Mega Drive Portable
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Piracy is rampant in smaller markets such as Asia. In Russia and CIS the situation has been taken one step further, to the stage where it's organised, professional and where many products act as the single unofficial alternative to readily available video game consoles in Japan and the west. The Mega Drive Portable is one such example of this.
During the 1990s and early 2000s, many small manufacturers in Russia and North China produced unlicensed Sega Mega Drive console clones. These systems aimed to be identical to their Japanese, North American or European/Australasian counterparrts. Fed up with piracy Sega eventually gave the rights to manufacture and distribute consoles to AtGames, who to this day produce "consoles on a chip" at an affordable price. But technology has improved and more recently pirates have began to develop cartridge-based handhelds.
The Mega Drive Portable rather than rely on standard-size Mega Drive cartridges, games was distributed on smaller Game Boy Advance-sized carts which are then compatible with the entire range of Mega Drive Portable systems. Within these carts contains a Mega Drive ROM, likely taken from the internet, repackaged and sold for use on the go.
There are a handful of Mega Drive Portable compatible devices, most of which appear to have been based on pre-existing shells developed by Nintendo.
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Mega Drive Portable
This appears to have been the original unit, built within the shell of a Game Boy Advance. All Mega Drive Portables seem to extend the functions of a Sega Nomad, with the ability to connect to a TV screen while having headphone support, a built-in speaker and a 960x240 pixel resolution 2.5 inch screen. The specifications are otherwise identical to that of the Sega Mega Drive. Often they come in a variety of colors too.
Console (original)
Box (original)
Console (Blue and Silver)
Box (Blue and Silver)
Mega Drive Portable 3D
Attempting to cash in on the 3D craze, the Mega Drive Portable is almost identical to the first Mega Drive Portable, just with a built-in battery. There is no third dimension involved.
Console
Box
Mega Drive Portable + 15 games
Released on November 15, 2008.[6]
- Sonic & Knuckles,
- Ristar,
- Vectorman,
- Sonic Spinball,
- Golden Axe,
- Alien Storm,
- Bonanza Bros,
- Decap Attack,
- Eswat,
- Ecco,
- Gain Ground,
- Comix Zone,
- Dr. Robotniks,
- Shadow Dancer,
- Columns III
Mega Drive Portable Ultimate
Console
Box
Mega Drive Arcada
Mega Drive Slim
A unit based on the PlayStation Portable that comes with a built-in battery pack (which fully charged claims to last 10 hours). The 
buttons were not replaced.
Console
Box
Mega Drive Mobile
Almost identical to the above, the Mega Drive Mobile just has a different shell.
Console
Box
Mega Drive Micro
The Mega Drive Micro steals its design from the Game Boy Micro and adds two extra buttons, meaning the system can play six-button Mega Drive games. It also has 32 games built-in:
- Disney's Aladdin
- Alien 3
- Animaniacs
- Ariel The Little Mermaid
- Barbie Vacation Adventure
- Bart vs. The Space Mutants
- Batman
- Batman Returns
- Batman: Revenge of the Joker
- Battletoads
- Battletoads & Double Dragon
- Bonkers
- Bubba 'N' Stix
- Castle Of Illusion
- Chase H.Q. 2
- The Flintstones
- The Jungle Book
- Quackshot
- Robocop 3
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin
- Streets Of Rage
- Super Battletank
- Talespin
- Taz-Mania
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure
- Turbo OutRun
- Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
- "Spider-Man"
- "Super Mario Bros 2"
- "Ninja Turtles"
Console
Box
Mega Drive SP
Identical to the above, but this time using the shell of a Game Boy Advance SP.
Console
Box
Games
- Main article: List of Mega Drive Portable games.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Mega Drive Portable/Magazine articles.
External links
- Official website (Russian) (archive)
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070331221734/http://www.simbas.ru/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070804121119/http://www.simbas.ru/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080113192855/http://www.simbas.ru/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100126234941/http://www.simbas.ru/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110920160848/http://www.simbas.ru/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090124015630/http://simbas.ru/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121023141340/http://exeq.ru/exeq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=106