Aparently, someone has figured out how to overclock a Genesis. They were able to get it up to 16Mhz (from the stock 7.6Mhz) with no overheating. I guess this cures any lag games may have from the default settings.

Of course this makes me curious why Sega didn't opt for this in the first place. It certainly would have been a crushing blow to Nintendo, although Sega did have the faster console even without any speed up. I'm sure Sega had their reasons (or perhaps their chip manufacturer did).

I actually have a spare Genesis laying around and I may just try this at some point. I was going to sell my spare this spring, when I plan on going through all of my games and trimming my collection down (I'll post more here when I sell off some stuff, be warned), but instead I may just try this hack. I'd be curious to try it side by side with the original on a couple of games (Gaiares comes to mind). Might be an interesting experiment.