Question-Do you need the Sega CD to use the 32X?

[gtmtnbiker]

wait, so if you have a Gen/SCD/32X setup, do you need THREE g'damn AC adapters?

Indeed you do.

I wonder if it would be possible to take a single AC adapter and put two plugs on it in parallel? Hopefully all 3 components use the same voltage and the adapter is able to output sufficient current to handle all 3 devices.

[Dylan]

wait, so if you have a Gen/SCD/32X setup, do you need THREE g'damn AC adapters?

Indeed you do.

shit. I remember when SCD came out, it was pretty crazy just having those two big giant Sega bricks for the Gen and SCD. Wow.

Yeah, you can't even fit all three adapters on a standard power strip. The inefficient wiring was definitely an oversight, but then again the 32X itself was kind of an oversight.

I wonder if it would be possible to take a single AC adapter and put two plugs on it in parallel? Hopefully all 3 components use the same voltage and the adapter is able to output sufficient current to handle all 3 devices.

If such a thing existed, it would certainly be of great convenience (or maybe just comparably normal convenience.)

[Hobie-wan]

I wonder if it would be possible to take a single AC adapter and put two plugs on it in parallel? Hopefully all 3 components use the same voltage and the adapter is able to output sufficient current to handle all 3 devices.

If such a thing existed, it would certainly be of great convenience (or maybe just comparably normal convenience.)[/quote]

If you had a brick with a higher mA output, then yes you could. It would be just like having a higher wattage power supply in your PC to support more hard drives or a beefier video card. For instance, the Voice for Odyssey 2 came with a heftier power supply that you used instead of the pack in one that came with the system.

[Jrecee]

I never really understood how those 32XCD games worked. Did it come with a CD and a cartridge or something?

[Hobie-wan]

I never really understood how those 32XCD games worked. Did it come with a CD and a cartridge or something?

Just a CD I believe. I just randomly have one of the Slam City discs and I didn't even bother testing it.

[final fight cd]

I never really understood how those 32XCD games worked. Did it come with a CD and a cartridge or something?

Just a CD I believe. I just randomly have one of the Slam City discs and I didn't even bother testing it.

it def is just a disc. i too have no idea how that combo worked.

[Pulsar_t]

AFAIK only five 'hybrid' games were made, all of them FMV-based. Basically the routine for Fahrenheit was to boot the Sega CD disc first so that they guaranteed you didn't give away the inferior copy to an acquaintence, sort of a primitive copy-protection scheme. Other enhanced games (Slam City with Scottie Pippen, Corpse Killer, Night Trap and Supreme Warrior) came in their own 32X-marked packaging as single discs. The added processing power of 32X was used to display better-encoded video at thousands of colours (up to 32,768 on-screen), but maybe I'm mistaken and it's just 8-bit (256 colours) from a 15-bit palette. I'm not sure which codec they used. Probably Cinepak.