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Posts Tagged “Mega Drive”

Savaged Regime – Boss 2

Posted on August 2nd, 2020 by Hitstun

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 16: 16-Bit music From Xeno Crisis (Genesis/Mega Drive, 2019) Holy crap! Is this Prodigy-sounding jam coming from 16-bit hardware?? This narrowly beat Vapor Trail for my Genesis/Mega Drive pick. Source: YouTube via Retro Core, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Retro Core Mega Drive Audio Showcase

Posted on May 21st, 2020 by Hitstun

I’ve been following Retro Core for 15 years from its original video game reviews to its recent videos about ports of games and the Chinese knock offs that play them. He’s tired of people dissing the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive’s sound chip, so he brought several examples of clean instruments and heavy bass. There’s more Mega […]

RetroAchievements for Romhacks

Posted on July 31st, 2019 by Hitstun

RetroAchievements adds Xbox 360-style achievement hunting and leaderboards to thousands of classic games and romhacks. Uncommon games often have romhacks that work with RetroAchievements. Check Romhacking.net for patches you can apply with utilities like Floating IPS. I’ve already recommended Rockman 4 Minus Infinity but it also has RetroAchievements. Dynamite Headdy delocalization by M.I.J.E.T. (RetroAchievements) The […]

Corruption as Art – Go Straight (remix EP)

Posted on March 6th, 2019 by Hitstun

Corruption as Art uses a real-time corruptor mod for BizHawk to flip random bits in memory while a game is running. Usually this just crashes the game, but sometimes things break in interesting ways. When applied to Streets of Rage 2, the music keeps playing but goes out of sync and creates strange remixes. Be […]

Dr. Fatbody – Sonic the Hedgehog 1 at AGDQ2019

Posted on January 30th, 2019 by Hitstun

Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 brought us a Sonic 1 run by Dr. Fatbody, a highly entertaining player with the speed and precision of a yung Wumbo. He tries risky tricks that backfire sometimes and will goof off a little for style. When everything works, he’s really fast! He reminds me of my own playaround […]