My MegaCD is region free!

...and speaks japanese :-)

My european Mega CD

I finally received my lot of EPROMs (ST M27C1024) pre-programmed with a modified region free Japanese Mega CD bios, thanks to l_oliveira at assemblergames forum for the hacking!

European VS Japanese BIOS screen

Here is how I installed the new bios...

Alien 3 and Golden Axe 2 bootlegs

A month ago, while I was visiting a flea market (precisely Stellata di Bondeno, province of Ferrara), I spotted a bunch of Mega Drive games that caught my eye because of how fishy they looked... And I ended up right: two of them were bootlegs!

I tried them, dumped them and quickly verified differences with the "official" versions.
Read the rest of the article if you want to know more :-)