I remember stumbling on your channel through Game Sack comment section when you had only a few thousand subs and subscribed instantly knowing your channel would blow up. Congrats almost 50k subs, keep it up dude.
Annet Futatabi is one of my favourite MegaCD games ever since it's El Viento sequel, I know it haves some failures but man, I love it! Thanks for including it on your video!
Bloodshot should have blown the cartridge version out of the water given how much more horse power the Mega CD was packing. The 12Mhz M68000 was completely under used.
Absolutely. The Sega CD could have taken the sprite manipulation role off the main Mega Drive CPU at the very least for improved performance. It's basically the same engine behind the cartridge release, which means the Mega Drive is doing everything itself besides playing the soundtrack.
It wasn't underrated. Unless we are holding it to a complete shit Nintendo Nerd standard. You have to look at cost vs good games. Your a Genesis owner in 93' You can spring for a Sega CD or grab a Super Ninteneo for half the cost with a game bundled. For half the cost you get a legit loaded library of games. The Sega CD obviously had great games the execution was poor. Why put out am expensive add-on that doesn't improve the Genesis color limitations? Especially stupid decision when you put in a custom sound ship and Asic scaling and rotation chip instead. The extra colors would have improved 100% of the Sega CD library. The scaling/rotation ended up being put to good use in about 10% of the library same with the extra audio chip. Sega of Japan didn't do shit with the Asic chip either. The Sega CD would have been much better off going NEC's route with the PC Engine CD.
I think with the event of the Mega SD and the core on the MisTer the system will shortly enjoy a revival in popularity - my only complaint is the system could have used a few more shmups - the best one is probably Keio Flying Squadron, but I’ve got to be in the mood for that one, it’s a bit cute em up for me.
Vienna i have a modded ps classic with the entire sega cd library, and the entire 32x as well. Even my raspberry pi has them to, you have plenty of options.
I always thought Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side was criminally underrated. It's hard as hell, absolutely gruesome, and even the wacky secret characters have their own stories. Plus, the Senator had the best theme music ever.
@@SegaLordX look forward to it. Know that you weren't a big fan of the Arcade ports to SMS. But a good comparison would be nice. This was Sega's first golden age with Outrun, Space Harrier, Hang on, After burner, Thunder Blade. For me as a kid, any semblance of the arcade experience was satisfactory, and played those games to death.
Unfortunately I had a bit of an arcade snob in me in the 80's and early 90's. It made me judge home ports fairly harshly. It wasn't until the larger Genesis games began showing up that it all changed.
@@indierockguitar6875 My only disappointment of those arcade scalers when they were ported home was Enduro Racer on the Master System. They completely changed the game from a 3d Scaler to an isometric one. I still bought and played it. The others I bought over and over again as they showed up on subsequent Sega consoles, even picked up the 3d poly collection they brought over for PS2.
discovered this channel recently and I'm so glad the algorithms got me here. thanks for the quality content! Sega consoles like the Genesis and Saturn give me the kind of arcade skill-based experiences that I crave since I don't have the dedicated game time I used to.I recently got the Mega SG and finally have a chance to get a Sega CD and explore it's library.
It's honestly disgusting that Konami never re-released Snatcher in English or made it accessible in some form like an extra on a Metal Gear Solid disc. So sad.
I think Konami may fear the modern climate of easy litigation for Snatcher. It borrows heavily from other media. They could see it as a possible lawsuit.
I actually heard that there was a saturn version of policenauts { the sequel } that was in english but never released. True or not, there are however- fan translations.
@MultiTarded wtf are you talking about? There's more nudity in today's games than ever before. Lol I hate SJWs too but let's not pretend that's the reason Snatcher wasn't localized. It's because it's straight up plagiarism. They never localized it because douchebag Kojima lifted everything in it from American movies. Just download the translation and play it on your PC like everyone else. Imo the game is highly overrated.
Dude I love the fact that you are putting out so much content. You are relentless brother! Fantastic video as always. Please don't burn out doing videos this frequently!
