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bin format, which worked fine, so would seem to be the best bet if you’re wondering. ROMs must be stored in a folder called ‘game’ something that the console makes clear with an on-screen prompt, but one of many requirements that aren’t mentioned in the meagre instruction booklet. It only takes a couple of seconds for the console to parse the contents of an SD card once to menu option is selected, good news if there are hundreds of title on the card. Left and right button presses flip between the two pages of built-in games and the all-important SD-card option. Ten to a page, you scroll down the list with the d-pad, revealing a screenshot of each game on the right. The unit features a built-in battery pack than can be recharged from a USB socket using the included (standard) cable.įire up the machine and after a second or two you’re greeted by a simple but functional menu of games. Even better news is the fact that the batteries aren’t the typical AA affair. When all is said and done it’s pretty respectable for under £40. The screen, positioned centrally, between the d-pad and the buttons, is about 3 inches corner to corner, and is relatively bright and responsive, with little ghosting or motion blur, though it does have a slightly blue colour cast on my example. On the bottom of the console there’s the on-off switch (this a hard, on off, not a game-preserving standby switch like on the PSP) and a standard headphone socket.Ībout the same size as an iPhone, only a fifth longer, and half the weight

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There’s also an AV out socket that allows the console to be hooked up to a TV for big-screen fun. On the top of the unit you’ll find a standard USB-mini socket for charging, the SD card slot and an old-school volume dial. Start and Menu buttons complete the fascia.

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Under the right thumb there are A,B and C buttons as well as X, Y and Z buttons for full compatibility with later games (the X,Y and Z buttons were missing from earlier Blaze units).

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It isn’t awful, but it’s not as good as the original Mega Drive controller, and not a patch on the SNES equivalent. In terms of controls there’s a slightly flimsy d-pad on the left. It’s light and pocketable – all you could ask of a handheld. It’s no PSP, but it certainly feels the equal of a Game Gear or an Atari Lynx.

About the size of iPhone, except one fifth longer, it’s sturdily built of matte black plastic, with orange accents on the side of the case and surrounding the buttons and d-pad.

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While still offering the usual 20 pack-in titles, including Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe and Sonic and Knuckles amongst others, it also features an SD card slot, allowing the full catalogue of Mega Drive ROMS to be added to the console’s library.īlaze Sega Mega Drive Arcade Ultimate Portable - not the snappiest name

This time though the machine has an ace up its sleeve. The previous models included a few built-in titles, of varying quality, and were usually marketed around the one triple-A title amongst each offering – Streets of Rage for example. It’s not the first time Blaze has come out with a handheld MD, the manufacturer does have the official licence from Sega, after all. It therefore took all of about four seconds after I first caught sight of Blaze’s new handheld Mega Drive compatible console for me to decide I had to own one. So now I regularly fire up my Mega Drive emulator, either on my laptop or my Wii and get stuck in to classics like Sonic 2 and NBA Jam. While I never owned a Mega Drive myself (until a few years ago), lots of my mates did – and two player sessions of Streets of Rage, Sensible Soccer, Street Fighter II were always fun.

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Perhaps it’s my familiarity with the software library. True, it was never as technically advanced as the SNES, as versatile as the Amiga, or as Arcade-perfect as the Neo-Geo AES, but there’s something about the system that still appeals even now, more than twenty years after its launch. Of all the many 16-bit systems I’ve owned or emulated, the machine to which I continually return is the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis to those of you in the US).

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