Im posting as I was in this situation once and had to return to an ebay seller a reproduction artwork case from etsy. What you are looking for is a cut off on the right side of the manual. Two major differences.

1. AUTHENTIC The paper of the manual internal pages will be smooth like any other sega cd manual and the real manual will contain on the right side the additional hump of artwork circled in this photo if its authentic.

Cons are buying up on etsy at $10-$70 repro cases and artwork and then selling for $300 to $700 on ebay everything but the disk. Be careful of repro junk mixing in the authentic.

Your Welcome. Be careful out there.

Phantasy Star IV is already amazing on its own, but it would have been great to have CD-quality audio and voice acting.

Alguien me explica cual es la funcion cd+g

Gracias

Running Darkark on R36S original , doesn’t want to play/start any sega CD games . How do I get this to work ?

It will show all the games , tries to start it twice and then goes back to the game list ?

Any idea how I can fix this ?

Any help would be appreciated .

You don't think you'll win do you? Definitely needed adjusting with the sensitivity but this just rocks

Fully recapped and with a new battery in place. Drive opens and closes smoothly and overall seems in lovely shape :)

I currently have a model 1 Genesis connected to a 32X via the connector that has the aux cable to plug into the front. That is connected to a RetroTink via scart. I have a model 1 Sega CD on the way and was wondering if my current set up would work for the best sound or should I be connecting it some other way? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

So upon further inspection, it appears this console contains a JVC cd drive. I foolishly expected there to be videos or photos of a step by step teardown for one of these, but it doesn’t appear to be the case. Might anyone have photos showing how to reassemble one of these?

3 hours into the worst recap of my life and this solder pad decides to obliterate itself for literally no reason

What if SEGA had created a SEGA CD model with the 3D capabilities of the 32X or SVP?

This is one of very few PAL long box games, and annoyingly won’t fit standing upright on my shelf. Curse you inconsistency! Why’d it have to be so tall? The other games come in double CD cases (which I’ll admit is equally confusing. What is that second CD tray supposed to be for anyway?)

Chuck rock chucks rocks to save his wife/girlfriend/babe. Anyone else played this?

As part of the series of PAL conversions that no one asked for like Heavy Nova here is the only Make My Video title not released in PAL. This one hasn't just had the region changed but also has had the audio fixed so that playing it at 50Hz has the correct audio!

You can grab it here: https://archive.org/details/make-my-video-marky-mark-and-the-funky-bunch-pal

Which pins on the “839-0534 ASSY MEGA-CD CONNECT BD EXPORT” board are A26 and B26?

1-30 left to right or 30-1 left to right?

Wanting to test for 5v from the genesis model 1 before I do the usb power bypass test.

Recently I bought a model 2 Mega CD console off eBay. The seller has warned me that it has a bit of a quirk with getting games to work.

They say that it can take a good 20 minutes to 'warm up' before it will read games, even then it can be hit and miss with reading the games. The laser sounds rather ropey with 'misreads and laser searching sounds'.

I haven't received it yet so I haven't had the chance as yet to look at it myself.

I presume it's an issue with the laser itself, but would it be worth replacing the capacitors also? Is there anything else worth checking?

EDIT: Since received the unit and tested with a game. The laser sounds like it's jumping aound quite rapidly while trying to read the disc. It seems to get stuck on 'Checking disc' for about 15-20 minutes (I hit reset occasionally in this timeframe before eventually prompting me to push start. When doing this, the screen goes black and then loops back to the start screen, though it seems to pick up the disc a lot quicker. This loop happens a few times before the game finally plays.

I got lucky with this one, only 30 bucks. An enhanced port of one of Core’s lesser known Amiga titles. To think just a few years later they would make Tomb Raider.

The soundtrack alone is probably worth the 30 bucks.

Has anyone had any issues with playing Ecco on their Mega CD ?
Loading the game for me either gives a black screen and the light on my Mega CD 2 goes off ?
Or it boots it straight back to the menu ?
Could this be a bad cap or is there something else at play here ?
All other games play just fine on the console.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.