Editing Sega Mega Drive (section)

==Trivia==
*Japanese Mega Drive cartridges have a different shape and will not fit in either the American Genesis or the PAL region Mega Drive cartridge slot. Japanese Mega Drive systems also have a piece of plastic that slides in a place of the cartridge when the power switch is turned on, inserting a Genesis cart will make it impossible to turn on a Japanese console. Minor modifications to the plastic locks in the consoles will bypass the regional locks.
**However, the console's main board was designed with language and frequency jumper sets, which originally activated features in the same ROM for the different regions, this feature was later used to enable software-based regional locks that display warning messages that prevent the game from being played. Switches placed instead of the jumpers will bypass the locks.
**In region-locked games, if there is a multiple language feature, it can be changed with the switches after the game has booted-up.
*There are over 900 games released for the Mega Drive/Genesis across seven major regions: Japan, North America, Europe, Australasia, Korea, Asia, and Latin America.
*In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog Level Pack (Lego Dimensions)|Lego Dimensions]]'', after [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] follows [[Doctor Eggman|Dr. Eggman]] through a portal and subsequently battles [[Robo Sonic]], [[Mecha Sonic]] and [[Metal Sonic]]. After he is finished fighting, Metal Sonic explodes and hits the portal device causing three portals to open and the first model of the Sega Mega Drive flies out one of them.
*[[wikipedia:Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association|JAMMA]] made an arcade board called the "Sega Mega Play" in 1991, which has the ability to play Sega Mega Drive games. The hardware was released in Asia and the PAL regions, but never made it to North America.
*This was the first console with online connectivity via the Mega Modem add-on released in Japan only.