Playing imports on a Sega CD system?

Sultan of Saturn · Post by **Sultan of Saturn** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:35 pm

I have been contemplating buying a few import games for my Sega CD system, but then I stopped to consider if there is a territory lockout for different regions like there is for the Saturn and Dreamcast. Does anyone know if this is the case, or what can be done to play imports (were there even mod-chips back then?)?

THharborpunk55 · Post by **THharborpunk55** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:36 pm

There is probobly a boot disk you can buy for sega cd.

armada · Post by **armada** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:52 am

There is a territory lockout and there is no boot disk

BUT you can make an image and there is a programe that you can use to change the territory its called SCDConv v2.50

goto google and do a search for sega cd tools

BornStupid · Post by **BornStupid** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:40 am

they don't have modchips (as there wasn't any protection, so you can play backups no prob), however the closest thing is Arakon's bios or something like that allows you to play any region games.

The Kron · Post by **The Kron** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:50 pm

There is an import cartridge (actually 3 revisions) made by datel that make your mega cd run multiregion, they just plug into the Megadrive.

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:49 pm

armada wrote:There is a territory lockout and there is no boot disk

BUT you can make an image and there is a programe that you can use to change the territory its called SCDConv v2.50

goto google and do a search for sega cd tools

I already said this and its funny how someone felt it nessary to delete my post.

Sir Slash · Post by **Sir Slash** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:17 pm

sometimes cless i do sympathize with you =\

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:19 pm

Sir Slash wrote:sometimes cless i do sympathize with you =\

Yeah well maybe soon it will change maybe.

-Azathoth- · Post by **-Azathoth-** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 9:36 am

Cless wrote:
Sir Slash wrote:sometimes cless i do sympathize with you =\
Yeah well maybe soon it will change maybe.

Care to explain?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 4:59 pm

There's an Action Replay CDX, which works on certain machines. If you want more information, PM me.

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 7:09 pm

-Azathoth- wrote:
Cless wrote:
Sir Slash wrote:sometimes cless i do sympathize with you =\
Yeah well maybe soon it will change maybe.
Care to explain?

Not really because, its not gonna happen anytime soon. If you went to #dcemu you would know by now.

BornStupid · Post by **BornStupid** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 7:21 pm

so just change your friggin nick. Stop whining, the only reason to stay with this account is your post count, screw it, it's not all that special, as you have no respect what so ever. And since there are some mods who think they're very clever, just use a free proxy and there you go.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 8:24 pm

BornStupid wrote:so just change your friggin nick. Stop whining, the only reason to stay with this account is your post count, screw it, it's not all that special, as you have no respect what so ever. And since there are some mods who think they're very clever, just use a free proxy and there you go.

whatever doughboy

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:24 pm

uh........ what happened to the rest of this topic?

The Kron · Post by **The Kron** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:39 pm

I trimmed it since it was 2 way flame battle.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:43 pm

seems theres a lot of that around at the moment

MonkeyNut · Post by **MonkeyNut** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 8:24 pm

You can do a hardware mod to the system. Basically what it is is a hardware switch that allows you to switch:

a) between 50hz and 6hz modes, and,
b) Turn off the territory lock.

There are two ways of doing this... send your Genesis/Mega Drive system off to someone with the knowhow for a price, or, find a guide on the internet (which are available) and do it yourself.

If you plan to do it yourself, you will need at least some electronics experience (I have a guide to do this to the snes, but converting my MD to multiregion never interested me, but I did find some guides... bearing in mind this was a year ago).

That should also knock out the territory lock on your Sega CD/Mega CD.

Hope this helps

Regards - MonkeyNut