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| sin2beta:
--- Quote from: scott on March 12, 2013, 04:35:17 pm ---Your best bet for playing imported Saturn games on a North American console is to pick up a Action Replay 4M Plus. Using a few button presses on load up it'll bypass the region encoding and the 4M lets you play games that need a RAM cart. Other than that, the only other system I have the most imports on is my DS, and that's region free, so there's no tricking the system needed. :) --- End quote --- To a degree. I would guess that Insektmute might be interested in some multidisc games based on what I've seen of his interests. If that is the case, action replay can run into problems swapping from disc 1 to disc 2. It only works on games that make a save for disc 2 at the end of disc 1. Not everyone does this. Buy a modchip from segastyle or racketboy. Sega16 has a nice guide for the genesis. A game genie works well. But the only sure way to go is a japanese mega drive (or region switch mod) http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?10948-GUIDE-Import-gaming-on-your-Mega-Drive-Genesis The Dreamcast has several options. There is the CDX (EDIT: Should say DC-X), GameShark, Utopia Boot disk, or just burn to a CDR (Dreamcast does not look at region on burned games). |
| insektmute:
Good info so far, folks... and sin2beta is correct on multi-disc games. For the most part, it won't be a big issue, but I figured I'd wind up needing to go the modchip route in some instances as a result. I've considered just burning copies of any DC imports, but I'll look into the other options first. The Utopia bootdisk option seems pretty simple, esp. since it doesn't require blocking any sensors like my PS2 does. |
| scott:
Ya eventually, I'm gonna go with a modchip so I can played the translated Shining Force III games. but that is not going to be anytime soon it seems. |
| kimimi:
If you do go burning your imported DC games just remember that GD-ROMs weren't a marketing gimmick! They really do hold more data than a CD and you may run into games that are too big to burn. I used to own about 200 DC games, the only import that didn't work with a DC-X was Fighting Vipers 2. As such, I highly recommend getting a DC-X to play import DC games :) I'm not actually much use with this sort of topic as my personal solution is to buy import hardware - that way I know I'll never have any issues. It's not practical unless you import a lot though. |
| insektmute:
It's possible I'm not caffeinated enough, but I could swear I'd never heard of DC-X until now. Definitely gonna have to check it out. I do wish I had the space for a bunch of import hardware, though. Nice as it is to even have import options at all, mucking around with swap discs and attachments gets annoying sometimes :) |
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