How's Your Sega MegaDrive/Genesis Gaming Going On?

[Tanooki]

Well I've upped my electronics recovery card tonight big time.

Game broken $15 (otherwise looked perfect)
$5 first game I screwed up trying to desolder (chakan)
$5 second game I was able to clear in minutes

Popped the chip from board A that's busted to board B I just harvested -- worked first try, did it in like 30min or so.

I now have a working Grind Stormer. $50+ game, $70+ on ebay if you buy a fixed one like I did. Damn amazing game and equally insanely hard as I can not drop that 2nd boss (yet.) I really like it, makes me wish Truxton and Wings of Wor had shown up already but that dude sat for days without shipping (which he'll get 1 star for on ebay.)

The victim was most useless for this repair -- Menacer cartridge. I also have some useless accolade combat cars game for later and a CIB Pit Fighter I picked up cib for 7 which I'll likely just keep. I have other sources for more boards, now I think I'll actively look for Gauntlet IV and Dragon's Fury/Revenge pinball tables.

[nightrnr]

Nice work Tanooki!
Do you think that the Menacer cart would work for Dragon's Revenge?
My copy has been mostly dead for quite a while. Was going to try to get Pit-Fighter to fix, but if Menacer would work, I may make the offering (don't plan on ever getting the gun for it).
My Gauntlet IV is still going strong though (last I checked).

[mas]

Well I now own a model 2 Genesis. I traded in my tomba 2 which I played but did not like, and got
WWF royal rumble,
Sonic
Sonic 2
Street fighter
Damn I knew snes games were expensive but Genesis games always were cheap and now they have gone up too.
About a year ago games at my store were mostly 2.99 except for the rare or gems for the Genesis they were like ten or maybe 20.00. Now everything is going crazy in prices.

Thank god I'm not collecting anymore and just sticking with everdrives.
I did get a model va1 which sucks but the cool thing is that the Genesis I got was manufactured in may of 93 and that was the same time I bought my Genesis at a toys r us with royal rumble.
Anyways off to get the everdrive

[mas]

What the hell I'm going to ask anyways, does anyone have a couple of extra Genesis carts to hold me over to i get my everdrive? I'm not asking for expensive stuff just common games that isn't going to freaking kill me. I do want to buy
Genesis 6 pak
Streets of rage 2
Anything will do for now. Just thought I would ask. Thanks

[Gunstar Green]

There's been a run on Genesis games that's been building in the last year or so. The cheap titles have either stayed cheap or gone up a few bucks but the middle-of-the-road and expensive ones have skyrocketed.

Also there's now a much bigger gulf in cost between loose and complete that used to not exist.

As I see it, people who started with something like the Nintendo systems are branching out and looking for new consoles to collect for the Genesis is the next logical step for most.

[mas]

Gunstar that's what I think also.

[marurun]

Exile is one of my favorite games ever. The religious backdrop is just insane. I still need to get that TurboGrafx CD port.

Best version of the game, IMO. Just wish WD hadn't botched the sequel by making it too hard.

[Tanooki]

Nice work Tanooki!
Do you think that the Menacer cart would work for Dragon's Revenge?
My copy has been mostly dead for quite a while. Was going to try to get Pit-Fighter to fix, but if Menacer would work, I may make the offering (don't plan on ever getting the gun for it).
My Gauntlet IV is still going strong though (last I checked).

Thanks, and yes it would. There's a long list of games with compatible boards that's mostly not flawed over at NA you can get through googling tengen pcb repair without much harm hunting for it. Unfortunately the person didn't remove the other sized garbage like EA releases which have different sized boards and screw holes so they won't fit.

Pit Fighter works, Menacer has the same board, as does Chakan. Sega prints a code on the bottom right face of the PCB above the pins which many carts use and any of them would be usable.





You can see my repair job here and also the model number on the board I was speaking of.

[Tanooki]

There's been a run on Genesis games that's been building in the last year or so. The cheap titles have either stayed cheap or gone up a few bucks but the middle-of-the-road and expensive ones have skyrocketed.

Also there's now a much bigger gulf in cost between loose and complete that used to not exist.

As I see it, people who started with something like the Nintendo systems are branching out and looking for new consoles to collect for the Genesis is the next logical step for most.

I guess I'd fall into that, but I had one over a decade ago but never experienced it much. I never minded prices much but I'll believe you if there is now a wide gap that didn't exist between a pretty cart and a pretty CIB game as it seems like it's like twice the price on stuff I've peeked at. I don't recall prices super well going back to then, but I really don't see that prices have gone up a heap on a good many, some sure have crossed into the $20-30 area which I guess could be offensive to someone who saw them at $10 2 years ago. I take it stuff like Sol-Deace which is now a $20 game used to be like what $10? Perhaps Turtles and Castlevania used to be like $20-30 instead of $40+? I know my CIB GnG a decade ago was around $20, now it's $20 just for a nice cart and a new Virtua Racing was $10 both from sega-parts.com. Perhaps it's more hit and miss. I've yet to see a legit US game with worse pricing than MUSHA at $150/300 (cart/complete) which is nothing compared to Nintendo. One thing is for certain you want to fee pain, get into Sega CD as that went ugly.

I guess I just lack the angry impact having come off the rape and pillaging of the NES and SNES market. I got into it entirely to experience something new, to avoid the stupid prices, and so I could still have an affordable 16bit system with quality on it.

[mas]

See I've been into the Genesis for years. If you've read my old threads that was a system that always comes back to me.
When back in the day you guys always mentioned to me to get an everdrive, games were still very cheap and like I said previously they were affordable.
I still found them cheap at flea markets and my store still sold a ton of Genesis games for a few buck so to me spending 120+ for the everdrive was too much money especially when I was getting games still very cheap and back then I loved owning the cart and thought people would be impressed with my games collection.

Now games have doubled or tripled in price. And since I own a home I would rather just save and get an everdrive and since I don't collect like I use to but just play games I am glad that I am done with that part of gaming and just thanks to all of you just sticking to everdrives.