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"multi game discs, nearer than you think...."

When the gamecube was announced people speculated about how big the discs were, but nintendo fought back by saying how many times Mario 64 would fit on it (which was quite a lot) and then the idea of bringing all the N64 classics on one disc was floating about in peoples heads.
Now Sega have taken the first step to that and announced all the sonic classics on one disc these include:

Game Console it was released on

Sonic the hedgehog Megadrive
Sonic the hedgehog 2 Megadrive
Sonic CD sega cd
Sonic the hedgehog 3 Megadrive
Sonic and knuckles Megadrive
Sonic 3D blast Saturn
Sonic R Saturn
Sonic shuffle Dreamcast
And rumoured
Sonic Drift Gamegear

Well they are not exactly all quality N64 games but it is the start multi-game disks.
So hats off to sega for making Zelda ocarina of time on the same disk as Mario seem not so far over the horison.

Maybe a collection of all Rare's games, or the top 10 of the N64.

A 'mega streets of rage collection' would be good though, yes?

The Sonic Mega Collection's games have already been officially announced. No Saturn, Game Gear or Dreamcast games on it at all! It's called the MEGA collection because it contains (as far as I know) all the Sonic games from the MEGADrive.

I think of the Mega Collection not so much like a disc which is the first stages of having multiple games from the past (like the 'Action collection' that was mentioned earlier in this topic) but more of like the Super NES's Super Mario Allstars collection. Just a collection of games from the same series - that didn't amount to anything more on the SNES.

maybe the huge capacities of the SD card will be used when the GameEye (Nintendo's next-gen GameBoy camera) is released.

Dr Duck wrote:
> Sort of on the subject, while trawling asian sites for the q-cube, i
> found that keyboard-controller hybrid thing on sale. Again, don't see
> any use for it just yet. I think i only saw 3rd party ones, nothing
> official yet, but i didn't give it all that much attention, as it
> wasn't what i was after, and there were usually language
> difficulties.

Well it will be handy for PSO, which still hasnt got a confirmed UK release date.

Last I heard is that the Sonic Compilation didn't have all that - it's just a conversion of the DC's Sonic Jam - No Sonic CD or Sonic R and probably some of the others will be absent too...

Anyway, it would be nice to see some old classics appear in bundles but I doubt it'll happen in the near future.
Perhaps Nintendo will leave it a couple of years for when we start feeling nostalgic.

Sort of on the subject, while trawling asian sites for the q-cube, i found that keyboard-controller hybrid thing on sale. Again, don't see any use for it just yet. I think i only saw 3rd party ones, nothing official yet, but i didn't give it all that much attention, as it wasn't what i was after, and there were usually language difficulties.

Still, i expect the web network launch, in japan / hong kong at least, can't be 'all' that far off, if the necessary peripherals are already on the market...

The sd cards themselves will be used as data storage for all kinds of things. They are possible to buy already. You'll just struggle to find a retailer, and not have any hardware to use them with.

The adapter, that plugs into the memory card slot.. i expect it's probably ready for production, but there's no real use for it yet - games don't take up too much memory space, and there's nothing to make use of hard drive facilities. Maybe when the web network kicks off, then there'd be something to fill some of the card's capacity, and people would actually have a reason to buy the thing.

Generally though, the hardware stuff doesn't get much hype. Not even the wavebird really.

In time though. When it's needed, i'm sure we'll see it.

Yeah IS that SD card adapter coming out haven't heard anythin from it for A-G-E-S

When the sd card adapter becomes available, and the web network gets going, there'd be no need to copy games to a disk, you could just download them, maybe charge it to your credit card, keep them on sd cards (effectively the cube's hard drive).

Nice and simple.

Maybe.