Playing Japanese games on U.S. game systems.

I'm finding myself becoming more interested in Japanese games, yet every system I own doesn't play them without some sort of modification, I need to know what's required to play Japanese games on the following U.S. systems,

Sega Genesis

Sega CD

Sega Dreamcast

Super Nintendo

What kind of mods, mod chips, adapters am I looking at for each?

Thanks.

you an use one of the boot disks to play imports on DC and super nintendo, well i use to do this back in the day, but then it wont necessarily leave your cart mint. But basically on teh back of a super famicom cart all you do is make the two circles into notches liek a US cart, simple drill is what i used to just make nice slots. but these days everyone wants mint and collectibles so maybe not a good choice.

Sega Dreamcast: get a gameshark if you are interested in 3d imports like Giant Gram 2000 or Frame Gride...but a utopia boot disc would be fine if you are just trying to boot up 2d fighters or something. Th reason for getting the gameshark is that it supports VGA while the utopia boot disc does not.

Super Nintendo: a bbq lighter and a steak knife is how I modded mine, but it could be messy if you burn the lid. I heated the knife and cut out the plastic pieces in the snes. I am sure there is a cleaner way....maybe some small metal snips or something. The only difference on the super nintendo is the slots in the back of the US carts. If you look into your US super nintendo through the game slot you can see the two little plastic things that stick out on the back side that slide into the slots on the game cartridge. The problem I ran into was that I couldn't get all the plastic out and now I have to wedge a piect of card paper in front of the game to get the game to not lean forwards. But, if you can get all of those two pieces out, everything should be fine. It sounds stupid, but it works and I can play those crappy snes import ports all day long,lol.

Or you could try and make the slots on the cart and leave your system alone like the guy above me said. Either way, there is no modding needed for either of those systems if you don't mind swapping discs with the DC or making your snes games or system imperfect. My snes was old and not mint looking anyway, so I didn't mind.

Sorry, I don't have my genesis or sega CD anymore so I haven't gone that route yet w/ imports.

anyway, good luck!

<small>[ July 29, 2003, 08:09 PM: Message edited by: NGT ]</small>

I haven't tried it personally, but I've heard that a game genie will let you play genesis imports, if you have a genesis 3, you don't need it though.

snes, you can get a converter, or take a knife to the back of the cart.

dreamcast you can download a utopia bootdisk and it should work just fine.

sega cd you need some sort of weird cart that you put in your genesis. haven't tried or even seen one. but thats what i heard

<a href="http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=0&products_id=2937&" target="_blank">here's the snes adapter to play imports, and it is only 15 bucks and it's in stock at lik-sang.com</a>

although it does say this:

"Not compatible with FX chip games"

but I have no idea what games these are....

<a href="http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=0&products_id=3033&" target="_blank">Here's the genesis one by huney-bee</a>

But there are games with a lockout that you can't play on this...and the list of what works and what doesn't for the genesis one is below..VVVV


<a href="http://image.lik-sang.com/content/genesis_lockout.txt" target="_blank">Here's a lock out list for the genesis games</a>


I have never used either of these and don't know how good they are, but there they are anyway wink

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Sega Saturn too.

A good friend just gave me a nice one out of the blue, how do I mod that to play imports?

Sega Saturn: get the 4/5 in one action replay off ebay for 20 bucks or so. search "saturn action replay" and 5 pop up. Of course you can try places like NCSX as well. It works for memory, ram, gameshark and imports and getting things of your pc. I only used it for the imports though.

It works for all of my saturn imports like asuka 120%, marvel vs street fighter and final fight revenge.

It just plugs in the top of the saturn and works great!

Edit:<a href="http://www.videogamedepot.com/shop/product.asp?pf_id=01D008433011&" target="_blank"> also, if you don't want the cart and would rather get your saturn modded, videogamedepot will put in a region mod toggle switch for 35 bucks, but you also have to pay shipping</a>

<small>[ July 29, 2003, 09:26 PM: Message edited by: NGT ]</small>

"Not compatible with FX chip games"

but I have no idea what games these are....

Click to expand...

games like Star Fox

add Vortex and Stunt Race FX. to that...

For Sega Genesis, you could get a converter for it.

For Sega Saturn, you can get an Action Replay Plus which allows to play the games that need 1M memory card in it

For Super Nintendo, you can use a knife and take the two plastic tabs in the cartridge slot

For Sega Dreamcast, you can buy a DC-X or another CD, which will allow to play imports.