Genesis Vs SNES

[john2]

Snes is better but Genesis was also very good.When u could play Super Mario on the first console you could play Sonic on the other,when u could play Donkey Kong u could play Vectorman,genesis had 32x and SegaCD (i think) whereas snes had a chip which could handle some 3d games (not actually 3d,but both doom and mario kart were perfect),Mk series and generally beat em ups were better on snes whereas Fifa and Nba live series where better on Genesis.I enjoyed their games but i still remember playing more with Snes rather than playing with Genesis.Those days...........man it was just perfect

[Death Metal]

I go with Samor. Sonic was THE game, but SNES was much better than Genesis in terms of hardware and the quality of the games (graphics and specially sound). Not that I don't like Genesis, but somehow SNES became much more popular. Popularity does not mean much, but still SNES has goodly surpassed Genesis.

[Zídanee]

It would also have to go on where you come from, face it the genesis (Megadrive 1&2 in UK) was never that popular in japan, in the US it was pretty level with the SNES and in the UK the Megadrive was some what more popular then the SNES.

[ToM_E]

I say the Genesis was better. Look at all the games on it. Games that came out on both systems was always better gameplay on genesis. But Nintendo always had sonic on its gameboy.

[Kellicros]

I would say Snes is a lot better.
Look at its games, FF series, TOP, Star Ocean, BOF, Chrono Trigger, etc. They are just awesome!

[FireGL]

i'd go to both of them coz their both done their job well i really not much on rpg till psx appear
so i like fighting games and beat em up game like
bare knuckles,golden axe,wild guns,DK,final fight aladin,mario,doom dbz,monster,true lies etc so i like them both so i have both console

but i vote for snes @#$SD dunno

[Nightmare]

Originally posted by ToM_E
Look at all the games on it. Games that came out on both systems was always better gameplay on genesis.

This is not true.

But Nintendo always had sonic on its gameboy.

Sonic on gameboy? Hmmm,are u sure?

[edit] This is true,oopps :eek: [/edit]

[sonicfoot]

id say that both consoles were good.
Street fighter on the snes was better than on the megadrive, Mortal kombat series was better on the megadrive than it was on the snes etc.
Id say sega megadrive made some excellent games on there last though, like toy story as an example. Heck people still sell megadrive here in the shops for £20.

[FireGL]

ok w/c system is the fastest anyway??

[sonicfoot]

MegaDrive specs:
Processor: Motorola M68000 16 bit processor running at 7.67Mhz
Memory: 64 Kb RAM 20 Kb ROM
Display: Palette 512, Onscreen colours 64,Maximum onscreen sprites 80, Resolution 320 x 224
Sound: Yamaha YM2612 6 channel FM. Additional 4 channel PSG

snes specs:
16-bit Central Processing Unit 65C816
Work RAM for CPU 128KB
Clock Speed 3.58 MHz
16-bit Picture Processing Unit
Video RAM for PPU 64KB
Maximum colors Per Screen 256
Total Colors Available 32,768
Maximum Screen Resolution 512 pixels x 448 pixels
Max. Sprites Per Screen 128
Max. Sprites Per Line 32
Maximum Sprite Size 64 pixels x 64 pixels
Minimum Sprite Size 8 pixels x 8 pixels
Scrolling Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal
16-bit Audio Processing Unit
16-bit Pulse Code Modulator digital data converter
Sound channels 8
Audio Out Impedance Level 4 ohms

[sonicfoot]

forgot to mention that the snes cpu was increased when certain special chips in the cartriges were used like the FX chip which increased snes cpu speed up to 10.5 Mhz and the FX2 chip which increased the cpu speed to 21.0 Mhz!

[CD]

It didn't increase the speed of the CPU, it just did work for the CPU.

The genesis also had such bundled chips, such as the VR (it was used in Virtua Racing among other things), which was extremely complex, and to this day is unemulated.

[password0k]

I don't know much about Genesis. Which console are you saying was never emulated, because I have a Genesis emulator (of some sort) with some Tales of Phantasia games on it.

[Neojag]

he is talking about the chips they sticked in some cartidiges (like VR) in order to make the game work.

[fivefeet8]

Originally posted by CD
It didn't increase the speed of the CPU, it just did work for the CPU.

The genesis also had such bundled chips, such as the VR (it was used in Virtua Racing among other things), which was extremely complex, and to this day is unemulated.

DAmn.. I wish it was.. I loved playing Virtua Racing on my genesis..

[neural-shock]

i only have a sega genesis... too hard to find snes games here in portugal :| still I think both consoles were great.

[CD]

Oops, my bad. The name of the chip was the SVP, Sega Virtua Processor.

Don't know where I got VR from

[Neojag]

Originally posted by neural-shock
i only have a sega genesis... too hard to find snes games here in portugal :| still I think both consoles were great.

:confused:
i had a megadrive (yeah, im in PT too) and got the games i wanted easily :confused:

[Ma'anagal]

I have a SNES and I just played it 2 days ago. Her in the cold north the snes was much more popular than the megadrive. Popularity is important, who had money to buy all the games the wanted? and if all your friends have it you'll probably buy it too (none of my friends had it though). Games like Chrono Trigger, FF3(6), Megaman, Seiken Densetsu 3 etc. was really god and I still play them. The genesis had Sonic, THE game. Sonic has always been good and will always be superior to Mario (Mario Land 3 is the best next to the N64 and Mario Kart)

By the way, from which game is the top right picture on mrc.mirrorz.com taken from?

[lizardj]

uhh... lizard wonders wut we r comparin' here.
juz the system specs? or the games for either console?
newayz... lizards go w/ snes.
close call tho. tzzzzzz--
me think genesis is much better at fast paced games, meanin' the system is faster in general, tho itz sound chip iz a peice o cr@p. snes on the other hand suffers on speed but displays much more colors on screen(eventho fewer in pixels. i think normal snes games r at 256x256 while itz 320x240 for genesis... me prob'ly wrong). and itz audio is much better.
ahh, only if there were juz as many games for genesis(md) as there was for snes, i would so definitely choose genesis.
the only games i played on genesis were the sonics and the street of rage series.
i wonder y alotta game developers went for snes instead of genesis when, as i heard, snes had an unbelievable high license charge?