How to Port Forward SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection is Sega's Compilation game released in 2009.

Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection is a compilation of games. Compilation games are a great way to get a bunch of games for a lower price. Lately game publishers have been compiling older arcade style games in a compilation and selling them as a single package.

How to Port Forward Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection

When you are playing Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and on occasion even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to find your router's IP Address

The easiest way to navigate to your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

Quickly get your ports forwarded using Network Utilities. Then when you are done you can just as easily close your ports back down to keep your network as secure as possible. You can also do it manually.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Ports To Forward for Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection

The specific ports that need to be forwarded for Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection are as follows:

Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection - Playstation 3

  • TCP: 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658

We have guides that are custom tailored for Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection that will show you the incoming ports that need to be forwarded.

When you are done following those steps your ports will be forwarded. Be sure to check out our full list of games and programs that can be forwarded.

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