Mega Drive Portable
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| Distributor: Simba's Video Games, Proyavlyay Emotsii (Russia/CIS), Dynacom Argentina (Argentina) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mega Drive Portable is a brand of portable Mega Drive clones sold In Russia/CIS, China and parts of Asia, South America.
The Mega Drive Portable rather than rely on standard-size Mega Drive cartridges, games was distributed on smaller Game Boy Advance-sized carts which are then compatible with the entire range of Mega Drive Portable systems. Within these carts contains a Mega Drive ROM, likely taken from the internet, repackaged and sold for use on the go.
There are a handful of Mega Drive Portable compatible devices, most of which appear to have been based on pre-existing shells developed by Nintendo.
The console began a new trend in Russia for portable devices. It had certain competitors like MDPortable, DVTech Discovery and others.
Contents
- 1 Mega Drive Portable (ZW-16S)
- 2 Mega Drive Portable + 15 games
- 3 Mega Drive Portable 3D
- 4 Mega Drive Portable 3D + 5 games
- 5 Mega Drive Portable Ultimate (ZW-16H)
- 6 Mega Drive Arcada (ZW-H105B)
- 7 Mega Drive Slim
- 8 Mega Drive Mobile
- 9 Mega Drive Micro (ZW-16V)
- 10 Mega Drive SP (ZW-16Q)
- 11 Games
- 12 Magazine articles
- 13 External links
- 14 References
Mega Drive Portable (ZW-16S)
This appears to have been the original unit, built within the shell of a Game Boy Advance. All Mega Drive Portables seem to extend the functions of a Sega Nomad, with the ability to connect to a TV screen while having headphone support, a built-in speaker and a 960x240 pixel resolution 2.5 inch screen. The specifications are otherwise identical to that of the Sega Mega Drive. Often they come in a variety of colors too.
Black
Green
Purple
Blue and Silver
Light Blue
AR version (Dynacom)
RU Box (Blue and Silver)
Mega Drive Portable + 15 games
Released on November 15, 2008.[6]
Mega Drive Portable 3D
Attempting to cash in on the 3D craze, the Mega Drive Portable is almost identical to the first Mega Drive Portable, just with a built-in battery. There is no third dimension involved.
Console
RU Box
Mega Drive Portable 3D + 5 games
Mega Drive Portable Ultimate (ZW-16H)
Console
Variants
Players Portable MD Player
RU Box
Mega Drive Arcada (ZW-H105B)
Mega Drive Slim
A unit based on the PlayStation Portable that comes with a built-in battery pack (which fully charged claims to last 10 hours). The 
buttons were not replaced.
Console
RU Box
Mega Drive Mobile
Almost identical to the above, the Mega Drive Mobile just has a different shell.
Console
RU Box
Mega Drive Micro (ZW-16V)
The Mega Drive Micro steals its design from the Game Boy Micro and adds two extra buttons, meaning the system can play six-button Mega Drive games. It also has 32 games built-in:
- Disney's Aladdin
- Alien 3
- Animaniacs
- Ariel The Little Mermaid
- Barbie Vacation Adventure
- Bart vs. The Space Mutants
- Batman
- Batman Returns
- Batman: Revenge of the Joker
- Battletoads
- Battletoads & Double Dragon
- Bonkers
- Bubba 'N' Stix
- Castle Of Illusion
- Chase H.Q. 2
- The Flintstones
- The Jungle Book
- Quackshot
- Robocop 3
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin
- Streets Of Rage
- Super Battletank
- Talespin
- Taz-Mania
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure
- Turbo OutRun
- Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
- Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin
- Super Mario 2 1998
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
Console
Versions
Players Game Player Micro
RU Box
Mega Drive SP (ZW-16Q)
Identical to the above, but this time using the shell of a Game Boy Advance SP.
Console versions
RU Box
Games
- Main article: List of Mega Drive Portable games.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Mega Drive Portable/Magazine articles.
External links
- Official website (Russian) (archive)
References
- ↑ http://www.simbas.ru/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-03-31 22:17)
- ↑ http://www.simbas.ru/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-08-04 12:11)
- ↑ http://www.simbas.ru/ (Wayback Machine: 2008-01-13 19:28)
- ↑ http://www.simbas.ru/ (Wayback Machine: 2010-01-26 23:49)
- ↑ http://www.simbas.ru/ (Wayback Machine: 2011-09-20 16:08)
- ↑ http://simbas.ru/ (Wayback Machine: 2009-01-24 01:56)
- ↑ http://exeq.ru/exeq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=106 (Wayback Machine: 2012-10-23 14:13)