At first it was produced in Japan, and then, in order to reduce the cost, it was started to be manufactured in Taiwan. The extennsion port was only on early models, and the reset button is gray. Its features besides new logo are: volume control now affects only the sound from headphones. Therefore, there it is known as Sega Genesis. The name of the console had to be changed, because the Sega company could not get the rights to the territory of America. In the USA Mega Drive did not come out, in the United States was not Mega Drive. Shape was like in Japanese, design was like in Europe. They are visually very similar, but the inscriptions again have some differences: Reset button was cyan and cartridges for it were produced separately and looked different than in other countries. Asian Mega Drive can be easily confused with Japanese. Neither the Japanese nor the European cartridges on it work, but adapters were selling there that allowed to do this. In Brazil was released Mega Drive for the local PAL-M format. There are 2 versions of PAL console - with and without an extension port. Games from Japan won't fit into it, but if you remove the console cover, many games will work, especially early ones.įor the rest was selling an informal adapter. The PAL version for Europe, Australia, New Zealand came out in a slightly different shell in 1990 with a white Reset, inscription redesign and a completely different cartridge slot. Mega Net modem was connected to it to use the Sega Network System service. And by the way, the extension port was used only in Japan. If you wish, you can suffer and still bring the stereo to TV. And this avi output gives out sound in mono, and the headphone jack - in stereo.

Back to the power supply jack, avi output and extension port, very similar to the plug of the joystick.

A blue Reset button, a headphone jack on the front panel, a volume control, and Power combined with a cardridge block that physically prevented the launch of games in other regions. So let's take a closer look at the Sega Mega Drive.ĭuring the development the console was called Mark Fire, but before the release, it was decided to name it Mega Drive. But now we have no place in the budget for this purchase, as there is no one for Sega Saturn and DreamCast, GameGear, Nomad. At first there was a little-popular SG-1000, then a more common Sega Master System, and only then a Mega Drive. No matter how many millions of years there would be a 16-bit console Sega, there are people who wants to play it.

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