Once you find the mods you are interested in trying out, you can either click on the mod’s page to read through the description and subscribe there, or you can hover over each mod and click the green plus sign button. This is why when creating a mod it’s very important to put the correct tag of your mod to make it easier for people to find the games they want on the Workshop. You can sort by game type and number of players. Subscribing to a mod on the Workshop is very easy. You can make your mods available to the public, for your friends only, or completely hidden where only you can see them. This is the place where you upload your games or download them for free. If you're interested in emulation, by the way, Frank Cifaldi's GDC 2016 talk encouraging publishers to embrace emulation is ace and free to watch.Īs for mod support, Sega say in the announcement that "every single Mega Drive game will now feature Steam Workshop support allowing you to share modified versions of your favourite retro Sega titles!" Will they let folks upload ROM hacks, or have they perhaps made some new mod tools? Dunno! "We'll have more details on the Steam Workshop functionality next week," Sega have said on Twitter.The Steam Workshop is an area where the community really gets involved, coming up with fantastic and creative ideas to share with everyone else. Which are features unofficial emulators have had for yonks, of course, but now they're in a virtual bedroom. Games in the hub will support optional graphic filters, including ways to make games look more like they would on a CRT screen, saving at any point, and full support for controllers and keyboard. The hub is a virtual bedroom, because reasons? But! This upgrade means Sega are adding features not found in their previous straightforward emulations. The Sega Mega Drive Classics Hub is coming to Steam on Thursday, April 28th, released for free to folks who own any of the fifty Mega Drive games on Steam. Oh, and this'll all be housed in a 3D recreation of the sort of '90s bedroom you'd see in a Sega magazine advert, because Sega always have to be a bit baffling? Either way, it's exciting because most publishers are wary of anyone tampering with their back catalogue. Sega are a bit vague on how extensive the mod support will be, so it's not clear whether this'll be full-on ROM hacks or something lighter. The old Mega Drive games (or Genesis, whatever) that Sega have been selling in their Classics Collections are receiving some form of mod support through the Steam Workshop later this month, which is wildly unexpected news.
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