SEGA MEGA DRIVE (GENESIS)

[Irinikus]

My Mega Drive arrived today and I started off by dismantling it and giving it a really good clean!

I've ordered Sonic the Hedgehog for it, but it's still in the post, so testing will have to wait unfortunately!

Here's the cleaned machine. It's not perfect, but an extremely good example considering it's age!

It's a rather early serial number!

I've got the Mega Drive running through the Indy, and it works quite well, as it displays at the proper resolution.

The RF OUT jack does not work with the Indy or an AV to HDMI converter, so I found. So you have to use the AV OUT.

I don't have an AV cable for the Mega Drive, so I looked up the pinout for the AV output on the back of the system, which is the following:

So I made up this cable for it:

I made up a proper DIN to RCA cable for my Mega Drives:

This video is a hardware overview of the SEGA Mega Drive:

 

[Elf]

Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.

 

[Irinikus]

It's rather interesting how much the various revisions of the Mega Drive differed from each other! I have another Mega Drive that has the white plastic insert where the Power LED sits and it's board is considerably different to this one, and it also features allot if RF shielding, making it quite a bit heavier than this machine!