I would like to add one thing about the Sega CD that no one has mentioned It was tough and would take a beating none could withstand. Case in point..... I was younger and played the hell out of the system every chance I could. My games were limited but I played them several times over to a point I could master them all. One night I spilled my coke and in turn dropped my food on it... I shut it off immediately and unplugged it but i KNEW IT WAS A GONER FOR SURE. Anyway, being young and doing dumb things I had to try something. I took the add-on and washed it off in the sink. I didn't completely drown it, but it was waterlogged.... definitely. I was like completely bummed out and figured if maybe I could get it dried out= just maybe I could save it. So I got like 5 big towels and wrapped it up in them and tied it up in string so it wouldn't hurt it too bad bouncing around. Yes, I did... I put it in the dryer for while. Now, any other system or peripheral would have long caved in.... and you won't believe this. It came out dry and worked. I kid you not. I realize that it should never have worked ever again, but it did. For a little while at least. That's going to extremes but it really happened.
Awesome video bro. You are crushing it with the great content. You are one of my favorite channels on youtube. I read in a comment below you are working on a shmup cd video. Looking forward to that
I would have loved Night Striker back in the day, its pixelated scaling graphics would have been more than acceptable to me... (I played through Space Harrier on the Master System)😂.
I think many people would have still enjoyed it at its release. The problem nowadays is that there are better home versions available, so judgement comes more harshly.
Great vid! Yeah, I was guilty of scoffing the Mega CD version if Ninja Warriors; because I was expecting the SNES version (which was when I was aware of the series). Looking back it really was a great port a a good arcade game. I was sad about Anette Again; as the game had potential, with the visuals, music and cutscenes (also connected to a universe of my fav games at the time). The game could have been great if they fixed the game play. Again, great vid!
I forgot all about Night Striker. I loved that in the arcade! Seems like Galaxy Force 2 would have been perfect with the extra sprite scalers. Or would that just have been too intense for the Sega CD?
I think part of the problem with Night Striker was the screen size. The bandwidth between the CD addon and the Genesis was not sufficient as I understand it, there was a lot of crosstalk and competition going on similar to getting good performance from the many chips of the Jaguar. If you look at the games for CD with good detail sprite scaling line Batman or Soul Star, they aren't full screen, there's typically a big HUD. Sonic CD's mode 7 style bonus stages ran well but had very few scaled sprites in each level, whereas basically everything in Night Striker is scaled sprites save for the raster effects used for the "floors" and occasional "ceilings".
Im in the proces of playing 'space adventure' on sega cd lately. A game which has been unknown to me untill recently. Playing it using emulator on my psvita. Used to own a sega cd but sold it after awhile.
As a Genesis owner when I was a kid, reading EGM, Gamepro, Nintendo Power etc... The Sega CD never gave me the "I NEED THAT" feeling. I remember the only things that looked slightly better to me at the time for Sega CD was MK and Sonic CD but I already had all the Sonic games out for the Genesis at the time and MK... even 32X tricked me into getting it for Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing and Star Wars...
I played a demo unit of the sega cd at the blockbuster on hydraulic road where stonefeilds shopping center now sits in our hometown I was absolutely blown away. My dad wanted to rent one for my birthday but we didn't have a Genesis so that was a no go. Never saw the system IRL too often honestly
Mega CD had some rpgs that were not localized.The system had a revamped version of Shin Megami Tensei and Burai (tha had amazing artwork done by Shingo Araki,character designer of famous anime like Lady Oscar and Saint Seiya).
I gave up with Sega CD a few years ago. Model 1 cd failed then my CDX took a shit. Couldn't get anyone to work on them. Play some CD on Odroid now. Robo Aleste is my go to.
I’ve been there man. Of all my Sega systems over the years, the Sega CD has been the most trouble. Model 1, Model 2, CDX, they all have failed on me. Only the XEYE remained working long term.
Sega's worst enemy was Sega itself. Not giving dev kit support to ordinary developers for their games, just hear the difference between most Genesis games' sound and music compared to what Sonic 3, Comix Zone and others got (games developed internally by Sega) At least it's what I heard happened.
As much as I wanted a home version of Final Fight.. The mega CD version is good.. But it’s slow AF and it has this programming error of the last frame transistioning into the walk..
Gosh I miss my Sega CD. It died on me a few years ago. I still have it but been selling my games... but I was a big Night Stalker fan and remember hearing that the game was coming to Sega CD...I saw pictures... and could have sworn I saw some gameplay and really wanted it... and it never was released here... ugh.
I agree that Night Striker probably could have been done better. And Ninja Warriors is a strong port for what it is. A shame about Annet, as it looks pretty nice at first glance. But I really wanted to say that I'm glad to hear you have a similar opinion of Devastator. I thought it looked pretty cool when I first saw it, even though it's not the most impressive game graphically. I do love Japanese giant robots, so I wanted to try it. It turned out to be even more fun than I thought it would be, and a type of game the system needed. Too bad it never did get a US release. I was hoping you'd feature it in a video such as this. And since you mentioned it in your notes. I agree with your recommendation of SNES Ninja Warriors. It may be my favorite game for the SNES. I love that one.
