My 2 Mega Drive Consoles
So I'm new to the subreddit, and here's both my Mega Drives, A 1989 VA1 Model 1 which i recently acquired and a "Model 2" which is actually a clone that's posing as a PAL asia console, and was my uncles original Mega Drive 2 from the 90s. Up until recently where the cheap caps finally drifted that the PSG sounds went missing and the fake controllers died (replaced with a real SJ-6000), me and my uncle thought this was actually a real Model 2 until i opened it up and told him it wasn't, well frankly it's quite convincing. There's absolutely no signs of the outer shell being fake since all the text is well printed and actually quite resilient. He told me it came in the official "colorful" box unlike most old clones. I only found out when i opened it up to see no Sega branded things inside at all, but was so confused because it had a real MC68000, Z80 (though Sharp not Zilog), and NEC chips. Also noticed the lack of rubber feet on the bottom, however even though it poses as a pal console, it is actually NTSC inside, being closer to an actual HAA-2502, but the real kicker was it's not even relatively close to a model 2 at all, inside, the cloners actually used the model 1 architecture and i found this out when the power brick showed the pal asia brick specs, but the brick itself had a mold it was negative center like the model 1, and after recapping to get PSG back I compared the sound by recording both the consoles directly. I could not for the life of me tell the difference. Gameplay wise it's also exactly the same. I wonder if this clone can actually handle a real sega cd or 32x, now i need to get my hands on one!