God, yeah, my PS2 sounds like it has jet engines in it. The cube is almost silent... it's odd that it has an internal speaker, though. Only console I can think of that beeps on startup.

"Besides, the Sonic bundle with the Genesis and Saturn Sonic games on it is worth a GC alone."

Only has the genesis ones, sans Sonic CD

Sonic 1-3, S&K, S&K 1-3, Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Spinball, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Flicky, and Ristar.