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Recapping the Sega TeraDrive Model 3 Floppy Drive

Nix McRetro // 16th December 2019 // IBM PC, Repairs, Sega

The hard drives are all recapped, so we move along to the floppy drives. Ronnie of Assembler Games warned me about their leaky capacitors. The TeraDrive Model 3 only has one floppy drive, so this is essentially a run-through for the big kahuna, the Model 2 with its two floppy... Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive WDL-330P Comparison

Nix McRetro // 15th December 2019 // IBM PC, Sega, YouTube

With recapping of the 30MB hard drives complete, we have a look at the exterior of each drive including their model numbers and whatnot. Next up we will be recapping the floppy drives in both the model 2 and model 3 TeraDrives. Previous: Sega TeraDrive Model 3 WDL-330P Hard Drive... Continue reading

Capture Tests from Composite and Mac

Nix McRetro // 14th December 2019 // Gaming, Nintendo, Sega

Mario Tennis (N64) (2000) Super Strike Eagle (SNES) (1993) Super Turrican (SNES) (1993) This is how we do it! Game on! These were mostly captured with my old composite-to-USB H.264 encoder. Unfortunately, that capture setup no longer works with macOS 10.15 Catalina, which dropped support for 32-bit apps. I guess... Continue reading

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: removing and recapping the drive from the Model 3. 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... 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! Previous: Sega TeraDrive Spare... Continue reading