3rd July 2011, 3:30 PM
Yeah I have the spacer, and the two RF shields for the cartridge slot, and the crossover cable. I've also got the RF shield for the Sega CD.
The main point I was making is that the last model of the Gen 2 is barely inferior at all in the sound, almost to the point of being a non-issue I'd think if you just upped the bass on your TV. The description he gave said the sound was practically identical except for weaker bass output. That sounds like an easy fix. It's hardly as bad as the earlier models of the Gen 2.
Apparently the Sega Nomad has awesome sound too, including high bass.
Torchlight for $3? I need to take advantage of that. I wish there was some way to know about these Steam sales without needing to constantly log into Steam to check every last item in the store every day.
Ya know though, my comment on the 32X looking better on the Genesis 2 is negated once you add in the Sega CD 2. Either combination by itself looks decent enough, (one's symmetrical, the other's smooth), but combined it disrupts both. And that's what I have. As I mentioned before, I also have one of the worse revisions of the Gen 2 for sound. I kinda wish Sega had just switched to the Gen 2 style A/V cable right out of the gate instead of trying to be "backwards compatible" with the Master System.
As it stands, I did find out someone actually did rig together a home made cable that combines the output cable from the Sega CD 2 into the crossover cable to the 32X to get stereo sound all around on the first model, but then there's the rainbow banding of those earlier models to consider... I still think dealing with weaker bass will be an easier fix than the video artifacts. Cosmetically, I like both models. They both look a heck of a lot more... substantial?... than the Gen 3. They both have a similar aesthetic to them. There's only one aspect the Gen 2 is missing outright, and that's the ext port on the back of the very earliest of Gen 1 models, used for a Japan-only modem who's service, I imagine, is down by now. Besides, if I wanted to rig up some sort of hacked online play, I'd just find an old XBand modem instead, since it used the cartridge slot.
Incidentally, I think that a Japanese XBand would be the perfect adapter for SNES/Famicom game play across systems. A US XBand might work if the cart was chopped up... Still, I'm starting to get to the point where I'm seriously considering getting into modding my old systems. I love keeping mine historically intact, but it's something I've considered quite a bit when I see a number of fixes to the various problems each of these systems have.
The main point I was making is that the last model of the Gen 2 is barely inferior at all in the sound, almost to the point of being a non-issue I'd think if you just upped the bass on your TV. The description he gave said the sound was practically identical except for weaker bass output. That sounds like an easy fix. It's hardly as bad as the earlier models of the Gen 2.
Apparently the Sega Nomad has awesome sound too, including high bass.
Torchlight for $3? I need to take advantage of that. I wish there was some way to know about these Steam sales without needing to constantly log into Steam to check every last item in the store every day.
Ya know though, my comment on the 32X looking better on the Genesis 2 is negated once you add in the Sega CD 2. Either combination by itself looks decent enough, (one's symmetrical, the other's smooth), but combined it disrupts both. And that's what I have. As I mentioned before, I also have one of the worse revisions of the Gen 2 for sound. I kinda wish Sega had just switched to the Gen 2 style A/V cable right out of the gate instead of trying to be "backwards compatible" with the Master System.
As it stands, I did find out someone actually did rig together a home made cable that combines the output cable from the Sega CD 2 into the crossover cable to the 32X to get stereo sound all around on the first model, but then there's the rainbow banding of those earlier models to consider... I still think dealing with weaker bass will be an easier fix than the video artifacts. Cosmetically, I like both models. They both look a heck of a lot more... substantial?... than the Gen 3. They both have a similar aesthetic to them. There's only one aspect the Gen 2 is missing outright, and that's the ext port on the back of the very earliest of Gen 1 models, used for a Japan-only modem who's service, I imagine, is down by now. Besides, if I wanted to rig up some sort of hacked online play, I'd just find an old XBand modem instead, since it used the cartridge slot.
Incidentally, I think that a Japanese XBand would be the perfect adapter for SNES/Famicom game play across systems. A US XBand might work if the cart was chopped up... Still, I'm starting to get to the point where I'm seriously considering getting into modding my old systems. I love keeping mine historically intact, but it's something I've considered quite a bit when I see a number of fixes to the various problems each of these systems have.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)