Quote Originally Posted by JSoup View Post
No they won't, dude. They don't give a rats fragrant ass about your votes. They care about their bottom line and I can't imagine playing old Genesis games online is going to bring in millions.
Don't think Sega alone would be enough? How about the 2600, which was only delayed by a hang-up about "granting too broad a license" (Maybe they either want to make money off obscure third party games or prevent the porno games from being turned online, or don't want to deal with third party hassles)? We also got Intelliviison, Colecovision, and SNK Neo Geo saying, If I can show it working they'll review it then. Plus Sega has other systems that will work with it too. Finally Nintendo said they don't comment on stuff in the idea phase. But once i prove this to works with the guinea pig, the Sega Genesis and/or the 2600, I can make a version for Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox's old systems, and then we're really cooking. Genesis is just the start, but the first one who got onboard. And it will work regardless of whether these games were originally networkized before or not. Imagine playing Ice Climber head-to-head online, or Mario Bros.,

This also makes keeping tomorrows retro games online easier. Now you don't need one server for each game, each endpoint acts as a generic joystick server for that particular connection. The only reason you need server ref-bots is because of poor ping time. It's a called-as-needed server that's versatile.

Also I'm trying to get a hold of Bally (WB Games maybe), Hudson/NEC (now Konami perhaps), 3DO (now Panasonic?) Philips/Magnavox, for the Astrocade, Turbo Grafx, 3DO, Odyssey 2, and CD-i as systems that can use the treatment. Most of these companies either don't acknowledge their system making past (first 2) or their video game division (last 2)

As for the Genesis not being done right, I don't know how much it costs to buy "made now to old standard" chips need to make the original Genesis when other functions that are independent of the Genesis run on a modern machine, but if it's less than $50, it'd be worth it when you add networking to it. Even if you never network it, you can play it like an original No-printed-English-title-screened Altered Beast version with the original sound effects.