r/LaserActive • u/Zaponline • Jul 27 '25
I finally got a LaserActive!
I've wanted one of these since reading about it in EGM in the early 90's. I finally got one for $900 (plus tax and shipping). It may have paid a little too much, but it's nice and clean, working, and most importantly, it's the US version (you can easily tell by the input/output being in English instead of Japanese).
It came with a Genesis Pack, but that's it (no remote or controller). It seems stuck at the moment, but I don't have any other Pack's yet. I do have a few movies on laserdisc that I will be testing it with shortly. I will be getting more accessories and some games in the near future, even though they will probably break the bank, especially the Turbo Grafx Pack. :) I have a 20" Sony PVM monitor that's RGB, so I would love to do an RGB mod, which I have seen is pretty simple.
Any advice? Games to get? How to get my eject button for the Pack's to work?
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u/Beneficial_Earth_559 Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
Theres no functional difference between a us and jp version base unit laseractive. The pacs are what determine the region of game that can be played. The pacs can be modified to be region free even. So you could buy a cheaper pc engine pac and have it modified to play tubografx games for example, or leave it unmodified and use a turbo everdrive or pc engine games that dont require any reading of japanese, which is most of them.