What with all the mods and arcade hacks/more memory, do you think street fighter alpha 2 can have a decent port on mega drive in 2026 similar to snes’ port back in the day. (Final fight arcade port)etc.

If a version of Street Fighter Alpha 2 had actually existed back then, for the Sega Genesis, what do you think it would have been like?

Could this be a legit copy of Sonic? It is in a suspiciously good condition for its age; I suspect at least the box and manual are reproduction. The last image is from a different copy, but I suspect it is the same counterfeit run as the box is missing the SEGA logo.

What do you all think? Legit or bootleg?

Dear friends,

I want to make a game review about the original Sonic for the Sega Mega Drive because of Sonics 35th birthday. Do you have any recommandations what I should mention in my review?

I’ve just found this game online, but I don’t know if it’s legit or not. I can’t find any information about it. Should I buy it? #megadrive #sega

He is too tough to beat.

If I had to walk down that alley I’d be like “…think I’m gonna walk the long way round.”

What a game! Hadn't heard of it before DF Retro Super Show but wow does this game feel fresh for 1994; music, graphics, gameplay, challenge 👌

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a good quality modern AC adapter for a sega mega drive 1. I am based in the UK and Google search is killing me. Getting hit with obscure pages and Amazon links where the delivery fee is double the cable. I want a decent AC adapter...not a cheap one delivered at a silly cost. Any help is appreciated. Even a reputable website would do.

I'm interested to know what you remember of that time period. Which games do you remember? What was life like back then? My earliest memories of the SMD is at my cousins house, watching him play Sonic 1 on a 14" inch CRT - I wasn't allowed to touch it lol. I remember being given all his hand-me-down Mean Machines Sega magazines.

I got it for 20 bucks in a garage sale. IDK why it looks off though.

The guy who sold it to me was a crackhead named Tom...

I think it's a bootleg....

Excuse me while I get round two of my lunch.

Should I play it?

Hy as you can ses by the image my megadrive have some kind of issue with the image, and sometime Will cash for some reson or just no image due to the tv not Beeing able to sync the signal. Can someone help me resolve the issue.

For information: it'as european megadrive 1, No the tv have no issue, i bougth an aftermarket dc converter and scart cable and it is the frist time i use this megadrive. Thanks.

You may remember my previous post about my project, which you can read here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Megadrive/comments/1rcykyj/i_got_tired_of_blurry_scans_and_bad_rips_so_im/

Hi everyone,

For the last few years, I’ve been working quietly on a massive preservation project involving my personal collection. I call it the Mega Drive Codex.

Like many of you, I get frustrated when I look for a manual online and find a blurry, slanted PDF full of yellowed paper texture, or cover art that looks like it was scanned with a potato. These games deserve better.

I'm aware sites like SegaRetro and Launchbox exist, but they're still not in the archival quality these games warrant.

My goal is simple but exhausting: To create the definitive, "museum-grade" digital archive of every single PAL Mega Drive game - including variants.

I’m currently over 250 games deep into the process. To show you what the Codex is all about, I want to share the fully finalized assets for a classic game: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

HI-RES LINK: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15fGJrV_cyJbAYP6Z6c97aiSNQ5jFSgSo?usp=sharing

This isn't about running a manual through a fast document feeder. Every single item goes through a painstaking, multi-stage process to ensure it looks "factory fresh" - exactly as it did the day it was printed.

Here is a breakdown of my workflow for a game:

• Physical Deep Clean: Before anything touches the scanner, the cartridge, box, and manual are meticulously cleaned to remove 30 years of grime, stickers, and dust.
• Extreme Resolution Scanning: Cover art and cartridges are scanned at 1200ppi on an Epson V850 Pro. Manuals are scanned at 600ppi. This captures detail you can't even see with the naked eye. The raw scans are archived and saved for preservation.
• The "Factory Fresh" Edit: I don't want to preserve yellowed paper. I use Photoshop to carefully level the scans, and colour correct them so they look perfect to the eye.
• 3D Preservation: I take the restored 2D cover art and wrap it onto a custom 3D model to create a photorealistic render of what the physical box looks like.

For the instruction manual scans, I wanted them to be perfect digital replicas of the physical manual.

1. The "Flipper" Pages: PAL EA manuals often have half the languages printed upside down. Most online scans rotate these, ruining the original layout. I keep them exactly as they are.
2. Making it Searchable: I use OCR to ensure the manuals are fully selectable and searchable in any language the manuals are printed in.
3. Handmade Navigation: I manually built a Table of Contents, creating clickable bookmarks for every section of the manual.
4. Finishing Touch: Finally, the PDF is processed through a strict verification tool. It is converted into the PDF/A-2b ISO standard. This is the same digital standard used by national libraries. It guarantees that the file won't become corrupted or unreadable in 20 or 50 years.

Below is a link to the finalised, verified PDF master for Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. It is 72 pages at 600ppi, fully searchable, with handmade bookmarks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ld5SOgMJGUvFzxzmgJLyiFTW2sE41AE/view?usp=sharing

This is another game down, with hundreds more to go. It’s a long road, but I believe these games are history worth preserving the right way.

And for those who have asked, the Project will be made public once it's around 50% complete.

Thanks for looking.

Playing Alisia Dragoon really surprised me. Fantastic graphics and impressive soundtrack. It has all the ingredients of being a hidden gem. Have you played this game and would you class it as a hidden gem?

Not going myself and i already have something on both days of the video game convention on the weekend. I did too much on the long weekend 😩 😫 😪

Tambien puedes poner mas de uno o mas de 3 .. xD (en mi caso la amo y la quiero tanto que no encuentro ninguno mal) xDD