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If the Power Base Converter is largely plastic why do they seem so expensive on the used market? I would imagine tons of clones would be available by now.

There seems to be one IC on the PCB in addition to the passives. Maybe this is some hard to clone chip?

[1]:https://retrostuff.org/2016/05/07/power-base-fm/

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They were never popular and sold poorly. Few people had a Master System, and even fewer wanted to play those games on a Genesis. Sega kept advertising it, as a statement more than anything. That explains how hard it is to find one.

I am not sure why that is the case. I used to have one that was a cheap small converter cartridge. To explore how it worked, I was amazed to see that there where no chips on the board but merely contacts and traces.

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