Muti region Md

[Respectible Face of Engineering]

Does any one know anything about a muti region md? I saw one on ebay but was out bid (a time ago) It wasnt a modded one it had its box. It was the shape of the md 2 but had purple buttons (on the pad it had a purple start button). :huh

 

[Arakon]

sounds like the asian version. no MD is region free, tho. the region check is in the games, NOT the system.

 

[Respectible Face of Engineering]

I have never seen a megadrive again with purple buttons. From what i remember the box had english writing but not sure

 

[it290]

Probably the HK/Asian version as Arakon mentioned. That would explain the English writing as well. Someone asked this on GameFAQs a little while ago and that was the conclusion that was eventually drawn.

Nice handle, BTW.

 

[Respectible Face of Engineering]

Originally posted by it290@Feb 28, 2004 @ 03:56 PM



Nice handle, BTW.

:agree

From my days when i went out all night clubbing then went to work at 7 on sunday morning (BTW I am aircraft engineer lol)

 

[ExCyber]

no MD is region free, tho

An auto-switching one should be possible with a custom BIOS and a minor modification to the hardware, though.

 

[it290]

From my days when i went out all night clubbing then went to work at 7 on sunday morning (BTW I am aircraft engineer lol)

Haha, I know the lifestyle.

 

[Respectible Face of Engineering]

Originally posted by it290@Mar 1, 2004 @ 07:44 PM

From my days when i went out all night clubbing then went to work at 7 on sunday morning (BTW I am aircraft engineer lol)

Haha, I know the lifestyle.

Making aircraft after a night out isnt fun! :wanker :looney

 

[REDFLELD]

I had the purple jap Megadrive2 long time ago. Oddly enough some of my jap games that work on my Megadrive doesn't work with my friend's red megadrive2 but my jap megadrive worked with all his PAL games.

 

[Respectible Face of Engineering]

will be on the lookout for a purpplle md

 

[ExCyber]

As Arakon said, the check is in the game, not the system. The system will run anything that has a valid header/init code, which is the same for all regions. In particular, most older games aren't protected, and some of them even used the mechanism to allow Sega to produce a single worldwide ROM that displays different title screens on different systems (Revenge of Shinobi / Super Shinobi comes to mind, and IIRC Streets of Rage and E-SWAT do this too).