Double the Power of your Genesis

[WhereEaglesDare]

Replaced the Red LED on the Genesis with a Blue one.

Nothing too special, took maybe 30 minutes to do, thought I'd show it off...



http://puttheglasseson.com/projects/genesis/

[SavannahLion]

Nothing against you but...

What's with all the blue light mods lately?

I actually think a blue light on a Genesis looks out of place. Even more so when someone uses a focused LED rather than a diffuse LED.

[WhereEaglesDare]

Dont you know, the games play better when there is a blue light in it...

I may be able to squeeze out a little bit more processor power if I put some under glows in it...

[Vigo]

Awesome! I think is a good tweak! I like blue LED's, but I think that is because I had a blue LED deprived childhood. Everything was pretty much Green or Red LED's. I am guessing blue was too expensive/not vibrant and bright enough back in the day. 

[northerngames]

my gamecube xbox pc & DC all have blue leds installed too but they been like that for years.

[mgb]

When I recently did the video mods on my Genesis, I figured while its open why not pop in the $1.50 blue led.
Now it matches the power lamps on my Bass Amp

[danny_galaga]

Awesome! I think is a good tweak! I like blue LED's, but I think that is because I had a blue LED deprived childhood. Everything was pretty much Green or Red LED's. I am guessing blue was too expensive/not vibrant and bright enough back in the day.  

I'm pretty sure that blue LEDs were developed a lot later than red and green. This is probably why you didn't see them as a kid. Nor did I. I am forty.

edit: Wiki is our friend (",)

"The first blue LEDs were made in 1971 by Jacques Pankove (inventor of the gallium nitride LED) at RCA Laboratories.[47] These devices had too little light output to be of much practical use. In the late 1980s, key breakthroughs in GaN epitaxial growth and p-type doping[48] ushered in the modern era of GaN-based optoelectronic devices. Building upon this foundation, in 1993 high brightness blue LEDs were demonstrated.[49

By the late 1990s, blue LEDs had become widely available]"

So, some time after the Megadrive at any rate!

[Mikezilla]

Its cool cause the Sega Logo is blue. 

[WhereEaglesDare]

Oh yea, I should paint my genesis Silver... didn't think of that.

[VanillaGorilla]

dont forget to add all the region-free switches too !!

[WhereEaglesDare]

....  maybe i should get a strobe light for it...

[SlayerAlex]

aw i thought this was going to be about the overclock mod. But blue lights are cool too.

[WhereEaglesDare]

i dunno if OCing a Genesis is a good idea...  Sonic already runs really fast.

[SavannahLion]

i dunno if OCing a Genesis is a good idea...  Sonic already runs really fast.

That's the Blast Processing you see there.

[DaveMMR]

i dunno if OCing a Genesis is a good idea...  Sonic already runs really fast.

I've read a couple of sites that detail overclocking the Genesis.  They say a small boost (less 5% perhaps) shows little to no issues (no where close to "doubling" though). Games where there's slowdown (e.g. Sonic when he gets hit and rings go flying everywhere) show improvement.  

But that being said, I'm with you on this.  I'd rather leave the Genesis' CPU alone considering Genesis (or Mega Drive) wasn't really hampered by massive slowdown to begin with.  The S-Video mod, though, is intriguing.

[WhereEaglesDare]

i dunno if OCing a Genesis is a good idea...  Sonic already runs really fast.

I've read a couple of sites that detail overclocking the Genesis.  They say a small boost (less 5% perhaps) shows little to no issues (no where close to "doubling" though). Games where there's slowdown (e.g. Sonic when he gets hit and rings go flying everywhere) show improvement.  

But that being said, I'm with you on this.  I'd rather leave the Genesis' CPU alone considering Genesis (or Mega Drive) wasn't really hampered by massive slowdown to begin with.  The S-Video mod, though, is intriguing.

Yea I think I may start to work on that this weekend.