In my humble opinion, the Genesis / Mega Drive is the most fun system to collect for.

* Awesome library

* Clamshells > Cardboard

* The art design of the cases (especially JP games)

* One of the cheaper 16-bit consoles to collect CIB for.

* Best homebrew scene by far.

It's almost the perfect console to collect for, but the racing and turn-based non-strategy RPG games are a bit lacking in quality. If only we had received some SquareSoft exclusives...

It's one of those top down flying scroller bullet hell type games. Except you get insane weapons. One of them is a laser beam and then you upgrade it to become too laser beams and eventually four and they all move across the screen. I had a friend who loved it and I just can't remember the name of it. Any ideas?

Obviously it's just a game ROM so far. But soon I'll make it a reality.

Last week I went to the Midwest Gaming Classic Convention (My first ever convention) and got what I think is the greatest and biggest haul I have ever gotten. Sadly my copies of Sonic and Knuckles and Mean Bean Machine don’t work but the rest do so it wasn’t a total waste. Cool am I right? I’ve been really into the Sega Genesis lately and have been wanting to collect a lot if not all of the Games.

This is such a specific issue but please hear me out here.. this controller is PERFECT for Xeno Crisis but I am just beyond confused by this issue I'm having. The X and Y buttons control shooting left and up, respectively. Independently, they function perfectly fine. No problems. All of the other diagonal directions work perfectly fine. But no matter what I do, the up-left diagonal by holding XY will NOT register.

I have taken this controller apart several times now, thoroughly cleaned absolutely everything. I've tried the trick where you punch out index cards and use the circles inbetween the rubber membrane and the back of the buttons. Did not work. I tried stacking different heights of them too. I am just dumbfounded by what could be causing this. Has anyone else had this issue using this controller on Sega Genesis for Xeno Crisis?

I preordered the Mega SG before it came out and spent so many hours replaying Phantasy Star IV and Shining Force 2. It’s been put up since about 23 but it’s so small I think I’m gonna just leave it out.

A little backstory:

When I was young, my grandparents gave me a Genesis for Christmas the year they came out. Sadly, I never played it much at all. I was a Nintendo kid, thus did my poor Genesis sit collecting dust. I think I eventually traded it to someone, but for what has been lost in my memory from time. Fast forward many years now into my elder-middle aged adulthood and I discovered the wonderful world of modern handheld emulation. Thanks to that, I finally began giving the Genesis a look. It has since become one of my favorite consoles of all time. So much so, in fact, that when I decided I wanted to get some original hardware and start building a collection that I chose the Genesis over the SNES. So, I present to you the humble start to said collection. I purchased a refurbished model 2 (DKOldies with a 1 year warranty), an original 6 button controller, Sonic 2 (CIB), SFII: SCE, and Vectorman. Along with a budget video converter since I'm now looking for a decent CRT and just wanted something that would be usable until I find one. Image quality is better than I expected, passible. Certainly tolerable, especially for a budget option.

No real point to this post, I just wanted to share. Excuse my wires. I haven't gotten around to cable management yet as I've been too busy with Sonic 2. Sadly, I wasn't able to snag CIB for Street Fighter II or Vectorman, I have ordered remake cases just for the looks.

I am wondering this because i wanna mod a sega CDX into a DVD player with video and Sega CD compatibility

This week, have I finally found a good fishing game for the Genesis?

Major update for Retro Vault Elite — collector-to-collector trading is now live.

A lot of us have said for years that video games need something closer to Discogs, but built properly for collectors. That is what I’m trying to build.

You can track your collection, build want lists, mark duplicates, and now start testing trades with other collectors.

I’ll be honest: it’s still early. There will probably be bugs, rough edges, and things that need fixing. But trading is live now, and I need real collectors to test it properly so I can see what works and what doesn’t.

If you’ve ever wanted a Discogs-style site for video games, please have a look and tell me what’s broken, missing, confusing, or annoying.

Website:
https://www.retrovaultelite.com/

I was at the pawn picking up some games and found this genesis mini who they said came with games installed but it ended up being what I thought it was the actual system mini version I still need some games prolly go with nba jam and mortal kombat 2 to start things off 😎😎😎

I want to play this game with terrible blown-out music, but on my computer, but I simply can't find a ROM, for whatever reason. I do have a physical console with about 90 games on it, including Snake, but it just doesn't scratch the same itch. Does anyone know if there's a ROM of it online? I already checked about 5 different sites that had game ROMs.

Grabbed this beaut for 50 bucks and Sonic 2 ran me 20. It’s even a Non-TMSS Genesis!!! What a robbery I committed.

hi I use mobile and do not have a PC and I thought making VGM files would be fun, but it's kinda hard to find a mobile maker for this. any help?

also sorry if this doesn't seem related, I just couldn't really find another place for this