WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.600 look at how adorable this thing is oh my God it's so small it's so tiny I can fit 00:00:04.980 --> 00:00:12.599 it in the palm of my hand just the Box not even the thing oh I'm so excited I 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:16.500 am a Sega kid I had a Sega Master System when I was a very young kid we might 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:21.840 have had it when I was born and then we got a Sega Genesis this was my life for 00:00:19.260 --> 00:00:28.439 a long time or well what this represents now I had a Genesis model one this is a 00:00:24.900 --> 00:00:30.960 model two and fittingly this is the Sega 00:00:28.439 --> 00:00:35.340 Genesis mini 2. I actually have the mini one it's a pretty nice little kit it's 00:00:33.540 --> 00:00:39.960 modeled after the first modeled Sega Genesis but it's got some issues with it 00:00:37.860 --> 00:00:44.640 the number one issue is that there aren't that many games for it and if you 00:00:42.660 --> 00:00:49.079 hack it which is possible with project lunar well I mean at that point it kind 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:52.260 of feels the same as a Raspberry Pi because if you try to use the official 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:57.899 interface for it it just like lags and freezes unlike the Sega Genesis mini one 00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:00.420 the mini 2 only has a single wired 00:00:57.899 --> 00:01:04.019 control pad but that control pad has six buttons whereas the previous one had 00:01:02.340 --> 00:01:07.020 three they gave you the big chunky three button controller for some reason even 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:10.200 though some of the games used a six button controller yeah let's take a look 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:14.880 at the back we've got afterburner 2 alien Soldier alien Soldier is actually 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:18.600 kind of interesting lightning force that is a good game it's also known as 00:01:16.619 --> 00:01:21.720 Thunder Force 4. mostly the game is good for its soundtrack but the gameplay is 00:01:20.220 --> 00:01:26.640 really good too midnight resistance outrun outrunners Fantasy Star 2 that is 00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:31.439 an amazing game unfortunate the Fantasy Star 4 isn't there as well that's my 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:36.140 favorite of the series so yeah over 60 classic and bonus titles let's get it 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:36.140 out of its box 00:01:37.100 --> 00:01:44.100 this is a much stronger lineup than the Genesis mini one 00:01:42.420 --> 00:01:48.180 so I've got one 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:51.600 six button controller that feels pretty much the way I remember them feeling 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:54.899 when they were new although the uh the molding is not quite perfect it's 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:59.220 catching a little on my fingers it also feels a little uh lighter than the 00:01:57.659 --> 00:02:04.079 original versions but it might just be misremembering we've got of course a 00:02:02.100 --> 00:02:07.380 little USB power adapter this thing only just takes I think five volts but it 00:02:05.820 --> 00:02:13.620 does have second corporation on here HDMI cable I don't think that even has a 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:16.080 Sega logo on it nope and this here USB 00:02:13.620 --> 00:02:23.580 cable which does have Sega on it that's cute the USB cable is micro b so 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:25.319 why am I unboxing the cables when I have 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:28.340 the console right here let's get it out of its little baggie 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:34.440 oh that is adorable oh that's not how 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:38.400 the original power switch worked that's how it worked on the Genesis 1 but the 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:42.120 Genesis 2 had a push button they messed up there 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:45.660 the cartridge slot does open though and I don't think there's anything yet it's 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:50.760 just bare down there I think with the Genesis mini one they did actually have 00:02:47.940 --> 00:02:54.840 like a fake PCB down there uh does this come off oh yeah it does there's nothing 00:02:52.920 --> 00:02:58.920 to attach a CD attachment to though although maybe they did release a CD 00:02:56.940 --> 00:03:02.760 attachment and I think a 32x attachment for the year of the Genesis mini one 00:03:00.959 --> 00:03:07.019 they didn't give you extra games or anything though it was literally just a 00:03:04.379 --> 00:03:12.180 cosmetic thing but it does have the mounts to go into a CD drive this 00:03:10.500 --> 00:03:15.780 here is where some posts would have grabbed on to the CD attachment I 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:19.980 haven't been keeping up on this since it was announced because I wanted to do it 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:25.620 for ShortCircuit so I'm kind of going in blind here and on the front oh that's 00:03:21.959 --> 00:03:27.180 the back HDMI out and DC in and nothing 00:03:25.620 --> 00:03:30.959 on the sides but on the front 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.739 you get two USB ports and that's kind of where they were where the original 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:39.060 controller ports were on the Genesis 2. and I guess fittingly for the Genesis 00:03:37.019 --> 00:03:44.040 Mini 2 it is smaller than the Genesis mini one which the Genesis 2 was 00:03:41.940 --> 00:03:48.299 actually smaller than the Genesis one so there you go I guess there's nothing 00:03:46.440 --> 00:03:51.480 else to do at this point but to turn it on and play some games but before we do 00:03:50.040 --> 00:03:55.440 that I'm going to talk to you about our sponsor iFixit thanks to iFixit for 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:58.680 sponsoring today's video iFixit makes compact tool kits with all the 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grams