Lost World Sudoku - AtGames Mega Drive Plug N Play
3I got myself one of those AtGames Mega Drive Plug N Play consoles a couple of days ago. It was on sale and quite cheap brand new so I figured I could give it a try.
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About the game:
I noticed it had a Sudoku game and because I enjoy solving Sudokus I decided to give it a try.
This was my very first attempt after quickly trying out the controls before setting up to record.
It has two major issues.
The first major issue is the colors used for the numbers/background, they blend together and make it hard to see what number you've selected at times.
I accidentally picked a 6 where it should've been an 8 because I simply couldn't see I had the wrong number selected until I looked back a few seconds later and noticed it had a bright duplicate warning color on it.
So it's a good thing they at least make duplicate numbers bright and noticeable, otherwise it would've taken ages to see that.
The second is the fact that the timer goes too fast, as you can see the video is only 7m49s but the time I got was 9m56s, so it's already about two and half minutes too fast after such a short amount of time.
My actual time playing the game was only 7m20s.
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More about the machine itself:
This is the model with 81 built in games (some original licensed games but of the 81 games it's mostly unlicensed clone games), a cartridge slot and two 7-button controllers (they're both missing the Mode button).
The sound emulation is overall pretty awful, the only thing so far that sounds fine are voice clips and other types of digitized sound effects.
All the built in games are 60hz NTSC games forced to play as slowed down 50hz games.
It also forces cartridge PAL games to play as NTSC versions in forced 50hz with slowed down gameplay.
Many games with enhancement chips or other such features don't work at all.
It seems only region locked PAL games work properly, at least speed wise, as they stop the NTSC version from being loaded and such doesn't allow it to have an NTSC version to slow down, it just plays the game as it should instead.
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Technical info:
Gameplay recorded using an AtGames Mega Drive Plug N Play console, the composite cables it came with, a USB Video Grabber device and Honestech VHS to DVD 3.0 SE on Windows 7.