8 years ago, i remembered bidding on ebay for SEGA Saturn SGX system. Later got outbidded by several large margin...

Made back in the late 90’s by a company called SunSeibu, The SGX is basically a modified SEGA Saturn mounted in a heavy-duty metal enclosure with a coin-op mechanism. It also has a special seven-CD changer for easy switching between multiple games. The box has standard video and audio and controller ports so you can hook it up to any monitor and play.

Did u guys still play chu chu rocket on dc? those days played multiplayer and online a lot... best part.. got it for free from Sega Europe.. at the time they giveaway as u register sega online service..

My dream Saturn

Bidding on PS1's Valkyrie Profile, wish me luck

I do believe Game Genie does not have region lock embedded, so it should be safe. However there games that have region lock chip, so you can't simply plug and play. Games like Sonic 3 (weirdly not & Knuckles though), Gunstar, Contra, PSIV and Shinobi III are region locked, which are possible to bypass through Game Genie, but you need the right codes. The whole region lock thingie made me sold my Mega CD and settled for a CDX since, for some odd reasons, Genesis games are much cheaper than JP MD games. No problem playing imported Mega CD games too 

The region lock is software based, so you must use specific hardware from specific region to bypass the chip embedded carts. There's an ultimate solution to this (cost close to nothing) and that is adding a region switch to your console. You need to have good soldering skill to do this though. Would you be interested?

You still need to do hardware mod to achieve that. You should look at Nintendo's SNES/SFC and N64, they had the best region lock in history.

I remember Game Genie works on some games with code, but not all

No, this gen belongs to 360. Modding still can bypass Wii's region coding, but still no solution for 360.

Too much of current gen talk, let's go back to RETRO! Have been spending time on PS1 RPGs lately, and finished Parasite Eve. Still can't decide which one to play next since most of them I haven't played before

That shouldn't be a problem since you are playing the NDS version now

Is it true that Neogeo CDZ is getting more expensive these days? Just had a quick browse and caught me by surprise

Since you have been following, may I ask have you come across a NGCD game called Iron Clad? If you did what's the market price now?

I do believe neogeo is owning a JP MD, so inserting cartridges from any region shouldn't be a problem.. unless mine is modified without my knowledge

my cousin got all mega cd + md1 + 32x ... he bought few sega cd and 32x titles from US, tried on jp consoles, dont work... shame
dont know whether he still have it or not
i only have md1.. dont know its working or not... last time got trouble with power adapters...

check this out

Buy the game (Battle Garegga), beat the game once (don't care how many credits) and watch the superplay and learn why this game is unversally recognized as the shmup with deepest mechanics. Every time you suicide, collect item, bombing and even how rapid you shoot affects the game difficulty I'm still learning this game every time I play it.

---

Added on January 31, 2009, 7:06 pmI wonder how do you guys maintain your retro consoles Curious because that's what I'm doing right now

yep...too bad.. tho..

@neogeo... how much did u get ur megadrive? how long have u had it?

He just bought it recently I believe Still a newbie

Some shmups you shouldn't miss on Saturn shahreza:
1. Battle Garegga
2. Batsugun (ancestor)
3. Cotton 2
4. Cotton Boomerang
5. Thunder Force V
6. Layer Section
7. Shienryu

Those Strikers 1945 and DonPachis are better on PS1

NGCDZ I think I might be able to get a boxed NGCDZ below USD250 shipped, let me know if you are interested

It's more likely to be below USD200, but better I put USD250 just to be safe. You have 4 days to decide