Region Free Mega Drive game

Hey everyone


So I imported a MegaDrive and tried most of my US carts in it to see what would happen, of course the screen was black with white text telling me that the game I inserted was developed for NTSC Genesis region machines.......


But, I was showing some friends my MegaDrive and just as I was showing off the lockout, I grabbed the closest cart I could grab, and it happened to be Sonic & Knuckles, it worked! I locked on Sonic 3 and Sonic 2 and it overwrote the lockout! just general info for the board.

 

I've read about this before, pretty nifty trick! Shame if you put any other game on top of the Sonic & Knuckles cart it'll give you a round of Blue Spheres level, if it didn't do that, then it would be so useful for playing imports. :lol:

 

Perhaps a Game enhancer can do the same thing Do you have an action replay lying around?

 

If you put in Streets of Rage it'll be in Japanese :lol:

 

Game Ginie nor my XBand worked as a past through unfortunately, I should pick up Streets Of Rage now that you mentioned that.

 

Is that a Japanese console?

 

Action Replay might it seems like something Datal would've done

 

90% of Mega Drive games are region free. Only the later titles from the likes of Konami, Capcom and Sega have problems. The Mega Drive is very easy to mod though with a few easy solder points. Even a beginner could do it.

Yakumo

 

I learned the other day that, with a Game Genie and the proper code, you can get games to skip past any crap and just boot.
Eh? Eh?

 

Haha yep, the same thing happened with my friend's US fc3plus; PAL Sonic 3 doesn't work, slot it on S&K and voila :lol:.

 

Yeah, setting my PAL Mega Drive with a copy of Streets of Rage 2 to 60hz/JP and it becoming Bare Knuckle 2 really confuses people. :lol: