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The change doesn't happen instantly. You have to wait for the forum to update the usergroups. I have no clue how often it is set to do that. The minimum is every hour. Could be once a day or once a year. I don't know.
EDIT!: Never mind... I got bored and kept trying for a while longer and managed to get it in. Disregard this.
Hi there.
I'm not new to the Genesis thanks to emulation, but I am new to the actual hardware, so I have a question.
I just got a Genesis 2 from a friend of mine for free last week. (not too bad of a deal huh?) However, she only had an RF cable, which I hate, as I can't get behind my huge CRT TV I use for video games to hook it up without a lot of trouble... so I've been playing it via RF on a midget TV. It sucks to do that.
So anyway I was checking out a site that had some Genesis stuff (semi-dodgy place, but I've bought SNES stuff from them before and had no trouble) and they had a Genesis 2 AV/Composite cable. I bought that, a 6-button pad, and a copy of Virtua Racing.
The stuff arrived today, and while the controller and game work fantastically, the AV cable is perplexing me.
First I was confused because it only had 3 pins while my RF cable has 9, but then I did my research through this site and that should be no problem.
The real problem is that it doesn't seem to fit in the back of the Genesis! I put it in correctly as the arrow on top of it showed and it would not go in. I also tried some other angles and no luck.
The pins on it don't appear to be bent at all, however, I noticed that they are slightly rectangular whereas the pins on the RF cable are closer to a square. Is that why it doesn't fit, and if so, why the heck are the pins shaped like that? Can I make this cable fit or have I just lost $7?
Here's a handy photograph of the two side-by-side.
The RF cable is on the left and the composite cable is on the right.
the one on the left is model 2.And the other one looks like a model 1 cable to me.In other words it won't fit.
be sure you got the right cable for the right model.
I edited the post a while ago... as I said I managed to get it to fit. And it works great.
So no problems, just me not trying hard enough at first.
I just got a master system converter V2. When I try a game it comes up black & white and occasionally jumps to colour. I've cleaned the connector on the master system cart and the mega drive connector on the converter but it doesn’t help. Can anyone help me out?
It shouldn't be a problem with the converter if the actual game plugged into it plays. All the converter does is change the cartridge connector pins around. Its the Megadrive console that does all the work of the video output, so if your getting a black and white image its down to the console.
The console may be faulty if megadrive games play fine, but if they also have the same issue then look at the video output connector and cable that goes to the TV.
I tried it on my two other version two mega drives and it works on one. Thanks.
Any idea how i can fix the other two?
Hello guys,
I just bought a Sega Genesis (model 1) from eBay, and I am having problems. the system came with sonic spinball and turns on just fine and shows the licensing screen, but after that there is just a black screen. Any suggestions?
clean the cart and the cartslot of your machine
That didn't seem to do the trick. Could the cartridge be bad?
could be, but usualy they show red screen then.... I got black screens when I was building my flashcart and it had contact issues...
EDIT : Cleaning = opening up the cart and use of pencil eraser, cotton sticks and alcohol
I never have had red always black. My Altered Beast and Bomberman died that way. :(
TmEE, Any way to add the "high definition graphics and stereo sound" text to a MD1 without it, add the two ports from the model 1 and give it the clearer sound? Basically making it into an early model 1 because I am sentimentally attached to my md (model 1B) and don't want to swap for an older model.
There is probably some way to get the text on it, but I have no idea how you'd achive it... as for sound, I need a with-TMSS MD1 to do some comparsions with my non-TMSS MD1 to see why later MD1s have shittier sound.
they aren't dead. Some games are just stubborn like that. Unless you dropped them in a tub of water and let it corrode or something they should still work. I've had about 5 used Genesis games that gave me nothing or just the "Sega" boot screen. After cleaning them a couple more times, carefully putting them in the slot perfectly straight and pushing down firmly to ensure the pins are making contact, and waiting about 2 seconds to allow for any movement (i.e. by nature the pins have a tiny bit of spring and the cartridge moving back and forth could break the connection) and powering on I got them to work. I have yet to encounter a dead Genesis game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard