non smash-pack single game emus

[emazur]

I don't remember reading about this anywhere so I'll go ahead in mention it. In japan, besides the smash pack collections for pc, I noticed single game emus being sold. Titles included:

Bare Knuckle II

Shining in the Darkness

Arrow Flash

Ecco

and others I can't remember, all at about 1700/piece. I'm certain they are emulated b/c it says words to that effect on the box. System requirements are a pentium III 500mhz or above. Are these new or did you guys already know about them?

 

[mal]

Can you offer any more details?

I can't say that I've heard of them.

 

[emazur]

Not much else in the details department yet, there were maybe between 7 and 15 titles available, all coming in cd size jewel cases, and they are the japanese versions. I was thinking about picking up Bare Knuckle 2

 

[mal]

Where did you see them?

 

[Pearl Jammzz]

they pirated? look pirated?

 

[emazur]

At a large, well known store called Bic Camera. The games looked legit, almost %100 sure.

 

[emazur]

found the webpage for these if anyone's interested. these games are called sega honpo (means "main shop"):

already released titles

april releases

 

[mal]

It sounds like it's rental based. :huh

Running one of the pages through Babelfish churns out stuff about paying 1000 Yen for 30 days rights or something.

 

[emazur]

there are rental titles and packaged full version titles. in fact I found the url for the site by looking at the back of the package. the 2 links i provided are the packaged games, but the ones on the main page http://sega-gamehompo.jp/index.html show several rental-only titles

 

[M3d10n]

The Cyberdisk service has buttloads Genesis games for online rental, for 300 yens or something. They also have a few Saturn and SegaPC games.

 

[Xavier]

yeah and you all know that you can play genesis games on media player for $7.99 a game right ?

Not media player real one or whatever its called

 

[vbt]

Originally posted by M3d10n@Apr 16, 2004 @ 04:17 PM

The Cyberdisk service has buttloads Genesis games for online rental, for 300 yens or something. They also have a few Saturn and SegaPC games.

It seems the Cyberdisk service is closed 🙁

Check here

 

[mal]

I wonder why? :huh

 

[vbt]

Originally posted by mal@May 9, 2004 @ 02:20 AM

I wonder why? :huh

it can be because of :

- piracy

- limited to Japan

- too long to download in order to play a game

 

[mal]

It's a shame really...