radica problem

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radica problem

Post by Krepticor » Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:46 pm

hey is there a way to fix the radica game problem where it will play all of the NTSC games?
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Post by Sparkfist » Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:18 pm

Not really, your either have to deal with having an NTSC Radica or you can look for a PAL verson. Circuitry has been too condenced to change the settings through hardware hacking.
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Post by Krepticor » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:30 pm

there is not a circuit one could add to selected point on the board or something?

what is so wrong with the hard ware that it would not play every ntsc game?

(Besides it not being designed to)
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Post by Sparkfist » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:44 pm

Krepticor wrote:what is so wrong with the hard ware that it would not play every ntsc game?

(Besides it not being designed to)
Chances are the Radica was based off the Genesis 3 which from what I've heard had spotty playablity on games much like the Radica. Otherwise I could only guess that it might be that they left out full support of the 68000 and/or z80, resulting in games not being able to play.
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Post by Krepticor » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:38 pm

so how could one convert a genesis 3 to a genesis 2?

and if this works.. how does this apply to the radica?
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Post by Sparkfist » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:19 pm

One can not acomplish this. You either live with the limitations or you use a Genesis v.2, which really if you put the screen and controlls over the motherboard it wouln't be that big. I have a v.2, you cut off the expantion and grounding that stick out on the right, and flatten the capacitors you'll have a nice start.

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Post by Krepticor » Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:35 pm

*edit*

asked same question somewhere else
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