Virtua Racing on Genesis Doesn't Work

[Thierry Henry]

Not meaning to hijack the OP's thread, and apologies in advance if this should have been posted elsewhere, but since it's the same kind of topic, kindly permit me to post it here,

So I've got kinda the same problem with a Virtua Racing cart. Mine is the Japanese version VR.

At first I thought it just wasn't compatible with my US console systems (incl with or without game genie region codes, etc).
But it so happened that I had just bought a Japanese Mega Drive console, so I tried it on that as well.

The game starts to boot up and everything seems fine until the initial "press start button" screen. Then game just hangs and a white stripe appears on the screen whilst the music keeps on playing. It does this every time.


The connector pins and internal circuitry is pretty clean.









Problem with the SVP chip itself?
I've read that, over a period of time, this seems to be the main cause of failure regarding this game.

[BurningDoom]

Nothing seemed to work despite the suggestions here.

So I figured, what the hell I've got nothing to lose, and decided to just knock it against the T.V. stand a few times and then gave it a shot. And it worked! All it needed was a little tough love.

[MoNsTeRzKHAOS]

Nothing seemed to work despite the suggestions here.

So I figured, what the hell I've got nothing to lose, and decided to just knock it against the T.V. stand a few times and then gave it a shot. And it worked! All it needed was a little tough love.

I tried this with 2 of my genesis games, it didn't work sadly I think they're helpless.