davidwhangchoi
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very cool =) system looks new
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Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Appreciation Thread: Alien Storm > Golden Axe
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Unfortunately laziness will always exist.
just bought this for £50 (free postage) to celebrate getting a new job today after a successful interview (totally out of the blue, didn't even apply for it but was contacted by a recruitment firm who found my CV and it just so happened to be a company in my town I wanted to work with for years now).
Thought £50 was a good deal - asian MD1 with RGB cable, controller, PSU and game.
hooray
I'll be adding a 60hz/region switch to it of course - seems too easy not to. I'm just happy that now I've finally rebuilt my console collection. I had to sell up everything in 2014 after the breakup with my ex, loss of my house, but now things are better than ever
Jeez, congrats man. Onward and upward.
You know, I'd almost be happy if we could just have the classics collection but just have an option to inject our own emulation for it.
Not that I'd know what to use, I'm pretty behind on what the "best" or most accurate emus are these days.
Lionel Richie
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Holy shit the console and controller look new as fuck in the images and that early MD/Genesis model was a beast. Great get and congratulations on the job man!
Thanks man! Got it in the post today and it's sweeeeeet. Looks amazing on my broadcast monitor, aside from the big ass 50hz borders
I will region/60hz mod it later, but very glad with the £50 it cost on eBay.
edit - OH DEAR GOD SONIC IN 50HZ
edit edit:
region switch mod done. I wanted a small slide switch, but maplin don't seem to have any that are three way, so I went for a toggle switch. It's at the back, out of the way at least. It works, which is the important part:
If I may:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281668909169
imo better to feel, and much less risk of hooking something and breaking it by mistake. Carving square holes is a pita though.
So I'm going to be recapping my Model 1 Genesis next week (With the help of my dad, who used to solder for a living!), and I was thinking of doing an audio mod since I'll have it open/all the tools out.
http://retrorgb.com/genesisaudiomod.html
Has anyone done this mod? I think I'd definitely hear an improvement, as I think the headphones jack on the front of my Genesis is going; I get interference from time to time, very similar sound to when your headphone are not plugged all the way in.
http://retrorgb.com/genesisaudiomod.html
Has anyone done this mod? I think I'd definitely hear an improvement, as I think the headphones jack on the front of my Genesis is going; I get interference from time to time, very similar sound to when your headphone are not plugged all the way in.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Oh man, that's lovely. That's exactly what I want, a Japanese model that looks new. Congrats!
If I may:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281668909169
imo better to feel, and much less risk of hooking something and breaking it by mistake. Carving square holes is a pita though.
Yep, I may do that at some point. Easy enough to swap it to a larger one!
As much as I agree on its phenomenal conditions, that's not a Japanese MD, but - like Rich said - a PAL-Asian unit. Unlike their genuine NTSC-J counterparts, PAL-Asian Mega Drive consoles are not that difficult to be found in mint conditions (even brand new), and they usually go for much cheaper prices. Just make sure you can instantly 60hz/region-mod it, if you happen to find one, because they run at 50hz.
nope. I've tried mine with a JP, USA and a PAL cart (sonic 1 jp, robocop v terminator pal and sonic 2 USA). All fit in and work fine without any cart slot modification. The cart slot is different to the one on any other model.
sixteen-bit
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Shit gets real
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Really? I had the ~1993/1994-era "Sega Classics" Sonic 1 as a kid and it had the debug mode on it. (North American Genesis version)
Ah, well I had a PAL version. Maybe that's why.
Well...I don't know about easy ways, but the best way is apparently to install an RGB bypass amp.
https://www.videogameperfection.com/products/sega-megadrivegenesis-bypass/
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Did you find a way to NOT lose almost every life at those crystal things?
Yep, go orange or blue, I hardly die to those things funny enough.
So did I, always worked! Unless you were using the wrong code. I remember there were two:
Up, Down, Left, Right, A+Start
and
Up, A, Down, A, Left, A, Right, A, A+Start (I think)
I'm not sure on the A+Start for the last one, but that was the debug mode. All I remember doing was putting a bunch of rings in the one spot until there was a shitload of slowdown, then collecting them all at once.
theSlacker
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I don't know about easy, but to remove them from mine I cut/lifted a pin. System can no longer use composite video but I'm fine with that. The RGB bypass amp may be a safer more reversible method.
Hmm, is this about as easy as making the Nes region-free?
