

In Japan, the Mega Drive fared poorly against its two main competitors, Nintendo's Super Famicom and NEC's PC Engine (aka TurboGrafx-16), but it achieved considerable success in North America, Brazil, and Europe.


Sega created two network services to support the Genesis: Sega Meganet and Sega Channel. It was released in several different versions, some created by third parties. Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games. It plays a library of more than 900 games created by Sega and a wide array of third-party publishers delivered on ROM-based cartridges. The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Driveĭesigned by an R&D team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega's System 16 arcade board, centered on a Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles, and scrolling. genĬontra - Hard Corps Contra - Hard Corps (U). Hack, only cart name is changed #1-3 variantĬontra - The Hard Corps - Clone by TI Contra - The Hard Corps - Clone by TI (Hack).binĬontra - Hard Corps Contra - Hard Corps (U). Hack, only cart name is changed #1-2 variant Hack, only cart name is changed #1-1 variant

Hacked internal cartridge info Hacked internal cartridge informationĬontra - Hard Corps Enhancement by MIJET Contra - Hard Corps Enhancement by MIJET (Hack).binĬontra - The Hard Corps Contra - The Hard Corps (J). (Konami always used to take a good care on its soundtracks) Great music (a mixture of techno beats with heavy rock-'n'-roll). This game was not made by the same people that created iterations of the Contra series prior to 1992, when some Konami employees left the company to create the Treasure company despite this, the game not only maintained the quality that was always famous in the saga but added features that made the playability and replayability much more richer.Ĥ different characters, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, including different special weapons (such as 5-direction shot and the homing missiles) One of the best games from the Contra saga.
