titchgamer
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This is a 2 year old thread....
Why doesnt NGCD freak just play them on... NGCD
That's mostly memory limitations. Playing the Neo now, a lot of the limitations of the day are muted and we forget that, but memory was expensive. The Neo could directly access a ton of memory, just like arcade PCBs at the time. That's why the carts were so expensive.The Genesis console was a cut-down version of the System 16 arcade hardware. I don't know why the Genesis and SNES had so much less power than arcade systems of the time, you'd think they could have made them more powerful (better sound, and bigger sprites, even if not as good as the arcade), as the consoles were sold at a loss in many cases anyway. They made up for the loss with game sales.
nevermind
The games on home consoles were built to a price. They couldn't sell carts to parents for more than a certain amount, whether it was $50 USD or $99 AUD. So that limited the amount of memory that could be used.That's mostly memory limitations. Playing the Neo now, a lot of the limitations of the day are muted and we forget that, but memory was expensive. The Neo could directly access a ton of memory, just like arcade PCBs at the time. That's why the carts were so expensive.
It also comes down to the quality of porting.