Even the bravest retro gamer fears Sega Genesis' final form

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• Bhaelfur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s missing Game Genie and Sonic and Knuckles cartridges

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  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And a Honey Bee cartridge

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• Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s clearly a Megadrive.

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  • knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    what’s the difference?

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Locale, and pedantry.

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      16 bit is gold and not silver.

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Somebody provide context for those of us who have no idea what this monstrosity is?

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive) had expansions that were meant to improve the capability of the system and extend the its lifespan, but ultimately they weren’t super popular because it didn’t make sense to make games for such a small subset of Sega’s market share.

    This is the 32x add-on that allowed for 32bit processing, and someone has just stacked a bunch of them on top of each other to be funny.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The idea of a plug-in processor is wild. Isn’t that most of the console functionality right there?

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• tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What actually happens if you try to boot this? Stuck at SEGA splash screen? Error code?

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lights flicker and dim throughout the neighborhood as a white-hot glow builds through the stack of 32Xs. A bright blue flash signals the destruction of the transformer down the block but you spare no attention for the freshly-darkened row of houses, captivated by the scene unfolding in your own living room.

    Rather than sputtering out and returning to its previously inert form, the Sega only glows brighter. A voice is whispering to you but dissolves into wordless static against the ambient hum of the room. Your skin tingles and itches, the smell of ozone tickles your nose and you’re starting to think you should have brought some kind of eye protection. Probably too late to worry about that now though.

    A crack of darkness forms in the center of the column of light – that, or your tortured optical nerves are finally burning out. The air takes on an unnatural viscosity which seems to conduct the ever-present hum straight into your bones. In an instant, the darkness pulses and ripples along its wispy edges before falling in on itself, carrying with it the last beams of your technological abomination like a mangled lighthouse blasting its warnings into a roiling hurricane.

    You wake up in the morning to find a box on your doorstep. Oh yeah, you remember, that eBay listing for an old Sega and collection of accessories. Absently clicking together a stack of 32X modules while examining the contents of the package, you start to wonder if the thing will even power on…

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      > WEAR GOGGLES

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can’t even boot with two 32x units installed, at least based on previous experience the last time I tried. So alas, this 256x assembly won’t work.

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s because you didn’t hook up enough of them.

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    • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sure. That still doesn’t answer my question though, what happens?

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The Sega Omega

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  now this is what I call redundant memory allocation.

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• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  256x sounds sweet to me!

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• 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Would be interesting to see somebody get that many coprocessors actually working.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  144 bits?

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• omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Where is the Sega CD?

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  • cfi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Looks like a Model 1 SCD is set up under the console. The Model 2 SCD is the one that attaches to the side

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The SNES had that bizarre bazooka light gun, but the Genesis could do this

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