Sega CD Pal games on an NTSC unit

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wclem
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Sega CD Pal games on an NTSC unit

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Anyone out there who can help a little on playing pal backups on an NTSC Sega CD?
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I think there's a few options.

1) You can get a multi bios chip with a switch or two. This will let you switch between the USA, JAP, and EUR bios.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/sega/megacd.htm

2) I've read there's a few cartridge based solutions. From Wiki:
A multi-functional cartridge called "Megacart" was released in 2006. It works as a region converter, RAM cart and can flash cart games.
3) I think if you rip your games you can change the region code. You'd have to play burned copies of the games, but there's no copy protection on the system. Here's one...

http://www.retrodev.com/convscd.html

I don't know if there's better ones, I never got into Sega CD imports.
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