Bubsy & Knuckles, a true favorite of mine
Bnuckles
Knubsy
Buckles
What could pawssibly go wrong?
I need a fuckin explainer here, bud. Can that work?? Please & thank you
Me as well. There no way it works but I want labels of what the adapters are.
It’s a Genesis 1 with a 32X with Sonic & Knuckles in the cartridge slot. That game had a flip-top with a cartridge slot under it so other games (specifically Sonic 3) could be plugged into it for additional functionality. The Genesis 1 also had a connector on the side which was used to connect to the Sega CD unit (notably missing from this picture). It’s a 30-pin connector so it fits into the 32-pin cartridge slot. And then plugged into the top Genesis is a copy of Bubsy, one of the worst games released for the system.
As to whether it “works”, at best you would get Sonic & Knuckles booting as long as the Genesis plugged into it doesn’t connect to or short any pins in the cartridge’s slot.
a copy of Bubsy, one of the worst games released for the system.
Leave Bubsy alone, please!
Leave Bubsy alone right now! I mean it.
Anyone that has a problem with him, you deal with me, because he is not well right now.
Leave him alone.
I was working at Babbage’s when Bubsy was released for the SNES and Genesis. Accolade (the publisher) had somehow convinced upper management that it was going to be a huge hit so they shipped us three or four cases of the game for each system. We rarely got cases, usually half-a-dozen loose copies. So we crammed them into our tiny back room and they sat there for months. I’m not going to say we didn’t sell any, but I certainly don’t remember it flying off the shelves. At one point a guy claiming to be an Accolade exec came into my store asking how it was selling. Again, I don’t remember exactly what I said to him but he wouldn’t have been happy. Finally, after a year or so we got orders from HQ to box them up and send them back.
this guy adapts
The hero we need, but don’t deserve! Thank you!!
I feel dumb, I don’t remember a side slot on my genesis 1. It was quite a while ago, but still.
It was under a removable panel. If you didn’t have a Sega CD, you probably didn’t have a good reason to go looking for it.
It was concealed by a plastic cover which blended in to the rest of the console. It was easy to overlook unless you went looking for it.
The Sonic & Knuckles “adapter” was made to have Sonic 2 and 3 cartridges plug into it. It allowed adding knuckles to 2 and created an expanded version of 3 which completed the story. The 32X is an adapter that upgraded the 16 bit console to play 32 bit games. The side of the Sega console had a slot where a Sega CD (cd-rom drive) could plug in. Apparently the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge fits into it, or at least appears to.
You could also plug any other cart into it and it would work as a seed to generate a blue sphere bonus stage unique to that game (I think). I remember going through my game collection the first time I rented S&K to check out what the different games’ stages were like.
It’s a Genesis with a 32x and Sonic and knuckles those all plug in like that, Sonic and knuckles has a port to plug in another cartridge but I don’t know what the other Genesis is plugged into. I don’t remember a slot on the side of it.
Sega does what Nintendon’t
This will either save us or it will become our tombstone.
Yes. Only Death will save us now.
Two Genesises for twice the blast processing power!
It’s Genesi, thank you very much. /s
“Pssh… I’ve been side-loading since '96.”
Obviously this wouldn’t work without a Mega CD.
Hey… i have that game on sega
“SAAYYY-GAAHHH!”
Remeber rock and roll racing?
The cat in the cube and the gas fireplace are essential components
Never stopped to ask if we should.
I just want to fire up Polterguy on there.
