'Steam Workshop functionality is a platform to share the wealth of custom Mega Drive & Genesis ROMs out there and support the highly talented and engaged community of modders behind them,' said community manager Daniel Sheridan on the Sega blog. What's happened here - and this comes as something of a surprise - is Sega has allowed anyone who owns a classic Sega game on Steam to use Steam Workshop to upload and play ROM hacks. Alien Soldier Original 60hz Japanese Version, for example, replaces the 50hz-optimized European version of Alien Soldier with 'the only version people should be playing'.

There are a lot of other cool mods already available, many of which focus on making classic Sega games better in some way. As you'd expect, it lets you play as Knuckles in Sonic 1. This improves the base game with bugfixes and adds optional music based on the original PC version.Īnd here's a cool one: Knuckles in Sonic 1. useful mods available, such as Sonic 3 Complete. Streets of Rage 2 Except It Makes That Weird Tim Allen Noise When People Die.Ĭheck it out in the video below.

This lets you share and download mods for those games.Īnd what mods are already available! The most popular, at the time of publication, is this beauty: The hub ads Steam Workshop support to all Mega Drive games on Valve's platform. Steam's new Sega Mega Drive Classics Hub only launched yesterday, but modders are already having their fun with it.

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