"Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time." Yes, my dear 2015 chaoticcranium, and it would remain all but entirely unheard of until just now with the Nintendo Switch! Nintendo owes some sort of homage to the Sega Nomad, the console that did it first!
The aliens jump on too fast to see as you're playing a PAL game on an NTSC system, so you're actually playing the game 17.5% faster than it's supposed to be!
Alien 3's US and EU carts contained identical code, that's the speed it ran in the US, no matter the cart. I guess you could argue with the developers being Probe and obviously based in the UK that they didn't optimise the game to run at a playable speed on a 60hz Genesis. Regardless, It was a VERY rare occurrence that any Mega Drive game was optimised for the different hz rates, outside of maybe making sure the music played at the right speed.
Mentski PAL frequency is 50Hz, NTSC 60Hz. When you use a PAL cart on a NTSC system it is much faster because the difference in hertz in their frequiency, no matter what the code is, is hardware side.
I had a Nomad back in the day. I liked that you could plug in a controller for a second player instead of needing two Nomads. The battery pack was never difficult for me to get on and off though. It's probably only harder for you because it's old. The thing is, getting the rechargeable battery pack for the Nomad was a *must*. It gave you longer play time and didn't eat batteries like a glutton that way. It had a nicely back-lit screen though, and even though there was a blurring problem, I was still able to adjust to it. All-in-all, I had fun with it, and I was glad that I bought it.
Yeah, too bad those battery packs were $70 when they were new! I wanted one so bad, but I just couldn't justify spending as much for a battery as I could for a couple new or a handful of used games.
The reason you can't shoot the aliens is because it's a PAL cartridge running at a higher speed (i.e. 60hz rather than 50hz). This effectively speeds up the game, making it bloody hard!
Loved those old genesis cases. If only nintendo had something like that for N64 games. You so much as breathed in their direction and those boxes fell apart.
Somehow, all the boxes that came with me and my brothers’ N64 games were inexplicably lost. For a time, I actually believed N64 cartridges weren’t packaged since I’d never seen a box for them until I was 13. I just find it odd none of the boxes for the games survived. My guess is that a lot of the games were traded by my older brothers, but the other trader lost the box for his game and we were left with only the cartridge. In fact, it’s possible out of the dozen or two games that I currently have, Hey You Pikachu! is the only game that wasn’t exchanged to a friend or family, and it’s the one that was included with our Pikachu N64. That sucks, I suppose.
The Nomad is based on the Sega Mega Jet, Which was a handheld device Sega sold to Japanese Flight companies so they could rent games and the system to them during flights. The only difference was it didn't have a screen. But I bought a brand new one about 10 years ago when had my art job, so would buy any old shit anime or gaming shit. I'll have to dig it out and do a video on ti some time!
Not quite 'nomad minus screen' but dimensions and color do seem to be the only other differences, it's shorter etc, plus runs in Japanese I assume - looking at it tho, especially noting the second player controller port placement , I'd say it more then likely is the same circuit board inside of course that's modified to run a screen too, extra transformer , or a bigger one with separate windings, whatever I'm being very pedantic and not trying to be a dick or troll, just anyone look them up and see he's totally right- but so am I and details matter to historians
I firmly believe the Nomad was way ahead of its time (so far ahead of its time that the technology didn't even exist to do it properly). If they could have made this smaller, with better battery life, and a screen that wasn't a blurry ghosted mess (the Game Gear had the same problem with its screen and similar battery life issuse)... this could have changed Sega's destiny.
For some reason seeing the sonic european box art again has really inspired me to wanna dust off my old childhood consoles, buy new shelves and turn my flat into my own personal mini-gaming museum. I have so much gaming history shoved into drawers doing nothing. Each shelf could house one console, a controller and 3 games on display. Add some lcd lights and really snaz it up. Ohhhh, I'm going to go to poundland... Thanks Ashens!
Man with all other collectors I can imagine them having big rooms where they have all the stuff. With ashens I just imagine everything he shows is on a huge pile to the side of that sofa xD
I've been watching Ashens since 2006 when I was 12 years old and have watched every single video up to this day. Streets Of Rage 2 is my favourite game of all time and to hear Dr. Stuart Ashen call it "One of the finest games ever etched by man onto cartridge" makes me love him even more. Never stop what you're doing you sexy man!
Omg the ghosting is INSANE. I’ve never seen live video of anything running on the actual Nomad screen, and dear god is it insane. No wonder it didn’t sell!
actually that was a misnomer its gonna last playing BotW it will last between 3-5 hours. the max its battery can be is around 8-9 hours, also you can use a power blocik which you can get for dirt cheap that are really good. ive got two of the damn things.
The funny thing with the back of the cartridge boxes or in the manual is that they're transalted so awfully in languages other than english that it becomes funny.
That's totally the type of sentences that can be found. Thay can also be grammatically correct but making absolutely no sense at all. It's really a hobby to read Master System or Megadrive games manuals.
Coincidently, the only Genesis/Mega Drive game that won't work is the X-Men game. In one of the Computer levels, you have to reset your console. But, the Nomad doesn't have a reset button.
If I'm not mistaken, aren't the first two Sonic cartridges region free? Anyways, I wonder if Ashens is aware that there are region bypass adapters for the Mega Drive out there. Sure, it's a bit ugly since you lock-on a cartridge on top of it (and it looks ridiculous when you have a Sonic 3 cartridge locked on Sonic and Knuckles locked on to a Game Genie on it), but well, it works.
RAMChYLD Yes Sonic 1 and 2 (and Sonic & Knuckles) are region free. Oddly enough, the only game in that series that WAS region locked is Sonic 3 (alone).
Certain people mentioned this console to *a certain Let's Player* - where he plays Sonic Game Gear games. "The Game Gear ate the batteries, the Nomad DEVOURED them!"
I'm puzzled now, coz I've played quite a few Mega Drive games on my Nomad. Either I'm very lucky, or you're very unlucky... or have dirty contacts on your carts. Sonic 1 most definitely works. I have it running as I type this.
