{"id":105,"date":"2009-10-15T01:11:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2012-06-23T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T16:42:37","slug":"mega-drive-32x","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/?page_id=105","title":{"rendered":"Mega Drive 32X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Region Free with hardware modification only<\/span><\/span> (Though some titles are <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Region Free<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Alright, this is a confusing one, so bear with me. The 32X uses the Mega Drive it&#8217;s connected to to determine its region, but at the same time it has its own NTSC\/PAL setting in that the hardware clock sync is different between the two standards. Confused yet? Let me break it down a bit more. The 32X has 2 variants, PAL and NTSC. The Mega Drive has 3 region settings: EU, US and JP. For a 32X game to successfully boot, one of the following 3 combinations has to be met: NTSC-USA for American 32X carts, NTSC-JP for Japanese carts, or PAL-EU for European carts. No games will work with the other 3 potential combos (for the record: PAL-USA, PAL-JP and NTSC-EU).<\/p>\n<p>Adaptors can switch the region of the system around, but they cannot switch around the 32X&#8217;s variant; so for example if you stuck a converter cart in the chain somewhere and attempted to boot an American 32X title on a European 32X and Mega Drive you would end up with PAL-USA, and the cart would not start.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the only way around this is modifying the 32X &#8211; and honestly, it&#8217;s a lot less bother to just find an American or Japanese 32X on eBay. When plugged into either a Japanese or American Mega Drive respectively, the NTSC 32X (remember the 32X&#8217;s variant is common for the two) will boot JP and USA games respectively. This trick also means if you have an unmodified NTSC (American or Japanese) 32X and a USA &lt;&#8211;&gt; JP region-modded NTSC (again American or Japanese) Mega Drive, then this will play all NTSC 32X games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region Free with hardware modification only (Though some titles are Region Free) Alright, this is a confusing one, so bear with me. The 32X uses the Mega Drive it&#8217;s connected to to determine its region, but at the same time it has its own NTSC\/PAL setting in that the hardware clock sync is different between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}