I assure you, I regret having a shaved face just as much as you regret watching my shaved face xD

😱 Who is the smoothed face fella that took over this channel!?

The game was also included on Analogue’s MegaSG Console

never heard of this one, thanks. You've become one of my favorite YTers =)

Fun fact, this game was first released as a built-in title for the Analogue Mega SG. If you had the mega SG's front end activated on startup, it would give you the option to either run the cartridge you in service into the console, or boot directly into ultracore

Great review as always! I waited YEARS to play this gam, since I saw an old video from 2010, you can find some of my comments there lol and thank god it was released. Ultracore became one of my favourite MD games EVER and that means a lot. The music, the visuals, gameplay, everything is great, specially love how the enemies explode with lots of fire and metal pieces around. The sound driver was the same Jesper Kyd used for his works on the MD and the composer was Olof Gustaffson who worked on a lot of Amiga games so yeah, it has that Euro/Amiga style all over it (Those arpeggios *chef kiss*). You can also get the japanese version from Columbus Circle, I got mine from there.

Another great video St1ka !

This definitely would have been at home on the Amiga. And easily would have found a fan base among the Turrican lovers. Sad it took so long to finally be released, but exciting for the developer that he was finally able to see it happen.

So... this means, a developer can actually revive any cancelled game? Pretty awesome.

Great video =D Didn't know about this game! The chips - the large one is a flash ROM. The smaller ones at the bottom are level shifters / translators to account for the ROM being a 3.3v device, connecting to the 5v level buses of the Megadrive. I suspect the chip top right is some sort of NVRAM. Small 3 pin device on the left, 3.3v regulator probably.

The soundtrack was inspired by techno, electro and industrial music; they actually namedrop several bands like NIN and Skinny Puppy in the credits.

There was some cartridge stock left as they emailed me recently but I acquired it by other means after it released as I wasn't going to pay scalper prices at the time. Great vid, big fan of the Amiga.

You forgot to add 'You Wascally Wabbit' to the quote at the beginning :)

The PS4 version has the option of an arranged soundtrack which sounds like what the game would have used had this also come out on Sega CD as well. I can't speak on the Switch & Vita ports but I imagine they'd have this option too.

Getting hold of the Megadrive cart was such a task! I had pre-ordered it for Switch not realising it was getting a MD release, by the time I found out, they had already sold out and I had to track down a preorder from a reseller on eBay. I dare not share with you the amount of money I spent on it 🙈🤣

Great video, as usual. And the game truly does conform to to the 90s Euro run'n'gun philosophy. It's like a time capsule. 😊

I tried getting into this game but man the level design is cheap. Those platforming sections you mentioned are way too tough, especially with how the platforms bounce. It would be easier if they changed color or made some kinda sound to let you know they're at their peak bounce, but they don't so it's more of a guessing game. Unfortunately, Euro devs at this time really did like to crank up the difficulty to an absurd level, Shadow of the Beast also comes to mind. Also I wish they used more colors than brown, blue, gray, and green, though the animations do look nice and smooth. But man that music is incredible, you can tell it was from a Euro dev because of how many arpeggios it uses. I do like what Ultracore has to offer, but personally I'd rather play Mega Turrican instead.

Haha, oh that first bouncing platform section in level 2 gave me headaches as well 😅 Suffice to say it probably wasn't a good idea to put an instadeath floor underneath whilst the player was supposed to be getting a feel for how it's done, but that's what they did.

Another insightful, entertaining and informative video. This was golden.

I think this game looks fantastic, but hate time limits (another common feature with Turricans). How would you rank Ultracore amidst the Turricans on the Mega Drive?

The unrelease titles is something to be aware of, it would be nice to see shadow of the beast 3 come out!

Funny. I was watching the Zeebo video of yours when I got the notification that this had been uploaded.

Looks like Gods crossed with Mega Turrican.

Thanks, now Time Warp is stuck in my head again..... But awesome find. Def made me want to play it.

Burned this game to repro pcb, shelled it and applied sticker. Love it sooo much!

Great video as always, St1ka! I originally found you through Top Hat Gaming Man and I've watched every video since. Since you're taking intro requests, how about "Where did you learn to fly" from Cybermorph?

Had to watch this review in halfs thanks to my sinuses today but hot damn was it great episode. The real punch came when you said it was sold out and I went to go check...yep, all sold out. Its very cheep too considering what normal "new" genesis games go for so when its back, I want to get it for sure! Thanks for another awesome review :)

Bom vídeo como sempre!! Joguei no ano passado e adorei, grande ambiente, pena não ter saído na altura, acho que tinha ficado para recordar!

I'll admit this game doesn't really look like my cup of tea, but something I did think looked pretty cool was when you landed on an enemy and rather than either killing it or getting killed by it, it was like a floating platform. I dunno, that was neat.

The coolest part of the story is they rescued this game off a dead hard drive!

Oh snap! A brand new old game - I'm in! Adding to my Vita collection as soon as I can :]

I looked up this game on the Switch store and I'm a little surprised that it's 20 bucks. I feel like if most indies made a game like this they'd be tempted to price it at only $10 nowadays

Awesome game, highly recommend it.

