6 Button Mega Drive Games List

Around the same time that Street Fighter 2 was launched for the Mega Drive Sega came out with a 6-button controller, and later a 6-button version of the Arcade stick. There wasnt a large amount of games that used it, but the ones that did are able to use the extra buttons really benefit. Fighting games in particular were able to expand beyond the limited 3 button scheme to compete properly with the SNES.
The 6-button controller also added a "mode" button which was used to trick the console into thinking it was a regular 3-button controller (for compatibility). Some Mega-CD games and Most 32X use the extra buttons and the 32x's case the mode button is allocated to game functions. When I finally get a 32x/MCD I'll update the list!

- Ballz *
- Clay Fighter *
- Comix Zone
- Contra / Probotector (Limited 6 button functionality)
- Davis Cup tennis/ Davis cup world tour
- Dragon Ball Z
- Eternal Champions
- Fatal Fury 2
- Fever Pitch Soccer
- Lost Vikings
- Midways Arcade greatest Hits (robotron only)
- Mortal Kombat
- Mortal Kombat 2
- Mortal Kombat 3
- Mortal Kombat Ultimate
- Ranger X
- Shaq Fu
- Samurai Showdown
- Street Fighter 2
- Super Street Fighter 2
- Streets of Rage 3
- Technoclash - Zombies ate my neighbours

* unconfirmed

! Controller images are from vidgame.net. Many thanks to the DP forums and Perfect Conversion contributers for the assistance. If you know of a 6-button game, or can verify a game please email me: smi04(at)yahoo.com

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