GenesisMu not PAL friendly?

[d1matman]

Is GenesisMu emulator not fully multi region compatible yet?
I tried Australian Rugby League but when it loaded up the message was displayed something like "Developed for use with PAL and French Secam Mega Drive systems" and couldnt proceed further...... ok so it is a 'Genesis" emu after all but it would be nice to be able to play the 'megadrive' territory games as well....

I also tried Brian Lara Cricket 96 (a typical PAL game) which gives a black screen on boot (which happens for other roms too I know)... but is it possible that some of these games we're having problems with are PAL ?

 

[thebluenewt]

You might have something there, the half a dozen or so PAL games I've tried didn't work either...

 

[Azure]

Yeah same here. None of my roms worked.

 

[taras]

d1matman, check the compatibility list at http://www.thaworx.co.uk/genemu/ - a lot of the games you mentioned have already been tested so it would probably save you the hassle. And you can add any that aren't already there..

 

[gearhead23]

I checked http://www.thaworx.co.uk/genemu/ and most of the games did'nt mention the region.

 

[unlucky]

'genesis emu' as opposed 2 megadrive basically the emu only supports US cartridges atm european 1's should not work so just like 4 a (U) version of your cartridge i believe

 

[Axeman]

Nope - only non-pal roms work at the moment. I'll try and find out if a future version will support all roms...

 

[VirtuaLeech]

Isn't there a utility to convert PAL roms to NTSC? I know there is one for SEGA CD / Mega CD games.

 

[Axeman]

Don't know... thing is, it may be that the CD conversion is to convert the video files on the CD so they run on a non-PAL TV. I think it may be different with roms...

 

[d1matman]

Cheers Axeman, I was hoping you might be able to get the word from the man.

A few games I liked just happened to be some of the PAL 'megadrive only' games.. so thought I'd throw the question out there.

 

[VirtuaLeech]

Don't know... thing is, it may be that the CD conversion is to convert the video files on the CD so they run on a non-PAL TV.  I think it may be different with roms...

No, it's not the videos. It really changes the "rom" of the Mega/Sega CD so that it can be played on the player of your region. I have used it myself quite a number of times to play jap or usa imports. If it can be done for CD maybe a ROM tool is also available

More info on this site.

Quote from mentioned site:

SCDConv 2.5
This utility can convert most (not all) sega cd iso images to a different country code. i.e., if you have an US sega cd, but a japanese game, you can run this tool on it to convert the bootcode to US, so it will play on your sega cd without additional carts or modifications.
Usage: in a MS-DOS prompt, type "scdconv isofilename". It will tell you what country code it currently is, and ask you which to change it to. It will also tell you if the chance that it works is bad. After the file was converted, burn it to CD as usual, and hope that it works.

 

[Rico]

I checked http://www.thaworx.co.uk/genemu/ and most of the games did'nt mention the region.

As others have said, there's little point as Genemu only officially supports US roms.

 

[Twimfy]

SCDconv is a bitch to get working.

 

[thebluenewt]

Someone could have mentioned this, good job the PAL roms I tested were PAL only...