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Sega Mega-CD Development Unit Power Up

Nix McRetro // 10th February 2013 // Devkit, Sega, YouTube

I finally found some space to get this beast of a devkit up on the bench to make sure the basics work - and they do! At least as far as I can tell. It’s not like I have a degree for programming games or the time at the moment... Continue reading

Sophia Systems Sega Saturn Programming Box

Nix McRetro // 8th February 2013 // Devkit, Repairs, Sega

Above is just a brief video of the Sophia getting put back together. Well, I’m halfway. The mainboard is in but not the board with the RAM on it. Need to get that photographed and then put back in. I’ve finally completed photographing the internals of my Sophia Systems SegaSaturn... Continue reading

Sega Mega-CD Development Unit / Cross Products SNASM Mega CD

Nix McRetro // 22nd January 2013 // Devkit, Repairs, Sega

An overview of my latest addition to the collection. Cost me a pretty penny, but sure is a highlight now… looking forward to pulling it apart and admiring the internals. Video will follow in a few weeks/months. In the meantime enjoy the video! Continue reading

Aiwa Mega-CD CSD-GM1 Game Unit BIOS Extraction

Nix McRetro // 21st January 2013 // Hacks, Repairs, Sega

This one is a three parter - Disassembly, desoldering and dumping the ROM. The mask ROM is labelled as MPR-15768-T and turned out to be 27C1024 compatible. Which is 1 megabit or 128 kilobyte from what I can gather. First time it has been dumped and released into the wild... Continue reading

Sega Mega Drive 32X with Jittery Distorted Video

Nix McRetro // 20th January 2013 // Repairs, Sega, YouTube

This is part two of the ongoing saga that is the Sega Mega Drive 32X on PAL hardware. So you don’t have to click around too much, part 1 is below. Edit: The solution to this problem is over on Assembler Games. Alternatively you can just not use a VA4... Continue reading