FAQ: Can You Play Genesis ROMs on a Sega CD?
This question has been asked all over the Net during the last decade or so. I just encountered this topic again today and thought I would address it here.
No, there is not a way to play Genesis/Megadrive ROMs on the Sega CD. The system does not have a way to nativly play them. It also does not have the horsepower to emulate itself.
The closest thing to this was an attempt to convert Neo-Geo ROMs to Neo-Geo CD format. The project produced a couple successful conversions, but it seems to have been killed off.
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Absolutely correct!
You know these flash cartridges for Mega Drive and 32X? If it could be done to flash them with a ROM from a Mega CD application….
best idea is to softmod an xbox put the emulator on there, torrent all the megadrive roms and there u have it!
every single game there was and u dont even have to open the box.
You can get a megacart from tototek.com that allows you to flash from a CD onto the cart then play.
so basically…..you just cant copy the files of a rom (lets say, sonic the hedgehog) to a CD? and be able to run it on the real SEGA CD hardware?
That’s correct — you cannot do that…
If this isn’t possible yet, it should be be. How else did Sega make the 4 in 1 and 5 in 1 discs that came with the original Sega CD and CDX respectively? If someone had access to the original source code for those titles, they could reverse engineer a loading program for other Roms. I’m betting size would be a factor however, depends on the ram and other factors. But in my mind Sega’s own publication of those discs shows it is possible to run carts of a CD.
Time travel, and objects moving at greater than speed of light are also possible. They just hadn’t been done by humans yet.
I don’t think those were emulators — they were most likely straight Genesis-to-Sega CD ports. No software to interpret the game.
so could we create a converter program to convert the genesis roms to sega cd format just take a look at sonic 1 megamix a sonic 1 hack it started of as a megadrive game then ported to sega cd
Hi,
we managed to did this for the pc engine. Thanks to the internal ram provided by the cd system, we could load a patched rom in it to run it (it is patched because it is executed from bank 0×68 and not bank 0×00 occupied by the cd system itself). It can only run games of 1 mbits maximum and only when we managed to patch it correctly (which is not an easy task).
You can see the project there : http://www.zeograd.com/super_hucard_download.php
regards,
Zeo
Speaking of Sonic 1 Megamix, I just downloaded the new ISO of the completed project and burned it to cd. It works perfectly fine on a real Sega CD. Team Megamix must know how to do it if they just did with their project.
Once I get my hands on a Model 2, I’ll buy Sonic CD and burn Sonic 1 Megamix to a CD-R.
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