess someone will have to never use his PS3 until the day comes. The Xboxes are all defect in one way or another, so that really is fucked.

DarthUno I have to agree. Xboxes are fucked. The whole RROD thing was horrible. If I am not too wrong PS3 didn't have huge problems like that.

Yes sir

lol yeah the 32X sounds like flaculance

The QSound system in the 32x was extremely poorly documented, apparently. You know what else was terribly underused? The Ricoh sound chip in the Sega CD. Not every game for the SCD used CD audio, and almost all of those disappointingly used the YM2612 for sound instead of the Ricoh chip, which is a shame because the Ricoh chip had eight channels of ADPCM, with volume control, panning, and even ASDR envelope support. The only thing it didn't have was an echo/reverb filter, which isn't that big a deal. TBH, they should have given the Genesis a chip like that to begin with.

+PiccoloNamek you know your Sega hardware. I studied Nintendo and Playstation consoles hardware a bit, but skipped over the Sega ones for some reason. The music on a of sega games always reminded me of the later Yamaha chips like OPL2 and 3. I'm guessing it had an older yamaha chipset. Very 80s synth sounding. Thanks for the info.

Yeah, the original Genesis had a standalone Yamaha YM2612. Other versions had a YM3438 that was integrated into a general purpose chip on the motherboard. The latter was better because it had far less DAC noise, but also worse because people had actually been creatively using the DAC noise to make special effects and now they couldn't do that, and games that made use of it wouldn't play back properly. The new chip also had a terrible amplification circuit.

family friendly? lol

I don't know what you've been watching, but I don't recall avgn ever being family friendly

Hi 2021, 2045 here. Walls don't exist anymore so we don't have to worry about those ridiculous adapters.

I don't think it was that severe. That just seems very implausible to begin with. I don't even think it damaged the Genesis at all.

Mike DiLoreto the second cable is there because the genesis drew the characters etc. and the 32x infact only drew the background. So the video signals were merged in 32x. And yes, this is the worst imaginable way to do it.

You can. I've seen people solder the 32x processor to the Genesis and simply use the Genesis to play 32x games. Not that there is anything worth playing.

@jarnoob It was the other way round, genesis drew the backgrounds whilst the 32x overlaid the 3d graphics and sprites. 32x wasnt bad actually, space harrier and afterburner were pretty much arcade perfect and virtua racing and kolibri were far superior to anything a base genesis could run.

Meeee!!!!

It never was cool, we hate it.

No. EA is just a greedy corporate fuckboi of a company. Sega, on the other hand, ran themselves into the ground by constantly making bad business decisions, giving a lot of their innovation a bad name.

Sega Tried so hard it failed

Nice pfp

could be from buying bundles on ebay.

They might have been donations. He spoke on that before too

Simon Jacobsson You Europeans weren't given any shits from Nintendo. They could only care less about PAL, as their market was NTSC-U and NTSC-J

Super Famicom games don't have endlabels either, though! It makes you think - out of all the conscious design choices around Nintendo consoles, one of them was to eliminate endlabels. It gets even worse when you realise this: *Famicom* games didn't have endlabels! We only had endlabels on NES cartridges in Europe and Australia because we used the NES design - so, the NES was adapted for the US market, but not for Europe (can't speak for Australia - I'm English). And Nintendo wondered why the NES failed over here... I went to Japan a few years ago, and when my host mother heard that I'd bought some SFC carts, she dug out her old Super Famicom from her attic with about 5 games, insisting upon me taking it home with me. Here's the thing: she still had the game boxes, which I've also held on to, and the lack of endlabels doesn't matter because of the boxes. Maybe the lack of endlabels was never noticed in Japan because it was common to hold onto the boxes, which most western gamers would instead throw out. What do you reckon?

Merica

@@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853 well put. who knows. but that's amazing she gave you her superfamicom!

Virtual Boy says hi

Point is the boxes were and are dumb

To be clear, they had a purpose to rework Nes from Famicom - they though after the video game market crash because of Atari, people wouldn't buy Famicom if it looked like a toy, so that's why Nes looks more like a vcr player.

@@SilentProti And it looks way more badass.

You said like you were asked

13 YEARS LATER THEY STILL HAVE THOSE THINGS WHY.

I know. It's like comparing Lego to DeCool.

@John DiLoreto nah lol it was due to the genesis having a late 80s Yamaha synth sound chip. the super Nintendo had a sampling spc700 made by sony that used samples for music, mainly from a deal with sony. if only sega made that soundchip deal instead......

Or better yet give me his 32X console and games

true, sadly now its total crap

High Score what a terrible thing to say about somebody who gave you free entertainment for almost 10 years. Go fuck yourself

Jason Joseph I totally agree. Just because James can't put in the same amount of time he used to into Nerd videos doesn't in any way detract from the years of entertainment and thousands of laughs he's provided. No one can be the best forever.

Agreed. I don't know James but I bet he's a good dude. Punk little kid wants to trash him and call him crap. What an ass

What happened? Why is James not the best anymore? The movie was great, that took years of his time to complete but he did it.

do you not?

Sextet Could it be that one of them is the beta version.

I have two copies of Knuckles Chaotix.

HermaphroGynandro I feel bad for you :(

***** Did you hate Knuckles Chaotix?

Look at my 3ds charger!

Creepah Girl The 3DS chargers are the perfect example for those companies who still use the big box. It might still be a box, but at least it's small.

Good thing the Playstations got it right, the PSU are in the console.

***** the WIIU also got it right, there's a GIGANTIC GRAY PSU but it's at the middle of the cord. my printer also got it right, the regular-size PSU is at the middle of the cord, and the PSU also has a green LED that tells me when there's power going through. ...wait, that's useless...

MarioKart7z It's gotta be companies who have a deal with power strip companies to make you chain together generic ones and blow your house up if you don't manage it as you should. Can't think of any other reason why we've got them a million years later. I can only have two of those pieces of shit connected to a generic power strip at a time, so I had to plug that one into another in the middle and keep the two off when they're not in use.

Yeah, it came out with the Saturn I believe, so it was outdated when it came out.

Viltronic Gaming they should've just done all that with the Saturn. Have it play all of them and then it could have expanded their lives further.

Fighter_Builder Actually, it is only a Genesis and Sega CD all in one, but you can still plug the 32x on it.

batman32451 Maybe, but it kind of reminds me of how we keep releasing things on last gen consoles. Sometimes, we just need to let the technology die.

Lmao wow thats so desperate of sega.

. JJ1013 You're right about the Contra part! It's the area 1 theme from Super Contra