From: vol30w60@yahoo.com   
      
   Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > vol30w60   wrote:   
   >> Does anyone know if Japanese Mega CD games will work on a US Sega CD? Is   
   >> there any region protection on them -- or an easy way to get around it?   
   >   
   > Sega CD and Mega CD games use a long, complicated hash to indicate the   
   > region of the game. This code is not always in the same place on the disk   
   > and is dependent on a large piece of the BIOS ROM image in the CD drive   
   > peripheral unit. This is very different from most game consoles, which use   
   > only a jumper to indicate the region of the hardware and a single-bit flag   
   > to indicate the region of the software.   
   >   
   > There's no easy way to get around the region protection. Without venturing   
   > too far into piracy, the most reliable method is to get a real Mega CD   
   > unit to play JPN-region games. Short of that, you can open up a US model   
   > and swap out the BIOS chip for one from a different region. Note that in   
   > many cases, this means having to set the jumpers in your Genesis so that   
   > it acts like a Megadrive unit that would be recognized by the foreign CD   
   > drive. Hope that helps you out.   
   >   
   > -KKC, who mentions emulation and disk image manipulation only casually...   
      
   Thanks for that info. I was hoping to pick up a few Japanese games, but   
   it looks like it won't be worth it unless I can find a cheap Mega CD   
   somewhere.   
      
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