Wait a minute I don't need no stinking composite!! I had some jailbars quite evident on my console, so as soon as you posted this I gave it a go. Lifted pin 6 on the cxa chip and wired it to ground (used pin 1 of the CPU).
It worked perfectly. Jailbars are completely gone. Image is absolutely perfect now. Thanks!!
Tried to get an image but it's hard to show the improvement in photos:
Also, I was surprised by something I discovered just now - I lifted up the headphone circuit and underneath was the standard SEGA copyright date stamp. But the year was 1998. checked under the mainboard and sure enough, 1998. How is this possible, were they really producing Mega Drives in Asia regions that late?!
Ooh how weird. What mobo revision is it?
Not sure...it says IC BD M5 PAL and HC I 22 on it.
Edit: just checked SEGA retro. They indeed did produce Mk1 mega drives until 1998, and then in that year it was discontinued.
Could it be a clone? I'm curious about the DB9 (I think?) in the back as well. Unless that's been explained already.
Or it could be a Brazilian one... I know they were making the Genesis 3's pretty late in the game, maybe they made a few "retro" ones too?
Wow, that's so weird! Stumping all of NeoGAF, too.
Here's a shot of the motherboard for reference. And nah, it's definitely not a clone.
I didn't get a shot of the 1998 branding but next time I open it up I will. If anything, the age explains how the console is in such good condition. My N64 is older! And if this was lying around boxed up for years, it could have only ten years or less of use.
I didn't get a shot of the 1998 branding but next time I open it up I will. If anything, the age explains how the console is in such good condition. My N64 is older! And if this was lying around boxed up for years, it could have only ten years or less of use.
sixteen-bit
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Cave Story demo port to Mega Drive
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/re...ve-with-playable-demo.html?platform=hootsuite
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/re...ve-with-playable-demo.html?platform=hootsuite
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Looks great!! And the music sounds real good. Doesn't really sound like the Genesis.
davidwhangchoi
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interesting
How the hell does this work???
About the RGB jailbars, guys... Are they there by default?
I'm still sorting out my retro-setup after moving it around the house, so I didn't have the chance to fire up my consoles in ages, now, but I'd swear I've never noticed any artifact over the RGB picture of my Japanese Mega Drive 2 (connected to a Trinitron flatscreen CRT TV). Should I look better? If so, is there any particular game that clearly shows up the issue, so I can check it out?
I'm still sorting out my retro-setup after moving it around the house, so I didn't have the chance to fire up my consoles in ages, now, but I'd swear I've never noticed any artifact over the RGB picture of my Japanese Mega Drive 2 (connected to a Trinitron flatscreen CRT TV). Should I look better? If so, is there any particular game that clearly shows up the issue, so I can check it out?
theSlacker
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Depends on which pin you want to lift. I went to the one closer to the source and it is much smaller then the one that it is normally done to for this, as displayed in Rich!'s post (pin 6 on the cxa chip, the one under the metal thing at the top of his picture I belive). I also didn't do the extra work to ground it that he did though. I had some bookmarks around that explained the process and why it works a while ago but can't find them right now. Make sure you find some references before doing any work at all, and know that different mother board revisions may have rotated chip placements (iirc) so you have to make sure you know exactly what leg you are looking for.
Something else to keep in mind that another person in these threads recommended (Missile) when doing this. Put some sort of sticker or warning on your system that composite will no longer work so if someone else tries to play it with different cables they will not think it is broken and throw it away.
It matters. Motherboard revision, system age, and cable can all play into it. Earlier motherboard revisions have a higher chance of having the jail bar problem on blue. That is the only problem that what I've talked about fixes. Between the Genesis systems I have only one, the earliest and only non tmss model I own, have had the problem.
Great, thank you. I'll definitely investigate it with the Sonic games then.
It seems the problem is mainly with the first model, I have no problem with my Megadrive 2.
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Vectorman & Sam Adams Summer Ale.
How much of an improvement is the RCA audio jack mod?
I may give it a go, if only to get rid of that annoying cable routed through the front. It's a piss easy mod presumably, and I have some gold plated jacks in my supply box. Two wires soldered, two to ground and a soldering iron (with a used tip) through the plastic at the back so I can screw/lock the jacks into place.
I may give it a go, if only to get rid of that annoying cable routed through the front. It's a piss easy mod presumably, and I have some gold plated jacks in my supply box. Two wires soldered, two to ground and a soldering iron (with a used tip) through the plastic at the back so I can screw/lock the jacks into place.