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[1982VideoGames]

Play Genesis games on a SNES console. Sounds really interesting. Anyone know how good this is in compatibility? Thanks.

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 400273082632

[Rex Dart]

WTF? Wife's gonna kill me, but... I think I need one.

[NinjaWarrior]

I'm waiting for a reveiw on it

[Armonigann]

Me too!

[Galeforcerm]

Its probably a firecore with crappy sound. I had a similar device to play gb games on n64 and it was dissapointing.

[BillyHW]

How does this work?

[NinjaWarrior]

It's from this thread...

http://www.digitpres...Portable-System

[chuckwalla]

I'd be interested if it plays as good as it sounds.

[Reaperman]

I wonder if some of those extra pins on the super fx games (and other special snes chips) have a set for passing audio and video.

[chrisbid]

without seeing one in person, it looks like a standalone genesis clone that uses the SNES only for power and AV passthrough. similar to the 2600 adapters on for the colecovision and intellivision

[Cynicaster]

Haha, seriously?

If you want to use that clunky thing to play a Genny game on an airplane, I hope either you're flying first class, or at least the person in front of you has no plans to recline their seat.

[Punisher5.0]

I would be interested in this for $10. For $30 I would rather buy an actual Genesis and some games. Still a cool device though.

chrisbid, on Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:06 AM, said:

without seeing one in person, it looks like a standalone genesis clone that uses the SNES only for power and AV passthrough. similar to the 2600 adapters on for the colecovision and intellivision

It looks like it runs off the SNES power and uses the SNES controllers. The auction says it comes with an AV cable. So it must plug into the adapter itself.

[Tenorman]

The ten year old, pro-Sega, schoolyard console wars version of myself is screaming right now about how very wrong this is.

The modern version of myself kind of wants one to see how well it works. I've never been impressed with clone systems, but there is a certain novelty here.

[StoneAgeGamer]

Yeah I am somewhat perplexed by the purpose of this. Its a novelty I guess, but not sure how functional it truly is.

[Tursi]

Yeah, other people alluded to it, but it looks like this doesn't use the SNES for very much at all. Particularly this line is a giveaway:

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(Note: You must use the AV cable that comes with the adapter and plug it on the left side AV OUT on the adapter)

In other words, it gets power from the SNES, and there is probably a small SNES program to read the joypads and forward the data up, but otherwise it's a genesis-in-a-cartridge and even needs it's own AV connection. Might as well have a separate system in that case.

I personally wondered about this statement:

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Just insert the RetroGen Adapter into your 16-bit gaming console along with your Genesis game cartridge, and YOUR ARE OFFICIALY RETRO!

SNES isn't retro, but Genesis is?

[Tursi]

Which made me wonder though... does the SNES have a pixel-wise graphics mode that is fast enough to update at 30fps from the cart port? Seems to me you could stuff an emulator in a cart and just feed graphics and sound down to the SNES to get this sort of thing working for real?

[The Usotsuki]

Genesis display's wider though (320 vs 256).

[StoneAgeGamer]

Tursi, on Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:11 PM, said:

Yeah, other people alluded to it, but it looks like this doesn't use the SNES for very much at all. Particularly this line is a giveaway:

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(Note: You must use the AV cable that comes with the adapter and plug it on the left side AV OUT on the adapter)

In other words, it gets power from the SNES, and there is probably a small SNES program to read the joypads and forward the data up, but otherwise it's a genesis-in-a-cartridge and even needs it's own AV connection. Might as well have a separate system in that case.

If it really does need AV cables then this is the dumbest thing I have heard of. I am surprised it doesn't have an AC adapter plug and controller ports on it as well.

[Austin]

I thought about buying one just to try it out for myself (it's cheaper than a normal clone system), but if I have to mess with A/V cables, it sort of defeats the purpose (I already have to do that if I want to switch between my Genesis and SNES ).

[Tursi]

The Usotsuki, on Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:41 PM, said:

Genesis display's wider though (320 vs 256).

Can be... a surprising number of Genny games run at 256 wide as well. Still, a litle cropping never hurt anyone! (Yes, I'm prejudiced in favor of Genesis over SNES ).

It isn't really valuable either way, the device just made me think about whether it's doable. I guess I'll never get to it, anyway.

[MN12BIRD]

LOLOLOL you might as well have the option to plug the Genesis controllers in to the cart too! It's a Genesis clone system, that runs the game completely within the cartridge using it's own built in emulation code (yeah the sound is going to suck like every other Genesis clone) and you have to plug AV cables into the cartridge? Hahaha it's the most pointless thing I've ever heard of! Who wants to play Genesis games with an SNES controller anyway? You might as well buy a real Genesis for the price of this thing. Well or just buy a cheap clone cause it's the same thing.

Might as well make an adapter that lets you play PS3 games in an Atari 2600. The adapter will be the size of the 2600 itself. It will cost $300. It will require a seperate power supply. It will require the use of it's own AV cables. But... for no apparent reason whatsoever it plugs into a 2600 cartridge port!

[SlowCoder]

Burgh. Unless a console is backwards compatible with earler generations of itself (e.g. Atari 2600/7800) I see no benefit to trying to run a Genesis game off a SNES. It's just a gimick. I'd much rather buy 2 HD Genesis systems for the same $30. It'd be much more logical to have a convertor for playing SNES games on an N64.

[VicViper]

I'm with the hater crowd- I don't know about you guys, but Sega's are all over the place in my neck of the woods for next to nothing. why buy this thing for more? Most of us are collectors, wouldn't you much rather have a nice shiny model 1?

[Rex Dart]

VicViper, on Thu Feb 2, 2012 11:27 AM, said:

I'm with the hater crowd- I don't know about you guys, but Sega's are all over the place in my neck of the woods for next to nothing. why buy this thing for more? Most of us are collectors, wouldn't you much rather have a nice shiny model 1?

I would expect that most collectors already have a model 1; why not collect this new hardware also?

[theloon]

StoneAgeGamer, on Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:57 PM, said:

Yeah I am somewhat perplexed by the purpose of this. Its a novelty I guess, but not sure how functional it truly is.

It's less expensive than a triple system. SNES controllers are more comfortable than the Genesis. The novelty factor is off the hook too. It's almost sacrilege to force your Nintendo to play Sega.