This SEGA megadrive is fake or legit?

[Guillegringo]

Hi,

I need some help to spot if this megadrive is fake :help:

http://img1.mlstatic.com/sega-megadrive-2-completa_MLA-O-3753609434_012013.jpg
http://img1.mlstatic.com/sega-megadrive-2-completa_MLA-O-3753609434_012013.jpg
http://img1.mlstatic.com/sega-megadrive-2-completa_MLA-O-3783532035_022013.jpg
http://img2.mlstatic.com/sega-megadrive-2-completa_MLA-O-3783538874_022013.jpg
http://img1.mlstatic.com/sega-megadrive-2-completa_MLA-O-3753612937_012013.jpg
http://img2.mlstatic.com/sega-megadrive-2-completa_MLA-O-3753630082_012013.jpg

Seems to be a clone but i am no expert :)

[Niku-Sama]

seems ok to me from the pics but i am not a big sega fan.

is the cheap feeling plastic shell throwing you off?
because thats normal, all the ones i have are made of crap ABS

[Spleeze]

That looks like a clone to me...

I've never seen a model 2 with that writing on it.
The model 2 genny has pushbutton power and reset, not switches like that.
The expansion port looks like no expansion port I've ever seen. I don't think this unit will work at all with a Sega CD.

[JakeM]

Could be a Chinese knock off. The expansion port is a big problem. Besides that it looks like someone was trying to make their own Mega Drive plastic body.

[turntablist1210]

definitely fake, its in a NTSC-J MD2 Shell but the colours are all wrong, and that edge connector doesnt look like it will connect to a mcd

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Please, open that thing up and take some photos! If that is a clone, then I want to see its motherboard! Genesis clones could be made using off the shelf components so looking at what they did would be extremely interesting, and we'd also be able to tell you more specific details about that thing.

[dendawg]

I'm thinking clone, because don't legit Megadrive 2's have orange buttons and no slider switch?

[theclaw]

This one has Genesis 2 all-black color. But the logo and power switch type used for Megadrive 2 in most of Asia (excluding Korea).
Not to mention FCC is a US organization. That sticker wouldn't be there normally.

I doubt Sega CD will ever work. Its connector has longer pins with like twice as many.

Also check the back. Legit megadrive uses a din to allow RGB video that 32X needs.

[Gameguy]

Based on the model number ending in 07, it should be a Thailand Mega Drive. Of course it appears to be a bootleg as the expansion connector is wrong and the colours are off. The FCC sticker is another problem. I'll post a link to a legit one below.

http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?24827-problems-with-plasma-tv&p=580778&viewfull=1#post580778

[ApolloBoy]

That's without a doubt a clone.

[Guillegringo]

That's without a doubt a clone.


Yes seems to be a clone, tks all for the feedback. :)


Sorry i dont has the hardware with me to take the motherboard pictures.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

when you do, please take some photos. Though most of us are sure its a clone, the motherboard pics will confirm it and also be geek porn for us techheads.

[Gameguy]

I've seen pics of various Mega Drive clones and while they look like Mega Drives they usually have different unique names, like Magic Drive for example. This system actually calls itself a Sega Mega Drive 2 so it's more of a bootleg system than a clone.

[MaxWar]

Somehow I recall reading another thread somewhere featuring that thing but that maybe only "deja-vu"

In any case, YES, MOTHERBOARD PICTURES!!! :D

[zakthedodo]

It's the same version of the Japanese Mega Drive 2 with a 1 button and 1 switch.
Those were colored with the power switch gray and the reset button blue.
Also the cart slot had red doors.

6901
Japan


6902
Europe

6903
Korea ( Super Aladdin Boy?):?

and of course the Model 2 Genesis.
Here's the link to pretty good Sega Retro site.
http://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega_Drive

[theclaw]

It's the same version of the Japanese Mega Drive 2 with a 1 button and 1 switch.
Those were colored with the power switch gray and the reset button blue.
Also the cart slot had red doors.

6901
Japan


6902
Europe

6903
Korea ( Super Aladdin Boy?):?

and of course the Model 2 Genesis.
Here's the link to pretty good Sega Retro site.
http://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega_Drive

Yeah but this one the power button, reset switch, and cart doors are black.
As in North America. Not Japan.

