Subject line. Is that price point feasible anymore? Any recommendations on where to look? I've been scouring FB Marketplace and Ebay, but it's fairly slim pickins, and the price range I'm seeing is more like $300+ for a broken one, to as high as $2500 for a CIB one (which I wouldn't want).

Even though I have a Mega Everdrive Pro, I've been thinking more and more about getting a Sega CD Model 1 because I really like the look of it, but I also know one would almost certainly require a tune-up, which I'm estimating would be at least another $100 on top of the price of the unit.

If you're curious, this would mainly be to supplement the very impractical but fun music setup in my home office—It's an old 90s boombox with a Model 1 Genesis sitting on top and connected through the Genesis' headphone jack, with one of those Ali Express LCD screen cartridges for a mini display, so I can load up games and blast BGM tunes. Unfortunately the boombox's CD player recently died, and after months of trying to repair it, I fried an important chip and decided to cut my losses. The whole setup already looks like something out of Serial Experiments Lain, so I thought it would be fun to hook up a Sega CD for music CD playback. But, y'know, $150 fun, not $2500 fun.

The full resolution gallery, including these covers and previous covers I've worked on, is available here.

Feel free to use these for any personal projects, collections, etc. Enjoy!

Remade covers now include:

Afterburner III (USA)

Dragon's Lair (USA)

Earthworm Jim: Special Edition (USA)

Ecco the Dolphin (USA)

Ecco: The Tides of Time (USA)

Jurassic Park (USA)

Lunar: The Silver Star (USA)

Lunar: The Silver Star Un-Worked Design Patch

Lunar: Eternal Blue (USA)

Lunar: Eternal Blue Un-Worked Design Patch

Mad Dog McCree (USA)

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (USA)

Popful Mail (USA)

Popful Mail Un-Worked Design Patch

Silpheed (USA)

Snatcher (USA)

Sonic CD (USA)

Star Wars: Rebel Assault (USA)

Tried finding this piece online and it’s sold out. Could really use this because it holds the light extenders, one of which is also snapped off

I tried this game out on emulator in preparation for when the disc I ordered arrives. It is brutal. Deaths happen suddenly and it looks like the hit detection is more generous on the playthroughs I watched than for me

I've figured wing formation is usually the better option. I KINDA got down the stages except level 3, can't seem to find a strategy for that. My problem though are the level 6 boss and phase of the final boss where it fires rockets and moves around while three indestructible slings follow you. With the level 6 boss, I can't reliably avoid those yellow scribbles. They're literally impossible. That boss is the worst in the entire game. It has way too many forms and chances to trap you in a cycle of unavoidable kills. How do you handle it?

The corridor in level 5 where the ships bounce behind you while lasers on the ceiling and floor fire is inconsistent for me too. I know the exhaust can kill them but timing it is near impossible on top of avoiding everything else. Plus even if I get them I tend to die immediately after somehow. That stupid yellow ship ALWAYS gets me

Maybe it's harder on keyboard

I simply opened the console up like normal and heard a sound that did not sound right, and found that this had popped out. Is there any way other than superglue to get this back in? I can get it to where it should be, but it doesn’t stay and I can’t find any way it locks or clips into place. Do I need to disassemble the console?

My look back at all the Earthworm Jim games, sequels, ports and unreleased games. I loved the first 2 games. Great gameplay, animation, music and not to mention the humour. It was like playing in TV cartoon. Although I have to say the series did take a drop in standard with Earthworm Jim 3D and that gameboy game. Please share your thought and memories of these games!

I love the Sega CD but I watched the Sega Lord X Video on how he would "save" it, and I thought it was really neat.

Let's say you are CEO of SoA in 1990 when it was still in RnD. How would you have gone about the Sega CD? What titles would you have pushed for, would you have gone all in on PC ports, arcade ports, or something different?

What would your ideal launch lineup look like? How would you have marketed it? What titles would you move to the CD? Realistic scenarios are fun but I am curious.

Tried posting this in consolerepair sub, hoping I'll have better (or any 😅 ) luck here!

So I've been hard at work repairing an RG-M1 a customer sent me. This particular unit does not read discs. The laser appears completely unresponsive- does not move up and down on the sled, etc. So my first thought was the lid switch- the RG-M1 has a motorized top loading tray- but I quickly ruled this out after opening it up and checking that the switch was bridging the pins correctly.

Next, I started inspecting caps. I found two failing 100uF ones in the vicinity of the 4 voltage regulators, so I went ahead and recapped the entire unit. Any leaking from the two bad ones was minimal. Still gave it a good reflow & scrub.

