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Original title: It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive

msephton 3mo ago
Really odd decision for it to be changed away from this original title. And if I'm being pedantic (and I am) it's Sega Mega Drive. Repo, which says Sega MegaDrive, is at: https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd
- dormento 3mo ago
  (Disclaimer: I'm partial to "Mega Drive" myself.) Wikipedia has this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis.gif blue = Mega Drive, red = Genesis Linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Archive_135#Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis_proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vid... (didn't find the sales numbers, for those wondering. Sorry!)
  - croes 3mo ago
    I guess parent is pedantic about Megadrive instead of Mega Drive
  - msephton 3mo ago
    Love that chart! It could also apply almost exactly to the "Buster Bros." artocle (everybody else other than North America knows it as "Pang"). This sort of rewriting of history is rife on Wikipedia.
    - cwnyth 3mo ago
      We Japanese importers also knew it as Pang.
      - msephton 3mo ago
        Unless you imported the PC Engine version, which was Pomping World :) but, yeah, it's called Pang. Except on Wikipedia or Moby Games.
nommuenjoyer 3mo ago
And it really is on a MegaDrive as I only tested this stuff on a Japanese MegaDrive.
- mghackerlady 3mo ago
  > nommuenjoyer Apt name
dang 3mo ago
It's a cool project! but best to use the original title and original source - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I've changed the title and URL to match https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd and put the other URL in the toptext so people can look at it too.
- HardwareLust 3mo ago
  Thanks Dan! Will do. I would have fixed it, but by the time I noticed the complaints, it was already too late.

Really odd decision for it to be changed away from this original title. And if I'm being pedantic (and I am) it's Sega Mega Drive. Repo, which says Sega MegaDrive, is at: https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd

dormento 3mo ago
(Disclaimer: I'm partial to "Mega Drive" myself.) Wikipedia has this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis.gif blue = Mega Drive, red = Genesis Linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Archive_135#Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis_proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vid... (didn't find the sales numbers, for those wondering. Sorry!)
- croes 3mo ago
  I guess parent is pedantic about Megadrive instead of Mega Drive
- msephton 3mo ago
  Love that chart! It could also apply almost exactly to the "Buster Bros." artocle (everybody else other than North America knows it as "Pang"). This sort of rewriting of history is rife on Wikipedia.
  - cwnyth 3mo ago
    We Japanese importers also knew it as Pang.
    - msephton 3mo ago
      Unless you imported the PC Engine version, which was Pomping World :) but, yeah, it's called Pang. Except on Wikipedia or Moby Games.

nommuenjoyer 3mo ago

And it really is on a MegaDrive as I only tested this stuff on a Japanese MegaDrive.

mghackerlady 3mo ago
> nommuenjoyer Apt name

dang 3mo ago

It's a cool project! but best to use the original title and original source - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I've changed the title and URL to match https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd and put the other URL in the toptext so people can look at it too.

HardwareLust 3mo ago
Thanks Dan! Will do. I would have fixed it, but by the time I noticed the complaints, it was already too late.