SEGA Mega Drive Mini Deals & Offers

Noticed this has gone up in price. Is there anywhere where it's still cheaper?

Only 1 Damaged packaging £44.99 Delivered @ Bopster/ebay If anyone interested. (y)

Great fun once you've hacked it. The Megadrive Mini uses an emulator called 'M2engage'. I personally use Genesis Plus GX for Mega Drive, Master System and Sega CD games on mine. If you're using multi-disc Sega CD games or 32x games, you have to use Pico Drive. Any disc-based games will also require the BIOS files copying to their mini. Hacking these is great fun, providing you put time into learning how to emulate the games optimally. I've got 750+ games on mine using Hackchi, via external 64GB USB drive. I've also got 2x Retrobit 8-button officially licensed controllers. Ideal for Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, even SNES and PlayStation button mappings. Here's a photo of my home menu (lol)

Great thank you for your help

I've played a bit and it is a cool little platformer. You can save at any point using the megadrive mini. I have this, the NES and the SNES minis and it's the Megadrive mini that I use the most. I'm going to get the 6 button joypad for street fighter 2.

Not even Sonic is as fast as lidl checkout staff

The easiest way is to accept the deal is crap but don't worry it happens to everyone (highfive) have a good weekend Sir :)

Perhaps a bit of humility?? Lots of deals around and I'd hope that if I found a deal it would be the best price because the OP has taken the time to look... otherwise this would just be a website to advertise products you have seen, not hot deals!! And I'm sure I'm not the only one that looks for reviews I.e Trust Pilot to help determine if where I am buying from is legitimate.

365games started as an eBay store and has been around since 1994 (Ironically the same year that the first Lidl store was launched in the uk). They are owned by Xbite Ltd, who had an annual turnover of over £36m last year.

Oh well I’m sorry but some people might not think it necessary to go checking a places trustpilot score before shopping there you know some people might be happier shopping at a well know to all reputable store or online retailer

Absolutely doing that right now - cheers :)

Can anyone recommend a USB data cable that works to mod this? Tried around 6 cables so far but no luck

Get an Analogue Mega SG if you want absolute perfection, well worth the price.

Got mine and of course I'd completely forgotten what I read last year about them: INPUT LAG. All arcade style games are unplayable in the way intended. I know it's emulated but it seems I'll have to go back to playing Megadrive games on a PC. I'm talking about 5 frames lag average at an estimate (checked it's 3-7 extra frames of lag) which is just not on for fast games. It's going back... :(

Seriously mate, it's not going any lower. They are not being made any more. Watch out on Amazon for rising prices on this.

Can anyone recommend a data USB that works with modding this? Downloaded project lunar but 6 USB cables down and none seem to work..

I agree I’ve still got the ps classic still sealed unopened lol

Hey could you give me the details for the discord please? I can mod the mini itself ok, but I keep getting crashes with E4 error when I try to use external storage. It's not the pen drive as I've tried 4 from 32GB-128GB, two of which were brand new...

There's a discord that you can join to get advice. I'm part of it, too. I've hacked mine and use extremal storage for games. Give me a shout if you need any advice.

Will give a whirl when it arrives, only after a handful of games that weren't included, cheers.

you still need the pi for this to work

I’ve got the SNES version of this. Shame they haven’t updated for Pi 4. Also have broken Megadrives and empty cases, so could put a Pi in one of those for a bulkier, authentic look.

Fully wide open dude. If that's what you want to do, then go for it.

Yes, not done mine yet though but I do plan to

Not quite, got mine for £43, close enough though

I got the SNES and just okay everything on that, but if it's for nostalgic value then fair enough. Hard to out a price on that hence why you have £5 of kit selling for £50

I have one of those too along with the original consoles, Snes, Nes, Game gear, Master system, Mega drive etc

Then buy a pi and do so much more for so much less £

Cheers Mate (highfive)

Sort of with you on that to a degree. certain consols and games are hard to get and I dont see anyone getting hurt by doing it. ie I would like a amiga (again) but realisticly thats hard to find a decent one at a good price ... and then I would be expected to find a tape copy of sensible soccer or cannon fodder....Like gold dust I expect. But I do have most consoles and a couple filing cabinets worth of games. Havent got a megadrive/genisis and that was next on my list. I'm sure people with the original hardware go off grid as output from the original systems dont always work well with new TV's.

I'll take it off yer hands for a crispy tenner (y)

£1 eBay listing weekend mate, best time to get rid then if useless for you. XD

Got this when it was released but never played it! Heat added! (y)

Says £59.88?

Thanks for this. Added to my list and got one just now when it came back in stock!

This is now back in stock. May be worth reactivating the deal.

OOS

Problem is the PS classic is absolute trash so is prices as such.

