will Mega Turrican US version work on Jap MD w/o Converter?

[DC906270]

as heading says, anyone help?

[Turrican]

no, sorry.

just checked with my US mega Turrican on my modded PAL megadrive - I set language switch to Jpn and Hz switch to 60, so it's basically a japanese megadrive, and the game gives a "sorry U.S. only" message screen.

[DC906270]

so, how do you play your US Mega Turrican?

[Turrican]

huh, I set the language switch to "English" and keep the Hz switch to "60" so I basically obtain a Genesis

[DC906270]

oh, thanks for the info dude

[Turrican]

You might want to mod your md, dude - it's quite easy to do. I found a faq on the internet. Just need some wire, a couple of switches and soldering iron.

Yeah there are converters, but to my knowledge they just adjust the language setting - I used one of those with my PAL MD and yeah, I was able to play most games, but all in 50hz.

Modded megadrive is great!

[system11]

Epic necromancy!

So does a JP cart exist for this game?

[null1024]

Epic necromancy!

So does a JP cart exist for this game?

I'm actually almost certain that there wasn't a JP release.

Also wow, 6 years between posts!

[Friendly]

Wasn't released in Japan. And the correct speed for this game is 60Hz; the PAL release wasn't adjusted (as usual).

[system11]

Interesting - since it was developed by a European team. What I've done is taken the US rom, hacked the region code so it runs on Japanese machines, and I'm going to burn it to a ROM and convert this Gynoug cart. For art I've simply bought a Euro one so it has a manual and case, I'm going to use various bits of scanned and downloaded art to make fake labels for it.

I just wanted to play it on my machine without modifying the machine - which is a JP revision 1.

[louisg]

Cool! Yeah, I think that's actually the best Turrican (lack of exploration aside).