Miscellaneous TeraDrive Information
The material below is a rough machine-translated excerpt from a Japanese blog entry by nyanonon, dated 27th April 1994, about miscellaneous TeraDrive information. Some lines are clearly awkward, so I am preserving them as translated source material rather than rewriting the author’s claims into polished modern English. The original entry...
The IBM Personal System/55 5510
While looking into the Sega TeraDrive Model 2, I came across a fascinating Japanese look inside IBM’s PS/55 Type 5510. It is one of those machines that looks familiar at first, until you start paying attention to the motherboard and cables. There is some wonderfully peculiar hardware in here!
Setting Up SGDK Environment Variables
Just leaving this here as a reminder for myself…
Aiwa Mega-CD CSD-GM1 Repair Status: June 2013
Two units, no properly working transformers, cracked circuit boards, a sea of likely bad capacitors and one relatively determined repairer. Much more to come on this one.
Sega Saturn Sophia SIMM CART DIP Switch
Here’s a test of the SIMM CART switch on SW2 at the front of the Sega Saturn Sophia Programming Box. My first interpretation was that it simply selected between the internal SIMM memory and the Saturn cartridge slot. Sega’s development documentation shows that it is more complicated than that.
Wolfenstein 3D on Sega Saturn: Early VBT Port Test
VBT over at ASSEMblergames has been working on getting Wolfenstein 3D running on the Sega Saturn. More specifically, this is early Saturn support for Wolf4SDL.
Sega Saturn Sophia 171-6692B SH-2 Power Cable Adapter
Any other console, I probably wouldn’t bother mentioning this, but since it is Sophia, she gets a mention. My 171-6692B SH-2 CPU cards are not quite the same as the better-documented 171-6692D boards. Most importantly for this particular problem, they are missing the second power header used by the usual...
Phantasy Star IV on the XRGB-mini Framemeister
What you see is what you get. Phantasy Star IV running through the XRGB-mini Framemeister.
Sega Saturn Model 2 Modchip Installation: 0014 Configuration
Here’s a Japanese Model 2 Saturn that needed a modchip, so I went ahead and installed one. This particular console and modchip combination uses the 0014 configuration.
Sophia Systems Sega Saturn Programming Box: Capacitor Restoration Complete
The final backordered capacitors are installed and Sophia is reassembled. The capacitor restoration was completed on 28th April 2013.
Sega Saturn Sophia Programming Box Mainboard Repairs
After the A-Bus capacitor replacement failed to improve Sophia’s condition, I moved on to the mainboard. I’ve now replaced most of the electrolytic capacitors there, and the result is considerably more promising. The Hakko 808 works wonders on these old boards.
DreamShell 4.0.0 RC1 Boot Attempt with SD Adapter
Some progress with DreamShell 4.0.0 RC1, but this setup is still behaving unpredictably.
Sega Saturn Sophia A-Bus Capacitor Replacement
The lovely Sophia is getting a fresh set of capacitors on the A-Bus board today.
Removing an EPROM from a Sega Prototype / Test Cartridge
So I was thinking, why not? What a fun video it turned out to be!
Drilling Region-Switch Holes in a Sega Mega Drive 2
Some sock puppetry is also in this video. See if you can spot it!
Sega Saturn Sophia and VA0 Parts Compatibility Test
A member of the ASSEMblergames forums asked whether I could try some of the Sophia hardware in an ordinary retail VA0 Saturn.
Sega TeraDrive Scanliner Demo with 15 kHz / 31 kHz RGB
Scanlines make the world go round.
Amstrad Sega Mega PC Hard Drive Capacitor Failure and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Sound Demo
Acquisitions Inbound: PAL VA0 Dreamcast, Accolade Dev Cart and LC 475
A few interesting things are making their way into the collection.
New Purchases Inbound: Sega Saturns and Game Gears
I’ve got four Sega Saturns from two owners on the way: three functional and one broken.