A Dinosaur's Tale (World) Region Free Edition

By Simone D. Alemanno

Posted by Simone D. Alemanno Mar 21, 2026

Game Name A Dinosaur's Tale

Platform SEGA Genesis

Genre Action

Language English

Status Complete

Type of hack Unlocker

Version Only Version

Release Date 2026-03-13

Downloads 46

Description

A Dinosaur's Tale is a Sega Genesis action platformer game developed by Funcom and published by Hi-Tech Expressions. It is based on the 1993 animated movie We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, which tells the story of four dinosaurs (Rex, Elsa, Woog and Dweeb) who travel to present-day New York and become intelligent after they eat the "Brain Grain" cereal created by scientist Captain Neweyes. In this game, you play as either Louie or Cecilia, whom must help the dinosaurs get to the Museum of Natural History.

The game was only released in the United States in 1993, and never received a release in Europe or in other PAL territories.

This simple patch removes the region lock in the ROM and makes the game region free; as a result, it can be played on a Japanese/European Mega Drive console in 60Hz and 50Hz refresh rates respectively, while remaining still playable on a NTSC Genesis console.

Please note that the background music will be slower if the game is played on a PAL Mega Drive, as it's the case with many other games for the system.

Hashes

Filename: Unknown
CRC32: 20210226
SHA-1: B1F8E741399FD2C28DFB1C3340AF868D222B1C14
Verified: No

Staff Credits

Simone D. Alemanno: hex editing, made the ROM region free

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Last comments

Adrian Gauna 2026-03-18

You'd know if the checksum needed fixing, upon boot you would be greeted with an endless red screen or a black screen. Your ROM hack patch is perfectly fine and clean. I checked the checksum after I patched your patch and it said it was okay. It's nothing against you I do this with every patch I download from other people, I always run it through that E.S.E. Checksum app as a bin file just to make sure. It only takes a second to fix the checksum anyway, it's about the easiest thing we can do to ROM hack lol. Well done Simone. (y)

Simone D. Alemanno 2026-03-17

Indeed it is 😄 I honestly thought I had to fix the checksum afterwards even though it didn't show me a checksum error message in the emulator, but I can tell it doesn't seem to mess up with the checksum at all.

Adrian Gauna 2026-03-17

Yeah it works perfectly on real hardware. I like how you changed the date and put your own name in it. Hex editing can be fun.

Simone D. Alemanno 2026-03-15

Thank you! You see, I was actually going to do this sooner but was prompted to only after watching the original movie (which I did enjoy, by the way). Also, let me know if this hack works on real hardware, I'd be happy if I knew it did.

Adrian Gauna 2026-03-14

Congratulations Simone! I'm happy you decided to give it a try. You should unlock more of these and make them into entries.