Lmao the original price sticker on the box for insult to injury.
5 years ago this would have been like $30. The jump in price has been insane.
Fuck playing this on original hardware then I guess. Even if I was rich I couldn't justify spending that much on a hunk of plastic. Thank god for emulation.
It just kind of sucks because retro gaming on original hardware used to be something even poor people could do. It used to be if you couldn't afford the new stuff, you'd buy the old stuff. Seems like during COVID people realized they could charge more for nostalgia and then capitalism went brrrrr
Megadrive cartridges wont live forever I don't think. What I did was get a megadrive and one of the chinese everdrive copies and slapped an sd card in with all the games. Much cheaper but I still get the native experience. Also the consoles themselves are dirt cheap and the megadrive 1 through retrotink 5x is a sight to behold, it upscales so well and scanlines plus forced hdr just looks great.
Played through all the sonics that way and the save files works fine in sonic 3 as well.
That sounds AWESOME thank you.
Yeah I still have my copy of Sonic 3 from when I was like 5 years old. The save stopped working like... 15 years ago? It's ooooold.
Everdrive (which I assume is some kind of flash cart?) Sounds like the best way to play on real hardware. Thanks for the tip!
This is the one I got if you wanna get the same if its available in aus. It works fine even came preloaded for me with all the games. Takes a little while to flash the game onto the sdram chip like 30 seconds but ones its done you don't need to reload the game again only when you change game. Doesn't have save states but I got burned by getting a top tier everdrive from my gamegear with save state support and it doesn't bloody work half the time anyway.
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Thank you!
God bless pirates