Education gate CDROM system

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  1. Yakumo

    Yakumo Pillar of the Community *****

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    We've seen black market Famicoms,mega Drives and even PC Engines but have you ever seen a black market Multimega ?
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    Importaku found this one. The Education gate CDROM seems to be a Multimega Ripp off. I love the licenced by Sega sticker on the bottom of the unit. Where are these from? Anyone know? I know it says made in Japan but I've never seen one. Are they really licensed?

    Yakumo
     
  2. LeGIt

    LeGIt I'm a cunt or so I'm told :P

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    I've heard of linguaphone.

    They are a respectible company for language teaching.

    I've never seen the multimega wannabe before, but I do know they provide CD's books and tapes for people willing to stump up the cash to learn a new language. They advertise on UK TV every now and again too!

    http://www.linguaphone.co.uk/
     
  3. Calpis

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    My jesus, that must be rare. It couldn't be a clone clone, must be a simple alteration. I'd like to see the software for that :)
     
  4. vanadium

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    I'd really like to see a screenshot of the bios screen at bootup, actually.
     
  5. Nintendomad

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    This is a licensed product as far as I know, they bought the technology of sega to use in an educational system of some sort, I am sure it plays other kinds of discs as well as the sega ones.I'm not 100% though, I read about this an awfully long time ago.But I am almost certain it is an officially licensed product from a very reputable company.
     
  6. Calpis

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    Its probably not modified in any way other than the BIOS splashscreen. I'll wager that the software is just standard MCD.
     
  7. Yakumo

    Yakumo Pillar of the Community *****

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    You can buy it on Yahoo Japan for a cool 100'000 yen !!! That's an awful lot of money. I could buy a decent used car for that much.

    Yakumo
     
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    Oh good God. :prayer:
     
  9. Nintendomad

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    I'm positive these could be had from language teachers at a much more reasonable price than that but if people do pay that it will stay at that ridiculous price.
     
  10. Fonzie

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    Ummm
    There is maybe something like a teach player.
    (text+music)
    As a remplacement of the crap CD+G player.

    NOTE: There is only one joypad input, odd!

    I want this piece of hardware!
     
  11. GaijinPunch

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    That is pretty cool. Wonder if it has region lockouts. Keep in mind though, the MultiMega is a pretty expensive unit. WAAAY more expensive than a CDX.
     
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  13. SuperGrafx

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    That looks 100% identical to a Sega CDX....I compared the pics to the unit that I own.
    I don't think these are rip-offs.
     
  14. Fonzie

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    As i said, this one only have 1 joypad input and probaly no cartridge port (possibly replaced by a inbuilt homemade bios cartridge)...
    I'm not sure it can run segacd games...

    Any additional infos?
     
  15. Calpis

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    How are you sure theres only 1 joypad port? From the birdseye pictures, thats pretty hard to make out...
     
  16. Fonzie

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    ooops, sorry, i made a mistake, i was thinking that the little bump was a joypad... In fact, its just the open button.
    Definitively sorry :-(
     
  17. Calpis

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    That button is the power button actually lol. The round button on the far left is the open button.
     
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    Too bad they are beat to shit.
     
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