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Sega has announced the MEGA DRIVE MINI 2
WHAT WE KNOW:
- It will be based on the Model 2 Mega Drive/Genesis in terms of design
- It's gonna have 50 games
- Some of those 50 games will be Sega/Mega CD games!!!!!
- The games so far confirmed for the unit are Silpheed, Shining Force CD, Sonic CD, Mansion of Hidden Souls, Popful Mail, Virtua Racing, Bonanza Bros, Shining in the Darkness, Thunder Force IV, Magical Taruruto, and a brand new Mega Drive/Genesis port of the seminal cute-'em-up Fantasy Zone
- It's going to launch in Japan on October 27th, 2022 at a price of ¥9,980
- It will include a wired 6 Button controller
- You can pre-order one right now on Amiami as well as a spare controller as the unit only includes one
- Yes, there will absolute be a silly, purely cosmetic CD Add-On + Virtua Racing Cartridge you can buy if you really want it to look "complete"
- The emulation is being done by M2
- Yuzo Koshiro will be creating a new main menu theme
WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW:
- If it'll release outside of Japan. The original Genesis/Mega Drive Mini did, however many of Sega's mini retro consoles, such as the Astro City and those tiny Game Gears did not.
- What the rest of the games are
- If it will include Snatcher
WHAT WE CAN CONSIDER:
- If this DOES release outside of Japan, which again is not guaranteed, it would give Sega a great opportunity to right the wrongs of the first Mega Drive/Genesis Mini and include a 6B controller internationally
- The emulation is by M2, who also did the work for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Nintendo Switch Online apps, so there's a non-zero chance the Sega CD Emulation work here might result in those games appearing on that service at some point, though my personal guess is it won't be for a while, as they're going to want to sell as many of these units as they can first.
- The PC-Engine Mini had Snatcher so this will probably have Snatcher
- It sure would be cool if this released internationally, and also included Snatcher
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