Difference between revisions of "Unlicensed Mega Drive clones (Mega Drive)"

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In the early 1990s, Sega were unable or unwilling to release the original Sega Mega Drive in multiple markets at once. Instead the release was staggered across the globe between 1988 and 1995. Taiwanese firms often made their own clones to capitalise on this shortage. By the time this skill had been mastered, however, much of the world was supplied with the console by official vendors.

1 China
2 India
- 2.1 Media Grand Master
3 Indonesia
- 3.1 Mega Drive (unknown)
- 3.2 Genesis (unknown)
4 Middle East
5 Poland
- 5.1 Hunt 16 bit
- 5.2 Macro Drive
6 Russia
- 6.1 Fugi Star Drive
7 Serbia and Montenegro
- 7.1 Star Drive II
8 South America
9 Taiwan
- 9.1 Dr Super Star Drive
10 Turkey
- 10.1 SB-001/Niysa Assai P5
11 Worldwide
- 11.1 Mega Drive (unknown)
- 11.2 Siga Miga Drive
12 Others
13 Unsorted

China

Beta

By Shanghai Huze Electronics Co.

New Star Series

By Tianjing Newstar Electronics., Ltd.

SB-16A

Made by Subor.

Shiba Super Game

By Beijing Aipu Electromechanical Development Co. Ltd.

India

Media Grand Master

Made for the Indian market by Media Entertainment System known for making Nintendo 8-bit clones.

Indonesia

Mega Drive (unknown)

Mega Drive with 20 built in games.

21 game variant

Genesis (unknown)

A Japanese-style Mega Drive with "Genesis" labeled on top.

Middle East

Gamestar

cartridge of the built in menu
alt
alt (Bruce Lee)

Mega Drive 2000

Rinco New Home Computer Super Mega III

The 16-bit successor of Rinco Home Computer 3600, a famiclone popular in the region.

Star Drive

(1995)
(1996)

Poland

Hunt 16 bit

Sold by E-Moll.

Macro Drive

Sold by ElektroTEL.

Label
Label (alt)

Russia

Fugi Star Drive

Released around 1994, advertised as Russian-made clone by a Moscow-based company Teplostar. It cost about 300,000 RUB. The console was presented in the Russian TV show Computer Hall. It's successor is Fugi Star Drive 2.

Serbia and Montenegro

Star Drive II

^[1]

South America

Mega Drive (Argevision)

Argevision made knock-off video game consoles and accessories for Argentina. This is their stab at the Mega Drive.

Super Songa

One of several attempts to crack the Mega Drive clone market by Songa. The box is based on KW-501 clone named Super Mega 16 Bit. Available in Argentina.

King Karol

Distributed in Argentina by King Karol Argentina.

King Karol mascot as Sonic the Hedgehog

NG-16 (YS-750)

By Dynacom.

Mega Drive (Kinyo)

Bog standard Mega Drive clone by Kinyo.

Mega Drive (NASA)

Taiwan

Dr Super Star Drive

Mega Drive clone by Songtly Enterprise Co, Ltd.. It's successor is Dr Super Star Drive 2.

DrSUPER Star Drive
Back label
Internals

Turkey

SB-001/Niysa Assai P5

Made by "Family Game" in Taiwan and "Niysa IT Company" in Turkey. Standard Mega Drive clone with Mega CD support, but with no region encoding and a 50-60Hz switch. Despite the box art it is thought to have shipped with fairly standard three button controllers. PAL-B, PAL-D, PAL-I, PAL-N and NTSC variants supposedly exist. Includes built-in DOS-like operating system.

alt

Worldwide

Mega Drive (unknown)

A fairly boring Mega Drive clone which appears from time to time which can be identify by lack of Sega logo on controller in the front box and physically. Shipped with two odd-looking six button controllers and a multicart of some description, and the colours are off.

Clone (Example)	Original (Example)

Z series
A205 series

Siga Miga Drive

One of the earliest clones.

Advert including a feature on how to tell a genuine Mega Drive from a clone (Siga as example). Print advert in Freak (IL) #10 (1993-xx-xx)

Others

35 Games Mega Drive

Console branded by 35 in 1 Golden Mega Game.

Generation 2

Mega 16 Plus

Mega Drive with a different label. The underside calls it a Dr. Super Star Drive, however it has a different to the console described above.

Mega 16 Plus
PCB

Mega Drive (unknown)

Box design based on Genesis 3 style.

