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I had an "Asian" mega drive, mint in box. The main board on this particular one looked to have been a Japanese type as it had been retro-fitted with a seperate crystal circuit for the video circuit....

Yes, no more "hoping it works", it works.

I managed to find an old pic of it, buried deep in my imgur account lol!

http://i.imgur.com/wE9RW5x.jpg

I used a dead Game genie cart, de-soldered the pin connector. Cut the cart slot part of the 72 pin connector off. Soldered the game genie pin connector on, araldite'd the whole show nice and solid. ...

Probably one person raises the price and everyone follows suit.

A few years ago I sold a model 2 set up with 32X region free modded, had a few games. Some nut case bid it up to over $600!

I...

Same reason they region lock (or try to) DVD's, Blu-rays. Things like Netflix, restrict content depending where you are (For example Australia has WAY WAYYYYY less content on Netflix vs America).
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I had Action 52.....had.

For me

1/Castle Of Illusion
2/Ghouls n Ghosts (even with it's slow down flashy flashy screen happenings)
3/Land Of Illusion
4/R-Type
5/Power Strike

Agreed, I came across new empty cases on ebay and nabbed them up. I had only just started with the Dreamcast, but thought it a wise investment.

Stupidity is another thing I hate. Had a clown send a Dreamcast and games from the UK to Australia in a (not-so) tough bag. All the game cases were broken, luckily I had a pile of new cases to...

I have, once or twice had to pull the switch apart and clean the contacts. Worked sweet afterwards.

Sussed this out, it is how it works on some games (Sonic 2 and Ghouls and Ghosts). You need to power on/off.

Streets of Rage, Quackshot and a few others I have all act fine using the reset button.

Howsit?

Been a while since I have been here. Haven't modded any consoles for a few years as life been heaps busy.

Anyway I have modded my first switchless Megadrive after having the PIC (based...

Yes true, later versions of the SMS2 had Sonic.

I have one, they aren't as regular Alex Kidd though.

This is an Aussie SMS2.

From my vague memory, I think it has the Fujitsu MB3514 video...

No not a problem, the system tried to read the disc and you interrupted it by ejecting. All good.

Good you got a model 1!

You may have to pull the spindle up a bees dick. When you have the cover on the cd is sitting on the cover not on the spindle (for free worth a shot).

There are 4 rubber standoffs. These might...

Your TV might not work with 240p via component.

Nice work matey!

Sadly it has been a long time since I have "modded" or even played any retro stuff (My NES toaster has been sitting around for about 5-6 years now). Just life, moving into a new...

Nice!

For the "start" button, I used the old SMS pause in the controller mod (since I already have a few modded control pads for the modded SMS's).

Whoa watched that video on my phone (usually watch it at home) apparently it was 600MB!

Lesson learned lol!

Ebay seller does the same in Australia to Mega drives (bye bye din socket, hello s-video). Before I looked at the link I assumed it was his and as to the price, I was going to say the typical Aussie...

Would you consider a region free bios instead? Badad84 over at Assembler forums sells them. Not overly hard to install, just fiddly.

Bastards!

I received an email today.

"Someone tried to login into your account with an incorrect password 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for the next 15...

Why the fk someone would want to is beyond me.

Their ip address is

119.188.94.145

Looks like some fker from China, trying to steal my national secretz.

Just be careful with xp mode on windows 7. I tried to use autocad 2010 (xp only) on my new pc running windows 7 & was sssslllllooooowwww.