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[PlayerOneStewy]

Awfully sorry about the ridiculous wait time on Episode 5. I am still chipping away at it, but baby preparation and house renovation have seriously sapped my free time.

[JoelWmusic]

That's fine, Greg. I'm sure it's going to be great! It's not like we are entitled to a new episode. That being said, if the final game isn't what I want it to be than be prepared for a petition and a lawsuit...Just saying...

Edited by JoelWmusic, 31 May 2012 - 05:42 PM.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I'll be looking forward to the 91 and 92 coverage. So many great titles came out in that time period. I still regularily play the original Streets of Rage as well as the wholly excellent Alisia Dragoon.

[PlayerOneStewy]

Alisia Dragoon is one of my all-time fave Genesis games. Criminally underrated.

[PlayerOneStewy]

Episode 005 is here!

[momerath]

You had me worried there with that thread lock. I thought it was a "no more Generation 16" thing. Glad to see there's a new episode though! Watching now.

[Kirbutashi]

[momerath]

Another great episode stewy!

[PlayerOneStewy]

Thanks. Sorry for the wait. Not sure why this thread got locked...age maybe?

[Cheetorlives]

Woah, Alisia Dragoon! I've never met another person who's heard of it, let alone played and loved it.

Crap, do I have a copy somewhere still?

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I sure as hell do. It's one of my favorites on the system.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Just watched episode 6. Great job as always.

Was the reason this one took so long because of the Tetris history lesson? Don't get me wrong, it's always nice to recap it, but as a retro gamer hearing the story told yet again is like sitting through the history of Super Mario Bros. 2 and Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. In the future, you might want to consider annotations.

[PlayerOneStewy]

I see where you're coming from, but annotations suck. I thought about cutting the story down significantly, but that would be assuming that every viewer is as informed as someone like you. I don't think that's a fair assessment.

[Compeau]

Take this episode and Shove It!

(See what I did there?)

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I see where you're coming from, but annotations suck. I thought about cutting the story down significantly, but that would be assuming that every viewer is as informed as someone like you. I don't think that's a fair assessment.

I understand that too, but I would think that the majority of the people interested in Generation 16 at all are retro gamers in their mid 20's to early 40's, not the kid whose first videogame was Halo. I don't mean to preach to the choir, but I can't imagine a significant number of your fans wouldn't know at least the just of Tetris' troubled legal past.

At least in my experience, retro gamers in that age bracket tend to know basic history, like the crash, the super expensive early 90s CD systems, Nintendo's relationship with Phillips leading to the CDI Zelda games and indirectly the Playstation, or the Dreamcast battle against piracy. The Tetris history is really only a little more obscure than those.

I hate to give you shit about it since you went so much in depth, but given your new baby and all it just seems to me you could've gotten this one done a lot faster had you abridged the Tetris history in annotations or shortened the history down to the key elements only.

In any case, looking forward to the next part as always. Like the NES, the Genesis really hit it's stride in 1990 and 1991. Really looking forward to you talking about the games from those two years most of all.

Edited by Satoshi_Matrix, 30 October 2012 - 01:11 PM.

[PlayerOneStewy]

I appreciate your feedback and I'll take it into consideration, but I also think you're assumption that gamers in their 20s-40s are mostly familiar with things like the history of Tetris or the Nintendo/Sony/Philips CD console deal is wrong. I work in an office full of those people and I bet I could count on one hand the ones who know anything about those two subjects.

Currently trying to make sure I get all the important 1990 events in the right order. So glad I took it upon myself to re-read Game Over recently. There was some stuff in there I'd forgotten about.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Yeah. Those were interesting times in gaming history for sure.

[Owozifa]

I appreciated the Tetris explanation because I'd only ever heard bits and pieces before. You laid it all out on the table pretty well.

I'm afraid I know the answer, but what do you use to edit the videos?

[PlayerOneStewy]

I capture the audio with Audio Hijack. Capture the video using the Windows version of Kega Fusion, and then convert it to a format the mac can read using some program I can never remember the name of

I put together the game intros in After Effects, and use Premiere Pro to assemble each episode.

[Kirbutashi]

New Generation 16 that Sewart didn't bother posting about.

[Sean697]

Yes thanks for the late Cristmas present. Wish you could have shown some of the New Zealand story boss fights. Or more of Air Diver in general. And Target Earth was one of the hardest games I've ever played.

[PlayerOneStewy]

I haven't gotten around to a blog post yet. Totally forgot I usually add a post to this thread, too. The OP was updated immediately.

[PlayerOneStewy]

Yes thanks for the late Cristmas present. Wish you could have shown some of the New Zealand story boss fights. Or more of Air Diver in general. And Target Earth was one of the hardest games I've ever played.

