PSA: It's Your Last Chance To Get 'Sega Mega Drive Classics' On Switch eShop

Finished my Steam collection since it was released in two batches meaning I was missing a couple but they only discounted the Sonic games for dreamcast that aren't being delisted :/ Was bloody annoying.

"Especially one this good"

"but this is still a fantastic way to play over 50 classics"

I'm sorry but am I living in some kind of alternate reality? Whilst this is a great collection of games, the Switch version has atrocious input lag and is easily the worst way to play these games on modern consoles

And they even didn't make a final discount/sale?! Seriously?! What a lame move, SEGA.

I've got it on both PS4 and Switch so I'm set. Need to play more of it honestly, kind of only really dabbled.

My biggest takeaway with what I have played of this collection is that Bio-Hazard Battle deserves way more love.

You know it was on sale in North America during the last days of November and the first of December, right?
I find it weird the sale didn't last until the last day it was available.

Anyway, I passed on it, if I ever come across a physical copy, I may get it. Mega Drive game aren't some of my favorites mostly due to their lack of battery backup. Though I heard this collection has savestates, that might mitigate the problem.

Meh. I didn't care much for the collection. I eventually caved and bought it for the ONE Alex Kidd game, and the brilliant Comix Zone, whose demo I played on PC as a kid.

Always nice to have retro collections and rarities though.

There's slight input lag in this version that drives me absolutely bonkers. It's just bad enough to be an issue. Don't waste your money! Find a cheap physical copy of your interested!

I already had this on PS4, but I did double dip on the Switch version as it was only a fiver on Switch earlier this year.

Having played many of these games extensively on the original hardware, the lag is definitely noticeable, but I'm not sure if that's my TV or the Switch itself (or possibly both)

@Ranchman69 I'm confused, are you implying that the digital version has input lag, but the physical version does not?

@EVIL-C They're saying don't bother paying full price on eShop, try and find the physical copy instead (although famously delisted games spike in value afterwards)

Sega usually do this once every console generation as an excuse to repackage and re-release the collection yet again. Hopefully, whomever Sega opts to put the next collection together does a better job than the D3T team did. The emulation in this collection is rough.

Of course they're delisting it.

Why offer it for sale ONCE when you can get someone to pay monthly?

And then when the online is no longer supported on one platform, get them to pay monthly on a new platform.

Stay away from this one, the input lag is horrible. Or at least, it's immediately noticeable to anyone who's familiar with how the original versions played. If you've never played any of these, you might not even notice it. Emphasis on "might".

@Vyacheslav333 Picked it up for $5.99 on Xbox, picked it up for a similar price on PS a few months ago.

VERY odd decision from Sega to not discount here as well.

@Magician : And they'll probably do what everybody else is doing, by issuing a series of "collections" with only a handful of games each instead of a single package with a few dozen titles.

cough Taito Legends on PS2 cough

@HammerGalladeBro sorry to "call you out" on a specific, but what do you mean by "lack of battery backup"?
Several MegaDrive games had battery saves, as was the norm in its day. Are you mentioning something else?

Already bought this last year I think, this is a good sega collection 😃

Currently £8.19 via CD Keys - https://www.cdkeys.com/sega-mega-drive-classics-switch-eu

@SillyG Not only the input lag, but the audio has a bunch of issues as well. Playing Streets of Rage 2 is borderline painful because the death screams from enemies are ear-piercing.

@Carck I'm referring mostly to the SEGA ones I've played.
Trying not to mention games that were originally arcades: Sonic 1 and 2, standalone Sonic & Knuckles (this one might be on purpose for the lock on), Sonic Spinball, Sonic 3D Blast, Streets of Rage 2 (I'm not much into beat 'em ups but I assume this one is by design to make it feel like an arcade game), Ristar, Pulseman.

Haven't had the chance to fully dive into the Mega Drive library beyond the Sonics and the occasional game included in its collections so I may be generalizing a bit, my comment was speaking strictly about SEGA's "first-party" games.

But yes, I'm aware there are games with battery backup such as standalone Sonic 3 and Mega Man: The Wily Wars.

