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    The Megadrive Situation...?

    Hi,
    Could anyone please help me with the situation regarding Megadrives and imports, chips etc?

    I was recently given a PAL Megadrive by a mate, and I have a couple of games for it. I used to have one back in the day and had a nice solid collection of games (all PAL). I want to get into the import MD scene as there is a lot of gems out there, and obviously have the decent display over PAL.

    I am sure I read somewhere you can switch PAL Megadrives for 60hz and territory selection, although some later games don't work. Also that there is an RGB modification possible on the machine too.

    I was wondering how hard it is to perform the switch/s and RGB mod, or if it woud be easier to hunt down a Japanese machine? Then I'd still have the job of wanting RGB on the machine.. I'd prefer a Japanese machine to be honest as I only have import kit (bar the Xbox), but if a PAL machine which I have already would be much easier (than finding a Jpn deck) then that might be best


    Any help, URLS etc would be appreciated. Thanks.
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    #2
    theres a modified machine on ebay at the moment. I think it was 70 though...

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      #3
      RGB means just buying a RGB SCART lead for around ?10 or so.

      Modding them is a piece of cake, however it's been talked about 3,000,000,000,000 times before so just use the search facility on the bar above..

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        #4
        Cheers. Doesn't look like it will be difficult to mod at all. I just had a look at the points to solder, and it seems fairly straight forward - much easier points to solder than a PlayStation mod, thats for sure

        One question, though: On the revisions of the Mk1 Megadrive, do the JP1,JP2 etc points always mean the same thing, even if they are located and put in a slightly different setup?

        Good news on the RGB - I thought I would of needed to hardwire it..


        Thanks.

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          #5
          I've yet to purchase from http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/ YET - but the guy who runs the site has answered all my e-mails promtly and I'm certainly considering a modified MegaDrive II console myself.

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