CPU
Motorola MC68000, Hitachi HD68HC000
Sega Mega Drive 2
Sega · 1993
The cost-reduced Mega Drive: smaller, cheaper, a different sound circuit that many think worse, and mono headphone output dropped. It is the common version and the one most Mega CD and 32X setups were built around. Fine for playing, less prized for listening.
As catalogued
- Maker
- Sega
- CPU
- Motorola 68000-7.6
- Memory
- 64K
- Board issues
- VA0, VA1, VA1.8, VA2, VA2.3
- Styles
- Mega Drive 2, Genesis Model 2 (US)
- Regions
- PAL, NTSC-U, NTSC-J
- Chassis
- console (smaller case)
- OS
- cartridge, with TMSS
Chips
Sound CPU
integrated in the ASIC
VDP
Sega 315-5660, Sega 315-5700
FM sound
Yamaha YM3438, integrated in the ASIC
Amplifier
Rohm BA10324, JRC 2100
