For some reason, I got an imported Genesis on my 10th birthday (which my father transcoded to PAL-M himself) in 1992. It was the original model and it only came with the RF cable/box. I don't know if the Genesis 2 (released here as the Mega Drive 3) was the same.
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It has a great native RGB output, so just get an unoriginal RGB SCART cable.
The problem is, what to do with the other end of the SCART cable...!
AFAIK, most of the world didn't use this connector, and most consumer TVs around the world didn't have any sort of RGB input. I had certainly never heard of any of this back in the day.
I did recently buy SCART cables and a converter to HDMI (not a very good one, it seems, but I could never afford a Framemeister!), but the result was beyond crappy... Connecting the composite video directly to the TV still resulted in a better image quality!
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it's really the only proper way to play IMO.
I do like NTSC artifacts though, specially on the MD/Genesis, where many games dither colors using vertical bars.