Second series of SEGA 3D Classics in development for Japan!

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Hopefully, we'll get a release date for 3D OutRun this week.

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...And we got it, March 12th.



http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail...2yTR1feg_q-Qch

[Tanooki]

Wooo, they said March, so might as well shove it in the middle it appears. Very nice. Sign me up for some red car driving happy fun time. Afterburner and Outrun are my two old arcade favorites in those style of games/cabinet of theirs. Galaxy Force fits as well (which I did download too) but that came later due to the Genesis game amusing me so it was kind of new at that point.

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Part 1 of the OutRun interview with M2

http://blogs.sega.com/2015/03/05/seg...ut-run-part-1/

[Leo_A]

Thanks for posting that

Wish we didn't have to wait for the rest. And March 12th can't get here quick enough.

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Part 2 is up

[Sailorneorune]

Yay Outrun!

Dada da dada da dada da

Dada da dada da dadada

Magical Sound Shower <3

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Here's Part 3

The 4th and final part of the OutRun interview goes up tomorrow.

[Leo_A]

Been anything more about Streets of Rage 2?

Sure hope that more arcade releases are in the works. Definitely plenty of nice sprite scaling Sega classics left that would be perfect for this program.

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3D Fantasy Zone II should be out next week in the EU (and presumably in NA too) though haven't seen official confirmation yet.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/n...dolls-and-guys

Not to be left out, a bunch of European eShop releases have been announced for next week. The headliners are Elliot Quest for Wii U and 3D Classics Fantasy Zone II, but Natsume’s A-Train 3D: City Simulator for 3DS, Tabletop Gallery for Wii U, Heart Beaten for 3DS, and Word Search by POWG on both will also be on the menu.

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Releases on Thursday for EU/NA.


3D Fantasy Zone II interview - Part 1

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Part 2


There's more good news, after Thunder Blade next month there's 3 more coming this summer!

SEGA’s 3D Classics Return this Summer with SEGA Genesis Games for Nintendo 3DS

Three more titles are incoming to the second batch of the SEGA 3D Classics exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS. Featuring some of the most iconic games from SEGA’s Genesis console, The SEGA 3D Classics Series will let fans relive SEGA’s legendary console era and take them on a 3D ride through gaming’s golden age with 3D Streets of Rage 2 in July, 3D Gunstar Heroes in August, and 3D Sonic The Hedgehog 2 in September 2015. These games will follow the releases of 3D Fantasy Zone II (April 16, 2015) and 3D Thunder Blade (May 14, 2015).

Just like the previously released arcade classics, each game in the series delivers a full-fledged re-mastered vintage experience, stunning 3D visuals and optimized for the platform. All games in the series will include brand new modes and features, letting you play the game how you remember it but also in an entirely new way.
All games will be priced at MSRP $5.99/€4.99/£4.49 and will be available for download in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS.

http://blogs.sega.com/2015/04/14/seg...-nintendo-3ds/

[Tanooki]

I'd grab that Streets of Rage 2 for sure. I imagine a lot would froth over Gunstar Heroes (but I never liked it much.)

[Leo_A]

Not much of a shock to see Sonic 2 joining Streets of Rage 2 (I suspect that Tides of Time will be next), and Gunstar Heroes is a nice surprise.

But I'm sad to see that while the program apparently is continuing, they apparently don't have the budget anymore to do arcade games. I'm afraid that I'm not particularly interested in Genesis ports, especially when it's stuff that has already been rereleased on modern platforms (Something like Outrun 2019 would be more up my alley).

I may buy a few to plug holes in what Sonic Classics Collection DS and Sega Genesis Collection for the PSP offers, while supporting M2 and this concept. But I'm much less enthusiastic about this than I am at seeing sprite scaling arcade classics from Sega's history being converted.

I hope this is just a warm up for something like Turbo Outrun or Super Monaco GP.

Three more titles are incoming to the second batch of the SEGA 3D Classics exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS.

2nd batch of Sega 3D Classics? Someone needs to check up on things, since this clearly marks a 3rd wave of releases as I see it. I also hope that they sneak in those 3D Master System bonuses from the Japanese compilation as part of this 3rd wave of releases.

I'd actually be more interested in Outrun 3D, than these 16 bit ports that I already own in numerous forms including digital (Assuming that Outrun 3D correctly switches to its original optional 2D mode, when 3D is disabled).

Perhaps port the remaining four 3D Master System games, and offer a mini 3DS compilation of 3D Master System titles to bump the value proposition up a bit to justify the same asking price that they want for something like 3D Galaxy Force II.

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3D Fantasy Zone II should be out next week in the EU (and presumably in NA too) though haven't seen official confirmation yet.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/n...dolls-and-guys

It's weird but Fantasy Zone II might be my all time favorite video game. If not the #1, it's certainly tied with some others at the top.

I haven't read this topic from the beginning. These are games being released for the 3DS right? If so, I'd actually consider purchasing one just for these games.

[Tanooki]

Yes it's all $6/each 3DS eshop downloads.

[Leo_A]

They're 3DS only, although several are based on earlier console conversions that M2 was responsible for. Arcade Super Hang-On for example is also on all three last gen consoles and I'm sure that 3D Super Hang-On used that as a starting point, Fantasy Zone II and Galaxy Force II are based on PS2 ports that M2 did a decade or so ago, etc.

And all these Genesis games have been made available digitally on the PS3 and 360, some also by M2 before they shifted focus to the 3DS, and earlier games like Gunstar Heroes by the Digital Eclipse studio (The one behind Sega Genesis Collection and Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection).

Of course those are straight up emulations, where as M2's Genesis efforts on the 3DS are a bit more ambitious, although only just (No where close to the TLC that the arcade games have seen with 16:9 support, new content, Outrun having its frame rate doubled, etc).

Ecco didn't even get the option to play the CD soundtrack, something that the wizards at M2 probably could've gotten going in an hour by muting the standard soundtrack and playing a compressed audio file in the background in its place.

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3D Fantasy Zone II is awesome.

[Az]

3D Fantasy Zone II is awesome.

I'll second this, it's fantastic. I never did play the redone PS2 version, only the SMS original, and didn't really know what to expect. I've got about 10 hours in on the first one which, is something that I surely did not expect to do but there is just so much to do that I easily lost track of time. From my initial impressions I can see this one sucking up even more of my time than the first. The graphics are amazing and the loop mode appears to be much more interesting than Upa-Upa mode on the first.

Speaking of the first, how many loops does that thing have? I'm up to the third now and it's handing my ass to me even on easy. Also, I read the 2 exclusive SMS bosses are included on it, when or how do you get to them?

[Leo_A]

Here's an interview about these new Genesis conversions.

http://automaton.am/articles/news-bits/m2-int1/

Perhaps the most interesting bit from it, is the statement that the Genesis based releases were more difficult to do than the arcade releases. So much for thinking that they were little more than filler to pad the lineup, due to their relative ease compared to something like Outrun.