He is going on that he has a NTSC console and only PAL cartridges. I never had a problem with my drive as I just went in side and modded the hard jump configuration, so I could switch it when I pleased (I also f***** with the port slightly!). Question? could you possibly have a chipped Nomad? (I don't know if that type of chip existed for something that old, but heck, they must of appeared at some point!)
Mr Ashens? (holds up hand at back of the class) Can you tell us why the Mega Drive in the US was named after a prog rock band from Surrey? Nowhere on the web has a solid answer.
Mega Drive was a legally protected name in the United States, so it could not be used. It was then called the SEGA Genesis, because it was the genesis of the 16-bit console generation. The Genesis was massively popular over here and SEGA of America was very successful. That's why millions of people call it the Genesis.
The most surprising thing about the nomad is that it has no japanese release, when u think that would be the very reason they made it, to cater to the japanese market with their small homes and commute times
Omg yesss!! But you have to admit streets of rage 1&2 was a lot better than 3. I found 3 a little disappointing, but maybe that's just because I haven't been able to finish it yet!!
+CrazySweetGirl The Japanese version (Bare Knuckle 3) was a LOT more fun to play. They managed to suck most of the fun out in changing it to SoR 3. The thing to really go for now though is to track down Streets of Rage Remake v5.1 and play it on PC, ideally with a Mega-Drive or Saturn v2 Controller. It basically merges all three games into one as well as a ton of new stuff.
+BrySkye sounds cool, but its so hard to find these types of games now :/ rather sad really. I love well to me they are retro games, but I do know to alot of other people they are no where near retro XD but If I do see it, I will definitely try and get it!!
The Turbo Touch 360 was designed for fighting games, specifically. The big draw was that some versions of it were programmable, so if you knew what you were doing you could program a tricky-to-use special move into it, and then, using the program feature, use that move essentially on call.
I'm starting to question whether that Sonic box had a copy of the game inside it, because that *should* have played fine on a 60hz device, at its proper speed. Aside from the few later on that locked you out based on region settings in later years (Like SoR II), Most games were completely cross compatible... Developers never bothered to optimise gameplay for different hz rates and most of the time the carts contained exactly the same code on the ROMs - An NTSC cart would just play slower on a PAL machine, and a PAL cart would play faster (or how us purists like to say: it's proper speed) on an NTSC machine. There are even some earlier carts that have the code for the western and Japanese versions inside, and will run in all 3 territories and change the title screens and language accordingly based on region settings (Japanese cartridges were a slightly different shape though so wouldn't fit in a US/EU slot without cutting the slot a bit, and a US/EU cart wouldn't fit in a JP machine unless you removed the cart lock bar in the console) Stupid piece of trivia about the region lockout on SoR2: The EU version and the Japanese version are identical and work on either machine, and even changes it's title screen to Bare Knuckle II an a JP MD, but won't work on a Genesis. The Genesis version only works on a Genesis because it's a stupid billy no-mates, has a different sprite for Blaze's jump kick so you cant see her pants, and has had the title screen changed to "Streets of Rage 2" instead of "Streets of Rage II" because apparently Sega US didn't think Americans understood Roman numerals.
I thinks your channel is amazing, Ashens. I had one of these growing up. I traded it for a carton of cigarrettes (stupid). Now you can buy the with new digital screens. Not that this is obscure, but your channel and boogies are the first channels that i ever saw such obscure stuff being reviewed. I thought it was a joke at first. But i think its amazing.
My Sega Nomad story: So, it was around my birthday last year. I was in the mall's one of two retro game stores and noticed their Sega Nomad for sale. Seeing how I had a bunch of cash and a bunch of Sega games, I bought it. The guy advised me that the contrast knob didn't work, so he sold it to me for $70 instead of $80. I take it home, plug it into the wall, and the screen doesn't work. I can plug it into the TV just fine, but the screen on the portable console didn't work, making it as portable as a regular Sega Genesis. I return it to them, and instead of them refunding my money, the say they can fix it. A few weeks go by, and I call them up, they say that they're waiting on some parts, so I wait for another couple weeks. When I call them up this time, they say their repair guy quit and they're trying to find a new guy to replace him with. I say fuck it and demanded my money back, and they did. That store is bullshit overall, they buy games from other stores and sell them for more.
The Turbo Touch 360 was either released or heavily marketed around the rise of games like Street Fighter and was sold on the idea that doing things like down to towards was easier if you didn't have a D-pad cutting into your thumb. Your complaint about diagonals was likely not because you didn't know where your thumb was, it was because the controller only registers up, down, left, and right yet the touch area is massive. Anywhere outside the lines you can see on the pad is a dead zone and if you didn't have freakishly huge thumbs you could not use this controller effectively at all. I only ever knew one person who played games and had massive meathooks for thumbs and that was my dad and he loved the Turbo Touch. After he used the SNES controller he bought the line (they made them for the NES as well) and only ever used them from then on.
Oh good that wasn't just me. I think the music was supposed to simulate the atmosphere or at least the ambiance of the deep sea but it was weird. I always expected something to come out and kill me but it was never that aggressive.
I was partially hoping you'd play Ecco juuuust long enough to be able to joke about dolphin abductions. Also it is amazing seeing how even back then there were such huge jumps in the gaming industry, one moment you have your handheld Sega Genesis, six years later you have the GBA which was I believe twice as powerful than the Genesis itself with so much less space taken up!
Alien 3 - The Nomad might have arrived late, but so did you! The Nerd pointed the appearing-enemies problem out half a year ago. Turbo Touch 360 - I had one of those. It went into the "controllers" pile. And stayed there. Forever.
alien 3 is my favourite soundtrack on the megadrive. it's on the same pedestal as Streets of Rage 1&2 and Revenge of Shinobi. check out the soundtrack to the excellent rare japanese game Battle Mania Daiginjō. Bloody brilliant.