Always thought that the player character animations of Ninja Warriors look sooo ridiculous. Truly looks like the ninjas take a nice sunny springtime walk in the park instead of fiercly fighting huge numbers of baddies. Look at Ninja Gaiden, THAT'S how a ninja has to move (and be animated).
Sengoku on the Mega CD/Sega CD is an excellent port of a Neo Geo game. There's also a port of Earnest Evans on that the Mega CD/Sega CD that has some excellent music and voice acting which is only in Japanese.
Not sure if its been mentioned in the comments but in Europe Bullfrog's Theme Park was released on the Mega CD and wasn't released in any other region, it features FMV as well as improved sound and music but still lacks save ability.
Greetings: The Sega CD version of bloodshot was released in the States... as Battle Frenzy by Good Deal Games. You can still purchase it from their website. They have other games available for the platform like Force Strikers and Bug Blasters. They also release Citizen X. Check their page.
I noted that in the description of the episode but didn’t want to advertise it. That version isn’t officially licensed nor is it backed by the original makers of the software.
Night Striker looks that way for one reason, performance, largely it tries to replicate the frame rate and sense of speed the arcade title had while retaining the same amount of sprite content the arcade hardware operated with. Not saying it looks good but I've seen 2X graphics done better on Sega Genesis so the art conversion could have been improved. One novel comparison is Steel Gun Nyan on PC98 which has an even larger pixel upscale, like 80x60(4X) rather than 160x120(2X).
Cyborg 009 is actually a fairly good game, if you are a fan of the original anime. In fact I daresay it is spot on in every way, but I can nderstand it is not for everyone, as the source material stems from the 60’s
So basically the port of Sengoku Basara on Mega CD was that of the equivalent of Final Fight on the SNES?! yeah, no thanks, loved the video by the way :)
I think it's a real shame that the second game you talked about isn't that good after you reviewed it because Annet actually looks quite sexy in the game compared to how she did in "El Veinto". ;3
I worked in the games industry running several indie stores back then and told my Sega rep if they wanted the Mega DD to succeed then release cartridge games on CD for £10 less. Still to this day think Sega's arrogance was it's downfall, I called out the 32x's failure to one of their senior sales guys in the UK even before it was launched simply because they were being far too greedy with their launch price and refused to stock it in our stores. I did pretty well in the games industry until I left in the early 2000's simply because the magic of the 16bit era had gone by then, left shortly after the PS2 launched.
You just keep nailing it SLX! Much appreciate all the content! As for the M/S: CD games themselves, always loved Ninja Warriors and, only downside to it was You only got 1/3 of the total image in the home port. That OST though was something else! Zuntata hit it out of the park on that one! Also, those crazy new cinemas for the CD version added were another fun bonus, so 90's.. Anette Again was definitely a disappointment! So much wasted potential.. Devastator really needs more love too!! As it's a fun and underappreciated diamond in the rough. Awesome Work SLX! Thanks!
The difference between Night Striker on Sega CD and Saturn aren’t as large as you’re making it seem. That said as a person who played it on the Saturn only a month ago I’m genuinely impressed with the MCD version. The sprites are a little undefined and chunky in spots but it looks like an almost direct port.
I couldn't help but laugh at how the main character from ninja warriors has a certain "strut" in her walk animation as shes killing enemies lol also agree about anette futabe. That game is trash! El viento is MUCH better!
Imagine a World where SEGA, forgot about the Mega CD and 32X and just released the Saturn a year earlier, perfecting the tools for developers, to get the best out of the machine and releasing the CD & 32X titles on the Saturn. Snather would be fucking incredible EVEN more so!!! .............................. And the Dreamcast probably wouldn't of died so early.
@@jgfjgfify Yeah ninja Warriors for the SNES is good but I just can't help but laugh at that walk animation and for some reason it's enough to bother me a little and I don't know why.
If you haven't yet, you should check out Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends for the Japanese Mega-CD; it's an excellent point-and-click adventure game based on the classic anime series. While, yes, knowledge of the anime and Japanese would heighten the experience it isn't totally unplayable.
Huh. I'd thought Annet looked interesting before but SLX's opinion on it has me wary now. Devastator looks like a lot of fun though, was that released in NA?
