/r/MegaCD
/r/MegaCD is a place for fans of the Sega CD and Mega CD. Known as Sega CD in the U.S., Mega CD was a CD add-on to the popular Sega Genesis/Mega Drive that allowed for cheaper storage, CD quality audio, and for better or for worse, full motion video playback.
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The latest game to be made playable on the PAL Mega CD is Space Ace. I believe this is a spiritual sequel to Dragon's Lair but instead of being a fantasy story is instead SciFi. The only change I made was to make it bootable, the only CD audio track is the dev or publisher logo jingle which I didn't edit as it's so short.
You can get the game at: https://archive.org/details/space-ace-pal
Just like my post for Vay, Popful Mail for the Sega CD has now been patched to work on PAL consoles. I wasn't planning to release this one yet as there are some graphical problems with the cutscenes. The ones I tried you can mostly see them but there is some graphical tearing. I had wanted to release this once I had this problem ironed out but have been unsuccessful so far. I want people to be able to enjoy this game and as the main gameplay appears to have no issues I have released it now.
Link to game: https://archive.org/details/popful-mail-un-worked-pal
Unworked patch courtesy of: http://stargood.org/unworked/popful.php
Vay for the Sega CD has now been patched to work on PAL consoles. I wasn't planning to release this one yet as there are some audio problems with the cutscenes. They are still mostly understandable and don't impact the main game but I wanted to release the game with no flaws. As I haven't resolved this yet and I have had requests I decided to release what I had and hope to find the solution which I will update later.
Link to game: https://archive.org/details/vay-un-working-and-1-4-rate-pal
This release also includes the following patches -
Unworked: http://stargood.org/unworked/vay.php
Unworked Write UP: https://tcrf.net/Vay#Regional_Differences
Battle Reduction (the 1-4 specific patch): https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/9068/
For those that ordered Re:Sonic the Hedgehog which is a new release for the Sega CD but are a PAL owner here is a patch to convert the game to work on PAL consoles. Those that purchase a physical copy are also sent a link to download it so you can patch that copy using the Lunar IPS program which is included in my download.
PAL Patch: https://archive.org/details/re-sonic-the-hedgehog-pal-patch
Link to InstantSonic on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/instantSonic/status/1595605671814348803
Using the fan translation patch from Romhacking.net I have converted Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 & 2 to PAL. I haven't altered the translation but made it so that the games could boot on PAL consoles. These 'games' are compilation disks with several games that were already released for the Mega Drive but the translation efforts were concentrated on the Phantasy Star 2 text adventure games.
PAL Link: https://archive.org/details/game-no-kandume-vol.-1-2-pal
Original Romhacking.net link: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/1567/
The 1995 prototype of the unreleased Sega CD game Star Strike has now been converted to run on PAL hardware which I have tested with my Mega CD 2.
Link to PAL conversion: https://archive.org/details/star-strike-pal
Link to original Hidden Palace hosting: https://hiddenpalace.org/Star_Strike_(Jan_30,_1995_prototype)
The unreleased Sega CD game Super Strike Trilogy has been converted to PAL and has been tested on my model 2 Mega CD.
You can get the game from - https://archive.org/details/super-strike-trilogy-pal
Does anyone know where I can download a file with all the Mega CD games?
The Norse inspired RPG Heimdall will now work on PAL Mega CD hardware. I've tested it on my Model 2. FYI there are a couple of short intro cut scenes that don't play all of their audio but this seems to be the cutscene's animation wasn't made to be long enough for the CD audio track. In other words it was too short even before I made any audio editing.
You can grab the game from: https://archive.org/details/heimdall-pal
A quick one to turn around was the shooter A/X-101 which didn't review very well back in the day.
I've tested it on my Mega CD model 2 and works fine, you can download the game at https://archive.org/details/a-x-101-pal
Next up on the list of Sega CD games I've converted to work on PAL Mega CD hardware is '3 Ninja's Kick Back'.
None of the CD audio tracks seem to need to be altered as I don't believe they are tied to any cutscenes.
You can download the game from: https://archive.org/details/3-ninjas-kick-back-pal
The movie tie in game Demolition Man but specifically the hacked version to use the movie's soundtrack has now been converted to work on PAL hardware.
