Joe & Mac [MegaDrive Genesis – Beta / Cancelled?]

11 thoughts on “Joe & Mac [MegaDrive Genesis – Beta / Cancelled?]”

1. John Doom 22-08-2011 at 17:01

   In the arcade, dinosaur’s neck (?) is like the one in the first shot
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzezyucTIKo&feature=player_detailpage#t=448s
   The problem is that doing the neck in that way needed a lot of memory expecially for Graphic. Probably it was too much for the consoles’ versions because they could not handle enough memory size in their’s cartridges.
   About the background, IMO they wanted to enhance game’s graphic but it was too much again because of the rom’s size.

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2. Anonymous 23-08-2011 at 05:29

   I strongly doubt they are Mega Drive shots. The colours and sprite size are easy tell points. Also, the Mega Drive would probably have flicker on that Dino’s neck if it was to use that many sprites in a row.

   Yakumo

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3. rod_wod 23-08-2011 at 06:38

   looking good :)

   i think we are missing one pic its a tiny one from a sega pro i think its not worth adding really but i though i would just say..

   good work mono :)

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4. monokoma Post author24-08-2011 at 14:55

   These screens are still a mistery then, maybe they are from a beta Arcade version? Probably we’ll never know :P

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5. John Doom 24-08-2011 at 15:06

   If it isn’t the arcade version, probably they are mock pictures showing what they actually wanted to do on MD and SNES.

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6. Dumby 24-08-2011 at 15:38

   When the beta version looks 10x better than the final version, you can say without a doubt those are mockup screenshot taken from another hardware version, definitively not MD (too many color depth & big sprites)

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7. Dumby 24-08-2011 at 15:40

   Also, just compare with other existing 8Megs games on the Mega Drive…

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8. monokoma Post author26-08-2011 at 13:37

   Here’s a comparison of the Joe & Mac ports: http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/compaisons%20-%20Joe%20and%20Mac.html

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9. warped022 30-08-2011 at 23:26

   I think this image was from the Arcade Version. Compare with this image:
   http://www.videojuegoblog.com/galleria/big/data-east-classics-01/1

   and this video:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzezyucTIKo (seek to minute 7:30)

   if not the same, at least very similar

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10. slop 15-01-2012 at 02:15

    in conclusion the genesis has a perfect processing but the snes doesnt and plus the sprite color is downgraded in genesis but in snes the sprite color is identical to the arcade version the beta version was better than the final one and did you know that the first joe and mac version was ported in nes

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11. Koopako 02-01-2013 at 09:28

    I suppose the magazine just took the liberty of using arcade screenshots to illustrate the upcoming mega drive game

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