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 mainboard has md printed upon it standing for mega drive as it is a mega drive 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