Playing Sega CD(NTSC) and Mega CD(PAL) Games

You can play Mega Drive and Sega CD(NTSC) games from USA fine in the Genesis or Mega Drive Flashback 2018, but if you play a PAL game in a Mega Drive Flashback 2018 thats a Mega CD FMV game then there voices are out of sync with the video by 1 second because the Genesis and Mega Drive Flashback 2018/9 are the same device, just have a different Box and logo.

Its the Emulator, its running at 60Hz 30 FPS(NTSC) not 50Hz 25 FPS(PAL) so FMV PAL Mega-CD games don't play on it properly, the video is ruining at 30 FPS and the sound is running at 25 FPS so you have to play the Sega CD USA Version of the game on it but another problem with that is the games are faster, some PAL games are ok cause you don't notice the delay in the sound like Mega Drive games and some Mega CD games that are not FMV like Sonic CD.

It was made for the US market, they were imported by other companies to that country, like Argos imported it into the UK and Five Star Games in Australia, they all uses the same hardware and software as the Genesis Flashback 2018.Thats why there is only updates for the US Version and why the EU Version has no About tab.

You can see it here playing a music video from a Mega Power demo disc No#2 and Double Switch the Mega CD PAL version, its really bad.. AtGames only support the Genesis Flashback 2018 only and not any of the other consoles in other countries.

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