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paul_met - Jan 27, 2023
  paul_met Jan 27, 2023
I recently started to explore this platform and came to the conclusion that it also has the potential to improve the quality of games. A similar topic already exists in the section for Saturn, and now it's time for a Mega Drive / Genesis.
As it turned out, quite a few games on this platform did not support extended screen resolution (only 256x224 like the SNES). I decided to correct this flaw. Several patches to increase the screen resolution are already available at the link below. I hope that their number will grow.
Link to patches

  ynoS XSP Jan 27, 2023
This a great topic!

I've been interested in this subject for years and I always suspected there were games on the genesis that could be hacked into 320x224, which in turn would make them look better or even correct the aspect ratio of the graphics in cases when the artists didn't take into account the stretching caused by 4/3 crt TV's.

@Paul Met: there are lots of titles. Please take a look here (if you didn't already):


I'm keeping my fingers crossed that in the future you can improve many of them (especially my favorites).

 paul_met Jan 30, 2023
Hacks are available for all NHL games from EA (94 - 98).

 Malenko Feb 12, 2023

paul_met said:

If it works for those it should work for Mutant League Hockey as well.

 paul_met Feb 15, 2023

malenko said:

Never tried this game. As far as I heard, this is more pampering than real hockey.
Added hack for Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

 ynoS XSP Jun 28, 2023
@paul_met... : Any news on this? Have you found more games that can be improved in this way?

 paul_met Jun 29, 2023

ynoS XSP said:

There are enough of such games, but there is no time for them yet.

 paul_met Jul 20, 2023
Widescreen support for Beyond Oasis. To work correctly, you need an emulator with the "Genesis Plus GX Wide" core (RetroArch / Mednafen).


https://youtube.com/aZ56qo-PQtY


 paul_met Aug 21, 2023
New version of Beyond Oasis Extended


https://youtube.com/645WQ-n68Ts


 Bjankins1 Oct 8, 2024
@paul_met... would you be interested in doing more of these hacks on genesis,


Here’s a list of games that displayed in 256 mode, for better or for worse

air buster would be nice to have a 320x224 mode

 Jlooky Jun 9, 2025
Hey @paul_met...! I was wondering if you were still doing these screen resolution hacks. Having it for some of these games would be really helpful. I feel like the first Bubsy game would be nice to have in H40 mode