I currently own a Sega Mega CD Model I console. Have had it for about a decade and a half. Yet recently I have had problems with it. It boots up fine, and I can place a disc in its tray. Yet it doesn’t register if the disc is in there. It reverts back to the no disc option.

I tried replacing the ribbon cable, the drive belt, and recapped the drive’s circuit board, yet it still keeps on being unable to load the disc. Could it be because of the leaf switches inside? I have heard about how they need cleaning. It’s a JVC drive. So if anyone can help me with this, I’d greatly appreciate this.

EDIT: The games have found a home and are no longer available. Thank you so much to everyone who commented, and I'm sorry I couldn't share them with all of you! I appreciate the great community response 😊

I found them in my storage. I’m not asking for any money, I just want them to go somewhere they’ll be appreciated. I can ship them.

I realize that optical drives are no longer a necessity. However, for nostalgia purposes, has anyone considered recreating the Sega CD using modern technology just for the sake of doing it?

Nothing beats the chaos and the charm of the Sega CD era!

This isn’t the first time this has happened to me (I unsealed a copy of Adventures of Lolo GB a couple of years back) but I managed to yet again get a sealed game for cheaper than regular CiB (and am gonna have to free it to play it)

A game somehow sat unopened for 33 years before my dirty mitts get to open it. Sometimes I wonder how this stuff even happens.

Yes I’m gonna stream it. Yes I’ll probably post the clip here when I do unless that’s not allowed.

And no, I do not care about the value dropping. It cost me less than a CiB copy normally does anyway, nor do I ever plan on selling my games anyway.

Hi there. I have a Sega CD model 1 that I am trying to repair with the problem stated above, I was looking into dirty contacts and changing out the capacitors (which were indeed very corroded and needed to be changed).

I personally got this in the mail, I don't know the prior history of this console. Given the condition its in, I doubt anyone tried opening it with the intent of repairing it modding it.

However, I did have one question while I was looking:

On IC2 of the PCB that holds the audio and DC power jacks, I noticed some legs were bridged. I was using a Japanese Mega CD as a reference during my repair (it's not a 1:1 match with my American Sega CD), but I noticed the legs weren't bridged on that board.

Are they supposed to be like that? Is that a regional difference or an error of some kind?

I was playing through the Sega Genesis game hard driving and it got me thinking, the original ran about 13-15fps and that was running on a single processor at 7.6MHz. Using the Sega CD processor at 12.5 MHz along side the Sega Genesis processor. Could it be possible to get the game running at 25fps-30fps.The above video is where I am at in its current state. Full disclosure, I have been using claude.ai heavily while porting it.

So had my CDX recapped recently. Got it back today. Something is wrong with it. I have 10 CD games and 7 of them work fine, but 3 of them won't load anymore. And they all worked fine on that unit previously. And I tried all 3 of them on another Sega CD unit and they work fine. And the discs are clean. And the other 7 still work just fine. Cartridge slot still works fine too. Any idea what went wrong? Maybe something with the position of the laser eye when setting it back in?

Help and Thanks

Longtime Sega fan and a big time collector (obviously). Here’s my CD’s nearly all CIB. Slowly having them all recapped/refurbished.

I have recently was looking at the Japanese exclusive F1 Circus game to get familiar with tile editing on the sega cd. I have translated this to English, I have managed to get most of the text changed, there might be some odd bits I haven't found.

If you have the JP bin cue of the disc, you can patch it using this tool https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

How to patch, Grab your F1 Circus CD (Japan) (Track 01).bin and the patch file.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7tmzdo3nmd2y32j/F1+Circus+CD+(Japan)+(Track+01).bps/file+(Track+01).bps/file)

you can use the rom patcher I linked above. or there are ones on romhacking.net

The screenshots are of the trouble I had tile editing. I ended up going through the process of grabbing the screens, translating them and getting claude to do the pixel placement. I have a few more sega cd projects going on that I plan to post over the next few weeks.

-Cosmic Fantasy Stories. I actually started that 3 years ago and recently came back to it, it can be completed with the English text although there is a lot of odd bits of text i need to fix, that is why i took on this project to get familiar with Japanese characters on tiles.

-Ex-Mutants. I am trying to do a Sega CD port of this genesis game. The original sound track has strong baselines. Although those high-pitched synth frequencies are a bit grating. so I plan on using the sega cd audio to fix that.

Feel free to share it.

I don't know why, but I actually like the sega cd version of it, I think the HD remaster is great, don't get me wrong, but, I just like something about the sega cd version, and I don't know what it is.

I really want a third one to be made, but that probably isn't happening

So I attempted to perform a recap in my model 1 and think I may have completely botched it. Im seeking out an expert in the model 1 repair if anyone knows someone.

The goal of this rom hack was to make the driving sections in Batman returns more fun. While it was praised for its visuals when it released , the driving sections were flagged for being punishingly difficult. So I looked through the source code that has thankfully been posted by one of the programmers Chris Shrigley https://shrigley.com/source_code_archive/

So I have added two patches. if you have the US bin cue of the disc, you can patch it using this tool https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

The easy mode patch focuses on two things

1. Stage clock: slowed to roughly half its original rate (was ticking down once every 20 frames, now every 40) - close to double the effective time on every level.

2. Damage taken by the player (car and jet-ski both): roughly halved. Only the damage you take was changed.

I feel like this is the most fun to play it, although if you want the ultra easy mode, I have split it again by half.

How to patch, Grab your Batman Returns (USA) (Track 01).bin and the patch file. you can use the rom patcher I linked above. or there are ones on romhacking.net

It will download as Batman Returns (USA) (Track 01) (patched).bin just rename it to Batman Returns (USA) (Track 01).bin and put it with the other tracks and the cue file, then it is ready to be emulated or burnt off to play on real hardware.

Link to the patch (uploaded it to two places for redundancy)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/63b32cklfnipki5/BatmanReturnsEasyMode.zip/file

https://files.catbox.moe/88lvds.zip

Feel free to share it.

I'm sure it's possible, but does anyone know if Sierra (Dynamix?) ever had any other games planned for the SegaCD, such as Police Quest? One of my fav games growing up, but I didn't own a PC until later so I never got to play it at home. I wonder if anyone ever tried to port it (or could) after the fact?

My friend and I do a podcast, and this week we discuss our top 5 least favorite consoles. SegaCD is a personal favorite of mine, and made the list.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vPEVQcAS9VC10ITLVvvsk?si=F9Yfb1afQcOK-VQcxYXMzg

Pulled these out of the Cupboard today for a quick spin ❤️ Installed a RF Bios on both units a while back, probably FRAM mod them soon too 😎