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Sega tosses its hat into the plug-and-play ring once again with the Sega Genesis Mini, though this time they opted to manufacture the system themselves with M2 developing the emulator. The system comes with 40 pre-installed games, plus a more faithful port of Sega's Tetris and a licensed fan port of the original Darius.

A cosmetic expansion was later released which included miniature versions of the Sega CD and 32X plus Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic the Hedgehog (though other mini-carts can be found separately), all of which can be attached to the standalone Genesis Mini.

To do:

Unused games, DEBUG mode, Sega Vintage Collection PS3/360 leftovers, and other stuff here.

Unused Games

ROMs for games exist on each of the regional versions of the system, but are inaccessible. (*) denotes games that can be unlocked through Hakchi.

Japan

US

Europe/Australia

Demo Mode

The interface has a "DEMO" mode that is left over from a preview build. When enabled, only the first 10 games that were announced are listed, and automatic demos and the system menu are disabled.

Undocumented Features

Pressing B on the game library screen will switch the view from front covers to a spine view. Additionally, pressing C on the Screen Settings screen will activate scanlines.





Regional Differences

Game Selection

The selection of games between regions are different. At least 19 titles are different according to each version of the system:

It is worth noting that by changing the system language, the player can access alternate region versions of most of the games included on any system. Most notably, changing an International system to an Asian language will turn Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine into Puyo Puyo. This also sets the game to the selected language in some games (though not all). On a US system, setting the system to Chinese will set games to Japanese, while setting it to Korean will use English.

On European/Australian systems, PAL versions of Sonic Spinball, Beyond Oasis, Castlevania: Bloodlines, and Contra: Hard Corps (The Story of Thor, Castlevania: The New Generation, and Probotector) replace the US versions on the English language setting, though the US versions are still available by setting the language to Chinese for Beyond Oasis and Korean for Castlevania and Contra. No US version is available for Sonic Spinball, however.

Main Menu

US Europe/Australia Japan/Asia