I've saw in the past weird carts that AVGN shown but not a J-Cart, which is this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Mega_drive_j-cart.jpg)
Road Rash for SMD has this sort of design too but without the option to plug more controllers.
That's awesome!
A built-in multi-tap! :o
That's bizarre.. You plug controllers straight into the game cartridge? :mspacman: <--- My 'O' Face reaction
A friend of mine actually has a micro machine cart that is like that one. I'm not sure if it's the same design but you plug the two extra controllers into the cart itself to enable 4-player mode (which is loads of fun!).
Codemasters made carts like that for some of their Genesis games.
Awesome! new entry for the Stack-Shit-On-Your-Genesis contest? ;D
Are there controller extenders for the Genesis?
Couldn't you just use DB-9 serial cables to extend them?
I grew up with Megadrive so for me it's amazing to see that this is new to some people. When N64 came along, with 4 ports on the machine itself, it was a feature in its own for us!
I had a Genesis (US version) and I had never seen anything like this. I wonder if they did this for the US region too.
I know they had a multitap but I had never seen such a thing within the actual cartridge. It'd be a disaster if you had babies or pets walking around in front of the wires. I can't count the amount of times kids ran tripped over the wires and pulled the console off it's stand. Would the game come flying out? :gamer:
Quote from: tappybot on February 03, 2011, 06:25:22 pm
I had a Genesis (US version) and I had never seen anything like this. I wonder if they did this for the US region too.
They did, yes.
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on January 28, 2011, 10:20:52 pm
Are there controller extenders for the Genesis?
Yes, I have one or two somewhere.
Look on the bright side, carts could have this but discs don't.
Most people just play by themselves or with a 2nd player.