If your Genesis/Megadrive model 1 is missing the plastic door that covers the expansion port, now is your chance to make your console look stock again. Renowned for their high-quality translucent shell replacements for classic consoles, Retro Game Restore are now selling an expansion port cover replacement for Genesis/Megadrive model 1 systems. This new injection […]
What an incredible time to be a Genesis and MegaDrive fan, with an absolute glut of top tier homebrew projects on the go right now for the classic Sega system! Investigating just a handful of these that have popped up over the last few months: YouTube channel “Pigsy’s Retro Game Dev Tutorials” has released a […]
The Sega 32X has famously unreliable video quality, with some units exhibiting serious noise. Kevtris posted about this a few times on Discord over the last year, and I asked if he could share his solution. Kev pointed out that the problem is due to the 32X’s switching power supply, which introduces a lot of […]
Krikzz has updated his Mega Everdrive OS to version 3.10 and it adds a new mapper and some fixes to the Mega Everdrive X7 flash cart. Mega EverDrive OS update V3.101. Pier Solar mapper support (Mega x7/v2)2. Fixed sync drops during in-game menu executionhttps://t.co/RKnDrerXSY pic.twitter.com/jMkQO9V2BZ — Igor Golubovskiy (@krikzz) December 21, 2019 The update primarily […]
In a recent trend that is almost becoming commonplace, another new Genesis/Mega Drive title has been announced! Project: Halloween, by Second Dimension looks to be a platformer with some nice animation and use of color even at this early stage. The game was announced by Sega-16 member dra600n who provided this bit of info:
These days, the long awaited Genesis/Mega Drive beat-em-up, Paprium is regarded as a vaporware title with its creator “Fonzie” in hiding somewhere. With the anticipated title taking the better part of a decade to develop and little-to-nothing to show for it, gamers and backers are understandably vexed about the situation. Out of the ashes of […]
MatteusBeus has provided some footage for his upcoming Mega Drive/Genesis game Crypt of Dracula via Retro Game Dev Revolution on Youtube. The game looks to be something of a spiritual sequel to classic point-and-click adventure games such as
File this under “better late than never”, but Tryphon’s amazing looking WIP Shinobi arcade port got a downloadable ROM last September. It’s merely a proof-of-concept more than anything else at this stage, but even in this early state it shows a ton of promise and potential. While it’s only the first stage (1-1) of the […]
To celebrate the Mega Drive’s 30th and Dreamcast’s 20th birthdays, a Japanese company is making MicroSD cards with MD, DC and Saturn themes printed on them. I think they look awesome and would love one for my Mega Everdrive! I just wish the Saturn and DC cards came in 400GB options, so I can put […]
Here’s an interview with Matt, creator of the new Genesis / Mega Drive game Tanglewood. During the interview, I show my playthrough of just past the first chapter of the game, recorded on real hardware!!! An audio-only version of the interview is available here. Here’s links to Matt and the game itself, as well as demo’s: https://twitter.com/bigevilboss […]
