Revolution Backwards compatible with sega

But I think that we can bet hackers will have homebrew games and illegal roms running on it within the year it is released.

 

Possibly...But nintendo systems have never been that easy to hack, since they generally are pretty non-standard. I'm expecting some voodoo magic on how the game discs are burnt, look at how long it took to crack the GC

 

We both know that will equate to £5 in the UK, which for a non-physical purchase is too much for me.

 

True, I guess we'll just have to wait and see...If it is £5 then I at least will only be using it for the more expensiive titles - those over £20 second hand....although this could really hurt the games market for the old consoles.

 

5 sounds about right, cause subscription service would really turn people off. Baisicly its gonna be like game tap which is the game version of itunes, but for pc, with revo its console. Honestly if the emu is easy to upgrade say d/l a new one from sega site, such as how you do with 360 backwords comp, that plays genesis or saturn games, we might be playing some of treasure classics such as raident silvergun or alien soldier(which game tap has but its pc again), and that yu yu hasuko game for finaly an affordable price.

 

It just says that you can play classic sega games on the revolution

 

Actually, no it doesn't. It specifically states that Sega is intrigued by Nintendo's idea of backwards compatability; everything else is just masturbatory speculation like every other Revolution 'news' thread on the forum.

 

Jim Merrick said "a couple of quid" in an interview a while back IIRC when asked about pricing of dloads, but this wasn't set in stone or anything. If i could remember who the interview was with I'd find it. ^_^

 

Yeah, the "news" is usually from IGN. And usually posted by the same members, too. I think there should be a sticky for it.

 

Of course Sega is intrigued buy it -- it's their fucking idea! Does nobody remember the Dream Library?

 

For a minute there I thought Sega was intrigued to buy it, but now I realize they are just intrigued by it :110:

 

5bucks for a game? pfft, max i'd pay is a buck.

 

Just means more stuff for us! See, everybody wins!

 

You are 100% right there GaijinPunch !! The Dreamcast Dream Library was great but the sound emulation on the Mega Drive part was a bit poor. Still the chance to play all those classic Mega Drive and PC Engine games on the Dreamcast was fantastic. I just wish that someone would rip the PC Engine part of the emulator since someone did the Mega Drive part a few years back.

Yakumo

 

The only official saturn emu I know of is the one that was derived from girigiri (which was cracked to work with regular saturn games several years ago and distributed). Did they have another (details)?