If you like Sonic jumping 10 frames or something after pushing the button, then sure this might be the collection for you

It does have that cute game room interface. But yeah, not a great collection to actually play. I haven't opened that app in so long - probably shouldn't have even bought it as an owner of a Mega SG. If it couldn't be fixed with a patch it should have been delisted long ago. You're much better off with the NSO app or emulating elsewhere.

Thank goodness I have my SuperSega preordered.

Pretty sure the SuperSega release is the reason for the delisting.

I've got a Sega Genesis Mini 1, and a Sega Genesis Mini 2. I think I'm covered

Have had it digitally for as long as I can remember. This is the push to track down a physical copy for preservation purposes.

$30 is a good deal for 51 games but it's too bad the party will end after this week.

@aznable It's not monthly, it's yearly. NSO is $20/year ($1.70/month for 12 months) for the standard pack plan and $50/per year ($4.20/month for 12 months) for the expansion pack plan.

But we already have the cartridge at home

@Serpenterror OMG that's only pennies a day, I take it all back.

@carlos82 All versions have this issue.

It was on sale last weekend.

@NinChocolate I tested it though his jump is actually very accurate to the original. Of course it doesn't matter now since it's going to be taken down anyways.

@Daniel36 Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but Sega just issued a cease and desist asking for all SuperSega units to be destroyed. Assuming they actually manufactured any and it wasn't just a scam to begin with.

I really just play this for the original Streets of Rage as it's the only way to play the game on Switch. The lag isn't so bad with that game, but the lack of decent scaling in portable mode is annoying. There is no way to play the games portable without visual shimmering.

@Mario500 https://www.analogue.co/mega-sg

Glad I stumbled across a physical copy last week.

@tektite_captain I was being 100% sarcastic, but I can understand how you could have doubts about that. Thanks for being nice and explain. But yeah, I have been following that news on Time Extension, and tried to be funny here.

Whilst I did notice input lag on Sonic 1 and 2, I haven't noticed it on anything on any others.

@Magician : That's a shame. I hadn't noticed these problems as I was only interested in a handful of games in the collection.

The last chance, of the last 35 chances win another 35 years of chances coming?

This has been re-released since gamecube was released. And on every system PLUS PC? How much did you get paid to write "last chance"?

I hope you got paid for advertising this Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-released game.

I have this collection for the Switch and also got it for the PS4 when it was on sale (it has a couple Wonder Boy games that are missing from the Switch version), so I'm set. I also have many of the Sega Ages games on the switch which I think are not getting de-listed.

I'm more concerned about the PS3 digital games getting de-listed (Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi and some of the Saturn games)

As for the collection being re-released again and again. That's NOT exactly true...

I have the Sega Genesis Collection for both PS2 and PSP which lacks Revenge of Shinobi, the Streets of Rage games, the Treasure developed games, BUT it includes the 3 Ecco the Dolphin games as well as several unlockable arcade games like Altered Beast missing from the PS4/Switch collection. Also, the PSP has a different set of unlockable arcade games than the PS2 version.

Then there's Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection on the PS3 which includes more games than the PS2/PSP release. But it lacks Shadow Dancer, Sword of Vermillion and Virtual Fighter 2 (all of which would be included again in the PS4/Switch collection). BUT it gives us Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles which are missing from the other collections as well as other unlockable arcade games like Shinobi, Space Harrier, Fantasy Zone, Alien Syndrome AND even some unlockable Master System games like Phantasy Star 1 and Golden Axe Warrior.

The collection for the PS4/Switch lacks any of the Arcade and Master System unlockable games and is missing the three Ecco the Dolphin games as well Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. But it has the most Sega Genesis games — 51 (I think) which is also more than the overall number of games included in the other compilations.

So, yes, I'm sure Sega will release a new compilation at some point and may even include some games that were missing before but it may also be missing some games we had in the current collection... Only time will tell.

My biggest issue is the games getting de-listed and not having a replacement in place. Data East had a similar situation where a whole bunch of their arcade games were de-listed and, as far as I know, have yet to be replaced with Arcade Archive equivalents.

@MirrorFate2 it's much worse on the Switch

@EVIL-C
I'm so sorry! There's no input lag on steam, but Switch has input lag.

@Ranchman69 Ah okay I see. Thank you. I already had a digital copy on Xbox, so I'm guessing that one is alright? 😅