Super Creation

It has the Mega CD connector and and a secondary internal cartridge slot where a multicart pcb is plugged in. When there is no cartridge inserted into the main cartridge slot, it runs whatever cartridge is inserted into the internal cartridge slot. Uses a 5-pin DIN connector for the av-out, so it only outputs composite video (and rf). This one shipped with three button turbo controllers. Some models have been spotted lacking the internal cartridge slot.

Alt
Variant without internal cartridge slot.

Samba Super Game

Super Mega

Laser Flash

Gentry IQ-1600

Super Mission SM-2001

It's successor is Super Mission 2.

Super Sinca(?)

Game Drive

Super Genesis

Super Vega

Unsorted

Unlicensed Mega Drive clones

Clone consoles

Mega Drive	Mega Drive 2	Genesis 3	"Mini"	"PlayStation"	Keyboard	VCD/DVD
AT-168 \| FR-302 \| High Quality \| HK-986 \| KW-500 \| Mega-Ken \| Pro 16 Bit \| Super Drive	Extreme Land Mega Drive 2 \| Game Drive 2 \| Liko BBG-688 \| Mega Drive II (StarGame) \| Mega Drive 4 \| Mondial Drive II \| New Star 2 \| Star Drive 2 \| Super Drive \| Super Mega Driver \| ZW-162J \| ZW-165A	Game Joy \| Mega Drive Junior \| Sponge \| ZW-2000	16 Bit Compact MD HDMI \| MD Compact \| Minigen \| Minigen HD	BBG 168 \| Kombat 16 \| Sega Millenium \| TV Pump \| ZW-166A	CyberShell \| CyberSmart \| EZcom \| GS-200 \| Magistr 16	Game VCD \| Premier

Unique designs

1990s

AX-660 | AX-990 | BBG 188 | IQ-801 | KW-501 | KW-502 | KW-503 | KW-504 | KW-505 | Megagame | Megavision | Modern Mate | New 16 Bit | Power Magicom | Super Alpha II | Super 16 Bit

2000s

2010s

2020s

Portables

Cartridge-based

Emulator-based

Clone console "families"

↑ Svet Kompjutera, "Februar 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 84

[:File:SvetKompjutera_YU_137.pdf_p84-1] Svet Kompjutera, "Februar 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 84

[1]

