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 1992/1993, which meant that for many, the only short-term option was to import Mega Drive systems from countries like Japan. This was costly, and so Taiwanese firms often made their own 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, so most older Mega Drive clones were only sold in regions such as South America.

Russia

Mega-Ken

Sold by Kenga in Russia. Two variants exist.

"SG-900"

Magazine articles

Main article: Mega-Ken/Magazine articles.

Pro 16 Bit

This one was distributed by Steepler and Dendy, who were responsible for the hugely successful Dendy Famiclone in Ex-USSR. Suffice to say the Pro 16 Bit did not match that success.Price before denomination was 223000 RUB. There is also another version sold in Poland by an unknown distributor

There is also a Songa II model.

Ex-USSR version
RU Manual
PL version
PL version label

Print advert in Video-Ace Dendy (RU) #10 (1994-07-28)

Print advert in Video-Ace Korona (RU) #2 (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in Video-Ace Dendy (RU) #12 (1994-10-28)

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. Available in South America.

Others

Dr Super Star Drive

Mega Drive clone made in China by Shenzhen Jichang Elec. Co.

DrSUPER Star Drive
Back label
Internals

Genesis (unknown)

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

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 (Kinyo)

Bog standard Mega Drive clone by Kinyo. Found in South America.

Mega Drive (unknown)

A fairly boring Mega Drive clone which appears from time to time. Shipped with two odd-looking six button controllers and a multicart of some description, and the colours are off.

Mega Drive (unknown)

Mega Drive with 20 built in games. Found in Indonesia.

21 game variant

Saga

We have no clue about this one. This 2011 auction from seller dxghunterchen for 1,200 TWD has the title "SAGA 16 bit 電玩主機整套含～ 1款卡匣兩個把手一個搖桿" and no product description — just the three photos below. It could be just a compilation showing an official Mega Drive with unofficial peripherals in an alternate Macro Drive box, but who knows for certain. The only identifiable peripheral is the HonyU Explorer-I one. The cart shown is Ma Jiang Qing Ren: Ji Ma Jiang Zhi.

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.

Siga

Mega Drive with a different label.

Siga

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

Gamestar

MD Gamestar.jpg

Gentry IQ-1600

Super Mission SM-2001

Super Sinca(?)

Game Drive

Unsorted

Hunt16Bit MD Box Front.jpg
Hunt16Bit MD Box Back.jpg

Unlicensed Mega Drive clones

Clone consoles

Mega Drive	Mega Drive 2	Genesis 3
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

Other designs

1990s

AX-660 | AX-990 | BBG 168 | BBG 188 | EZcom | Game VCD | KW-501 | KW-502 | KW-503 | KW-504 | KW-505 | 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"

@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
 File:MegaKenSG900.jpg|"SG-900"
 </gallery>
+====Magazine articles====
+{{mainArticle|Mega-Ken/Magazine articles}}
 ===Pro 16 Bit===
-This one was distributed by Steepler, who were responsible for the hugely successful Dendy Famiclone in Russia. Suffice to say the Pro 16 Bit did not match that success.
+This one was distributed by [[Steepler]] and Dendy, who were responsible for the hugely successful Dendy Famiclone in Ex-USSR. Suffice to say the Pro 16 Bit did not match that success.Price before denomination was 223000 RUB. There is also another version sold in Poland by an unknown distributor
+There is also a [[Songa II]] model.
 <gallery>
-File:Pro16Bit.jpg
+File:Pro16Bit.jpg|Ex-USSR version
 File:Pro16Bit MD RU Box Front.jpg
 File:Pro16Bit MD RU Box Back.jpg
+Pro 16 bit Manual.jpg|RU Manual
+Pro16Bit PL version.jpeg|PL version
+Pro16Bit PL Label.jpg|PL version label
 </gallery>
+{{galleryPrintAd
+|VAD 10 RU Dendy.jpg|vad|10|
+}}
+{{galleryPrintAd
+|VAK 2 RU Dendy.png|vak|2|
+}}
+{{galleryPrintAd
+|VAD 12 RU Dendy.jpg|vad|12|
+}}
 ==South America==
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 File:SuperSonga.jpg
 </gallery>
-==Taiwan++
-==HK-986==
-Made and sold in Taiwan by Hao Kang Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. (豪康電子工業有限公司). A fairly standard clone of the Japanese Mega Drive. Region is set to Japan and tv system is NTSC. Comes with two turbo controllers.
-<gallery>
-File:MD Clone HK986 Box Front.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Box Back.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Contents.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Contents2.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Top.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Back.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Bottom.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Bottom Sticker.JPG
-File:MD Clone HK986 Internals.JPG
-File:HK986 MD Box Front.jpg|alt
-File:HK986 MD.jpg|alt, although this one might be a real Mega Drive inside of the box
-</gallery>
 ==Others==
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 ===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.
+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.
 <gallery>
 File:SuperCreation.jpg
@@ Line 127: / Line 125: @@
 File:SuperCreation Internals.jpg
 File:MD Super Creation Alt Box Front.jpg|Alt
+File:MD1 Clone Super Creation Alt Internals.jpg|Variant without internal cartridge slot.
 </gallery>
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 File:MD Gamestar Box.jpg
 File:MD Gamestar.jpg
+GamestarModel20000 MD Box Front.jpg
+MD Gamestar Box alt.jpg
+MD Gamestar Box alt Back.jpg
+</gallery>
+===Gentry IQ-1600===
+<gallery>
+File:MD Gentry IQ-1600 Box Front.jpg
+File:MD Gentry IQ-1600.jpg
+File:MD Gentry IQ-1600 Bottom.jpg
+File:MD Gentry IQ-1600 Internals.jpg
+</gallery>
+===Super Mission SM-2001===
+<gallery>
+File:MD Super Mission SM-2001 Box Front.JPG
+File:MD Super Mission SM-2001 Box Back.JPG
+File:MD Super Mission SM-2001 Contents.JPG
+</gallery>
+===Super Sinca(?)===
+<gallery>
+File:MD Super Sinca Box Front.jpg
+</gallery>
+===Game Drive===
+<gallery>
+File:MD Clone Game Drive Box Front.jpg
+File:MD Clone Game Drive.jpg
+File:MD Clone Game Drive Internal.jpg
 </gallery>
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 Hunt16Bit MD Box Back.jpg
 Krown MD.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone Internal.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone Bottom.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone 2 Box Front.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone 2 Contents.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone 2.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone 2 Bottom.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone 3.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone 3 Bottom.jpg
+Unknown MD1 Clone 3 Internal.jpg
+MD Clone NASA.jpg
 </gallery>
 {{MDUnlicensed}}

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

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Revision as of 13:58, 27 March 2019

Contents

Russia

Mega-Ken

Magazine articles

Pro 16 Bit

South America

Mega Drive (Argevision)

Super Songa

Others

Dr Super Star Drive

Genesis (unknown)

Mega 16 Plus

Mega Drive (Kinyo)

Mega Drive (unknown)

Mega Drive (unknown)

Saga

SB-001/Niysa Assai P5

Siga

Super Creation

Samba Super Game

Super Mega

Laser Flash

Gamestar

Gentry IQ-1600

Super Mission SM-2001

Super Sinca(?)

Game Drive

Unsorted