Ahhh, the days when portable gaming was a novelty, and not something just anyone could do on the now omnipresent smartphone. I spent many an hour huddled up next to the wall-outlet with my Sega Nomad, playing Comix Zone, Vectorman, and Sonic & Knuckles.
Because Ecco the Dolphin has also been released for Windows 95 in 1996. That's the one I first played and the one I grew up with. The soundtrack is different than the Sega release and what I also noticed is that there are actual CGI cutscenes in the Windows version, something that I never saw in the Sega consoles (a friend of mine had the same game back then and I played the Sega version online to notice the differences). If you google or search on RUclips for "Ecco the Dolphin PC" (or "Windows") you may find playthough, cutscenes and soundtrack of the Windows version. I totally love the PC soundtrack of the game.
As someone who had one when they weren't terribly old, and with a huge library of games, I can confirm that they were pretty damn nice at the time to have even with the battery issues.
RRW Eh, not really since the CDX didn't have its own screen or controls like a portable system... all it could do on its own was play audio CDs. It would've been neat if there was been a way to plug the CDX into the Nomad to have a portable Sega CD, but I'm pretty sure Sega was well aware by that point that the Sega CD was old news and almost a total flop.
Fun fact: This was originally called the Venus, and it was one of a whole series of planet-themed names: Mercury: Game Gear Venus: Nomad Mars: 32X Jupiter: I think it was a Genesis with a built in CD and 32X Saturn: Sega Saturn Neptune: Genesis with a built in 32X Pluto: A Saturn with built-in internet My names: Earth: Genesis Uranus: Genesis with a Sega CD Eris: Dreamcast Ceres: Master System
Funny how all of the consoles with planet names ended up being a commercial flop for SEGA, just like all consoles with cat names were shitty for Atari.
Nintendo had some company codenames for their consoles as well... Dot Matrix Game = Game Boy Project Reality = Nintendo 64 Dolphin = Game Cube Revolution = Wii Iris = Nintendo DS
The Genesis, Game Gear, and Dreamcast were the only non-flops in the west (the Game Gear and Dreamcast both were profitable...though not as much as Sega was hoping). The Saturn did quite well in Japan. The 32x was by far the biggest flop Sega ever had their hands in...
From a technological standpoint, the Nomad is one of the most impressive Handheld game systems ever made. The fact they put a fairly recent home console in a portable unit is an achievement in itself. But obviously, was let down by poor screen and battery life. I think it was quite a testament to Sega's eagerness to experiment. This was one of the few times it actually worked. (Somewhat) People often berate Sega for failures like the Mega-CD and 32X, but hey, you didn't see your precious Nintendo doing anything new, did you? Yeah, playing it safe, like what they do with practically every Mario game these days. :P
Techcraft2 mcsruler Didn't they say they were ditching that idea and going more for the conventional game pad that is like the XBOX controllers instead?
mcsruler The Xperia Play is similar, the touchpads are ok when the game is properly optimised, albeit in a nowhere-near-as-good-as-an-analogue-stick kinda way.
+TBrizzle01 It always puzzled me as a Mater System owner. I thought "But...it isn't the Genesis at all...it's like their third or fourth gaming computer." haha
There is actually a handy mod for replacing the Nomad's screen with a modern LCD that uses less battery and looks much brighter and sharper. Not the cheapest thing in the world to have installed, but well worth looking into if you are into the Nomad. There's also services to mod the old burned out rechargeable battery packs with fancy new lithium so you can play for much longer than the original battery pack allowed for even when they were new.
I don't know of any storefront websites offering the service, but ther is a guy on the Racketboy forums who does the screen and battery mods for $70 and $60 respectively. www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17415
Timstuff Nope. PSOne, and even going back to the stuff I loved as a kid is just frustrating and dull now. Spyro, Chrash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater all dissapointed me when I got the station out after about a ten year gap. The rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia don't fit my prescription.
Ashens grab a Qtip, get some drops of windowcleaner on it and rub the catridge contags clean. Then you grab your creditcard and some clean piece of cloth. Wrap an edge of your creditcard with the cloth and apply a little bit of windowcleaner on it and stuff the clothwarped card in the cartidge slot and carefully jiggle it up and down to get all the dust out it has collected over time. Blowing the catridge or slot will damage it, the contacts will rust and your game/ console will die a painful death.
+KingCorny93 The best way to clean the games is to open up the cartridge and clean the contacts with an eraser. It'll remove all the gunk on it. Windowcleaner or any liquid will also eventually damage and cause rust, as will any amount of liquid. Although I did have to settle for this method recently because the cartridge had weird screws in it for some reason that weren't standard gamebit screws.
That Ecco music... mmmm.... good memories. I recorded that music on to a tape back before I knew what an internet was and used to listen to it on the bus ride to school.
Thank you. So much for using the Turbo Touch. I bought one of those because I was convinced it would make me awesome at Street Fighter Champion Edition, and had completely forgotten what it was called. It did not, in case you were wondering.
wee1owen12 Don't confuse sophisticated technology with sophisticated design. There's good reason people despise touch screens for most games; most games genres evolved without the consideration of a control scheme that required you to cover half the screen with your fingers and thumbs.
'Ello Guv'ner I wouldn't necessary count that as large an area of contempt as you think, considering games like Slayin exist, where the controls aren't on the play area yet still receive scorn.
wee1owen12 Well there's other things wrong with touch screens. No tactile feedback is a big one depending on the genre. As for Slayin, i don't know anything about it so i couldn't say whether i think the hate is deserved or not.
+MrAmir "British" is vague as he wouldn't sound very much like the guy from Stanley Parable if he had a Scottish or Welsh accent seeing as the Scottish and Welsh are also British...
Had one back in the day, still have it. I was king of the bus well into when the GBA came out, especially since I could play Streets of Rage 2 with another guy, with 1 console.
Despite its obvious limitations, the Nomad blew my mind in the 90s. Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time.
unless you had a turbo express or a master gear converter for your game gear
Nintendo need to do a SNES portable like ds
***** the ports were bs
2l84me
"Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time."
