Talk:Sega Genesis

Needs to point out that the 7.67 Mhz 68000 only accesses memory at 1.92 Mhz

On the SNES page it explains how certain parts of the memory are accessed at 2.68Mhz and 1.79Mhz (despite the latter being exclusively for joypad registers). It should be explained that the unlike the 5A22, the 68000 always takes atleast 4 cycles to access memory once. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.173.193 (talk) 22:26, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Can you reliably source this? If you can, I'd be glad to add it in. Red Phoenix ^talk 22:33, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

http://oldwww.nvg.ntnu.no/amiga/MC680x0_Sections/mc68000timing.HTML

http://md.squee.co/68k_Instruction_Reference http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~Matthew.James/engn3213-2002/notes/busnode7.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.173.193 (talk) 18:23, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

This is just trivia related to how the 68000 works. Its the same on all 68000 products and isn't specific to the Mega Drive. The fact that the SNES is different is irrelevant. 90.205.254.13 (talk) 13:18, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Mega Drive vs Genesis

Shouldn't this article refer to the console as the Sega Mega Drive, given that it was only called the Genesis in North America? It seems silly to refer to it as Genesis when the country of origin AND the rest of the world referred to it as the Mega Drive. Dominar_Rygel_XVI (talk) 02:04, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Please read through the talk page archives. Sergecross73 msg me 02:40, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

@Dominar Rygel XVI: The FAQ should explain it: Talk:Sega_Genesis/FAQ Popcornduff (talk) 03:54, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

This needs to be more easily visible somehow. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 06:13, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Well, there is a huge red banner that displays when you edit this talk page... It might actually have saved dozens of posts by now. Who knows. Popcornduff (talk) 06:25, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

There are certain forms of editing where you don't see it, though. Editing on mobile, for instance, the banner doesn't show up. Red Phoenix ^talk 12:27, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

That's true, but like Red Phoenix said, it might not be shown on all editing platforms. Also having it clearly visible outside of editing the talk page should also be helpful. Maybe it's just because of how cluttered the top of this talk page is that the FAQ link gets missed. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 18:50, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Updates and cleanup ahead of a TFA run in August

Before I start this: Advocates for the "Mega Drive" name, just don't. I'm actually right there with you, but this isn't a hill worth dying on and this isn't being done to push an American-centric viewpoint. It just works out and it's for the betterment of this article, and unfortunately I missed the Japanese release date last year or I would have done it then. Also pinging Indrian, TheTimesAreAChanging, SexyKick, Dissident93, and Sergecross73 as users who might be interested.

It's been five years since this article was promoted through FAC. Now, August 14, 2019 will be the 30th anniversary of the console's North American release as the Sega Genesis. As it stands, this article is still in pretty solid shape, but there has been more information arising since its 2013 promotion through FAC. For one (thank you Indrian for showing me this site), a recently translated interview with Hideki Sato has provided us some insight into development of the console that we don't have in here yet. But that being said, I think we're close enough that with a bit of maintenance and added content, this would be a great article to be Today's Featured Article for that date. Thoughts of what we can improve and if that sounds like a good idea? Red Phoenix ^talk 12:34, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

I definitely think it'd be good to add some info (and better sources) for the Sega Genesis Mini to talk about how Sega hired M2 to redo the emulation, cutting out AtGames etc. - maybe some stuff about the Mega Sg, and new games like Hardcore/Ultracore, Tanglewood, Xeno Crisis and others since we dropped off editing. The 32X unit sale need updating too (800,000 iirc) asked Indrian about that years ago when the source came out.--SexyKick 04:25, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Sega Retro

I read a handful of Sega Retro articles, and I thought they were interesting. Are they a RS? MightyArms (talk) 03:52, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

• They are a user submitted wiki, so no. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 04:06, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Ah shit... their articles are quite good, if you ask me. But I'll accept the rules of the Wikipedia... MightyArms (talk) 04:21, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
    • Did you check those articles to see if they themselves cite any sources? Sometimes SR articles have references in them, and if that's the case then you could try to find any reliable ones & snatch those to use here.

Which articles were they, out of curiosity? ~~Tristan ("TheDisneyGamer") 22:19, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Here's one example of the pages I looked at. This page has over 100 citations. This article has 59 citations. MightyArms (talk) 13:05, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Dang, there's definitely something there then. Granted they're mostly citations from magazine scans, but those are still valid so maybe they'd be worth individually looking into somewhere down the line! ~~Tristan ("TheDisneyGamer") 13:34, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

We'd just use the magazines as sources then, not Sega Retro itself. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 16:25, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Sega Retro has been pretty useful to me for exactly that - finding magazine articles I wasn’t aware of. In that sense it is quite useful, but unfortunately most of its articles are quite unsourced and full of speculation and some factual errors. Basically, it can be helpful in finding other resources, but that’s the limit of it. Red Phoenix ^talk 16:31, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

This has been my experience/stance as well. Sergecross73 msg me 16:39, 26 April 2019 (UTC)