32X

And as I hope in the future, a lot more indie.

uh do we need a bit more of a push to get the sort of sega's konamis on there you know the hamster things like that um that would be great but they're not beneficial to the brand um so yeah i think they've got time to grow slowly and and i think any investment they need to be very careful uh going forward i certainly you know i think we've got enough hardware at the moment we certainly don't want a company coming in wanting to churn out an elf every month So I think that in turn, if you look at Sega with the Mega CD, the 32X, the Sega Saturn, the Dreamcast, you know what I mean? It just goes on and on, doesn't it? And it upset people and they pulled away from Sega and, you know, and we all know what happened there.

So, yeah, I think Evercade has to go very careful with any form of investment.

But if they keep investing as they're doing, slowly but surely, I think the community will take them going forward.

We're going to start off with this from Genovi, a really big and well-known name in the Sega Mega Drive homebrew community, particularly on the music side of things as well, really pushing the limits of what these systems are capable of.

And a very good in-depth look at the 32X, which was Sega's 32-bit add-on for the Mega Drive.

Had quite a few Mega Drive stories this week, haven't we? Good stuff.

I do love the Mega Drive.

But yeah, it talks a bit about the history of the Mega Drive or the Genesis, if you prefer, and of course, the 32X add-on.

And then goes on to explore the audio capabilities in particular of that add-on, because Sega did add some extra capabilities to it as well, in addition to the extra processing power, of course, stuff for potential unlocked from going to 32-bit.

And not only does this serve as a technical explanation as to how it all works and what those new and improved capabilities were, but also a practical demonstration from someone who is very, very well qualified to demo such things.

So, yeah, this is 12 minutes long.

Well,

I think they let us down when they'd done 32Xs and Bolt-Ons and Mega CDs and then the Sega Saturn, which then was 32-bit as well, but it wasn't 32X.

And they killed it.

They killed themselves, unfortunately.

They kind of didn't want to let the Mega Drive go, so they came up with the...

Well, Sega Japan came up with the Mega CD, which I think, personally, was a good idea.

Sega America was kind of all in on 32X and kind of almost... got a little bit pirate-like and forced it out, which then obviously forced everyone's hand, and then, like, what, a year later, 18 months later, out comes the Saturn, and it's like, well, what is this? No one really knows what it is.

Killed themselves,

About £310 now.

On the console side, Sega's 32X add-on for the Mega Drive was due in November at £169.99. That's about £370 in today's money.

£370 for a mushroom that plugged into your Mega Drive tells you how much money was sloshing around games that Christmas.

Everybody wanted the next big thing, and Rise of the Robots was selling itself as exactly that.

What's funny for the listeners that are listening not live is that that'll pr- those beeps will probably be gone [laughs] and they're like, "What's that noise?" That's, uh, it's me, Vito, and Xander just to mess with them.

Yeah, this is the last one, and this is a, uh, 32X pinball game.

I don't think we've covered a 32X homebrew.

No.

No.

So this is apparently pinball on the 32X.

Um, it's called Revelation: Light and Judgment.

Um, you can buy it downloadable for seven bucks on the itch.io page to get a thing for a, um, a ROM.

Yeah.

Like, as cool as it is, that's what it kind of feels like, and it, it, I, I feel like if it had come out back in the day, it probably would've- ... died the same death as, like, the Sega CD or the 32X.

It's just slightly enhanced versions of the game.

[laughs]

Um, but again, all it was doing was putting it over basically a blank layer, then streaming the, the video from the CD to fill it.

So, um, yeah.

Or, or to use another Sega reference, right? The 32X did that, right?

Yeah.

Let's get this open.

So on this one, we have the Genesis 32X games.

We have Dreamcast.

We have Neo Geo.