Yes, my dear 2015 chaoticcranium, and it would remain all but entirely unheard of until just now with the Nintendo Switch! Nintendo owes some sort of homage to the Sega Nomad, the console that did it first!
The aliens jump on too fast to see as you're playing a PAL game on an NTSC system, so you're actually playing the game 17.5% faster than it's supposed to be!
Alien 3's US and EU carts contained identical code, that's the speed it ran in the US, no matter the cart.
I guess you could argue with the developers being Probe and obviously based in the UK that they didn't optimise the game to run at a playable speed on a 60hz Genesis.
Regardless, It was a VERY rare occurrence that any Mega Drive game was optimised for the different hz rates, outside of maybe making sure the music played at the right speed.
The aliens have VAT?
I KNEW IT WAS YOUR FAULT DELORS
Mentski PAL frequency is 50Hz, NTSC 60Hz. When you use a PAL cart on a NTSC system it is much faster because the difference in hertz in their frequiency, no matter what the code is, is hardware side.
Please dumb down your response for me.
And I thought Shadow of the Beast was ridiculous with that massive fuck-up.
I had a Nomad back in the day. I liked that you could plug in a controller for a second player instead of needing two Nomads. The battery pack was never difficult for me to get on and off though. It's probably only harder for you because it's old. The thing is, getting the rechargeable battery pack for the Nomad was a *must*. It gave you longer play time and didn't eat batteries like a glutton that way. It had a nicely back-lit screen though, and even though there was a blurring problem, I was still able to adjust to it. All-in-all, I had fun with it, and I was glad that I bought it.
Yeah, too bad those battery packs were $70 when they were new! I wanted one so bad, but I just couldn't justify spending as much for a battery as I could for a couple new or a handful of used games.
Holy shit. First on therunawayguys and then on ashens. Seeing xelger on here is quite the gem
"dont shoot lazers out of your face its weird."
great advice for life kids
THErepare man16 lol
Who says Stuart Ashen isn't a real role model?
dont tell me what to do mum
I read this just as he said it
Very spooky
"You are Soapy Mctavish man, you must shoot brown men. Go!"
I died xD
And history repeats
The reason you can't shoot the aliens is because it's a PAL cartridge running at a higher speed (i.e. 60hz rather than 50hz). This effectively speeds up the game, making it bloody hard!
Genesis does what Nintendont
That's not the issue. The issue is that the character can tun past 70% of the screen before the camera catches up.
@@MoundN It's a combination of bad game design and the game running too fast.
@@tyedyejediballs to Picasso
@@MoundNyes because it's running faster than it should be
Oddly enough, the alien in Alien looks strangely like the final boss from Ecco the Dolphin.
Loved those old genesis cases. If only nintendo had something like that for N64 games. You so much as breathed in their direction and those boxes fell apart.
Somehow, all the boxes that came with me and my brothers’ N64 games were inexplicably lost. For a time, I actually believed N64 cartridges weren’t packaged since I’d never seen a box for them until I was 13. I just find it odd none of the boxes for the games survived. My guess is that a lot of the games were traded by my older brothers, but the other trader lost the box for his game and we were left with only the cartridge. In fact, it’s possible out of the dozen or two games that I currently have, Hey You Pikachu! is the only game that wasn’t exchanged to a friend or family, and it’s the one that was included with our Pikachu N64. That sucks, I suppose.
I will definitely second that Streets of rage 2 being one of the finest beat em ups as well as one of the finest Sega games in general
Wow Alpha is an Ashens Fan? Never expected that!
Haha yeah that did sound like fanboying. Was just more not putting them two together
You angry pissbaby
The Nomad is based on the Sega Mega Jet, Which was a handheld device Sega sold to Japanese Flight companies so they could rent games and the system to them during flights.
The only difference was it didn't have a screen.
But I bought a brand new one about 10 years ago when had my art job, so would buy any old shit anime or gaming shit. I'll have to dig it out and do a video on ti some time!
Not quite 'nomad minus screen' but dimensions and color do seem to be the only other differences, it's shorter etc, plus runs in Japanese I assume - looking at it tho, especially noting the second player controller port placement , I'd say it more then likely is the same circuit board inside of course that's modified to run a screen too, extra transformer , or a bigger one with separate windings, whatever
I'm being very pedantic and not trying to be a dick or troll, just anyone look them up and see he's totally right- but so am I and details matter to historians
God bless you Larry. That is all
The screen reminds me of the Atari Lynx screen
20 years later the Turbo Touch 360 is reborn as the Steam pad.
Yes and Nomad reborn as Steam Deck
@@whispersmusic6173 that is very true.
I firmly believe the Nomad was way ahead of its time (so far ahead of its time that the technology didn't even exist to do it properly). If they could have made this smaller, with better battery life, and a screen that wasn't a blurry ghosted mess (the Game Gear had the same problem with its screen and similar battery life issuse)... this could have changed Sega's destiny.
For some reason seeing the sonic european box art again has really inspired me to wanna dust off my old childhood consoles, buy new shelves and turn my flat into my own personal mini-gaming museum. I have so much gaming history shoved into drawers doing nothing.
Each shelf could house one console, a controller and 3 games on display. Add some lcd lights and really snaz it up.
Ohhhh, I'm going to go to poundland... Thanks Ashens!
Man with all other collectors I can imagine them having big rooms where they have all the stuff. With ashens I just imagine everything he shows is on a huge pile to the side of that sofa xD
Ah, Wrestle War. I remember that racking up a shit tonne in late Blockbuster fees.
oi
Ah, rental stores, those were the days.
Would have been cheaper to buy the bloody thing :D
***** I don't know about that. Renting a game had an appeal all of it's own. Knowing you have a limited time with a game made you enjoy it a lot more.
they're still over here in Australia since there is no Netflix or Hulu.
*****
blowing in to the cat ridge is how we fixed things in the 90s lol
Ah yes, the cat ridge. I️ remember those...