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 *[[Super Drive]]
-==South America==
+==China==
-===Mega Drive (Argevision)===
+===Beta===
-[[Argevision]] made knock-off video game consoles and accessories for Argentina. This is their stab at the Mega Drive.
+By [[Shanghai Huze Electronics Co.]]
 <gallery>
-File:MDArgevision.jpg
+Beta MD Box Front.jpg
 </gallery>
-===Super Songa===
+===New Star Series===
-One of several attempts to crack the Mega Drive clone market by [[Songa]]. The box is based on [[KW-501]] clone named ''Super Mega 16 Bit''. Available in Argentina.
+By [[Tianjing Newstar Electronics., Ltd.]]
 <gallery>
-File:SuperSonga.jpg
+Notavailable.svg
-SuperSonga MD Bottom.jpg
-SuperSonga MD AR Box Front.jpg
 </gallery>
-===King Karol===
+===SB-16A===
-Distributed in Argentina by [[King Karol Argentina]].
+Made by [[Subor]].
 <gallery>
-KingKarol MD Box Front.jpg
+SB16A MD Box Front.jpg
-Bootleg Sonic40Lives MD Cart 1.jpg|King Karol mascot as [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]
+SB16A MD.jpg
 </gallery>
-===NG-16 (YS-750)===
+===Shiba Super Game===
-By [[Dynacom]].
+By [[Beijing Aipu Electromechanical Development Co. Ltd.]]
 <gallery>
 Notavailable.svg
 </gallery>
-===Mega Drive (Kinyo)===
+==India==
-Bog standard Mega Drive clone by [[Kinyo]].
+===Media Grand Master===
+Made for the Indian market by [[Media Entertainment System]] known for making Nintendo 8-bit clones.
+<gallery>
+MediaGrandMaster.png
+</gallery>
+==Indonesia==
+===Mega Drive (unknown)===
+Mega Drive with 20 built in games.
+<gallery>
+File:MDClone3.jpg
+MDClone MD 21G.jpg|21 game variant
+</gallery>
+===Genesis (unknown)===
+A Japanese-style Mega Drive with "Genesis" labeled on top.
+<gallery>
+File:MDClone2.jpg
+</gallery>
+==Middle East==
+===Gamestar===
+<gallery>
+gamestartop.png
+Gamestarbottom.png
+Media-Gamestarinsidetop.png
+Media-Gamestarinsidebottom.png
+gamestarboxfront.png
+ganestarboxback.png
+gamestarboxside.png
+Gamestarbuiltincart.jpg|cartridge of the built in menu
+MD Gamestar Box alt.jpg|alt
+MD Gamestar Box alt Back.jpg
+Notavailable.svg|alt (Bruce Lee)
+</gallery>
+===Mega Drive 2000===
 <gallery>
-File:Kinyo.jpg
+MegaDrive2000 MD Box Front.jpg
+MD2000 Box Front Kish.jpg
+MD2000 Box Front Kish Alt.jpg
 </gallery>
-===Mega Drive (NASA)===
+===Rinco New Home Computer Super Mega III===
+The 16-bit successor of Rinco Home Computer 3600, a famiclone popular in the region.
 <gallery>
-MD Clone NASA.jpg
+Notavailable.svg
 </gallery>
-==India==
+===Star Drive===
-===Media Grand Master===
-Made for the Indian market by [[Media Entertainment System]] known for making Nintendo 8-bit clones.
 <gallery>
-MediaGrandMaster.png
+StarDriveSuper95 MD Box Front.png|(1995)
+StarDrive96 MD Box Front.png|(1996)
 </gallery>
@@ Line 83: / Line 119: @@
 </gallery>
-==Arabian Peninsula==
+==Serbia and Montenegro==
-===Gamestar===
+===Star Drive II===
+<gallery>
+Notavailable.svg|{{magref|sk|137|84}}
+</gallery>
+==South America==
+===Mega Drive (Argevision)===
+[[Argevision]] made knock-off video game consoles and accessories for Argentina. This is their stab at the Mega Drive.
+<gallery>
+File:MDArgevision.jpg
+</gallery>
+===Super Songa===
+One of several attempts to crack the Mega Drive clone market by [[Songa]]. The box is based on [[KW-501]] clone named ''Super Mega 16 Bit''. Available in Argentina.
 <gallery>
-gamestartop.png
+File:SuperSonga.jpg
-Gamestarbottom.png
+SuperSonga MD Bottom.jpg
-Media-Gamestarinsidetop.png
+SuperSonga MD AR Box Front.jpg
-Media-Gamestarinsidebottom.png
-gamestarboxfront.png
-ganestarboxback.png
-gamestarboxside.png
-Gamestarbuiltincart.jpg|cartridge of the built in menu
-MD Gamestar Box alt.jpg|alt
-MD Gamestar Box alt Back.jpg
-Notavailable.svg|alt (Bruce Lee)
 </gallery>
-===Star Drive===
+===King Karol===
+Distributed in Argentina by [[King Karol Argentina]].
 <gallery>
-StarDriveSuper95 MD Box Front.png|(1995)
+KingKarol MD Box Front.jpg
-StarDrive96 MD Box Front.png|(1996)
+Bootleg Sonic40Lives MD Cart 1.jpg|King Karol mascot as [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]
 </gallery>
-===Rinco New Home Computer Super Mega III===
+===NG-16 (YS-750)===
-The 16-bit successor of Rinco Home Computer 3600, a famiclone popular in the region.