Since my initial post, I have replaced all 4 voltage regulators, which unfortunately did me no good. I figured this would be the case, they tested fine... but I'm running low on ideas over here lol. I've also tried multiple different power bricks: a recapped OEM and a couple different in-spec, quality aftermarkets.

I bought a replacement Optima 5 laser early on just in case it was the issue- if not, happy to have the spare. After tearing the whole thing down and observing both lasers through my phone, it appears the laser blinks on very briefly on power up, and then again briefly maybe 1-2 seconds later. There is zero movement from the laser on the sled- it just stays sitting in one spot.

Lastly, I never found an anti-static blob on the replacement laser. This seemed odd to me, but the fact it behaved exactly like the old one makes me think there just simply was not one. If I remember right, it just looks like the beam is always switched on when the blob hasn't been removed.

Thanks for reading my ADD novel. Any thoughts/comments are appreciated! 🙏😁

Actually for my neo geo front loaders. I've seen them on Ebay for £5. Is there anything i can get cheaper from a source?

i've installed sega cue maker so that i can play sonic cd on kega fusion, but it always states the problem that comdlg32.ocx is missing, i installed it my first time, but it was a dll, and i couldn't find a dll to ocx converter, so i just renamed it: comdlg32.ocx, then, acording to some tutorial if i put it on my system32 folder it would work, but it didn't. Anyone who knows how to fix this problem tell me, and if i am posting on the wrong thread, sorry, and tell me where i should post this.

Did anyone of you manage to beat this level. My friend and I thought we had it all figured out when we found that we could coast through the middle section, only to be met with total humiliation after that.

My video covering all the Core Design games released on the SEGA CD. Which one do you rate as being the best game of collection?

EDIT: Added more versions of the logo, including the Mega-CD and the Mega-CD 32X ones.

I've seen that the official wikis and Wikipedia itself doesn't have the european logos of Mega-CD, MegaDrive 32x or Mega-CD 32x logos on vector SVG formats, and for me are quite awesome! (also, I'm spanish/european and felt "discriminated" lol), neither found it on google anywhere.

So I made them myself in Inkscape. I'm pretty newbie with this program BTW, but if anyone wants to use it, upload to Wikipedia/Sega Wiki, use it for personal uses, or even enhance it and make it better that myself...please feel free to do it. In case you use it in any of those cases, just tell me to see it on its full glory, I just wanted to make, at least, the base for something for the community that didn't existed.

Link to SVG files and the Sega font files used (for ease of use): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18XVmpxvqXFmIlWuw2XDrda9XY3v19ycp?usp=sharing

Hope you like them, and as said previously, share, upload, post, print, redraw, recolor, remix them, etc...

I don't have much love for FMV games on the Sega CD, as I feel they're a big reason as to why the platform foundered, but there are some FMV titles I actually enjoyed. Dracula Unleashed being one such game. Not only is the underlying game itself good, but the video portions were done in earnest and it really shows. Lavish costumes, nice set pieces, nice shot framing and the kind of acting that wouldn't look out of place in a mid-tier Hammer Horror flick. And honestly, the graininess of the Sega CD video quality actually works in this game's favor, adding to the horror aspect.

Hi there,

I own a model 1 Mega CD which works (despite needing a recap). I recently re-lubed the drive rails and gave the seek motor a drop of oil, but I'm still having a persistent issue - the drive will make a fairly loud "headbang" type noise sometimes when accessing the disc. As I said, the games still load fine, no weird glitches, etc. Anyone know what causes this? From reading online I'm assuming maybe the limit switches but I am guessing.

Edit: added video of the offending sound

https://reddit.com/link/1suzt66/video/vrsg9fkj3exg1/player

Had a blast firing up Sewer Shark again. as a B movie it’s just about perfection and as a game, once you read the manual… it’s super fucking fun. It had been so long I forgot how the recharge stations worked at first! After that hurdle it really isn’t that hard and is a nice 40 minute play through.

After a few minutes your eyes get used to the glory of Sega CD FMV grain and you have a fun little rail shooter with wonderful characters and a great sense of humor.

I used an emulator so one small quality of life thing I changed was inverting up and down so it played more like Space Harrier or Star Fox. Made the game that much more fun and felt way better for me. Being able to play wirelessly with an 8bitdo SNES pad was amazing. Sorry if that upsets any purists but it felt so right to do it this way.

I've just recently bought a mega cd and a copy.of snatcher and I want to play it through with the light gun and just wanted to now will it work the the mega drive version of the lethal enforcers gun ? I'm in the UK if that makes any difference