The additional capability that the MegaCD added (such as sprite scaling/rotation effects) were obviously great, but the MegaDrive was clearly able to do without it. However, the features that a CD-based hardware would really benefit from, such as an increased colour pallet and hardware video decoding capability, were absent.
I love the MegaCD because of it's software lineup and what it offered in addition to the MegaDrive's own capabilities, but it's feature set does seem misguided in retrospect.
I love the MegaCD because of it's software lineup and what it offered in addition to the MegaDrive's own capabilities, but it's feature set does seem misguided in retrospect.
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