[Gameguy]

It's the same version of the Japanese Mega Drive 2 with a 1 button and 1 switch.
I posted the version it's supposed to be based on the model number, based on that number it's an asian version which is supposed to be PAL instead of NTSC, not Japanese.

[theclaw]

I posted the version it's supposed to be based on the model number, based on that number it's an asian version which is supposed to be PAL instead of NTSC, not Japanese.

Well the specific console in the topic you linked to was using Japanese at 60hz.
Only mode where Soleil doesn't work, and Bare Knuckle loads up as Bare Knuckle (rather than Streets of Rage).

[Gameguy]

Well the specific console in the topic you linked to was using Japanese at 60hz.
Only mode where Soleil doesn't work, and Bare Knuckle loads up as Bare Knuckle (rather than Streets of Rage).
I read through the entire thread, by the last page it seemed to be a PAL system that was somehow modded to 60hz by Sega with an extra wire soldered to the board. It's a bit unclear with the posts but it's supposed to be a PAL system. Why it was altered I'm not sure.

[theclaw]

I read through the entire thread, by the last page it seemed to be a PAL system that was somehow modded to 60hz by Sega with an extra wire soldered to the board. It's a bit unclear with the posts but it's supposed to be a PAL system. Why it was altered I'm not sure.

Hmm. Then what about its Japanese language mode? I thought no systems officially used Japanese with either 50hz or PAL color.

[Gameguy]

Hmm. Then what about its Japanese language mode? I thought no systems officially used Japanese with either 50hz or PAL color.
I honestly don't know. The poster was asked several times to post photos of the motherboard but never did, even after supposedly opening it up several times. Earlier in that thread he mentioned how he didn't want to open it at all or ever mod it as it was a new-in-box system, then by the end of the thread he ends up cutting the wire and region mods it. There's a pic of the finished mod with the switch being shown, but still no pics of the actual motherboard. Maybe he only had bootlegs which were altered slightly, which is why they always shown Bare Knuckle. He never posted pictures of the games either.

A lot of the stuff he says doesn't make complete sense. Why would it have been available from the Sega store at all? He says he's from Europe, why would the Sega store stock new asian Mega Drive consoles? If it was used, it's possible the guts were swapped at some point. I really don't know what he has, it's just that it's supposed to be a PAL console, the video he linked to in the first post shows an unboxing of the same type of system and it's PAL.

[zakthedodo]

Why would it have been available from the Sega store at all?


Did Sega service their own systems and maybe this is a refurb?

In any event, I'd like to see what this set up would go for on Ebay
6907

[zakthedodo]

Yeah but this one the power button, reset switch, and cart doors are black.
As in North America. Not Japan.


First thing that came to mind was it was one of last runs of production and one color was cheaper?
So we have a Model 2 that has a Japanese housing, a North American FCC sticker, that is PAL.:hmm:

FrankenDrive

[theclaw]

First thing that came to mind was it was one of last runs of production and one color was cheaper?
So we have a Model 2 that has a Japanese housing, a North American FCC sticker, that is PAL.:hmm:

FrankenDrive

Worse than that. As I was saying the power switch is none of those. X_x

[Ace]

Over 10 days late, but I might as well throw in my 2 cents here.

That's a definite fake. The connector on the Sega CD slot doesn't even match what you would find on a real MegaDrive motherboard. I'm guessing this is a clone that runs on a Russian clone GOAC. Show us the motherboard; if I can see what chip(s) this MegaDrive 2 clone uses, I could tell you if it's a good or bad clone.

[Parodius Duh!]

isnt it possible that the shell could have been frankensteined together from a US and Asian model? as far as the innards, need a pic...

[Ace]

Not possible. Just look at what's in the expansion slot for the Sega CD. No MegaDrive, no matter the region, should EVER have pins with that kind of layout on the PCB at that particular spot.

What I want to know is what kind of hardware is in this thing. Being as there doesn't seem to be any way to hook this up to a Sega CD, I'm sure it's using one out of several different varieties of GOAC, and if I were to guess what GOAC it is, I would say the SM801(-A1). A shot of the motherboard would be nice as if this GOAC is present, there may be great potential for this fake MegaDrive 2.