It’s missing Game Genie and Sonic and Knuckles cartridges
And a Honey Bee cartridge
That’s clearly a Megadrive.
what’s the difference?
Locale, and pedantry.
16 bit is gold and not silver.
Also it literally says mega drive on the corner, you have to look at the 4 pixels on the side.
Somebody provide context for those of us who have no idea what this monstrosity is?
The Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive) had expansions that were meant to improve the capability of the system and extend its lifespan, but ultimately they weren’t super popular because it didn’t make sense to make games for such a small subset of Sega’s market share.
This is the 32x add-on that allowed for 32bit processing, and someone has just stacked a bunch of them on top of each other to be funny.
(Pictured here is the base system in the center, with the 32x add-on on top and the CD player below)
The idea of a plug-in processor is wild. Isn’t that most of the console functionality right there?
What actually happens if you try to boot this? Stuck at SEGA splash screen? Error code?
Lights flicker and dim throughout the neighborhood as a white-hot glow builds through the stack of 32Xs. A bright blue flash signals the destruction of the transformer down the block but you spare no attention for the freshly-darkened row of houses, captivated by the scene unfolding in your own living room.
Rather than sputtering out and returning to its previously inert form, the Sega only glows brighter. A voice is whispering to you but dissolves into wordless static against the ambient hum of the room. Your skin tingles and itches, the smell of ozone tickles your nose and you’re starting to think you should have brought some kind of eye protection. Probably too late to worry about that now though.
A crack of darkness forms in the center of the column of light – that, or your tortured optical nerves are finally burning out. The air takes on an unnatural viscosity which seems to conduct the ever-present hum straight into your bones. In an instant, the darkness pulses and ripples along its wispy edges before falling in on itself, carrying with it the last beams of your technological abomination like a mangled lighthouse blasting its warnings into a roiling hurricane.
You wake up in the morning to find a box on your doorstep. Oh yeah, you remember, that eBay listing for an old Sega and collection of accessories. Absently clicking together a stack of 32X modules while examining the contents of the package, you start to wonder if the thing will even power on…
You can’t even boot with two 32x units installed, at least based on previous experience the last time I tried. So alas, this 256x assembly won’t work.
That’s because you didn’t hook up enough of them.
Sure. That still doesn’t answer my question though, what happens?
Just a black screen when I tried it.
The Sega Omega
Would be interesting to see somebody get that many coprocessors actually working.
256x sounds sweet to me!
144 bits?
The SNES had that bizarre bazooka light gun, but the Genesis could do this
Where is the Sega CD?
Looks like a Model 1 SCD is set up under the console. The Model 2 SCD is the one that attaches to the side
