Playing chip-locked Genesis games on JP MD?

[BIL]

Or Castlevania Bloodlines: The Accursed Chip.

Could anyone tell me about running Genesis games on a Japanese Mega Drive? I've been looking up possible work-arounds, and the closest to an answer I've gotten is an Action Replay Pro... but I couldn't tell if this would work for a US cart -> JP console setup. Does anyone know a method (short of a modchip)?

[Specineff]

Won't a region switch do the trick?

[Ex-Cyber]

By "chip-locked", do you mean that the game itself detects the region and refuses to run? If so, general solutions are the region switches or an adapter that can override the region bits (though I don't know how compatibility is with different Genesis/MD models, and I don't know where to buy one these days). If you can't or don't want to do these, the other option is to use a cheat code developed for each specific game that bypasses its region check.

[BIL]

Thanks guys, did a bit of reading and it seems a region switch would take care of it. I might just go that route at some point, if an adaptor solution doesn't work out.

[Ganelon]

The Action Replay 2 successfully defeated all JP lockouts that I know of (all the way up to Surging Aura).

[Specineff]

I have a modded Genny 1 for sale. Plays all games. From all regions.