Originally Posted by
SuperShark
The metal plates were just to keep the Genny cart input open better, and as for slowdown on your game, I am guessint that you are using a Genesis model 1, as this system was actualy much slower at processing data than most Genesis 2 systems causing some lag and slowdown. I would just recomende getting a Sega CD, preferbly a model 2 (more modern inards, slightly faster processing power), to fix your problem. Nowing that there were many diffrent types of chips and stuff on diffrent boards in a Genny 2, I guess that it is possible for there to be some consoles that have very bad lag on some more advanced games, such as the 32X Chaotix title, but for the most part the Sega Genesis model 2s were very good at processing speeds and kept the 32X games running well enough. Even on a really good Genny 2 however, if you are VERY good at looking for extremly tiny bugs and very small slowdown, you can see a slight diffrence in the quality of a system with a Sega CD II attached compared to without one (NOTE: I have not compared a 32Xs performance on a Genny 2 to a Genny 2 with a CD 1)
Hope this helps some.