and with the cable it's 00:04:39.060 --> 00:04:45.960 with the cable that's the same weight okay 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:47.400 so it is on or presumably I don't see 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:53.470 any lights there's a little red indicator there to tell me that it's on though Fair number of languages built in 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:56.280 we'll go with English for now 00:04:56.280 --> 00:05:01.259 okay all right similar interface to the 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:05.400 original I'm going to turn this down a little bit this is a very similar 00:05:02.820 --> 00:05:09.840 interface to the Genesis Mini model one we've got all the box art here I think 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:14.880 we can toggle it to we can toggle it to the side art as well 00:05:11.820 --> 00:05:17.280 and we can what's in the settings there 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:22.560 we go languages game settings uh okay so we can do 4x3 which is kind 00:05:20.220 --> 00:05:25.320 of what I would prefer actually looks like an integer scale if I'm looking at 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:30.240 that correct because there are borders along the entire image whereas that is 00:05:27.960 --> 00:05:33.840 stretched which I mean if you like that then 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:40.800 good for you but that's not me the wallpaper I think I'll go with the TV 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:42.180 oh sweet okay this is something that not 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.780 a lot of people know about the original Sega Genesis had like a warmer sound 00:05:43.919 --> 00:05:49.560 whereas the newer Sega Genesis had like a kind of crunchier sound I prefer the 00:05:47.880 --> 00:05:52.979 original really depends on what your what your childhood Genesis sounded like 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:57.360 you can just set it here which is great I love that that's that's attention to 00:05:55.380 --> 00:06:02.520 detail that you wouldn't really expect and I didn't get it in the Genesis model 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:04.280 1 mini mode button setting okay so the 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:09.180 mode button I guess will open the menu some games use the 00:06:07.919 --> 00:06:12.360 mode setting I don't know if there are any games in this compilation that use 00:06:10.919 --> 00:06:17.460 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 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:21.600 for now though and yeah there's no like screen resolution settings I think this 00:06:19.020 --> 00:06:25.259 is 720p credits legal notice receptive factory settings okay so let's play some 00:06:22.979 --> 00:06:29.100 games Echo the dolphin it's kind of a slower game but I can play it it's a 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:34.259 Sega CD game the display output is really good they are not filtering this 00:06:32.340 --> 00:06:38.880 in any way I don't think so that's excellent I guess I would prefer to have 00:06:36.660 --> 00:06:43.020 the option to have like composite video because a lot of Genesis games 00:06:40.380 --> 00:06:47.340 especially made use of composite video for extra colors so you can see in the 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:51.419 background here with the clouds oh well you can see in the title screen here 00:06:49.139 --> 00:06:55.800 that there are a lot of colors that are just kind of like dithered and on a 00:06:53.340 --> 00:07:00.180 composite display those would have just become new colors uh it would kind of 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:03.720 blur together and they would make it so that this this whole scene wouldn't be 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:07.500 like Bandy and look kind of weird with different colors I'd also like to have 00:07:05.580 --> 00:07:11.340 the option of scan lines but that's kind of a Hit or Miss Thing 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:13.860 oh there's the CRT filter Okay so we've got scan lines I think we've got a 00:07:12.539 --> 00:07:18.000 slight blur as well so you might see that effect this is more what the 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:20.940 developers originally intended at least for this game I think 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:24.599 because of all the heavy use of dithering the clouds when it stops 00:07:23.460 --> 00:07:29.639 scrolling here look a lot more natural it's not quite 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:33.120 perfect but we go back to the title screen here we should also see that the 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:37.319 colors are kind of again it's not perfect it needs a little bit more of a 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:41.099 horizontal blur but you can see that it looks a lot more natural in terms of the 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:45.319 shading this is a good game by the way it's like it's kind of like a puzzle 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:45.319 game sort of 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:53.460 yeah I think I need to talk to that guy specifically and then I do this 00:07:51.599 --> 00:07:57.419 there we go and everyone got abducted all right 00:07:55.919 --> 00:08:01.800 let's swap out to a different game a game like uh lightning force would be a 00:08:00.060 --> 00:08:06.599 lot better to take a look at input like oh original mode in high speed mode 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:08.580 right the original version of this game 00:08:06.599 --> 00:08:12.539 had a lot of slowdown and that actually affected not only the gameplay but also 00:08:10.620 --> 00:08:18.500 the music so if high speed mode is what I think it is then it'll remove that 00:08:14.880 --> 00:08:18.500 slowdown so I'm gonna go with that 00:08:19.080 --> 00:08:27.360 all right seems pretty okay uh this display is kind of low end but it looks 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:32.820 like everything is good my assessment of what high speed mode was is correct I 00:08:30.419 --> 00:08:39.360 think we'll see it here yeah this guy has a lot of Sprites this would slow 