Ehh this single screen shooter has been around for a while now on NeoGeo and I think the Genesis? I mean its cool but its not that cool bieng a single screen shooter.
Runs like a SNES game alright: lower res and less sprites.
Still a pretty good job, of course. But what's the point if you don't try to exploit the strengths of the SNES ? This will only lead to an inferior game to the MD original.
No, the Genesis game is a standard game like all others on the console. You don't have additional chips on Genesis, with the exception of Virtua Racing and the modern games Pier Solar and Paprium. Everything was 100% the stock console.
They shared that it would help them fight against piracy, which is certainly true.