You blew your cat?
obviously he's some sort of furry
I've been watching Ashens since 2006 when I was 12 years old and have watched every single video up to this day. Streets Of Rage 2 is my favourite game of all time and to hear Dr. Stuart Ashen call it "One of the finest games ever etched by man onto cartridge" makes me love him even more. Never stop what you're doing you sexy man!
Omg the ghosting is INSANE. I’ve never seen live video of anything running on the actual Nomad screen, and dear god is it insane. No wonder it didn’t sell!
The game gear has the same crappy screen design too.
So Sega released this portable console in 1995? The Nintendo Switch is a bit late then.
Kyle Sorenson nice
obviously
the switch will only last 2-3 hours playing zelda
shadoom actually the switch will use any portable battery charger so you can extend that 😉
actually that was a misnomer its gonna last playing BotW it will last between 3-5 hours. the max its battery can be is around 8-9 hours, also you can use a power blocik which you can get for dirt cheap that are really good. ive got two of the damn things.
"Go Ecco! You dolphin faced fucker!"
God damnit, I had to pick the one moment he drops a precision f strike to drink some coffee...
I seriously can't believe ive been watching you review random crap on a brown sofa for years and still love it
He summarized the crappy call of duty series amazingly towards the beginning of the video.
Benny Collela "crappy call of duty series" I guess you just base your opinions on what everyone else says.
DoomGhoul, the series is the same fucking trash every year
The funny thing with the back of the cartridge boxes or in the manual is that they're transalted so awfully in languages other than english that it becomes funny.
That's totally the type of sentences that can be found. Thay can also be grammatically correct but making absolutely no sense at all. It's really a hobby to read Master System or Megadrive games manuals.
***** Empire earth cheat codes FTW (Fuck That Whale)
Coincidently, the only Genesis/Mega Drive game that won't work is the X-Men game. In one of the Computer levels, you have to reset your console. But, the Nomad doesn't have a reset button.
What about powering it off and then on?
Nope. Only the reset option works.
DaChazSterTV You're sure there isn't a button combination that can make it reset?
Nope. It's the only Genesis game that won't work on a Nomad.
DaChazSterTV some one has been watching avgn
Sonic should have worked on Nomad, as the first Sonic was not region locked.
But anyway, cool video. It was nice to see Nomad in action.
If I'm not mistaken, aren't the first two Sonic cartridges region free?
Anyways, I wonder if Ashens is aware that there are region bypass adapters for the Mega Drive out there. Sure, it's a bit ugly since you lock-on a cartridge on top of it (and it looks ridiculous when you have a Sonic 3 cartridge locked on Sonic and Knuckles locked on to a Game Genie on it), but well, it works.
RAMChYLD Yes Sonic 1 and 2 (and Sonic & Knuckles) are region free. Oddly enough, the only game in that series that WAS region locked is Sonic 3 (alone).
He mentioned that it wasn't working due to the screen, rather than the region lock.
+Dean Jones unless I'm mistaken, he mentions it's because his games are all 50Hz? The worst that will happen is that they run faster on the Nomad.
+RAMChYLD and are thus rendered unplayable by ludicrously low reaction time exacerbated by LCD input lag.
"No don't shoot lasers out your face, its weird." Going to put that gem in my pocket for s rainy day ;-)
I lol'd when he realized everything was orange. The way he views his own work all through the viewfinder makes for great accidental meta humor.
'you dolphin faced fucker'..... Had me in stitches
Certain people mentioned this console to *a certain Let's Player* - where he plays Sonic Game Gear games.
"The Game Gear ate the batteries, the Nomad DEVOURED them!"
I'm puzzled now, coz I've played quite a few Mega Drive games on my Nomad. Either I'm very lucky, or you're very unlucky... or have dirty contacts on your carts. Sonic 1 most definitely works. I have it running as I type this.
He is going on that he has a NTSC console and only PAL cartridges. I never had a problem with my drive as I just went in side and modded the hard jump configuration, so I could switch it when I pleased (I also f***** with the port slightly!). Question? could you possibly have a chipped Nomad? (I don't know if that type of chip existed for something that old, but heck, they must of appeared at some point!)
is there a lot that dont work? i have been looking into gettin one recently
I don't think so. I know Virtua Racing doesn't work, but it's the only one in my collection that wouldn't play.
SimmyBassline I would not put money on it, there may unknown variables at work.
***** He has a pal cart it won't work
"Go Ecco! You dophin faced fucker!" I came for the highbrow wit and was not disappointed! That really did genuinely make me laugh out loud!
Mr Ashens? (holds up hand at back of the class) Can you tell us why the Mega Drive in the US was named after a prog rock band from Surrey? Nowhere on the web has a solid answer.
No, "Genisis" is the book in the Bible where everything is created, and it is a reference to this. The band just so happens to have the same name.
Mega Drive was a legally protected name in the United States, so it could not be used. It was then called the SEGA Genesis, because it was the genesis of the 16-bit console generation. The Genesis was massively popular over here and SEGA of America was very successful. That's why millions of people call it the Genesis.
Hmmm I wonder who had the rights to Mega Drive?
kerbal666 Its a company who makes car parts I think or a brand of car parts.
Daniel Castaneda Nice one!
"You Dolphin Faced Fucker" - Best thing I've heard, possibly this year.
*Echo the Dolphins secret rape cave of Sexual pleasure.*
Best sequel ever.
ChaosWaffle ?
Ecco*
Also WTF is wrong with you?
5:24 Handsome fish
This part made me die of laughter when I was young
The most surprising thing about the nomad is that it has no japanese release, when u think that would be the very reason they made it, to cater to the japanese market with their small homes and commute times
We needed a Blueglass cameo for this video.
Sega Nomad: An Airbender's favorite console.
*Favourite
***** Thanks a lot, captain obivous. *facepalm
Finally. This was one I was waiting for!
The Streets of Rage series will always be my favorite games
Omg yesss!! But you have to admit streets of rage 1&2 was a lot better than 3. I found 3 a little disappointing, but maybe that's just because I haven't been able to finish it yet!!
