Sega Genesis Questions, (Page 5 for Update)

[Mad_Hatter]

Thanks guys.

I know a couple sellers who have va4s. Pm me if any of you are looking for one. I'll send you the seller infos.

[Mad_Hatter]

Couple of other questions, since I have not played Sega Genesis in such a long time.

1) Is it normal to have these thick blue horizontal lines on each side?

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It is very noticeable for sonic. It other games they are there, but they are dark so it is not as noticeable.

2) Are the pin connectors for the Sega CD suppose to be black? That red cover was missing, so I am just curious. Always thought they were gold looking. Unfortunately, I don't have a Sega CD to test.



And I never seen these kinds of stickers on a Genesis. The ones I saw were always more sliverish looking and had the FCC ID on one of the stickers.

[flojocabron]

Is that a widesceen TV?

If it is, then you are getting black bars on the sides. The blue areas would have covered by a normal TV. Its called over scan, and there's some threads here about it.

I use a plain old RF on mine and it always takes up the whole screen.

Your TV can probably stretch it, but it may look a little funky.

[Hobie-wan]

Yes some have paper labels and black pins.

[Mad_Hatter]

Thanks hobbie.

Is that a widesceen TV?

If it is, then you are getting black bars on the sides. The blue areas would have covered by a normal TV. Its called over scan, and there's some threads here about it.

I use a plain old RF on mine and it always takes up the whole screen.

Your TV can probably stretch it, but it may look a little funky.

It is widescreen. I knew about the black sides when playing unstretched, I meant to say the thick blue lines on the sides. I never remembered those. When I play on the emulators on a widescreen monitor unstretched, I never got those colored lines.

Thanks for the answer! I'm looking up some of the overscan threads right now.

[ApolloBoy]

1) Is it normal to have these thick blue horizontal lines on each side?

That's overscan, on a normal SDTV those would be covered up.

2) Are the pin connectors for the Sega CD suppose to be black? That red cover was missing, so I am just curious. Always thought they were gold looking. Unfortunately, I don't have a Sega CD to test.

That's normal, some Genesis/MD variants have carbon-coated contacts on the expansion port as opposed to copper-plated ones. Both my VA3 Genesis 2 and Japanese Mega Drive have those as well.

And I never seen these kinds of stickers on a Genesis. The ones I saw were always more sliverish looking and had the FCC ID on one of the stickers.

IIRC, the VA4 Genesis 2 was distributed and manufactured under Majesco (but not manufactured by them) so it would make sense that the bottom stickers are cheap.

[cowboyscowboys]

If anybody knows of someone selling a Model 2 VA4 can you PM me? I have 2 Model 2 VA3's, looking to finally get the VA4. For me Model 2's look a lot better then Model 1's (in design) but the model 1's picture quality aren't pixelated like my model 2's. Also I don't prefer s-video to a good composite because the dithering is way to noticeable on most Genesis games. To me a good composite connection looks better.