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:40.800 down tremendously if uh if not for that 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:44.360 mode thing about this game is you can actually adjust how fast you're going 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:51.019 so I'm currently at the slowest speed higher higher higher 00:08:52.500 --> 00:08:57.440 I didn't say I was good at the game it's been a while since I played through it 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:06.300 oh I forgot that's not a background object I thought it was in the in the 00:09:03.660 --> 00:09:10.019 early part wow I am just sucking right now like half of this kind of game is 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:15.540 like Remembrance in the patterns and I do not remember anything well I mean 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:18.300 this this would make me happy as a Sega 00:09:15.540 --> 00:09:21.420 fan as someone who likes a lot of these games like this is a very solid lineup 00:09:20.459 --> 00:09:26.220 here and as someone who you know likes video 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:31.560 game history like having access to Japanese games European games and games 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:34.320 that I might not have previously played like Mansion of hidden Souls which is 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:39.120 supposed actually if I remember correctly a pretty good FMV game which 00:09:37.560 --> 00:09:42.959 is strange to say uh they're actually coming back in style 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:48.360 how many games did the original have 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:51.000 foreign yeah 40. so you're getting 20 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:54.240 more games it's also 20 more dollars than the original so it's an extra 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:57.660 bucket game but the original also had two controllers if you want a second 00:09:55.800 --> 00:10:03.000 controller you're looking at another 20 in total a 40 premium over the previous 00:10:00.420 --> 00:10:07.019 version honestly I think it's worth it the previous version kinda went on super 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:11.640 sale after a little while just because it was I mean let's be honest it didn't have a 00:10:09.839 --> 00:10:14.519 huge number of really good games like it had some really good games like I think 00:10:12.959 --> 00:10:18.540 it had the entire Sonic series on it whereas this doesn't seem to have much 00:10:16.500 --> 00:10:22.440 of anything Sonic on it so you kind of need two of them to get the the full 00:10:20.339 --> 00:10:27.540 breadth of the the Sega Genesis library but at the same time like this is more 00:10:25.140 --> 00:10:32.640 representative of what the whole Library had to offer than what the Sega Genesis 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:36.180 mini one had you can you can set up an emulator box for less than this to put 00:10:34.680 --> 00:10:41.519 the Raspberry Pi but it won't look as nice as this and this is kind of a 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:43.560 collector's item yeah I mean 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.440 shutting down yeah it even has like a little shutdown sequence I really like 00:10:45.060 --> 00:10:51.779 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 00:10:50.459 --> 00:10:55.500 little Easter eggs in it like there's a fake PCB on the inside that made it look 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:59.940 like there was a cartridge slot there was that attachment for the Sega CD 00:10:57.180 --> 00:11:03.060 there was the attachment for the 32x and I think there was also an attachment for 00:11:01.140 --> 00:11:06.360 like Sonic 3 and Knuckles to kind of make the full tower of power which was 00:11:04.620 --> 00:11:09.959 really amusing I don't know if they're doing that with this one or not and 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:13.380 let's be clear it kind of is a cash grabby product too just because of 00:11:12.180 --> 00:11:17.700 I don't know how many times have you bought these games right if you're a Sega fan 00:11:16.380 --> 00:11:25.920 right in there that's all that's on the inside of that I don't see anything super like fan 00:11:22.140 --> 00:11:27.839 servicey in here ltdstore.com by the way 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:32.820 I need to flex the plastic a little to do that it's really stiff plastic 00:11:30.839 --> 00:11:37.019 yeah nothing that's a little disappointing but I mean I guess it's to 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:40.380 be expected this is the second generation of the products the first one 00:11:38.700 --> 00:11:43.800 was really kind of the big celebration so if you want something that goes on 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:49.140 your shelf and looks pretty it also can play some really good games 00:11:45.779 --> 00:11:50.820 then the Genesis Mini 2 is a honestly 00:11:49.140 --> 00:11:56.640 really good little collection I love it I do wish that it had 32x games those 00:11:53.760 --> 00:12:00.959 are notoriously difficult to uh to emulate those so I don't really know if 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:05.220 I can blame them too much for that so yeah for 100 bucks us you're getting 00:12:03.180 --> 00:12:08.640 legal copies of the games you're getting a box that can handle them and 00:12:07.019 --> 00:12:12.060 presumably that'll be hacked the same way that the previous one was too so if 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:15.420 you wanted to expand the library you probably could not that I would 00:12:13.500 --> 00:12:21.300 recommend piracy but if you own the games and say you've dumped them with uh 00:12:17.339 --> 00:12:23.339 I don't know uh Sani V3 or whatever then 00:12:21.300 --> 00:12:27.180 yeah that would be a totally a thing you could do and it looks really cute on 00:12:25.380 --> 00:12:31.740 your shelf just like you look cute when you watch a ShortCircuit you should uh 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:35.760 maybe take a look down below and maybe subscribe if you like this one there are 00:12:33.839 --> 00:12:39.740 plenty more videos like this and unlike it we do all kinds of things here