+CrazySweetGirl The Japanese version (Bare Knuckle 3) was a LOT more fun to play. They managed to suck most of the fun out in changing it to SoR 3.
The thing to really go for now though is to track down Streets of Rage Remake v5.1 and play it on PC, ideally with a Mega-Drive or Saturn v2 Controller.
It basically merges all three games into one as well as a ton of new stuff.
+BrySkye sounds cool, but its so hard to find these types of games now :/ rather sad really. I love well to me they are retro games, but I do know to alot of other people they are no where near retro XD but If I do see it, I will definitely try and get it!!
CrazySweetGirl It shouldn't be much harder than typing it into google ;)
+BrySkye ahhh cool, I dont know why, but I was thinking it was going to be in cartridge form XD
"You are soapy mactavish man, go shoot brown man! And do it again next year" bro I spit my drink out lmfao
I swear when you blew into that cartridge part of me died just then.
everyone does that.
jekblom123 Yeah, I know. It's just that it slowly corrodes the cartridge.
He's right, just use 90 degrees alcohol !!! >
+Malik Walik I have 80 degree cologne. Would that work?
Aperture Science technically yes, but you'ld rather get some alcohol to prevent your cartridge to smell too good. :)
The Turbo Touch 360 was designed for fighting games, specifically. The big draw was that some versions of it were programmable, so if you knew what you were doing you could program a tricky-to-use special move into it, and then, using the program feature, use that move essentially on call.
I'm starting to question whether that Sonic box had a copy of the game inside it, because that *should* have played fine on a 60hz device, at its proper speed.
Aside from the few later on that locked you out based on region settings in later years (Like SoR II), Most games were completely cross compatible... Developers never bothered to optimise gameplay for different hz rates and most of the time the carts contained exactly the same code on the ROMs - An NTSC cart would just play slower on a PAL machine, and a PAL cart would play faster (or how us purists like to say: it's proper speed) on an NTSC machine.
There are even some earlier carts that have the code for the western and Japanese versions inside, and will run in all 3 territories and change the title screens and language accordingly based on region settings (Japanese cartridges were a slightly different shape though so wouldn't fit in a US/EU slot without cutting the slot a bit, and a US/EU cart wouldn't fit in a JP machine unless you removed the cart lock bar in the console)
Stupid piece of trivia about the region lockout on SoR2: The EU version and the Japanese version are identical and work on either machine, and even changes it's title screen to Bare Knuckle II an a JP MD, but won't work on a Genesis. The Genesis version only works on a Genesis because it's a stupid billy no-mates, has a different sprite for Blaze's jump kick so you cant see her pants, and has had the title screen changed to "Streets of Rage 2" instead of "Streets of Rage II" because apparently Sega US didn't think Americans understood Roman numerals.
post 1993
To this day I still regret accidentally busting the screen to my Nomad. It was a power hog, but it was one of the greatest "handhelds" ever.
I thinks your channel is amazing, Ashens. I had one of these growing up. I traded it for a carton of cigarrettes (stupid). Now you can buy the with new digital screens. Not that this is obscure, but your channel and boogies are the first channels that i ever saw such obscure stuff being reviewed. I thought it was a joke at first. But i think its amazing.
"go Ecco...you dolphin faced fucker" Made me lol quite a bit
My Sega Nomad story:
So, it was around my birthday last year. I was in the mall's one of two retro game stores and noticed their Sega Nomad for sale. Seeing how I had a bunch of cash and a bunch of Sega games, I bought it. The guy advised me that the contrast knob didn't work, so he sold it to me for $70 instead of $80.
I take it home, plug it into the wall, and the screen doesn't work. I can plug it into the TV just fine, but the screen on the portable console didn't work, making it as portable as a regular Sega Genesis.
I return it to them, and instead of them refunding my money, the say they can fix it.
A few weeks go by, and I call them up, they say that they're waiting on some parts, so I wait for another couple weeks. When I call them up this time, they say their repair guy quit and they're trying to find a new guy to replace him with.
I say fuck it and demanded my money back, and they did.
That store is bullshit overall, they buy games from other stores and sell them for more.
i had a nomad as a kid and this video brought back so much nostalgia. i used to play a game called vectorman i really miss this.
Sega: "Our handhelds are super awesome with all the hardware they have! Battery life? What's that?"
The Turbo Touch 360 was either released or heavily marketed around the rise of games like Street Fighter and was sold on the idea that doing things like down to towards was easier if you didn't have a D-pad cutting into your thumb. Your complaint about diagonals was likely not because you didn't know where your thumb was, it was because the controller only registers up, down, left, and right yet the touch area is massive. Anywhere outside the lines you can see on the pad is a dead zone and if you didn't have freakishly huge thumbs you could not use this controller effectively at all. I only ever knew one person who played games and had massive meathooks for thumbs and that was my dad and he loved the Turbo Touch. After he used the SNES controller he bought the line (they made them for the NES as well) and only ever used them from then on.
Ecco always freaked me out. The music was eerie as fuck.
The moment when all the dolphins got sucked up scared me as a kid. Nice cute and cuddly BAM ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE GONNA BE EATEN.
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE.
I love it. Eerie and badass!
Mentski FOR PIGS.
Oh good that wasn't just me. I think the music was supposed to simulate the atmosphere or at least the ambiance of the deep sea but it was weird. I always expected something to come out and kill me but it was never that aggressive.
I was partially hoping you'd play Ecco juuuust long enough to be able to joke about dolphin abductions.
Also it is amazing seeing how even back then there were such huge jumps in the gaming industry, one moment you have your handheld Sega Genesis, six years later you have the GBA which was I believe twice as powerful than the Genesis itself with so much less space taken up!
Good thing I pulled an all nighter. :D
Lol same!
Alien 3 - The Nomad might have arrived late, but so did you! The Nerd pointed the appearing-enemies problem out half a year ago.
