The PAC S-1 is a Sega Genesis (well, okay, it’s a Mega Drive), and so it can play games for that console. I don’t know if there are other variants than the 1.05 here. And again I still don’t have a CD+G to test, but maybe one day. For example, the CD player is a small yellow box on a blue background the one on the actual Sega CD systems is much nicer looking.
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Overall the BIOS is pretty similar to the PC Engine. (Not my video, from YouTube user “Alex Lee”) It does have a scaling effect with the LaserActive logo zooming in, and then spins its lgos once on bootup, but that’s nothing compared to, say, the Model 2 BIOS. While every other Sega CD boot screen I know of has music, the LaserActive has none, which is a bit disappointing. It also has different logos, but that’s to be expected. It looks almost identical to its PC Engine counterpart, though the yellow is a bit paler. Here we see the bootup screen of the Sega PAC. This also means that the 32X won’t work, since it needs the RGB signal from the Genesis. I’m pretty sure other Genesi can do it better. The composite output still isn’t great, either. (The Sega CDX is slightly taller, but that height is in the CD-ROM drive)Īnd remember, since this is a LaserDisc player, it doesn’t have more than a composite out. Though, the PAC is larger than, for example, a Sega CDX, so maybe they really did just want to show off the end labels. I’m guessing this decision was made more based off of needing to fit everything in the small space of the PAC.
Maybe if I ever get into 3D printing I’ll print a new one (guessing it’d need to be a pretty high quality printer or maybe resin to get the small details) There’s a sticker in Japanese on it too, what’s that about? Mine is worn, but I know enough to read it– it says to insert the cartridge facing downwards.Īnd yes, you do indeed insert cartridges facing down. My PAC isn’t in perfect condition either there should be a LaserActive logo in the top left. LaserActive is definitely the console the get if you want to save money, probably. The US Genesis PAC isn’t as rare as the TurboGrafx one, but it’s uncommon enough that I just went with the Japanese version to save a few pennies. Since the PC Engine CD was the most popular CD-based console in Japan, while the Sega/Mega CD was the most popular in the rest of the world, Pioneer apparently figured they’d have both. Meanwhile, the Pioneer LaserActive is still Pioneer’s attempt at combining Laserdiscs and video games. I might also end up not using the metric system. So unlike the TurboGrafx-16, the CD added some new technical capabilities to the system as well.Īlso, because I’m American, I’m probably going to fall back to using “Genesis” and “Sega CD” most of the time. Additionally, it included a faster Motorola 68000 CPU, and an ASIC (that just stands for application-specific integrated circuit, but everyone calls the one in the Sega CD “the ASIC” for some reason) that adds scaling and rotation effects. The Sega CD, known as the Mega CD in territories where the Sega Genesis was called the Mega Drive, was an add-on for said console that added a CD drive and 768kB of RAM. How could this go wrong? The Sega CD meets the LaserActiveĪ quick overview.
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But Pioneer didn’t– they released a PAC for the LaserActive that brings it the full power of the Sega CD.
But sometimes I think people just remember the FMV games and also Sega’s later 32X add-on disaster, and write it off.
The Sega CD gets a bad reputation nowadays it’s a very impressive piece of hardware, and has some great games for it.