If you're interested in the Sega CD's library and want to take a swim, don't buy the Genesis Mini 2.

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Sarang

A few months ago Sega announced that another mini-PNP console would be released, the "Mega Drive Mini 2". It looked to be released only in Japan then a month ago they also announced the release of the Genesis Mni 2.
Today both full game lists were finally released and while the Mega Drive Mini 2 list is quite good including many of the CD titles people(especially Americans) want like Lunar 1 and 2 as well as Popful Mail...the full Genesis Mini list is absent of all of these CD titles...Popful Mail, Lunar 1 and 2 as well as Snatcher. Even "Dark Wizard", a Sega CD game published and developed by Sega(so costing nothing), is missing. The game list is generally a copy and paste of the Mega Drive Mini 2 list absent the very Japanese stuff like "Romance Of the Three Kingdoms" and Mahjong and other Anime RPG's. The replacements are overall uninspiring imo, with the highlight being "Warsong" which I feel is no real substitute for "Snatcher". Past that there's "Clay Fighter" and "Earthworm Jim 2", the latter of which seems strange since they could've had "Earthworm Jim Special Edition" which is considered the superior version even compared to the PC release.
Honestly the whole thing wrecks of laziness and possibly not trying for "Snatcher". "Dark Wizard" is a clear one that makes no sense because it costs them nothing theorhetically(unless they don't outright own the voice acting and that's it imo), "Eternal Champions" CD is another weird one since isn't "Night Trap" still considered mature.
Honestly if American Sega fans don't cancel their Genesis Mini 2 preorders it will embolden them to be lazy and make no effort and disrespect the fans even more like Nintendo has. Sertiously it made me disgusted to see people who are supposedly Sega fans making excuses for this bad behavior of Sega(it was on a YouTube react video to the annoucement), saying they were still going to buy the Genesis Mini 2. This just makes me even more firm I will find a way to import the Mega Drive Mini 2 as it is superior by leaps and bounds.

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"Snatcher"

I remember that game fondly and not for playing it LOL

One day about 10 years back I was reading a news blog on video games and in the comments one person mention that "Snatcher" was now worth a ton of money. So I thought for a secound after google-ing the game "I might have that one" and went to one of my many storage boxes and found the game box and it was minty fresh. I had bought the game wanting to play it and found it was unplayable without the gun so I stashed it for later....then Sony playstaion came out and since I worked for a division of Sony I got one for 50% off and forgot all my Sega games
well forward to where I pulled out the game again....it was perfect even the sponge disk protector was still in the case, not one scratch on the case. So I listed it on e-bay and some 'nut' in Alaska of all places with money bought it for over 300$ US...LOL

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I've considered creating a translation patch project.

Like all new translations, just to gut out the price of how ridiculous some of these American collector sets have gotten. Never mind some of the rares have subpar translations like Suikoden and Kuon.
Hopefully if I did this it would gut out the market. If not that I wish to at least increase the amount of people who can understand Japanese enough they'll just buy the Japanese copies.
For example "Snatcher" is quite plentiful in Japan, with copies on the PC Engine, Saturn and Playstation. That being said, for Policenauts either get it on the 3DO or non-Playstation. Heck maybe Snatcher was censored on Playstation too as it was either Snatcher or Policenauts or both were censored on it.
"Rule Of Rose" is starting to get expensive on all shores sadly.