Shadow of the beast Sega Genesis

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All right I replaced the old Genesis with a newer one, since the old one wasn't working. The newer genesis plays games, but one. I put the game in, turn the system on, I get the logo screen, I press start and then blackness.(I have restarted the system, pressed no buttons and still the same thing happens) I JUST got this game, with the instruction manual/box as well from the same store that we bought the genesis from.
We cleaned the game, and the system as well. Could it be faulty hardware?
*sigh* I really wanted to play this classic/retro game!(I saw a few videos on Youtube and it looks pretty cool)

There is a whole series of early genesis/mega drive games that only function on the rare first-gen hardware. This might be one of them, I'm not really sure.

What kind of "newer" one? One of those cheap knockoff ones?

There were several models of the genesis released. Kind of like what happened with the PS2, the newer ones were more compact. But some genesis games only work on the very earliest generation of the system for some stupid reason. And when I say earliest I mean like the first few thousand made or something. The original EA did some Amiga ports for the genesis I think, and some of them have this problem.

I know.



Because some EA/Accolade titles were produced without Sega's permission, so Sega added a copy protection screen before the game loads.

There's also a couple games that won't work on the model 3, because they left out some of the traces for the cart port. IIRC, it's just Virtua Racing, which used an advanced chip (kind of like the Super FX chip on the SNES), and the 32X.