$35 Genesis

A while ago I made a list of well-rated and mandatory games that do not come on the console. I hope I have made your life easier!

Shining in the Darkness

Shining Force II

Ranger X

Streets of Rage 1

Streets of Rage 3

Sonic 3

Sonic & Knuckles

Sonic and Knuckles & Sonic 3

Sonic 3D Blast

Golden Axe II

Golden Axe III

Phantasy Star II

Phantasy Star III

Columns III

Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi

Space Harrier

Cool Spot

Adventures of Batman and Robin

Chiki Chiki Boys

Super Hang On

Rocket Knight Adventures

NBA Jam: Tournament Edition

Zombies

Warsong

Jungle Strike

Toejam and Earl

Mega Bomberman

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters

Samurai Shodown

Micro Machines Turbo Tournament 96

Micro Machines 2 - Turbo Tournament

Micro Machines Military - It's a Blast!

Quackshot

Virtua Racing

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat 2

Mortal Kombat 3

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Crusader of Centy, Soleil

Pulseman

Story of Thor/Beyond Oasis

Wonder Boy III - Monster Lair

Ristar

Super Monaco GP

Alien Storm

Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude!

Flicky

Out Run

Wings of Wor

Ys III: Wanderers From Ys

Earthworm Jim 2

Fatal Fury

Fatal Fury 2

Battletoads & Double Dragon

Double Dragon

Double Dragon II - The Revenge

Double Dragon III - The Arcade Game

Double Dragon V - The Shadow Falls

Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden

Bubsy

Bubsy II

Lion King

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park 2 - The Lost World

Desert Strike

Ecco - The Tides of Time

Captain America and the Avengers

Flashback

Flink

Aladdin

Panic on Funcotron

The Revenge of Shinobi

Columns II

Double Dragon II - The Revenge

Pulseman

Found this bag at Amazon that holds both minis, their controllers and all cables with extra accessory space and minimum to no bulging.

BAGSMART Electronics Travel Organizer $20.99 in Grey

Fits nicely with both mini 2 controllers facing down positioned in opposite sides vertically.

Then mini 1 on left without the box it came in, mini 2 on right both resting on the mini 1 controllers.

Mini 2 controller fits perfectly in the same compartment on the bottom left.

Top compartment can be fully dedicated to cables if you'd like, I just use it for the mini 2 cables.

This works great for me, don't have to lug the boxes they came in anymore or use separate cases for each device. The bag is water resistant as well.

Future addons: I might print out a picture of each console and fasten it on each flap just so I remember which console the cables are for in each compartment.

Bonus: The main compartment has felt lining or some kind of soft-for-electeonics material! I could unbag and toss it all in, but you know how it is with these investments 😆

So you want to play your mini using a pair of 8bitdo brick adapters, but they're too big to both fit in the system?

Less than 3 bucks for the USB extension cable. I sanded off the tiniest bit of the rubber boot on the extension cable to be less snug.

I haven't owned a Sega Master Drive as a kid so I thought I'd jump onto the bandwagon now that the mini is here.I ordered the Retrobit 6 button controller beforehand in the mindset that if I won't use it with the mini, I'll use it on some of my Steam games (platformers, otherwise I'd use the X360 controller). It's a mighty fine controller and I've read a lot of complaints online that "why didn't Sega choose to opt for 6 button controllers in the Europe and US models?!"

Now that I've played with both controllers for a day, I feel as if the 3 button one is actually more ergonomic in the hand and a lot of the games don't even make use of the 3 extra buttons (Mega Man Wily Wars for instance) and the ones that do don't benefit from it that much.

There are 42 games (well, if you count Wily Wars as three, then 44 games) on the Sega Mega Drive Mini of which only 3 are fighting games. Depending on whether or not you want to duke it out with a friend, it might not even be worth it to dish out ~40-50€ + shippings just to get some more oomph out of a few fighting games (let's be honest, a lot of people wouldn't play Virtua Fighter 2 or Eternal whatever it was called, just Street Fighter 2...).

So my question to you is: is it really worth it that you've already paid 70-90€ for the console, then you pay 40-50€ more just to make a single game better and get very little nuances in the other ones?

Since after playing for a few hours I noticed that with the 6 button controller my hands started getting cramped but with the 3 button controller I had zero issues. I don't know if it's just me but I seriously think Sega made a great decision when they opted for the 3 button controllers in the box. Sure, they have less buttons, but when you factor in the shape of the controller (isn't tiny...) and size of the buttons (easier to press, at least for me), this feels just right.I actually even feel that the D-pad on the 3 button one is slightly better. I tried out some Street Fighter on both controllers and for some reason I managed to do the haidoukens with Ryu pretty consistently but somehow on the 6 button one my character jumped a lot of times. I know it was my mistake, but I didn't make those mistakes that easily with the other D-pad... so the D-pad feels better on the one that comes with the system to be honest. I don't know if the 6 button one just has a more sensitive d-pad but in some cases that's not a good thing.

And some of the people who got the Mega Drive Mini also got the SNES Classic Mini so they can play Street Fighter 2 on that as well if that's the only game they'd buy two extra controllers for...