+By [[Dynacom]].
 <gallery>
 Notavailable.svg
 </gallery>
-==Serbia and Montenegro==
+===Mega Drive (Kinyo)===
-===Star Drive II===
+Bog standard Mega Drive clone by [[Kinyo]].
+<gallery>
+File:Kinyo.jpg
+</gallery>
+===Mega Drive (NASA)===
+<gallery>
+MD Clone NASA.jpg
+</gallery>
+==Taiwan==
+===Dr Super Star Drive===
+Mega Drive clone by [[Songtly Enterprise Co, Ltd.]]. It's successor is [[Star Drive 2|Dr Super Star Drive 2]].
 <gallery>
-Notavailable.svg|{{magref|sk|137|84}}
+File:drsuper_stardrive_1.jpg|DrSUPER Star Drive
+File:drsuper_stardrive_2.jpg|Back label
+File:drsuper_stardrive_3.jpg|Internals
 </gallery>
@@ Line 127: / Line 183: @@
 </gallery>
-==Indonesia==
+==Worldwide==
-===Mega Drive (unknown)===
-Mega Drive with 20 built in games.
-<gallery>
-File:MDClone3.jpg
-MDClone MD 21G.jpg|21 game variant
-</gallery>
-===Genesis (unknown)===
-A Japanese-style Mega Drive with "Genesis" labeled on top.
-<gallery>
-File:MDClone2.jpg
-</gallery>
-==Others==
 ===Mega Drive (unknown)===
 A fairly boring Mega Drive clone which appears from time to time which can be identify by lack of Sega logo on controller in the front box and physically. Shipped with two odd-looking six button controllers and a multicart of some description, and the colours are off.
@@ Line 180: / Line 222: @@
 </gallery>
+===Siga Miga Drive===
+One of the earliest clones.
+{{gitem|Siga MD Box Front.png}}
+{{gitem|Siga.jpg}}
+{{gitem|SegaIsraelSegaClub IL PrintAd.jpg|Advert including a feature on how to tell a genuine Mega Drive from a clone (Siga as example). Print advert in Freak (IL) #10 (1993-xx-xx)
+}}
+==Others==
 ===35 Games Mega Drive===
 Console branded by [[35 in 1 Golden Mega Game]].
@@ Line 185: / Line 235: @@
 MD 35 games Box Front.png
 MD 35 games.png
-</gallery>
-===Beta===
-By [[Shanghai Huze Electronics Co.]]
-<gallery>
-Beta MD Box Front.jpg
-</gallery>
-===Dr Super Star Drive===
-Mega Drive clone made in China by Shenzhen Jichang Elec. Co. It's successor is [[Star Drive 2|Dr Super Star Drive 2]].
-<gallery>
-File:drsuper_stardrive_1.jpg|DrSUPER Star Drive
-File:drsuper_stardrive_2.jpg|Back label
-File:drsuper_stardrive_3.jpg|Internals
 </gallery>
@@ Line 219: / Line 255: @@
 MD Box Front Clone.jpg
 </gallery>
-===SB-16A===
-Made by [[Subor]].
-<gallery>
-SB16A MD Box Front.jpg
-SB16A MD.jpg
-</gallery>
-===Siga Miga Drive===
-One of the earliest clones.
-{{gitem|Siga MD Box Front.png}}
-{{gitem|Siga.jpg}}
-{{gitem|SegaIsraelSegaClub IL PrintAd.jpg|Advert including a feature on how to tell a genuine Mega Drive from a clone (Siga as example). Print advert in Freak (IL) #10 (1993-xx-xx)
-}}
 ===Super Creation===
@@ Line 252: / Line 274: @@
 File:MD Samba Super Game Bottom.jpg
 File:MD Samba Super Game Internals.jpg
-</gallery>
-===Shiba Super Game===
-By [[Beijing Aipu Electromechanical Development Co. Ltd.]]
-<gallery>
-Notavailable.svg
 </gallery>
@@ Line 296: / Line 312: @@
 File:MD Clone Game Drive.jpg
 File:MD Clone Game Drive Internal.jpg
-</gallery>
-===New Star Series===
-By [[Tianjing Newstar Electronics., Ltd.]]
-<gallery>
-Notavailable.svg
 </gallery>
@@ Line 307: / Line 317: @@
 <gallery>
 Notavailable.svg
-</gallery>
-===Mega Drive 2000===
-<gallery>
-MegaDrive2000 MD Box Front.jpg
-MD2000 Box Front Kish.jpg
-MD2000 Box Front Kish Alt.jpg
 </gallery>

Difference between revisions of "Unlicensed Mega Drive clones (Mega Drive)"

From Sega Retro

Revision as of 13:29, 30 December 2023

Contents

China

Beta

New Star Series

SB-16A

Shiba Super Game

India

Media Grand Master

Indonesia

Mega Drive (unknown)

Genesis (unknown)

Middle East

Gamestar

Mega Drive 2000

Rinco New Home Computer Super Mega III

Star Drive

Poland

Hunt 16 bit

Macro Drive

Russia

Fugi Star Drive

Serbia and Montenegro

Star Drive II

South America

Mega Drive (Argevision)

Super Songa

King Karol

NG-16 (YS-750)

Mega Drive (Kinyo)

Mega Drive (NASA)

Taiwan

Dr Super Star Drive

Turkey

SB-001/Niysa Assai P5

Worldwide

Mega Drive (unknown)

Siga Miga Drive

Others

35 Games Mega Drive

Generation 2

Mega 16 Plus

Mega Drive (unknown)

Super Creation

Samba Super Game

Super Mega

Laser Flash

Gentry IQ-1600

Super Mission SM-2001

Super Sinca(?)

Game Drive

Super Genesis

Super Vega

Unsorted