On its blog, the company announced a new release on Steam called 'Mega Drive Classics Hub', and it's in effect an emulator user interface for playing your classic Mega Drive (Genesis) games. Whatever your thoughts on emulation are, there's one thing we're sure most people could agree on: we didn't expect SEGA to utter the word 'emulation' in a positive light. Even if you own the original games, being able to play them through an emulator is done for the sake of convenience, or perhaps even the sake of running the games at less eye-bleedy resolutions. There are a number of reasons why emulators are great though, as well. That is, at least, if they happen to still sell the game in some capacity. With an emulator in hand, you have the ability to download game ROMs ripped from the original source, which means you are playing a game you (might not have) paid for, potentially taking away profits from the original developer or publisher. Some games have leaderboards and challenge-related trophies.For what we're sure are obvious reasons, most game console makers are not fans of emulation. This is not only a fun way to breathe new life into old adventures, but also an extra thrill. In Streets of Rage 2, it manifests itself in the fact that gamers have to go through the second stage without picking up items, while Beyond Oasis offers to defeat the boss Crab Nabber using only a dagger. Challenge and achievement systems are a great bonus. The selection of games is done in a neat alphabetical order and the options allow you to save your favorites, which are then automatically sorted in the upper left corner.

Here you can even adjust what time of day is displayed in the room, or set the system clock. To select options such as online multiplayer, a list of trophies, or the games themselves, you need to select different parts of the room. Immediately after downloading and watching a vivid intro video, players are placed in a room designed to inspire memories of teenage games from the 90s. There is a sweep option to help with this. Overview SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics settings allow players to control the visual output, such as pixel anti-aliasing and stretching to full screen.

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