Turbo Touch 360 - I had one of those. It went into the "controllers" pile. And stayed there. Forever.
And it is impossible to complete the first X-Men game on this thing since it requires you to reset the console as part of the gameplay.
No, it is not.
Really? That game requires you to press the reset button at a certain point, and I thought Nomad doesn't have that. How can you finish that game?
Crowley9
You cannot finish it.
I just read your first comment wrong :)
The ost for alien 3 is some of my favorite gensis/megadrive music
alien 3 is my favourite soundtrack on the megadrive. it's on the same pedestal as Streets of Rage 1&2 and Revenge of Shinobi. check out the soundtrack to the excellent rare japanese game Battle Mania Daiginjō. Bloody brilliant.
Is the steam controller the reincarnation of the Turbo Touch 360?
+DOSRetroGamer Steam controller is a better version of it by having TWO touchy things
you can set it to require click
What a twist!
the Steam Controller at least gives a bit of feedback, so there's that...
BUT ITS GLOSSY.For some reason gamers hate gloss
Ahhh, the days when portable gaming was a novelty, and not something just anyone could do on the now omnipresent smartphone. I spent many an hour huddled up next to the wall-outlet with my Sega Nomad, playing Comix Zone, Vectorman, and Sonic & Knuckles.
I love Ecco the Dolphin!
Charjune ecco is by sega
I already know that. What's your point?
"Different than sega version"
What dies that supposed to mean?
Because Ecco the Dolphin has also been released for Windows 95 in 1996. That's the one I first played and the one I grew up with. The soundtrack is different than the Sega release and what I also noticed is that there are actual CGI cutscenes in the Windows version, something that I never saw in the Sega consoles (a friend of mine had the same game back then and I played the Sega version online to notice the differences). If you google or search on RUclips for "Ecco the Dolphin PC" (or "Windows") you may find playthough, cutscenes and soundtrack of the Windows version. I totally love the PC soundtrack of the game.
Tl
Sooo U meant other then the console version?
As someone who had one when they weren't terribly old, and with a huge library of games, I can confirm that they were pretty damn nice at the time to have even with the battery issues.
I'm probably alone on this... But I envy the Europeans for having gotten the mega drive and not genesis... Mega drive just sounds more badass.
+PsychoticBastard I think you meant MEGA DRIVE.
Michał Pawlak Well fuck me! XD I didn't notice!
the games ran a lot slower though. I think they ran 17% slower. after playing the USA version, I found it to be much better, like with the sonic games
+Patrick Roche they can be modified to play in 60Hz NTSC
Patrick Roche
America, fuck yeah!
An excellent description. Seriously, this is one of the best.
DAMN YOU SOAPY MACTAVISH!!!!!!!!
I still have this. It was an awesome protable at it's time.
A shame it never got a Sega CD add on.
Ha, that'd be fun to carry around! ...and imagine the battery life!
That would be the CDX.
RRW Eh, not really since the CDX didn't have its own screen or controls like a portable system... all it could do on its own was play audio CDs. It would've been neat if there was been a way to plug the CDX into the Nomad to have a portable Sega CD, but I'm pretty sure Sega was well aware by that point that the Sega CD was old news and almost a total flop.
Or a Sega 32X add-on.
Two hours of play is being generous! This thing devoured batteries.
Fun fact: This was originally called the Venus, and it was one of a whole series of planet-themed names:
Mercury: Game Gear
Venus: Nomad
Mars: 32X
Jupiter: I think it was a Genesis with a built in CD and 32X
Saturn: Sega Saturn
Neptune: Genesis with a built in 32X
Pluto: A Saturn with built-in internet
My names:
Earth: Genesis
Uranus: Genesis with a Sega CD
Eris: Dreamcast
Ceres: Master System
Funny how all of the consoles with planet names ended up being a commercial flop for SEGA, just like all consoles with cat names were shitty for Atari.
+powersonic0123 XD calico
Practically every Sega console flopped.
Nintendo had some company codenames for their consoles as well...
Dot Matrix Game = Game Boy
Project Reality = Nintendo 64
Dolphin = Game Cube
Revolution = Wii
Iris = Nintendo DS
The Genesis, Game Gear, and Dreamcast were the only non-flops in the west (the Game Gear and Dreamcast both were profitable...though not as much as Sega was hoping). The Saturn did quite well in Japan. The 32x was by far the biggest flop Sega ever had their hands in...
From a technological standpoint, the Nomad is one of the most impressive Handheld game systems ever made. The fact they put a fairly recent home console in a portable unit is an achievement in itself. But obviously, was let down by poor screen and battery life.
I think it was quite a testament to Sega's eagerness to experiment. This was one of the few times it actually worked. (Somewhat) People often berate Sega for failures like the Mega-CD and 32X, but hey, you didn't see your precious Nintendo doing anything new, did you? Yeah, playing it safe, like what they do with practically every Mario game these days. :P
3:46 "you are soapy mactavish man, you must shoot brown men GO! and then next year do the same again but slightly more expensive dlc" -Stuart ashen
My jaw literally dropped when you pulled out the turbo touch. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.
Is the Turbo Touch 360 a warning for the Steam controller?
I believe the Steam Controller is supposed to have Haptic Feedback though.
Techcraft2 mcsruler Didn't they say they were ditching that idea and going more for the conventional game pad that is like the XBOX controllers instead?
mcsruler The Xperia Play is similar, the touchpads are ok when the game is properly optimised, albeit in a nowhere-near-as-good-as-an-analogue-stick kinda way.
mcsruler Haptic feedback is a load of shite. It is a trackpad that vibrates.
For some reason, Athens' "NAO NATHINGK" at around 1:17 made me burst into hysterical laughter..
I think Mega Drive is a cooler name than Genesis. Coming from an American.