I'm so terrible at both those games I was lucky to get the footage I did

[Sean697]

I never knew they had an analog controller for the Mega drive. I guess it was ahead of its time. Would have been pretty amazing to have more games support it. Was there an option in the ROM to use analog control for After Burner?

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I sorta liked Afterburner in the arcades, but I didn't like how every machine I came across was 50¢, sometimes $1 per play. Why would I play After Burner once when I could play Street Fighter II four times?

 

So when it came to the Genesis, I was extatic. Even today, I think it holds up as one of the better looking games of that era. Same Deal with the Genesis version of OutRun.  Looking forward to Stewy waxing on about the awesomenss that is OutRun.

[PlayerOneStewy]

I agree. After Burner on the Genesis was a really good port. And I looooooooved OutRun as well. 

[Sean697]

I. Really surprised Phantasy Star 3 came out so soon after 2 in Japan. It seemed like only 10 to 15 games separation in Japan but years between the release here. I hope you can persevere and beat it. Although getting all 4 endings seems like a bit much. I don't know if you've played it before, but to me that game started out in slowest way but got really interesting at the end of the second and the third generation. That is where the story really takes off and the interesting plot points and futuristic setting takes over.

[PlayerOneStewy]

I was shocked at how quickly PS3 came out as well, though the relatively short dev cycle does explain a lot of the game's shortcomings.

 

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the second generation right now, and I'm going to try to push through and get at least one ending. I really want footage of some of the more interesting plot points and the final boss.

[richardco]

Really enjoy these videos, Sewart.

I had a Genesis when I was growing up, but being as though I was a kid, I didn't really have a ton of games for it.  I like reliving the ones I did have and seeing the ones that I never got a chance to play.

[St0ph]

So I found a model 1 Genesis I didn't know existed in my grandmothers garage. I opened it up, cleaned it up real nice and bought some cables for it. Seems to work fine except there is a fairly thick horizontal static line that scrolls up the screen. There are a few knowledgeable sega types on this forum so I figured I'd run it by you. Any idea what is causing this and if there is any way I can fix it? I made a short video to illustrate the problem.

 

 

 

Edit: Nevermind I figured it out. It's the 3rd party AC Adapter. Made by Tomee and it has both SNES and Genesis connectors on it and I get the same problem on both systems. So I guess avoid those. I've tracked down an original though so I'll hopefully be good to go.

Edited by St0ph, 17 February 2013 - 02:51 PM.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

That's caused by interferance in non well insolated wiring from a AD/DC transformer. You could fix it by cutting and replacing the cord with far thicker, insolated wiring.

[Owozifa]

Yeah, 3rd party stuff likes to have the cheap cabling. I got a similar result using a 3rd party S-Video cable.

 

Of course...now I don't have much to plug an S-Video cable into anyway.

[PlayerOneStewy]

OK, I can either stop playing PS3 now and continue with episode 8, or waste another week grinding and finish PS3 first...

[Wenny]

You've tortured yourself this long...why stop now? 

[Sean697]

http://www.gamefaqs....f-doom/63554930 how about some game genie codes. One on the page takes you to max level after one battle.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Stewy you're a real trooper for grinding through Phantasy Star III for all of us fans, but really, considering you'll only be showing a few minutes worth of footage spanned through a montage of the game, you don't need to force yourself to trudge through the entire experience to get to the ending.

 

Showing stills from VG Museum would be more than adiquite.

http://www.vgmuseum....is/a/phant3.htm

[PlayerOneStewy]

OK, the upcoming episode is coming together, but there's one segment I need a photoshop/after effects guru to help out with. 

[Satoshi_Matrix]

looking forward to it.

I recently got modded my model 1 High Def Genesis with S-Video, direct RCA stereo jacks and Component inputs. 240p baby!

Edited by Satoshi_Matrix, 04 April 2013 - 11:38 PM.

[Sean697]

looking forward to it.
I recently modded my model 1 High Def Genesis with S-Video, direct RCA stereo jacks and Component inputs. 240p baby!

That's pretty awesome. I went the other route and bought a Micomsoft XRB upscaler, and went full RGB. Never has my CDX looked so glorious on an HDTV running at 720p with scan lines. I could go 1080p but the scanlines look a little off. It looks pretty much as good as an emulator running on a monitor. The thing is I got one of those Mega Everdrive cartridges so you can play all the ROMS off of an actual Genesis and avoid any emulator issues by playing it off of real hardware. And real hardware looks like ass on modern HDTVs. Thus the RGB and upscaler with scanlines.

[PlayerOneStewy]

How much did that upscaler run you? I've thought about getting one, but aren't they ridiculously expensive?