SAY GAAAA

The spotify premium is worth £60 (or I suppose £50 if you used a free month) so that's a bargain if you happen to want both (which I do :))

use the locker then! loads of supermarkets have them. really simple use. pop code in and door to the locker opens take item close door leave!!

Oos

Still not cheap enough.

Gone

Yeah that's true and expected in current situation but at least it will be in time for Easter (y)

STRANGE, ITY VALIDATES AND JUST SAYS "This code can't be applied to your order." what is wrong with the order, the destination? it says the same with a uk or other country.

Just tried and worked. Try typing.

Has anyone been able to use the code or is the deal dead?

Got this for Christmas. Played it once, hasn't been on since. I will never learn.

Is it I didn’t realise?!?

Yeah the first EA Hockey was just International teams with fights as far as I can remember and then the next one was the NHL licence which did away with the tear up fun (lol) Tandy, in the bygone days of yore

walking past Dixons (or was it Tandy) in Leicester, 1992....seeing this running on a tv in the window....was the reason I then proceeded to buy a Mega Drive. Loved the Strike series....oh & EA Hockey with the crappy fist-fights. Brilliant! (party)

Ebay

It’s £54.95 now

Thanks for posting; we have added this thread to the Highlights section (y)

Not biting until £35. Got the NES, SNES, PSX and C64 mini, but experience tells me that the price will drop further.

Come again?

How

What's your point?

Altered beast and golden axe. 2 classics right there. Shane gauntlet wasn’t included

Getting better!

You could not pay me to use Revolut but good deal for those who do!

Arrived perfectly, cheers OP

Mine showed up yesterday. Perfect condition and the box/instructions are all in English. Fanastic deal. Agree with the post above that Sonic doesn't look great a on a big screen, although the CRT/scanline filters do help somewhat.

Sonic hasn’t aged well through hdmi

Has anyone's turned up yet? I'm not worried, just excited to play some Megadrive on the weekend.

Wish they made another handheld but I guess that’s Nintendo’s market and nobody else is willing to compete

Did the SNES fall that low? I think they went to around £50, I recall a few NES classic deals that low but they might have been Amazon warehouse deals. The PSC dropped like an absolute stone from £90 to £16 on that prime deal (annoyed) but that was cos it got (rightfully) slated in reviews due to the poor stock emulation, the SNES emulated PS1 games better albeit with a different core. To answer your question... :D I think it'll go down a bit lower, maybe £30-40, although it's hard to tell if the mini console bubble is over and how much demand there will be. If they go PSC level I'll buy one just for the controllers...

agreed: my PSC has outperformed all devices thus far: only snag has been neogeo running on it: and am tempted to the the NeoGold cos i loved the shape of joystick. Cannot believe 20 yrs ago i sold all my 2X SNK AES / Wondermega and 450+ PCE LT and games for £1000! still - good times whilst it lasted.... kept the virtualboy cos i loved virtua mario tennis

my mate saw his Amiga CD32 fishing game up for sale on ebay recently - quite a buzz for him :)

and yet theres still a near permanent stall outside his house in LA for the "tour bus" to stop at - lol - i drive past it from time to time as a shortcut from Lexington to Sunset Blvd - quick way to get to airport on the 405 (assuming carpool)

Anyone think this can get cheaper? Snes mini and ps mini both got down to like 30 quid

Possibly but this is a Currys deal :p

Think I’ll wait for it to drop further, as already on Spotify Family plan.

Are there any discount codes applicable to Argos at the moment that could maybe knock this down a few pennies? Thanks all.

Seems the better of the two to me. Heated @idontflycathay (y)

Great deal (y) heat.

No way I am paying an additional £24 on top of the console. This is not a free hack. Better to wait for the release of project lunar.

True Blue Mini Ultradrive Pack for Genesis/MegaDrive Mini (813 Games) amazon.co.uk/dp/B0827XXBS2/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_i_9-j8DbH0830M4

This was a great game that I rarely see anyone mention, I played the heck out of the SNES version!

I agree was a nice game...

it was horrible playing with half a controller each, 4 player was enough for me. Althoguh I can imagine 8 player being quite fun

I wondered where Buzz has gone....

Disappeared you say

Still a few of these out in the wild.

Are you referring to the 8bitdo ones please?

in the us we got jipped out of this controller too. even at 40usd i couldn’t pull the trigger on the console

aaaah the mode button, I remember it well!

Lol sorry, you don't have the authentic experience unless you're limited to using the start button to switch from punches to kicks in Street Fighter (lol)

Looks like it's expired

Lidl £59.99 = hot Amazon £59.99 = hot Asda £60 = cold That makes perfect sense (confused)

I dont think will drop just yet. There still selling pretty well.

I see loads of offers for this too, but surely people aren't buyin at that price. Got my ps1 classic for £20, reckon there'll be interest when these are roughly the same

Way to high i will wait see if it go’s down a lot like psx mini