Quote Originally Posted by stardust4ever View Post
Satoshi, I saw your Genesis video. Pity I have to mod the system to get the Virtua Racing to work. I need to ask, I noticed you had SMS games on your Everdrive MD. Do they work? You did not test them in your video. Also does SMS require the cartirdge port jumper mod? I should be getting a Power Base Mini Converter but it's blocked up in my Retron5 preorder. Be cool if it worked. Even the official Genesis 3 couldn't do that.

And how the heck did you dismantle the system? The unit I got from DAScheap (which I later had to return) had the controller ports glued down so I couldn't remove the PCB.
But the mod is as basic as it can possibly get: solder one wire along two pins. Even the RetroDuo audio dampener is more complicated.

Yes, SMS games do work via the Mega EverDrive on the Super Retro Trio (and so do real SMS games via a pin adapter without any need to mess with anything, but you get slight graphical glitches on TCT-6801 based GOACs due to VDP glitches that interact with the overscan field. You'll get things like black bars and sprite anomalies that don't effect gameplay.

But even if there were no glitches at all, the Genesis hardware can only run most SMS games, can't run the YM2413, and also, I feel weird using a Genesis controller when playing SMS games. I'm much happier using a real SMS instead.

Keep in mind the Power base Mini isn't really anything special - all it is is a pin adapter. It doesn't actually contain any SMS hardware or anything. It's up to the Genesis to do that.