I highly recommend those duo/trio power adapters for Sega consoles. It's basically one power brick for the Genesis/Mega Drive, 32x, and Sega CD. It's $60 bucks, but future proofs your Genesis setup in case you expand with a 32x and CD. And it's nice to save on power brick space. There was no room for those clunky power bricks in my setup.
I bought one years ago from
retrogamecave, I believe. Though, I feel my model was a little different. The brick was in the middle and not on the end. If I remember correctly, I think there was an option to which one you preferred. I chose to have a lead cord come out of the power brick to reduce outlet space. This really helped me.
They are currently out of stock though.
You have this one too, but I never bought from themIf you buy one of these, make sure you
buy the insulators for the systems you don't have at the moment. If you leave one of those plugs hanging, it can cause issue as there is live power going through them.
Nemoide wrote:BTW, this might be relevant: I found
a modder who restores old Sega power supplies.According to him, there's a good amount that can go wrong with an old power supply. It might not make your console explode or anything, but the quality may degrade over time.
If you really want peace of mind, a restoration is not a bad option! (It also looks simple enough to do yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron.)
$25.00 seems a little steep for a power brick mod. I would rather just donate my old power bricks to him so he could resell them all together for 25.00 or something. Since you could still buy an old power brick for about 15.00.
Shipping a power brick out isn't that cheap since they are heavy and can't be sent first class.