you forgot the game genie and the... was it sonic 2 or 3 that flipped open and let you add to the stack?
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Sonic and knuckles addon
Man, what happened with the KFC Xbox? Getting air fried chicken after a session od gaming seemed like peak console design.
I had the cdx with the 32x on it. Supposedly you weren't supposed to do that for some FCC rule, but it worked.
I think the coolest part of this era was the ICs were developing so fast that in a short amount of time there were more powerful chips on the fucking cartridges than in the base system, so as new games came out they extended the capabilities more and more.
there were more powerful chips on the fucking cartridges than in the base system
The SA-1chip is an insane thing to exist.
Some engineer(presumably on a coke binge): What if we just took the whole SNES CPU and put a second one in the cartridge.
Mad scientist: Make the one in the cartridge run 4 times faster.
I didn’t know Xzibit worked for Nintendo.
All I remember was that there were zero Game Genie codes for Super Mario RPG because that cart used so much custom hardware the Game Genie didn’t know how to interface with it.
I remember the first officially modded game I played, the Sonic and Knuckles cartridge for the Genesis.
Yes, just putting any game I had in to see if something happened.
I had a Coleco Adam which was basically something like this that turned the Coleco into a complete computer instead of just a game console. God I would love something like that for my PS5.
And the Sega CDX console could be used as a portable CD player.
Edit: forgot the X
Portable? You and I must have had different versions. Mine was very much anchored to the wall
Edit: well, today I learned about the Sega CDX. Wild
That's only the rare CDX. Neat little device though.
I've still got mine but haven't been able to find replacement cables for it. So sad.
This kills the SEGA.
Seriously, the infighting and cannibalized sales between the 32X and the Saturn are a big reason why SEGA doesn't make consoles anymore.
Don't forget Sega channel.
And the Power Base Converter. I don't think that will pass through the 32x, though. I'll have to dig mine out and try it some time.
I'll save you some time with digging, it does not. Master System games will not pass through the 32X. sorry kids, the "Sega Tower of Power" is just a neat visual, it actually doesn't work.
just shove sonic and knuckles up there and call it a day
Some magazines said that is same as a Saturn.