+TBrizzle01 It always puzzled me as a Mater System owner. I thought "But...it isn't the Genesis at all...it's like their third or fourth gaming computer." haha
Mega drive sounds 80s to me - like "check out this djs mega master mix"
@@annother3350 that sounds way more 90s then 80s
@@Liamthewaldo The "dj mega master mix" type of thing came about some time after the invention of the 12-inch single in the late 70s
The U Mad Bro? No Mad Bro! Is a Borderlands 2 refference XD
There is actually a handy mod for replacing the Nomad's screen with a modern LCD that uses less battery and looks much brighter and sharper. Not the cheapest thing in the world to have installed, but well worth looking into if you are into the Nomad. There's also services to mod the old burned out rechargeable battery packs with fancy new lithium so you can play for much longer than the original battery pack allowed for even when they were new.
Nice! Can you send me a link?
I don't know of any storefront websites offering the service, but ther is a guy on the Racketboy forums who does the screen and battery mods for $70 and $60 respectively.
www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17415
That much trouble just to play some dull, frustrating, vanishingly brief old games?
My experience has barely been worth the time to set up emulators.
AgentTasmania I bet your first game was Call of Duty.
Timstuff Nope. PSOne, and even going back to the stuff I loved as a kid is just frustrating and dull now. Spyro, Chrash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater all dissapointed me when I got the station out after about a ten year gap.
The rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia don't fit my prescription.
This is the cleanest Sega Nomad I've ever seen
Ashens grab a Qtip, get some drops of windowcleaner on it and rub the catridge contags clean. Then you grab your creditcard and some clean piece of cloth. Wrap an edge of your creditcard with the cloth and apply a little bit of windowcleaner on it and stuff the clothwarped card in the cartidge slot and carefully jiggle it up and down to get all the dust out it has collected over time. Blowing the catridge or slot will damage it, the contacts will rust and your game/ console will die a painful death.
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I just noticed that my cellphone autocorrected nearly every word I wrote.
+KingCorny93 The best way to clean the games is to open up the cartridge and clean the contacts with an eraser. It'll remove all the gunk on it. Windowcleaner or any liquid will also eventually damage and cause rust, as will any amount of liquid. Although I did have to settle for this method recently because the cartridge had weird screws in it for some reason that weren't standard gamebit screws.
+Mario Rodriguez +KingCorny93
*facepalm*
Windowcleaner corrodes. You use isopropyl, nothing over 97% or it will damage the contacts.
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CoroPixel
my 1983 Famicom games still run properly.
I can't tell you how many times I raged so hard at my grandparents bowling alley as a kid while playing that damned thing...
I'll give you £5 for the nomad
I'll give him £5.01 :P
Deltaexio with a hint of lemon... £5.02
tuxcup guess what....i'm not bidding :P
But if i was, it wouldn't be £5.03
Dan Arthur $9.55 CAD I don't know the exchange rate.
$9.56CAD.
That Ecco music... mmmm.... good memories. I recorded that music on to a tape back before I knew what an internet was and used to listen to it on the bus ride to school.
Better battery life than my IPhone...
Then you should have a shitty Chinese knockoff :P
Thank you. So much for using the Turbo Touch. I bought one of those because I was convinced it would make me awesome at Street Fighter Champion Edition, and had completely forgotten what it was called.
It did not, in case you were wondering.
Ashens is the new YSG
Dan.
I knew someone would say it.
who's ysg?
Who is YSG?
Cryo Dragon Yellow Shirt Guy aka Blueglass. He's a speed runner that speed runs this game. He's got a ridiculous laugh, look up some of his videos.
& now a PSP can do the Nomad's job incredibly well.
Doesn't the Steam console have two of those touch pads instead of joysticks, like the Turbo Touch 360? Dang, wonder how that turns out.
I'd imagine they're a lot more sophisticated than an early 90's 3rd party Megadrive controller.
Paul Dennett I suppose, but an iPhone screen is a lot more sophisticated too yet a lot of people despise that.
wee1owen12 Don't confuse sophisticated technology with sophisticated design. There's good reason people despise touch screens for most games; most games genres evolved without the consideration of a control scheme that required you to cover half the screen with your fingers and thumbs.
'Ello Guv'ner I wouldn't necessary count that as large an area of contempt as you think, considering games like Slayin exist, where the controls aren't on the play area yet still receive scorn.
wee1owen12 Well there's other things wrong with touch screens. No tactile feedback is a big one depending on the genre. As for Slayin, i don't know anything about it so i couldn't say whether i think the hate is deserved or not.
The Nomad is hands down my favorite system that I own. Love the Game Gear as well
"You are Soapy MacTavish man, you must shoot brown men. Go." Am I the only one that got the COD reference?
Yes.
I remember playing Alien 3 on the Genesis way back when. Super hard.
Has anyone told you that you sound like the narrator from The Stanley Parable?
fireclaw316 OMG... really :D
fireclaw316 not even fucking close just because he is british lol
MrAmir I dunno. He at least reminded me of him when I first started watching.
+WallE since when did you get thumbs?
+MrAmir "British" is vague as he wouldn't sound very much like the guy from Stanley Parable if he had a Scottish or Welsh accent seeing as the Scottish and Welsh are also British...
I used to play Japanese and U.S games on a UK Megadrive.. just adapted the cartridge. Ran with no issues from what I remember.
And yet it's still more advanced than the Xbox one...
Mydogeatsshit um no its not😂
@@SebastianQ2003 It is.
I got a SEGA ad during this video XD
My dad's cousin co-designed that Sonic 1 EU cover.
Cool
I love the "In all its ---------- Glory" thing
late 1995? .....but they had the gamegear by that time....
gamegear didn't play genesis games...so, nevermind
But they played sms games though.
Sms games?
BATTLE Derp Sega Master System
This episode is quite relaxing for some reason
Turbo Touch 360 - like today touch screens :D I hate playing games on touch screen!
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Goat mud sallad!
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Me neither :D
Linus Magnus or the steam controller
Mackaber Witckin
I hate anything related to steam :D
Had one back in the day, still have it. I was king of the bus well into when the GBA came out, especially since I could play Streets of Rage 2 with another guy, with 1 console.