SEGA Mega Drive Classics Hub Releases April 28th, Allows Sharing of Modified ROMs

loco365 · Apr 22, 2016

Here's a sweet little tweet: Apparently it is just ROM images!

https://twitter.com/SEGA_Europe/status/723285810028642304

the_randomizer · Apr 22, 2016

Team Fail said:
Here's a sweet little tweet: Apparently it is just ROM images!

https://twitter.com/SEGA_Europe/status/723285810028642304

What I'm confused about is that the emulation said it was going to be "top-notch" I think, on the website itself. So, hmmm, will be interesting to see how this works. Still, to see Sega allow ROM modification is a huge deal in the emulation community.

BurningDesire · Apr 22, 2016

I guess sega is really trying to become better <3 Nintendo fan at heart Sega fan for every other organ in my body.

Raylight · Apr 23, 2016

I love Sega with a burning passion. My childhood was the Dreamcast and Genesis. Nintendo was just there to pick me up after the dreamcasts fall. But Sony is Who i ran to when I grew up.

Archexe · Apr 23, 2016

Risky! Nintendo would never do this :rolleyes:

Raylight · Apr 23, 2016

Archexe said:
Risky! Nintendo would never do this

Nope their too greedy and self centerd to do anything like this.

codezer0 · Apr 23, 2016

Nintendo is too xenophobic and knee-pawn to do this. At least SEGA's roots started with beginnings in both Japan and the US, so they were willing to take more risks to differentiate themselves.

Reggie absolutely should have been President of Nintendo of America, for his efforts in near-single handedly making the Wii relevant to casual and core gamers alike. Yet Iwata stole it from him just because he asked for it.

I get those in the industry, closer to Satoru, likely held much fonder memories of the man. But I, as a gamer that's been screwed over for years and years by Iwata's short-sightedness, have no positive things to say about the man. Though rather than let this degrade with my rants for the guy, I'll hold my tongue; lest someone actually wish to PM me to ask why I feel this way toward him.

Back on topic, I will admit that I was not into romhacks for a long time, in no small part because nearly every video showing off how they worked usually showed them as being something explicitly designed for TASers and people playing on emulators where they could frame-by-frame it. I only just started getting a taste for it after trying Rockman 4 Minus Infinity. While I've yet to play any of them, I'm sure there will be maany uploads for the edited Sonic 2 that restores the Hidden Palace Zone, as well as some of those total conversions, and of course some of the LOL ones like Sonic the Very Useful Engine. I do wonder if there will be any based on Streets of Rage series...?

Bladexdsl · Apr 23, 2016

the_randomizer said:
to see Sega allow ROM modification is a huge deal in the emulation community.

don't expect anything too elaborate it will prob be like rebuild 3 add some extra lives in, more energy etc but don't expect full on level editing

the_randomizer · Apr 23, 2016

Bladexdsl said:
don't expect anything too elaborate it will prob be like rebuild 3 add some extra lives in, more energy etc but don't expect full on level editing

Still more than what Nintendo would allow on their games, you so much as show a simple ROM hack, they send their YouTube Ninja Squad to slap a copyright takedown notice

Deleted User · Apr 23, 2016

I quite enjoy this, but... will it be an upgrade to the classics collection on steam? or will we have to completely rebuy the game... seperately

what i mean is this thing:

EDIT: looking at their twitter, apparently it's a free update to this thing

Bladexdsl · Apr 23, 2016

it looks like it says hnuchles

Yokimari · Apr 23, 2016

Interesting...

DSoryu · Apr 24, 2016

This may lead to the rest of the companies to follow if it succeds. But there's the doubt left as always from the greedy companies who don't like this kind of content.

GuyInDogSuit · Apr 24, 2016

Yeah, but how many of those games are actually modded? Maybe the Sonic titles...

ov3rkill · Apr 27, 2016

Woah! That's freakin' cool of Sega to do that. I can't wait for some awesome mods.

Deleted User · Apr 28, 2016

has anyone gotten the update yet? in canada and still nothing. wondering if Europe has gotten it

FireEmblemGuy · Apr 28, 2016

An article/interview went up regarding this on PC Gamer today; they basically confirmed that they want people to be able to officially share the ROM hacks that've already been around for years . It sounds like it'll just be a distribution platform to legitimize hacked ROMs, although obviously it'll be limited to the games available within the Sega Classics library.

Also sounds like they don't plan on publishing anything themselves, or releasing any sort of custom tools to ease the process.

I'll admit I was skeptical about this when I first heard about it, but provided that Sega doesn't do anything stupid regarding the submission/rights processes (obviously any existing assets still belong to Sega, but new stuff certainly shouldn't), this sounds like it's being handled exactly the right way and goes a good ways towards legitimizing fan hacks regardless of platform.

TeamScriptKiddies · Apr 29, 2016

FireEmblemGuy said:
An article/interview went up regarding this on PC Gamer today; they basically confirmed that they want people to be able to officially share the ROM hacks that've already been around for years . It sounds like it'll just be a distribution platform to legitimize hacked ROMs, although obviously it'll be limited to the games available within the Sega Classics library.

Also sounds like they don't plan on publishing anything themselves, or releasing any sort of custom tools to ease the process.

I'll admit I was skeptical about this when I first heard about it, but provided that Sega doesn't do anything stupid regarding the submission/rights processes (obviously any existing assets still belong to Sega, but new stuff certainly shouldn't), this sounds like it's being handled exactly the right way and goes a good ways towards legitimizing fan hacks regardless of platform.

Go Sega! Awesomeness!

the_randomizer · Apr 29, 2016

Ugh, the YM2612 emulation in Alien Soldier is botched, is it just me or does it sound really crackly? Gonna do a comparison between this and Genesis Plus.

TeamScriptKiddies · Apr 30, 2016

the_randomizer said:
Ugh, the YM2612 emulation in Alien Soldier is botched, is it just me or does it sound really crackly? Gonna do a comparison between this and Genesis Plus.

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