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TiTAN - Overdrive 2 (RGB 50fps) - SEGA Mega Drive - Revision 2017 (1st Place)

Oerg866 · 304.9K views · 2017-04-16 · 8:24

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Overview

Overdrive 2 by TiTAN, a Sega Mega Drive demo that won first place in the Oldskool competition at Revision 2017. It shows effects and 3D graphics on the stock console.

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HN plugs it as a favorite example of what skilled demoscene coders can pull out of 30-year-old hardware.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2017–2026

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Demoscene & retrocomputingGame history & retro gaming
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chromadon · 2026-07 · Strong recommendation

If you've never seen Overdrive 2 by Titan (a demo scene group), it's unbelievable what the MegaDrive can do stock. [VIDEO] I'm reasonably familiar with the hardware, I've written some games from scratch and I still have absolutely no idea how they did most of it.

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jsheard · 2024-04 · Strong recommendation

It's not a game but I'll take any opportunity to plug Overdrive 2 for the Mega Drive: [VIDEO] That system has no business producing any kind of 3D graphics but they did it anyway.

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jsheard · 2018-04 · Strong recommendation

It's really amazing how people keep finding ways to make old hardware do new tricks. Overdrive 2 is my favorite example - it's a Sega Megadrive demo that was released 30 years after the Megadrive launched, but still managed to pull off multiple effects that had never been seen on the system before. It abuses the hardware in such unique ways that no emulator can run it properly. [LINK] / [VIDEO]

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