Subtle electronic component failures can be difficult and time-consuming to track down. This test cartridge for the Genesis from Retro Gaming Arts promises to help…but is it worth the cost?

Pre-Orders for Tanglewood by Big Evil Corporation are open! Boxed cartridge for SEGA Mega Drive, Genesis, and compatible clones. Multi-region cartridge supports PAL, NTSC, and NTSC-J format consoles – starting from 54,00 GBP!

Mikael Tillander shows us more of his still unnamed Genesis game.

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Time to recharge the batteries and level up that Transmutational Attack! Gold makes all this possible. Alien capitalism. #megadrive #genesis #gamedev #pixelart

xika is a visual novell for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, currently in development. There is no download yet.

Progress for Tanglewood by Big Evil Corporation doesn’t stop!

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Quick update: We’re ploughing through the last of the tasks leading up to a beta build. There are 60 tasks left on the beta list (down from 131 last Monday) plus an internal QA pass to go, before we hire an external QA service and arrange closed beta testing.

Mikael Tillander has been generous to the public and published a tiny video of his yet still unnamed Genesis game.

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Uploaded a vid of current state of things. Still haven’t figured out the elemental system. Music by Johan Agurén! Inspirationals in the vid: Osman slash colors, Mystical Defender explosion, Roger Dean bkg things.

Andrej Preradovic of Ohsat Games teaches us how to program the Sega Genesis! Read Adventures in Mega Drive Coding Part 5 – Palettes and Splitting Tiles.

Mega Tomb of Dracula by Matteusbeus will be shown first time to the public during Retro Revival 2018 in Walsall!

Mikael Tillander published another screenshot of his upcoming yet unnamed Genesis game.

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All this talk about the game being reminiscent of shadow of the beast made me go Roger Dean on it’s arse! I think I’ll roll with it, actually. 🙂 Would be a nice tribute? #sega #megadrive #genesis #pixelart #gamedev

Everything you need to get code running on the SEGA Genesis in Part 1 of this new series by GameHut…