look at how adorable this thing is oh my God it's so small it's so tiny I can fit
it in the palm of my hand just the Box not even the thing oh I'm so excited I
am a Sega kid I had a Sega Master System when I was a very young kid we might
have had it when I was born and then we got a Sega Genesis this was my life for
a long time or well what this represents now I had a Genesis model one this is a
model two and fittingly this is the Sega
Genesis mini 2. I actually have the mini one it's a pretty nice little kit it's
modeled after the first modeled Sega Genesis but it's got some issues with it
the number one issue is that there aren't that many games for it and if you
hack it which is possible with project lunar well I mean at that point it kind
of feels the same as a Raspberry Pi because if you try to use the official
interface for it it just like lags and freezes unlike the Sega Genesis mini one
the mini 2 only has a single wired
control pad but that control pad has six buttons whereas the previous one had
three they gave you the big chunky three button controller for some reason even
though some of the games used a six button controller yeah let's take a look
at the back we've got afterburner 2 alien Soldier alien Soldier is actually
kind of interesting lightning force that is a good game it's also known as
Thunder Force 4. mostly the game is good for its soundtrack but the gameplay is
really good too midnight resistance outrun outrunners Fantasy Star 2 that is
an amazing game unfortunate the Fantasy Star 4 isn't there as well that's my
favorite of the series so yeah over 60 classic and bonus titles let's get it
out of its box
this is a much stronger lineup than the Genesis mini one
so I've got one
six button controller that feels pretty much the way I remember them feeling
when they were new although the uh the molding is not quite perfect it's
catching a little on my fingers it also feels a little uh lighter than the
original versions but it might just be misremembering we've got of course a
little USB power adapter this thing only just takes I think five volts but it
does have second corporation on here HDMI cable I don't think that even has a
Sega logo on it nope and this here USB
cable which does have Sega on it that's cute the USB cable is micro b so
why am I unboxing the cables when I have
the console right here let's get it out of its little baggie
oh that is adorable oh that's not how
the original power switch worked that's how it worked on the Genesis 1 but the
Genesis 2 had a push button they messed up there
the cartridge slot does open though and I don't think there's anything yet it's
just bare down there I think with the Genesis mini one they did actually have
like a fake PCB down there uh does this come off oh yeah it does there's nothing
to attach a CD attachment to though although maybe they did release a CD
attachment and I think a 32x attachment for the year of the Genesis mini one
they didn't give you extra games or anything though it was literally just a
cosmetic thing but it does have the mounts to go into a CD drive this
here is where some posts would have grabbed on to the CD attachment I
haven't been keeping up on this since it was announced because I wanted to do it
for ShortCircuit so I'm kind of going in blind here and on the front oh that's
the back HDMI out and DC in and nothing
on the sides but on the front
you get two USB ports and that's kind of where they were where the original
controller ports were on the Genesis 2. and I guess fittingly for the Genesis
Mini 2 it is smaller than the Genesis mini one which the Genesis 2 was
actually smaller than the Genesis one so there you go I guess there's nothing
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14th I had it all set up here but before I go and start playing games I want to
see because I think this is actually as light as the controller is okay 154
grams okay 100 grams and with the cable it's
with the cable that's the same weight okay
so it is on or presumably I don't see
any lights there's a little red indicator there to tell me that it's on though Fair number of languages built in
we'll go with English for now
okay all right similar interface to the
original I'm going to turn this down a little bit this is a very similar
interface to the Genesis Mini model one we've got all the box art here I think
we can toggle it to we can toggle it to the side art as well
and we can what's in the settings there
we go languages game settings uh okay so we can do 4x3 which is kind
of what I would prefer actually looks like an integer scale if I'm looking at
that correct because there are borders along the entire image whereas that is
stretched which I mean if you like that then
good for you but that's not me the wallpaper I think I'll go with the TV
oh sweet okay this is something that not
a lot of people know about the original Sega Genesis had like a warmer sound
whereas the newer Sega Genesis had like a kind of crunchier sound I prefer the
original really depends on what your what your childhood Genesis sounded like
you can just set it here which is great I love that that's that's attention to
detail that you wouldn't really expect and I didn't get it in the Genesis model
1 mini mode button setting okay so the
mode button I guess will open the menu some games use the
mode setting I don't know if there are any games in this compilation that use
the mode setting so I'd probably do it for like hold for three seconds or maybe one second I'll leave it on quick open
for now though and yeah there's no like screen resolution settings I think this
is 720p credits legal notice receptive factory settings okay so let's play some
games Echo the dolphin it's kind of a slower game but I can play it it's a
Sega CD game the display output is really good they are not filtering this
in any way I don't think so that's excellent I guess I would prefer to have
