Sonic CD trouble

[Nirvana2K7]

Hey Guys

Last week I bought a Model 2 Mega CD/Sega CD from eBay (It came with a model 2 mega drive as well, but the power connection is loose and keeps reseting, so I've got a model 1 mega drive attached to it) and it came with several games, 3 of which work fine (Road Avenger, Sol-Feace & Cobra Command) plus 2 which don't play at all (Silpheed & Microcosm, though both of these discs are in terrible condition, scratched like hell, so wasn't surprised at that).

Anyway, I also bought Sonic CD a few days later and when it arrived I was pretty happy to see that the disc looks to be in excellent condition, minus a few "light" marks/scuffs, but disappointingly the disc has trouble playing.

It usually gets to the Sonic CD title screen OK, but some times the background audio doesn't play and when I chose Start the game just goes black and the disc stops loading. Then sometimes I get the background audio and the game starts fine, but somewhere during the level, or when the game tries to load the next stage I get the same problem.

So I'm just wondering if it's the disc or the console that's giving me trouble. I'd prefer it to be the disc, and I'm guessing it is, due to the fact that I have other games that work perfectly, but I've heard the Sega CD can be somewhat picky with certain discs.

If the disc was in poor condition, then I'd put it down to that, but in all fairness the disc looks pretty damn good, especially for a 15 year old one.

Basically just after any thoughts on what it could be.

Cheers.

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

Thats a sucky problem, but I've never heard anything about the Sega CD being picky about particular disks.

Two obvious things to discuss first: could the Sonic CD be bootleg? and, is there any dirt residue that can be cleaned off the bottom of the disk. One spot of residue cause more trouble than a large scratch.

You may want to have your local video game store run the disc through a resurfacer as well.

Since the Model 2 that came with the CD had some issues, maybe from lack of care, the Sega CD may also have some lack of care issues as well, so it may be a hardware issue.

[Nirvana2K7]

Thanks for the reply.

I don't think the consoles suffer from a lack of care, as I used to have a different Model 2 Mega Drive and after a few years the power connection become the same as the one I got from eBay, so I think it's just a general issue with some Model 2's.

They also came in the original boxes with the manuals etc. so I believe they were taken good care of.

I've tried several copied games, that I've got from rom sites and so far they've all played fine on the Mega CD, so I'm guessing there's something wrong with the Sonic disc, even though I can't see and bad scratches etc. on it, it is most definitely a real copy though and not a bootleg, so it's very strange.

EDIT: Actually, I just tried a downloaded copy of Sonic CD and that has the same issues as the real copy, so I'm guessing it's a problem with the console after all.

[Flippy8490]

Sorry to hear about the troubles!! I've personally never had a problem playing disc's on my SCD (unless they were obviously damaged badly). If cleaning and such dosent work, I would make a copy of it on your computer (just copy the disc), since the SCD dosent have copy protection this could work fine. If that dosent work, at it is the "bootleg" copy, you could download the Sonic CD rom and the audio files and burn it as an SCD disc. There are lots of guides of how to do this online. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=130255 I hope that helps! Best of luck.

[Nirvana2K7]

Sorry to hear about the troubles!! I've personally never had a problem playing disc's on my SCD (unless they were obviously damaged badly). If cleaning and such dosent work, I would make a copy of it on your computer (just copy the disc), since the SCD dosent have copy protection this could work fine. If that dosent work, at it is the "bootleg" copy, you could download the Sonic CD rom and the audio files and burn it as an SCD disc. There are lots of guides of how to do this online. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=130255 I hope that helps! Best of luck.

Thanks mate, but I've already tried that and the copies didn't work either, so it seems I'm going to have to buy another Mega CD :(, strange that it's only doing it with Sonic CD though.

[Flippy8490]

no problem, sorry to hear :(

[MrSparkle]

download the sega emulator kega fusion and then download the required bios roms pretty easy to find try playing the legit copy on your computer and seeing how it handles it. I have a few sega cd games that look mint condition and just dont work myself.

[aclbandit]

Just be careful. I ran into a weird problem in which it was the GENESIS/MEGA DRIVE that caused my CD addon to freeze when attempting to play a certain CD game. After replacing the Genesis, it ran fine on the SAME SegaCD.

You can read about my adventures here:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126516

[Nirvana2K7]

Thanks for the help guys, but sadly it does seem like my Sega CD is the problem.

I tried playing the original Sonic CD using Kega Fusion and it worked on there, I also tried switching the Mega Drive I was using, I've tried 2 model 1's and a model 2, but no luck.

Ah well, will have to try and find a decent priced one on eBay.