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Sega TeraDrive Model 3 WDL-330P Hard Drive Recapping

Nix McRetro // 14th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

With the two spare hard drives recapped, we move onto the main course. The drive is removed and recapped. After this we have just the floppy drives to recap - which prove to be a much more error-filled adventure. Tear a cable here, tear a cable there. That’s my motto!... Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Spare Drive WDL-330P #2 Recapping

Nix McRetro // 13th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

With the first spare drive fixed up, good as new, we move along to the second spare drive. I can’t remember if I bought these as a combo deal or not. Either way I ended up with three separate drives which are all TeraDrive compatible! Lucky! Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Spare Drive WDL-330P #1 Recapping

Nix McRetro // 12th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

The recapping to end all recapping begins. In this video the first of three WDL-330Ps gets the capacitors swapped back to surface mount - the way it should have been in the first place! Continue reading

Current State of the WDL-330P 30MB Hard Drives

Nix McRetro // 11th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

A video review of the horrors I had previously done to these innocent WDL-330P hard drives. Don’t worry, we’ll fix then and their counterpart floppy drives in the next set of videos. This series will take us right through until the coming weekend. So please, pull up a seat and... Continue reading

Sega Dreamcast BIOS and GD-ROM Dumping

Nix McRetro // 9th December 2019 // Guides, Sega, YouTube

Creating backups of your Dreamcast BIOS and games has never been so easy, provided you have a broadband adapter, httpd-ack and a suitable browser to set a static IP address for local network access. Just don’t get lost in the menus like I did in the first video. XDP v7... Continue reading