the option to have like composite video because a lot of Genesis games
especially made use of composite video for extra colors so you can see in the
background here with the clouds oh well you can see in the title screen here
that there are a lot of colors that are just kind of like dithered and on a
composite display those would have just become new colors uh it would kind of
blur together and they would make it so that this this whole scene wouldn't be
like Bandy and look kind of weird with different colors I'd also like to have
the option of scan lines but that's kind of a Hit or Miss Thing
oh there's the CRT filter Okay so we've got scan lines I think we've got a
slight blur as well so you might see that effect this is more what the
developers originally intended at least for this game I think
because of all the heavy use of dithering the clouds when it stops
scrolling here look a lot more natural it's not quite
perfect but we go back to the title screen here we should also see that the
colors are kind of again it's not perfect it needs a little bit more of a
horizontal blur but you can see that it looks a lot more natural in terms of the
shading this is a good game by the way it's like it's kind of like a puzzle
game sort of
yeah I think I need to talk to that guy specifically and then I do this
there we go and everyone got abducted all right
let's swap out to a different game a game like uh lightning force would be a
lot better to take a look at input like oh original mode in high speed mode
right the original version of this game
had a lot of slowdown and that actually affected not only the gameplay but also
the music so if high speed mode is what I think it is then it'll remove that
slowdown so I'm gonna go with that
all right seems pretty okay uh this display is kind of low end but it looks
like everything is good my assessment of what high speed mode was is correct I
think we'll see it here yeah this guy has a lot of Sprites this would slow
down tremendously if uh if not for that
mode thing about this game is you can actually adjust how fast you're going
so I'm currently at the slowest speed higher higher higher
I didn't say I was good at the game it's been a while since I played through it
oh I forgot that's not a background object I thought it was in the in the
early part wow I am just sucking right now like half of this kind of game is
like Remembrance in the patterns and I do not remember anything well I mean
this this would make me happy as a Sega
fan as someone who likes a lot of these games like this is a very solid lineup
here and as someone who you know likes video
game history like having access to Japanese games European games and games
that I might not have previously played like Mansion of hidden Souls which is
supposed actually if I remember correctly a pretty good FMV game which
is strange to say uh they're actually coming back in style
how many games did the original have
foreign yeah 40. so you're getting 20
more games it's also 20 more dollars than the original so it's an extra
bucket game but the original also had two controllers if you want a second
controller you're looking at another 20 in total a 40 premium over the previous
version honestly I think it's worth it the previous version kinda went on super
sale after a little while just because it was I mean let's be honest it didn't have a
huge number of really good games like it had some really good games like I think
it had the entire Sonic series on it whereas this doesn't seem to have much
of anything Sonic on it so you kind of need two of them to get the the full
breadth of the the Sega Genesis library but at the same time like this is more
representative of what the whole Library had to offer than what the Sega Genesis
mini one had you can you can set up an emulator box for less than this to put
the Raspberry Pi but it won't look as nice as this and this is kind of a
collector's item yeah I mean
shutting down yeah it even has like a little shutdown sequence I really like
it and that's why I'm gonna take it apart the thing about the previous Genesis mini is that it had a lot of
little Easter eggs in it like there's a fake PCB on the inside that made it look
like there was a cartridge slot there was that attachment for the Sega CD
there was the attachment for the 32x and I think there was also an attachment for
like Sonic 3 and Knuckles to kind of make the full tower of power which was
really amusing I don't know if they're doing that with this one or not and
let's be clear it kind of is a cash grabby product too just because of
I don't know how many times have you bought these games right if you're a Sega fan
right in there that's all that's on the inside of that I don't see anything super like fan
servicey in here ltdstore.com by the way
I need to flex the plastic a little to do that it's really stiff plastic
yeah nothing that's a little disappointing but I mean I guess it's to
be expected this is the second generation of the products the first one
was really kind of the big celebration so if you want something that goes on
your shelf and looks pretty it also can play some really good games
then the Genesis Mini 2 is a honestly
really good little collection I love it I do wish that it had 32x games those
are notoriously difficult to uh to emulate those so I don't really know if
I can blame them too much for that so yeah for 100 bucks us you're getting
legal copies of the games you're getting a box that can handle them and
presumably that'll be hacked the same way that the previous one was too so if
you wanted to expand the library you probably could not that I would
recommend piracy but if you own the games and say you've dumped them with uh
I don't know uh Sani V3 or whatever then
yeah that would be a totally a thing you could do and it looks really cute on
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