hrahn
10-25-2007, 08:38 PM
Hi there,
I got some MD games from a friend years ago. His parents are of asian origin (from Thailand if Iīm not mistaken) and he and his brother bought most of the games when they visited their relatives over there.
The Mega Drive he brought me also has a RF output nicely *cough* soldered in, though no metal shielding under its hood. But itīs modified for multi-region usage *yay*.
Anyway, back to the games. Canīt read the darn titles on a good number of them, the cartridge format seems to be japanese-style with the rouded edges
, but the covers have mostly no text at all on them, apart from the games name. Some of them are printed on standard glossy poster paper, while some seem to have come out of an inkjet printer.
The labels on the game cartridges are glossy stickers, the back has the SEGA logo modeled above a second sticker with white on black Kanji (or similar looking characters, as I said, I am unfortunately not able to read any asian language).
The Boxes also have the SEGA logo inside of them printed near the cartridge holding area, with an Ū and Sega Enterprises LTD. printed below.
The Jackets of the games have numbers printed on them, p.ex. Rainbow Islands Extra has A-007 on it, Elemental Master has A-031.
I suppose they are bootlegs, correct? I mean, the case is clear with Comix Zone, no Sega markings whatsoever and only english text on the cart and on the back of the box, seems they copied the first page of the manual there.
Tiger Heli on the other hand seems legit (I assume itīs Tiger Heli, 2 Kanji and the word TIGER below them), the box has full text on the back, the game was supposedly made by TRECO in 1991, and thereīs a price on the back of 7,500 - well - something. The number on the spine reads T-24033 and the barcode on the back (this has one, a rarity) says: 4 991694 122023.
Can anyone help me find out what I got there?
Shall I provide pictures of the game boxes and carts?
Note: All games which I wrote of until now have no instruction booklet with them whatsoever. I did however also get a few legit games, several EA RPGs for example (Rings of Power, Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, Might & Magic: Gates to another world) and others (Street Fighter II Turbo, Populous, Traysia and a CD-X for MegaCD) which have booklets and are original carts.
I got some MD games from a friend years ago. His parents are of asian origin (from Thailand if Iīm not mistaken) and he and his brother bought most of the games when they visited their relatives over there.
The Mega Drive he brought me also has a RF output nicely *cough* soldered in, though no metal shielding under its hood. But itīs modified for multi-region usage *yay*.
Anyway, back to the games. Canīt read the darn titles on a good number of them, the cartridge format seems to be japanese-style with the rouded edges
, but the covers have mostly no text at all on them, apart from the games name. Some of them are printed on standard glossy poster paper, while some seem to have come out of an inkjet printer.
The labels on the game cartridges are glossy stickers, the back has the SEGA logo modeled above a second sticker with white on black Kanji (or similar looking characters, as I said, I am unfortunately not able to read any asian language).
The Boxes also have the SEGA logo inside of them printed near the cartridge holding area, with an Ū and Sega Enterprises LTD. printed below.
The Jackets of the games have numbers printed on them, p.ex. Rainbow Islands Extra has A-007 on it, Elemental Master has A-031.
I suppose they are bootlegs, correct? I mean, the case is clear with Comix Zone, no Sega markings whatsoever and only english text on the cart and on the back of the box, seems they copied the first page of the manual there.
Tiger Heli on the other hand seems legit (I assume itīs Tiger Heli, 2 Kanji and the word TIGER below them), the box has full text on the back, the game was supposedly made by TRECO in 1991, and thereīs a price on the back of 7,500 - well - something. The number on the spine reads T-24033 and the barcode on the back (this has one, a rarity) says: 4 991694 122023.
Can anyone help me find out what I got there?
Shall I provide pictures of the game boxes and carts?
Note: All games which I wrote of until now have no instruction booklet with them whatsoever. I did however also get a few legit games, several EA RPGs for example (Rings of Power, Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, Might & Magic: Gates to another world) and others (Street Fighter II Turbo, Populous, Traysia and a CD-X for MegaCD) which have booklets and are original carts.