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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
Quoting: GuestThey had a bit of a slip up though
this was listed in my games that work on linux list that steam offers for like a week now but it was missing the executable and it looks like it's still an issue

Try to redownload, maybe? Verify files?
RedneckonLinux May 30, 2018
Quite happy to see a collection of classic games coming to linux (semi natively cause it is still emulation). Interesting to see a company like SEGA throwing support to linux. Hope to see more great titles from them in the future get ported.
C7z May 30, 2018
Waiting patiently for shenmue1 and 2 remastered and shenmue 3 it will happen it's just when.
ageres May 30, 2018
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Quoting: ageres
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.
It works fine on my computer.

It's wireless. You're not using it wirelessly right?
Mine is wired, right.
slaapliedje May 30, 2018
Anyone else have horrible performance during the menu area? It goes crazy slow, even though the benchmark in Rise of the Tomb Raider ran at 99 fps.
Dolus May 30, 2018
Nice that Sega didn't make you jump though hoops to get to the ROMs. They all work fine for me in Mednafen. Phantasy Star 4 loads up in Japanese for some reason though...
ryad May 30, 2018
Quoting: [email protected]
Quoting: ageres
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.
It works fine on my computer.

It's wireless. You're not using it wirelessly right?

I use the Xbox 360 wirelessly with steamos-xpad-dkms (Steam OS xpad implementation for Xbox 360). Not working for me.
adibuyono May 30, 2018
OMG, my childhood game!!!
Can anyone tell me the name of the game on that screenshot?
Liam Dawe May 30, 2018
Quoting: adibuyonoOMG, my childhood game!!!
Can anyone tell me the name of the game on that screenshot?
Gunstar Heroes.
Cyba.Cowboy May 30, 2018
Damn - I went to buy this and apparently I already own it... :><:
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