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Keyboard Koala

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12 hours ago, MW_Jimmy said:

 

Also, apparently M2 were offered the opportunity to do a Saturn project but concluded not possible, so probably not up to their standards. But hopefully in the future!

 

That's a crying shame. I want a Saturn mini more than any other mini. So many great games I've missed back in the day.

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1 hour ago, Keyboard Koala said:

Extreme costs? We got a PSOne mini, one would think that'd be in the same ball park?

 

not at all unfortunately, see the recent saturn console releases that don't work very well on full consoles let alone what should be a cheap mini one.

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Saturn emulation has come on in leaps and bounds of late but it still requires some fairly decent grunt to emulate. Not state of the art grunt but beyond the SOCs that do the rounds for most of these mini machines. 

 

Like I say, it's made big leaps and you can play almost any game fantastically on even a decent spec phone but these cheap SOCs that are economical for these things will really struggle. Sega could throw some knowledge of the machine into the project but who knows, these companies normally like to use forks of current emulators on these things.

 

Anyone with a decent Android phone or a PC with ok specs should check out emulation, Sega Rally and Panzer Dragoon Zwei have been good fun to play on my Android phone with a Kishi.

 

As for this, my little table can't fit anymore of these minis on it and I already have the MK1 mini so I'll just hakchi whatever surprise game or games they release for this onto that.

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That's the 32X version of Virtua Racing isn't it?
If we have 32X support, then rare games like Knuckles Chaotix, Motherbase and the humming bird shmup one could be included.

Any of those and a port of the Mega CD version of Snatcher would make this more than worth the purchase.

 

Edit - after viewing on a larger screen I can see it's not the 32X version of VR. 
That MD version is so damn impressive though. Viewing on a small phone screen, I honestly thought it was the 32X version.

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The MD Mini is powerful enough to run 32X - if you hakchi it, you can put on any 32X game you want.

 

I get the impression sega would rather forget the 32X was a thing and focus on CD and other cart games for this.

 

Only hoping for Rocket Knight to get the exposure it deserves

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1 hour ago, Down by Law said:

The MD Mini is powerful enough to run 32X - if you hakchi it, you can put on any 32X game you want.

 

I get the impression sega would rather forget the 32X was a thing and focus on CD and other cart games for this.

 

Only hoping for Rocket Knight to get the exposure it deserves

 

M2 were offered 32X by Sega as well.

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On 03/06/2022 at 12:19, Qazimod said:

Six-button controllers as standard?

 

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Unconfirmed rumour I read years ago:

 

Sega sold the rights to their 6-button controllers for sale outside of Japan.

 

That's why western territories got lumbered with 3-button ones for the original MD Minis, why it's a 3rd party licencee like Retro-Bit who has exclusive rights to these controllers outside of Japan.

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1 hour ago, DeDeDe said:

 

[citation needed]

Works fantastically on my S22 Ultra and previous S20 Ultra. Every game I've tried is more than playable with minor graphical glitches in a couple of games. Worked ok on my S9+ a few years back and Yabasanshiro 2 Pro has been improved a lot since so would imagine that would play them fine now and be merely a decent 2022 spec.

 

If you're talking about perfect emulation or 100% compatibility then that's not what my post stated so...

 

Games play fine, great even. It's come on a lot as of late.

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