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| Advantages: |
All the Sega Genisis/Megadrive games on your PC ! |
| Disadvantages: |
Watch out for the Japanese versions of the games |
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yes |
The Genisis Emulator (casually known as Gens) emulates any Genisis games there are, that is, if you want to play that many in the first place.
But what is the Genisis?
The Megadrive, origionally known as "The Genesis" first came out in 1995 (or there abouts), with Sonic the Hedghog, SEGA's answer to Ninty's (Nintendo's) Mario, and was a surprising sleeper hit (or so they say).
Following the success of the SEGA Genesis, they changed the name to the SEGA Megadrive, and set out for world domination for games.
However, Ninty beat them to it, only just like, by producing the Nintendo 64, or N64 for short in 1999 (or thereabouts).
However, the SEGA Megadrive lives on, and it leaves some of the best retro games like Sonic the Hedghog, Streets of Rage and Road Rash. All of which are encapsulated in the Gens emulator with other *hidden* classics.
Enough of the history lessons, now for the reveiw.
Genisis Emulators are great tools for playing the games, which are now in archives around the world, but watch out for the Japenese versions of the game, unless you can read Japenese, fast of course (no offence to anybody who is Japanese who is reading this)
My favourite games on the emulator are Shining force 1+2, Revenge of the Shinobi 2 and any of the Sonic games and have spent a lot of time on the emulator with the games.
A definite must buy (or download) to anybody who like to go retro.
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 A blast from the past
Review of Gens (Sega Megadrive Emulator) by
darknight7
Advantages: Play old megadrive/genesis/sega CD/and 32x on PC with better graphics
Disadvantages: ilegal to use roms without actual catridges (luckily sega never do anything)
...of streets of rage? Well gens allows you to do just that and better than playing on a console.
Why is it better?
This emulator allows users to improve the sound quality and graphical quality of games, making them much more appealing. the sound can be played at a rate of 44100Hz. The graphics can be smoothed greatly, no more pixelated games! I found that the graphics look best with the render being 2xSAI. Another reason for being better than the ...
...you want when playing a game, not at specific points in the game. I guess this takesaway the experience of losing at the last part of a level and having to play the level again. To play games you can either configure a joypad or just use the keyboard.
The downside:
Well the only hard part in configuring this emulator is to get the bios files and configuring them, if you want to play the sega cd/32x games. Well its not that difficult you can find ...
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