Bare Knuckle II Region Bypass

[havok666]

Hey everyone, Bare Knuckle II finally came in the mail today.. I popped it in with my slot converter and BAM, I get hit was a region lockout. I have about 10 Japanese MD games and they all work so I wasn't expecting that on an older game like Bare Knuckle II.

Anyways, I have a Game Genie so I'm just wondering if anyone has had this problem and has codes to bypass the region lock. I can only find Bare Knuckle III on google. If all else fails I'm probably going to hunt down another Genesis model 1 and do the Eng/Jap switch mod to it.

[Rusty Venture]

You're gonna have to switch mod. I have never found a GG code to get BK to run on US systems.

Switch mod is totally worth it though.

[Geo-16Bit]

Even if Bare Knuckle II would play in a US Genesis, if will most likely run as Streets of Rage 2. I believe that inserting BKII in a European Mega Drive plays as Streets Of Rage II with no region lock out, unlike the US Genesis.

So your best bet is definitely a switch mod or a JP Mega Drive.

[Rusty Venture]

I switched over to US when I had BK2 in and the screen shows up as "Street of Rage 2", but the game was seriously prone to freezing up.

Region mod, its the only way to be sure.

[The Jackal]

Rusty's right. Just go this link - it should take you no longer than two hours and it's extremely easy. Plus, you can play your games the way they were meant for that region...

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/

[havok666]

Yeah, the mod shouldn't be a problem for me. I'm a second year Electrical engineering student.. We've done tons of electronic workshopping in first year.

I just have short question about mmmonkey's tutorial. I realize that his is a PAL MD so I'm not sure if anything is different on the NA version. Are the connections shown on his site known to work for the North American models? Ex: cutting the trace in the middle of JP3 and making the three connections. I'm not really interested in the 50/60hz switch but I might do it anyways since its really simple.

[Rusty Venture]

Later revisions of the Model 1 don't have the JP1, JP2 setup like that.

But, yes, you should be able use that to do a US Genesis.