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As we reported on the hints of this happening recently, the SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics is now officially available on Linux. As I mentioned in the previous article, I thought they would do this to go along with the release on PS4 and Xbox One and I was right on the money there.

Not only did they add official Linux support, they also upgraded it with some fancy new features like:

  • Two-player online multiplayer 
  • Leaderboards
  • Challenge Modes – short challenges give old favourites a new twist 
  • Additional graphics filters & border options
  • ROMs from other regions for games with significant differences
  • Fast-forward and rewind 
  • Sprite limit disable 
  • Mirror mode – reverse the screen for a fresh challenge
  • VR support 

It includes over 50 titles with some absolutely classics like Golden Axe, Gunstar Heroes (a personal favourite!), Sonic, Streets of Rage 2 and so on. The online support is interesting, as it allows you to actually play a game while you're waiting for matchmaking too (you can also invite a friend).

That not enough for you? Well, they lowered the price of the entire collection too! It's now $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99 (still showing up as the old price for me) and you can find it on Steam. Individual games are supposed to see a price drop too, for those like me who need to complete their collection.

It’s very interesting to see SEGA getting more of their stuff on Linux. One can only hope this is a sign of them being willing to get more of their developed and published titles eventually onto Linux too—that would be sweet.

As someone who grew up with the Mega Drive, this is awesome to have on Linux. I actually own Gunstar Heroes on Steam, so I was able to give it a quick test and it does appear to work perfectly including the Steam Controller working without issues:

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nox May 29, 2018
Love this, but one issue: Playing the emulated games fullscreen just turns the screen black for me...
Liam Dawe May 29, 2018
Going by SteamDB it seems they're still messing with some of the Linux content.
rcrit May 29, 2018
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I bought this in 2015 and have no memory of it. Guess it was too good a deal to pass up...
Linuxpunk May 29, 2018
Yei, I'll no longer need to illegally emulate sega genesis games...;)
nox May 29, 2018
I wonder if it's possible to somehow add our own games in there too, that would be fucking awesome
Kithop May 29, 2018
Quoting: LeopardGo to Steam settings and clear the download cache.

I hadn't tried that... so I just uninstalled the game, hit that clear download cache button (with the associated logout / log back in) and re-installed... same issue. I wonder if maybe my local node I'm downloading from just hasn't caught up yet?

I'm in no rush anyway, since I'd rather just pull these into Retroarch, but still. :) Thanks for the tip though!
Asu May 29, 2018
yeah, I hope every publishers will bring back their old games. Atari and Sega are ok.
elmapul May 29, 2018
tons of issues here...


the interface is too slow.
the game boot without any image
i cant assign my gamepad properly
and the full screen dont work either
Joeyboots80 May 29, 2018
Since I already own this collection, Thank you Sega for the free upgrade! :D
Whitewolfe80 May 29, 2018
Quoting: [email protected]Can't use the Xbox 360 controller. It's detected. Listed under input options..

But you can't use it inside any of the games you have in the collection.

Go into options (in game) and configure player one controls and it should work fine
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