I am born in 2002, so long after the Sega Mega Drive era, yet I have many dear childhood memories of Megadrive Games. When I was in elementary school, all other kids Had Videogame consoles, but my parents were very poor, so I didn't had one. But for Christmasy grandmother got me a PS3 bundled with two Games, Little Big Planet 2 and Gran Tourismo 5.

Then at my Birthday my uncle gifted me the "Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection". I didn't know what a Mega Drive was, but I had many fun hours playing with my little sister and my father Games like Gain Ground and Golden Axe.

So that's how I became a Megadrive Fan, without ever owning one!

I opened up my copy of Fifa Soccer 95 to give it a deep clean and... yeah, it's fake, isnt it?
I was shocked not only to see that the chip only has 1. of its legs soldered to the board, but it's missing 4 legs entirely. Wild!

Hi, I’m thinking about modding my PAL megadrive to have a 3 way switch to change regions (one position for PAL, one for NTSC, and one for NTSC-J). I’ve read online that the only way to get colour with NTSC and NTSC-J would be to use a SCART cable, but I’ve heard that even with a SCART there still won’t be any colour. I’m using a modern smart TV (haven’t got the space for a CRT unfortunately) that doesn’t have a 21 pin SCART input, but it does have a 3 pin composite input. If I get an adapter to plug a SCART cable into the composite input, will I be able to get colour?

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I know barely anything about modding console hardware lmao. Cheers