I just yesterday got my first Nomad. I've read for years that a small number of games are incompatible with the Nomad, one being Decap Attack. This happens to be one of my favorite Genesis games so I had to try it out. Weird, the start button does nothing, the A button does nothing, the B button is the special objects menu and the C button is start. Sega's website support page says the button reconfigure screen can be used to make the game work, but I could never find a button reconfiguration setting that actually allowed the game to be playable.
Anyway, my question is: how can it be that the Nomad is incompatible with some games? If Decap Attack won't work in a Nomad is the same true for the Genesis 2 or Genesis 3? Don't they share the same basic hardware with the Nomad? And I can't understand how the game can work correctly on a console and not on the Nomad, don't the A, B, C button maps have to be present on any game which makes use of all three buttons? It seems pretty bizarre that the C button ends up mapped to the Start button.
Nomad game incompatibility
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Re: Nomad game incompatibility
Scooter wrote:Anyway, my question is: how can it be that the Nomad is incompatible with some games? If Decap Attack won't work in a Nomad is the same true for the Genesis 2 or Genesis 3? Don't they share the same basic hardware with the Nomad?
Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 do NOT share the same hardware, I have never run into an incompatable game on my 2, but I know the 3 has probs with a number of games.
the 3 really is a crappy build and not for the retro player of today with 2s so prevalent, besides 2s output stereo to the tv a/v out natively
I haven't ever gotten to pull the hood of a Nomad, so no idea which console it resembles more.
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From here:
Some games may access the gamepad in a way that causes 6-button values
to be returned when 3-button values are expected. To get around this,
the MODE button can be held down when powering-up the console, and
the 6-button gamepad will respond like a 3-button one.
I wonder why nothing about the MODE button is mentioned in the Nomad instructions? I'll try the MODE button with Decap Attack and see what happens.
I did try Virtua Racing and Sonic and Knuckles with Sonic 2 "locked on" and everything worked. I thought one or the other might have issues but that was not the case.
I'd like to crack the case and see how it's laid out inside but it looks fantastic and works great (not even a scratch on the screen!) so I think I'll just leave well enough alone.
I did try Virtua Racing and Sonic and Knuckles with Sonic 2 "locked on" and everything worked. I thought one or the other might have issues but that was not the case.
I'd like to crack the case and see how it's laid out inside but it looks fantastic and works great (not even a scratch on the screen!) so I think I'll just leave well enough alone.
I can sympathize with the curiosity, but you made the right choice, keep it minty as long as you can ;)Scooter wrote:I'd like to crack the case and see how it's laid out inside but it looks fantastic and works great (not even a scratch on the screen!) so I think I'll just leave well enough alone.
I would be scared to actually be traveling around with it, what kind of case are you using for it?
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