🎮 Snake? Snaaaaake?! On the SEGA Mega Drive?! 🐍💥
Sure, you learn that proper. Due to the unbelievable work of coder h0ffman, the unique Steel Gear has stealth-crawled its approach onto the SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis, full with retro aptitude, chiptune goodness, and a love letter’s price of polish.
Initially a 1987 MSX2 title from the thoughts of Hideo Kojima, Steel Gear kickstarted a legendary stealth-action franchise. However whereas NES gamers obtained a… inventive reinterpretation of the sport, the true MSX2 model by no means graced a Sega console—till now.
🔧 Enter h0ffman, a coding wizard who reverse-engineered the unique sport and painstakingly rebuilt it from the bottom as much as run natively on Mega Drive {hardware}. We’re speaking full sound and music by way of the YM2612 chip, buttery-smooth scrolling, and pixel-perfect visuals that really feel proper at dwelling on a CRT.
picture supply: h0ffman by way of BlueSky
💾 You may:
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Obtain the ROM (right here) and play it on actual {hardware} or an emulator
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Try the event weblog (right here) for juicy technical insights
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Assist the challenge (and future ports?!) via his itch.io
This isn’t only a port—it’s a what-if alternate actuality the place Steel Gear launched on Sega’s 16-bit beast again within the day. And truthfully? It slaps.
So hearth up your EverDrive or emulator of alternative and prepare to infiltrate Outer Heaven, Mega Drive-style. Simply bear in mind: this can be a sneaking mission. 🕵️♂️
