To be blunt, this collection is not
worth £30. Hell, it's not even worth £1.
This collection is
a waste of opportunity wrapped up in Blackbone's now staple
"Bukake-o-vision" ("Scale", as they laughingly
advertise it) , a User Front end that looked at all the screen space
HD offered and went "No, Sod that, we're making this as if the
player was playing it on a protable B&W TV", an inability to
use custom soundtracks (As a side, is it really that hard to isolate
the SFX in Megadrive emulation, is it? The emulators available in the
shadier parts of the net seem to do it just fine. Your saying Sega
don't have the code right there? Huh) and a lack of net code in spite
of the fact that Backbone could of easily copy the code from their
own XBLA Vintage net code and pasted into this.
But that would
take far too much effort.
And effort is the key word here,
folks.
The first thing that should be obvious to anyone using
this collection is that Sonic 3 and Knuckles (For those playing at
home, that's the "Full" version of Sonic 3 that is made by
having Sonic 3 sit in Sonic and Knuckles' lock-on slot) is missing
from this collection.
The exact reason given in regards to S3 + K
not being included in this collection was that they would have to
drop the bonus Non-Megadrive games, of which the only three of note
are Phantasy Star 1 (Which is a slow as hell Dragon Quest IN SPACE!
nowadays) Fantasy Zone and Space Harrier, to support the Lock On
games (S3+K, Knuckles in Sonic 2 and Blue Sphere).
Congrats, reader, because Backbone are
too lazy to get three roms and put them on a DVD (Which is probably
being hilariously underused too, a few videos, 50 some roms and the
emulator to play it probably don't make 7GB of disk space) you get a
badly emulated version of Space Harrier (That you have to
unlock via the just plain bad Super Thunder Blade) aren't you
lucky?
Someone who was relay looking to have the ultimate
version of the games on offer here are probably better serviced
getting the games they specificity want via XBLA and VC.