Mega Drive (Genesis) re-release in Brazil (with a twist!)

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#1 DanBal76
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I live in Brazil and, for many years, Sega was officially represented here by a company called Tec Toy. Now, that same company will re-release the original Mega Drive in june 2017. It will be the original hardware (no emulation here), but with a nice twist: besides playing the original cartridges, the console will feature a sd card slot, so you can play ROMs as well. The only thing missing is HDMI output (composite output only), but since it's the original hardware, i think that omission is forgivable. What do you guys think about it? I liked it!

http://www.tectoy.com.br/pre-venda-mega-drive-edicao-limitada/p/995040461825

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No hdmi no buy.

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#3  Edited By Renegade_Fury
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That's pretty cool; maybe I'll buy one as another extra. The lack of HDMI doesn't bother me, because I have CRT TV's for my retro consoles.

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#4  Edited By achilles614
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Composite is kinda crappy, but I guess I don't see many other options. S-video is pretty rare on TVs and component/YPrPb 240p isn't supported by most TVs.

I'm assuming they'll use a Genesis Model 3 type design which means it probably won't be able to do RGB video out of the box.

I would only be interested in it to open it up and see what's changed inside.