The Cross Products SNASM Mega-CD development unit, serial MCD01/0174, is our next target for disassembly and photography.

This is one beefy devkit.

The SNASM Mega-CD was built around modified Mega Drive and Mega-CD hardware with additional development electronics packed inside.

That explains the wonderfully dense construction.

Cross Products managed to sandwich another development board into the system without increasing the height anywhere near as much as I would have expected.

The system could also interface with dedicated CD-emulation hardware, allowing development data to be supplied without relying entirely on physical discs.

I’ll probably finish photographing everything later this month or early next.

Keep an eye on the photo gallery for the inevitable mountain of photographs.

I hope you enjoy poking around inside this one as much as I’ll enjoy trying to remember where all the screws went.

Errr…

Just kidding?

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