Ive been given a 32x, now do i need any leads to play any games i get my mits on? Apart from the the megadrive.
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Ive been given a 32x, now do i need any leads to play any games i get my mits on? Apart from the the megadrive.
no, it just plugs into the cartridge slot on the megadrive, everything else relies on the megadrive itself.
ok sweet, thanks for the help. Is there anyway of testing it without a game? Im not even sure if it works
I never had one of those - went out of fashion so quickly I couldn't save up in time, lol.
I enjoy playing virtua racing on 32x enabled Gens though, hehe.
I think you need a game to test it, Computer Exchange should have a couple
Nope. It works by overlaying its own graphics onto the graphics coming out of the Megadrive, so if you just plug in the MD you'll only get about a quarter of the game (usually the background). You need a cable to go from the Megadrive to the 32X, and they're pretty much impossible to find as far as I can tell. I tried to make one once but I couldn't find a pin-in for the 32X socket. I went ahead on the basis that it was probably the same as the pin-out, but it didn't work. Mini-Dins are an absolute nightmare to solder though, it could have been that I had some duff connections. I bought a bunch of games hoping that I'd be able to get the thing going but I've never been able to play them :(. About £25 wasted :(. It was annoying too, about two weeks after I bought it I saw another guy at the same boot sale who'd just picked up a complete boxed one with all the cables:mad:. It also needs its own power supply BTW, I believe it's the same as a Mega Drive 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex
Rich :¬)
really? i stand corrected :o
arse so it needs a cable and power supply before you can use it rave?
I'm afraid so mate :(. The power supply isn't such a problem, you can use a generic one (mine took a bit of fiddling but it worked). It actually came with three video cables I believe, because the AV out of the MD1 and MD2 were different (Din and Mini-Din respectively).
And...um...obviously you'll need a 32X game to use it too, I'm sure you've realised that by now;).
Rich :¬)
Thanks for the info rave, i wonder if i'll be able to find the cables anywere?
I often wonder if I should root through the big boxes of cables that people sometimes have at boot fairs, but I suspect I'd have to look through a fair few until I found what I wanted!:eek:
Rich :¬)
Thats a point rave, i might have a little trip to a boot sale and see what goodies they have.