Sonic boom, sonic boooom –
We’ve returned to go hands-on with MegaSD, the coolest retro-niche flash cart yet.
- Finally: a way to play classic Sega CD games without worrying about a failing disc drive produced in the early ‘ s.
Sega Genesis Mini
, while enthusiasts are filling in the gaps to either upgrade original consoles’ connectors or rebuild them as “hardware- emulated “FPGA systems. (/ How the MegaSD works, in easy-breezy icon form.(Turbografx) Mini includes a playable version of Snatcher, but it’s the Japanese-only version, so for English-speaking Kojima fans, the Sega CD remains the best route to go.) If you want another reason to spend so much, MegaSD allows users to load Genesis, Mega Drive, and Sega Master System games by dumping them onto an SD card as ROMs (though exactly how you’ll dump ROMs (from) your existing, legitimately acquired cartridges or CDs is up to you). RetroRGB explores some funky sound playback on SMS games due to its handling of that system’s optional FM Synthesizer add-on, so you’ll want to watch the below video to the end to see if that matters to you.
Months after this article’s original publication, we’ve returned to confirm some great news: TerraOnion has been on a support tear for this thing. Multiple firmware updates have been pushed to MegaSD owners since its launch, and these have ranged from timing updates for CD seek emulation to increased backup RAM storage support. The most killer feature added to this cart is its support for the Genesis version of (Virtua Racing) , and this one is special because it was the only Genesis game to ship with an extra processor in its cartridge. (Nintendo was better known for this kind of per-cartridge trick.)
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