Yellow tabs on Genesis carts

[MissingNo_1231]

For me nowadays, it means "sports games - just ignore them".

while this is true for the most part, it's not 100%.

I've got a genesis game called King's Bounty, it has the yellow tab, and it's not half bad. It's a strategy game I sort of enjoy, and it's got a rockin' soundtrack.

[Zap!]

[DigitalSpace]

EA also released two pinball games on the Genesis that are worth checking out: Virtual Pinball (which allows you to create your own tables) and Crue Ball (with digitized Motley Crue riffs!).

General Chaos is worth a look as well.

I noticed a copy of Desert Strike with one on it at Play N Trade yesterday, but my copy doesn't have it.

Your copy is a re-release - late in the Genesis' lifespan, Desert Strike was one of the EA titles re-released on a standard Genesis cart, along with F-22 Interceptor and Road Rash. Some Accolade games were re-released on standard Genesis carts as well (Combat Cars being the only one I can recall at the moment).

By the way, Acclaim, Konami, and Capcom also manufactured their own Genesis carts, but the only differences between their carts and standard Genesis carts is that they replaced the Sega logo on the back with their own logo.

[BetaWolf47]

And the screws that hold EA carts are normal phillp heads.

News to me. My Shadow of the Beast copy has a weird kind of screw!
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=141095

[Demon_Attack82]

When I was a kid I thought that the save battery was underneath the yellow tab on the EA carts

[BetaWolf47]

When I was a kid I thought that the save battery was underneath the yellow tab on the EA carts

You knew what a save battery was when you were a kid?

[Demon_Attack82]

You knew what a save battery was when you were a kid?

Uh, didn't you read the manual/game magazines?

[Steve W]

Uh, didn't you read the manual/game magazines?

Real men don't read manuals!

Honestly, the game manual is for me the absolutely last resort. I like and appreciate it when a game is "easy to learn, difficult to master".

[Ruudos]

i always thought it was to tell you which games sucked for the sega!

How about "Blades of Vengeance". I got this game yesterday and checked Gamefaqs. 3 reviews, 3 perfect scores.

[Arkhan]

blades of vengeance is OK i guess. I forgot I even had that game.

[kedawa]

The Genesis hardware was based on the Amiga's anyway.

This just isn't true at all. They might share the same CPU, but that really doesn't mean much. The Motorola 68000 series of processor was used in dozens of different computers, consoles, and arcade systems.

Much as I appreciate Shadow of the Beast, not sure I'd pick the botched Genesis version as a good example. It runs 20% too fast because it was designed over in PAL land and they didn't compensate at all for the different timing. Apparently they fixed it for the Japanese version, but most people didn't play that.

Seriously? I never noticed it being especially fast. I certainly don't miss the absurd difficulty of the Amiga version.

Even Shadow of the Beast II on the Sega CD has lousy music, and you'd expect that to be Redbook audio.

That game does use redbook audio, and I think it sounds pretty good, but not as good as the original. The nonsensical CG and goofy voice-acting is what had me baffled.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Don't forget Onslaught! Another good "infernal yellow-tabber".

[Graham Mitchell]

Don't forget Onslaught! Another good "infernal yellow-tabber".

Wasn't onslaught published by accolade?

To add to the shadow of the beast discussion: all genesis ports of any sotb game kind of suck. Its too bad because the amiga games are absolute masterpieces. I think a big part of the problem with that is mostly because ea genesis games had absolutely terrible sound and music most of the time. Sotb 1 and 2, as well as starflight have some of the worst audio on the genesis (except for the ships computer in starflight, which is great.) If they could have fixed that issue, those games would have been much better-received. I know the fm chip didn't give them much to work with, but look at what yuzo koshiro was able to do with it.

[Icarus Moonsight]

You're very right there, my bad. My copy is in my "EA" box with the rest of the tall/odd carts. Might actually be the only non-EA game in there, besides Sonic & Knuckles.

[retro junkie]

News to me. My Shadow of the Beast copy has a weird kind of screw!
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=141095

I find that interesting. Which raises a question in my mind. Did EA use two different types of screws on their carts?

This is a pic of my Lotus Turbo Challenge cart. Apparently they did.

[Game Freak]

Another great EA game is The Haunting Starring Poulterguy. Why has noone mentioned it yet?

And yeah, i disassembled one of the carts, its just a little plastic piece that holds the cart together a little more than some people want it to ._. no lockout or anything