This looks like fun... some stuff you mention reminds me of Jim Power (that game was stupid hard on the platforming segments)

Great feature. One of the best. I was so stoked for this game as I am a Turrican fanatic. Kinda disappointed as it was a bit too repetitive. Had this come out in the 90s, it still wouldn’t have made too much of an impact. Then again, your enthusiastic presentation makes me want to give it another go.

This game looks like so much fun. I have a repro cartridge but it doesn't play/load on my AT Games Genesis Flashback and at the moment all of the decent clones with an HDMI connection have shot up in price so I still haven't gotten a chance to dive into this yet.

5:42 Take this with a grain of salt, most of my experience with electronics comes from KZfaqr BigCliveDotCom and a 60-in-1 Electronic Project Lab kit I had when I was a kid. This is a DragonDrive printed circuit board (PCB) used to run newer Sega Genesis / Mega Drive games. Older boards had a long, thin MPR-family chip to store game data, while this uses a fatter EN29LV320CB-70TIP chip. And while it's the biggest chip on this PCB, it's still smaller in area than the older style chips. The DragonDrive PCB can support battery-backed saves (think RPG save slots, not emulation save states) but this particular PCB isn't set up for that. If it was, there would be a battery on that copper circle and those empty white squares in the center would have chips or other components on them (big one for save data, the rest for power regulation).

Looks like a really good looking game.

At the beginning of one the video you did, you never said "all your base are belong to us"???

great review / got stuck on lvl 2 on the platforms just like you (& like a lot of people i think) ultra core is an awesome game, totally underrated & it has some great music like stage 1B, i describe it as perfect mix of metal & techno

Awesome review. Dissapointed I missed out on a physical release for this one.

I like this more than mega turrican because it plays more than a metroidvania. Thx for review

LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!

thats some tight color design

The platforming sinks this game. It has a great flow between shooting and exploring, then you reach these trial and error sections where you fall to your death or get crushed. I don't know what the devs were thinking. I'd like to play more games like this, just without that frustration.

Please say "Frog Blast The Vent Core!" when possible :)

I think this game would have rocked in 1994. 👍 Oh, and when you where talking about the soundtrack, I would have loved if you had dedicated a minute or two to play a couple of tracks with cranked up volume for our listening pleasure! 😊

Technical question: how come your megadrive videos have such a low frame rate? I'm not knocking you - I just subbed and think your channel is excellent, I'm just curious is all. Also, have you covered, or if not, WILL you cover, rendering rangers or whatever it's called? It is the most incredible snes title I ever saw, and only just became aware of it a couple of weeks ago. Apparently never got a western release.

Your review is spot on. My only minor complaint is the color palette. That greyish, ugly amiga color palette, ugh. Minor blemish on an otherwise impeccable game.

Played the megadrive rom emulated on psp. Proper old school euro shooter.

As a couple people mentioned, Columbus Circle released the game on a cartridge also. It's a Japanese cartridge but plays fine in my US Genesis (through a Game Genie to fit in the cartridge slot). It's still available for a decent price on amazon.co.jp too. I really like the game, but I can't get past the platform jumping part that you showed from level 2. :(

This is a fast paced shoot'em up game, it is reminiscent of games i played in Apple II. 😁

MD game The Curse of Illmoore Bay review ?

This game does have that Psygnosis look. Looks fun though and If I can get a copy cheap, I may try for it. Good review. If you want something to say at the start, try a bunch of Tommy Wiseau lines. He is the ultimate life forme after all

Dawwwg! You shaved !

Man, I would love to buy this game, but phisical releases are a bit too expensive.

I have this game for the PSVita!! And the fiscal copy is expensive!!!

Dayum son!

Well, let me get on the train ride: could you do 'You undahestimate tha powah of tha dahk side'?

Wait you can use Contra style controls? I didn't like the default so I gave up on this game when I played it on the Mega Sg. Really need to try it again.

Nice

Anyone know the damn PS4 cheat codes for this game? Can’t find them anywhere

metroid slash sympani of the night i love it

Seems like a lot of fun, even it's unfortunately kinda dated in some aspects. I wish there were more titles like this and Turrican, there aren't many indie games trying the same thing

Great

Also good vid !

How can Liljegren be hard to pronounce, I mean, it's not French or Chinese and spoken just like it's written?? Also, it means "lily branch" in Swedish. Also 2, great review!

This is Good

Odd thing to say given the circumstances and the game does look solid enough overall but perhaps would have benefited from a little more time in the oven. Seems like a few minor tweaks here and there would have made it a real contender

0:40 "publisher Psygnosis pullet out at the last minute, de-emphasizing the Genesis as the runner-up in the *8-bit console* war" Did I expect anything less from Polyshit? Of course I didn't. Stop feeding that cancerous website by giving it free publicity.

game looks badass and not that theres anything wrong with this but u sound exactly like zeek on blark and son check it out its really funny and on utube just saying

18:11 - errmm...Sega-32X?🤭

Interesting destiny have going road from this to BF series and e.t.c

I hate when games have things like a tight time limit.

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I tried this for 10/20 minutes but couldn’t enjoy it. Maybe it’s that European game aesthetic which personally I don’t like or the gameplay isn’t the run n gun I’m used to. Also that physical edition looks a bit crap imo, from the cover with minimal effort put in, the barebones manual and the regular screws on the cart, not to mention the PCB. For the price they’re asking it should have been better.