Alvin Flummux wrote:Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Alvin Flummux wrote:My MegaDrives are growing old and no longer function properly. I don't feel like searching out a retro console repair site so maybe I should get this.
Will there be a PAL version though? That is the question.
Are they region-locked? I didn't think they ever did that to cart-based platforms.
Um yeah. Region locking was basically a side effect of how the hardware worked. On the original Atari, for example, carts were physically not compatible because of the way the TV signal was generated. You literally needed to rewrite the software for different regions.
The only consoles that weren't really region locked were handhelds, because every console obeyed the same display standards (because they had their own built in screen) and because it made no sense to lock a handheld which, by definition, might be used in any number of different countries.