Mega CD 2 Console

SEGA Mega CD model 2 console

Sega Mega-CD model 2 consoles are the second release of the populat CD add on console for the SEGA Mega Drive console. This remake is simpler than the original model 1 CD console and is considered more reliable.

 

Condition:

• Fully serviced and ready to go
• Comes with power supply but no other cables
• (Does not come with the Mega Drive console, only this CD add on)

Availability:

• PAL Mega CD II – This is a PAL console that plays PAL MegaCD games with your MegaDrive 1 or 2 console.
• USA Sega CD II – This is a USA console that plays USA SegaCD games with your Sega Genesis 1 or 2 console.

 

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The Sega Mega-CD 2, (also known as the Sega CD 2 in North America) is a hardware add-on developed by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis).

It allows the Mega Drive console to run compact discs, be it proprietary Mega-CD software, audio CDs or CD+G discs. It also acts as an upgrade to the Mega Drive hardware, sporting an extra processor and extra RAM. The Mega-CD was first released in 1991 and was supported alongside regular Mega Drive cartridges.

The main benefit of CD technology was greater storage, which allowed for games to be nearly 320 times larger than Genesis cartridges. This benefit manifested as full motion video (FMV) games such as the controversial Night Trap, which became a focus of the 1993 legal hearings on issues of video game violence and ratings.

 

Trivia: The hardware in the Sega CD added the ability to scale and rotate images, which the Mega Drive was not able to do. The Mega-CD features enhancement effects such as scaling and rotation, similar to Sega’s Super Scaler arcade hardware and that of the “Mode 7” effect employed by the Super NES. While Mode 7 only supports the scaling and rotation of tilemap backgrounds, the Sega CD supports the scaling and rotation of both the sprites and the tilemap backgrounds.

 

Sega CD 2 Hardware Scaling and Rotation Examples.

Credit to author: Joeredother