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| New Mini Sega Power Base Converter - Play SMS Games on Your Genesis/Mega Drive |
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| dashv:
--- Quote from: kingrat101 on August 01, 2014, 05:08:58 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on August 01, 2014, 12:22:16 pm --- --- Quote from: kingrat101 on August 01, 2014, 12:21:09 pm ---I didn't know the original went up... I got mine boxed cheaper than that. It would be worth checking out though, the original seems to have problems with a couple games --- End quote --- Which ones, out of curiosity? I haven't run into any problems with mine, yet. I'll know which games not to get. --- End quote --- Mine has an issue mostly with rampage, and Golden axe warrior they'll start sometimes and then crap out... Could be my converter is a little screwy though too, everything else is fine though --- End quote --- The capacitors might be going bad. The original power base converters are notorious for the caps drying out. When I read that I decided to go with a brand new mini instead. |
| burningdoom:
^ I didn't know that. Mine works like a champ. That's how I play my SMS games, I don't own the actual console. |
| dashv:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on August 02, 2014, 11:19:42 am ---^ I didn't know that. Mine works like a champ. That's how I play my SMS games, I don't own the actual console. --- End quote --- The problem most people have is they put it in a box and leave it in a hot dry attic or garage for 15 years so the caps dry out. Then they drag it out and "wtf it doesn't work!?". Game Gears have the exact same problem. That's why most Game Gears today have faded washed out colors. If you see one like that on ebay or at a flea market it's a good way to haggle for a low price. Replacing caps is really easy (just tedious and time consuming). By easy I mean I can do it and I don't consider myself to be a soldering iron/electronics wizard or anything even close. |
| badATchaos:
--- Quote from: dashv on August 02, 2014, 05:29:17 pm ---Replacing caps is really easy (just tedious and time consuming). By easy I mean I can do it and I don't consider myself to be a soldering iron/electronics wizard or anything even close. --- End quote --- Does look easy enough. I've seen it done before. Never tried it myself. But how easy is it to identify, and locate the spare capacitors? I would imagine with the age of some of them it could be hard. |
| sin2beta:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on August 01, 2014, 12:22:16 pm --- --- Quote from: kingrat101 on August 01, 2014, 12:21:09 pm ---I didn't know the original went up... I got mine boxed cheaper than that. It would be worth checking out though, the original seems to have problems with a couple games --- End quote --- Which ones, out of curiosity? I haven't run into any problems with mine, yet. I'll know which games not to get. --- End quote --- The only one that won't work is F-16 Fighting Falcon. This is a result of it actually running in the legacy SG-1000 video mode. Due largely, to the game being an MSX game. The architecture allowed for a direct port to the SG-1000 minus some RAM and memory limitations. However, it could be run on the SMS's more powerful architecture using the video processor for the SG-1000. Made for a very quick and accurate port from the MSX. As a consequence, it is not able to run on the Mega Drive/Genesis. The system is unable to read SG-1000 code at all. |
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