You can get the game at https://archive.org/details/demolition-man-movie-st-pal
The Sega CD game Wild Woody has now been converted to work on PAL Mega CDs. Very little needed to be done for this one as far as I can tell.
If you would like to give it a try you can check it out at: https://archive.org/details/wild-woody-pal
The Sega CD game Racing Aces has now been converted to work on PAL hardware. The CD tracks didn't need to be altered as they appear to be background audio.
If you want to give it a try you can download at: https://archive.org/details/racing-aces-pal
The Sierra On-Line published adventure game 'The Adventures of Willy Beamish' is now compatible with PAL Mega CD hardware. I've tested it on my model 2 Mega CD and it plays. In the linked archive page I explain what I did with the audio which isn't anything as it caused problems when I did.
Enjoy!
Link to the converted game - https://archive.org/details/adventures-of-willy-beamish-pal
The Sega CD game 'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - The Second Cataclysm' has now been converted to work on PAL hardware. Just be aware that the cutscenes will stutter as they are playing slower than they should but as far as I can tell the gameplay is unaffected.
This is an on rails shooter but you also get to drive a Cadillac, who doesn't enjoy that?!?!
Link to the game: https://archive.org/details/cadillacs-and-dinosaurs-pal
The latest game to be converted to work for the PAL Mega CD is Flashback! I didn’t have to edit any of the audio this time and I highly recommend checking the soundtrack out if you haven’t.
For those unaware a new sequel will be releasing next month (apparently we don’t talk about Fade to Black) so now is a great time try out the original or re-experience it.
You can grab the game over at: https://archive.org/details/flashback-the-quest-for-identity-mega-cd-pal
The next game I've tackled is the unreleased Sega CD game Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. This is a two CD set which has six mini games on it with the most well known being Desert Bus.
There is an oddity with audio which I've written about in the link but it doesn't affect gameplay. You can grab the game over at https://archive.org/details/penn-tellers-smoke-and-mirrors-mega-cd-pal
I wanted to get this one out before this year's Desert Bus for Hope which is a charity livestream of people playing Desert Bus for the Child's Play charity. If you want to check that out you can do so at https://desertbus.org/
Hey everyone, following in my series of converting the games we didn't get in PAL territories so we can enjoy them on original hardware. The next game is now available and is Road Rash and for good measure I included the Improvement Patch that improved the framerate and gave six button controller functionality
Is there anyone ever dumped Samsung CD Aladdin Boy I or II BIOS, or at least filmed it? I can't seem to find it anywhere on the Internet.
Following on from my Lunar conversions I have now finished Rise of the Dragon. This was never released in PAL territories but I have now converted the Sega CD game to work on the PAL Mega CD.
I've tested it on my Mega CD model 2 and it boots/syncs up the audio for the opening cutscenes. The in game audio loops an animation until the audio file finishes and then stops the animation so those files haven't been altered.
You can download the game at - https://archive.org/details/rise-of-the-dragon-pal
A passion project of mine for the last two and a half years has been making the two Lunar games for the Sega CD PAL compatible. Yes the first game The Silver Star was available by reproduction companies but I have added in the fan made Un-Worked patch and ensured the music for the cutscenes were modified to sync with the slower speed of 50Hz.
The big one though is that the second game Eternal Blue has never been made available in PAL by reproduction companies. This has now been done and also has the Un-Worked patch added in as well.
I've tested both on my PAL Mega CD model 2 but I haven't played through the whole games yet (will do but they're JRPGs).
Hope you enjoy!
Lunar: The Silver Star: https://archive.org/details/lunar-the-silver-star-pal
Lunar: Eternal Blue: https://archive.org/details/lunar-eternal-blue-pal
Couldn't find anywhere, so I'll just ask the question. Is there a universal adaptor which opens up the hard ware so games across regions can be played? One with RAM expansion and or save space included would be good to.
Hey welcome back. Years ago I used to have a little youtube channel and I thought i'd share with you all the time I had a fuse repaired as its known to be a pretty common problem with both models of the Mega CD. Hope it helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrSPiVB2-I