If your region didn t fail we wouldn t be having this dispute would we as an asside it s interesting to note that the Genesis Model 2 mainboard has MD2 printed upon it standing for Mega Drive 2 as it is a Mega Drive 2 with a fail name for a fail region due to fail patent laws belonging to a fail law system of fail All Mega Drive hardware made is identical between regions with regional lockout being set with a series of jumpers and every revision of hardware is labelled MD for Mega Drive including the fail Genesis 94 172 127 37