Megacart, the ultimate utility cart for your segacd/megacd

[Fonzie]

Hi,

A new cartridge will be released soon, it simply do the same work of:

+A proCDX
+A Multibios mod
+A flash cart
+A megacd backup ram
+Much more

All comes in a cool box, with notebook etc.
The actual run will be 50 cartridge... Serious price reduction is done for bulk orders...

The cartridge, for segacd / megacd owners comes with an utility disc with a few roms. So you can load some roms and take the cartridge in your nomad for traveling fun


The rom limit is 2Mo (16Meg), one disc can hold 128roms and i just wanted to know if you wanted some roms to be especialy included in the disc (or not?).
Also, roms with SRAM aren't supported (for cartridge cost reasons) and 32x roms are handled.

Thanks.
If u have any question, don't hesitate.

[Joe Redifer]

Oh cool. So you can just load the rom onto a CD and it will load it to the cart through the Sega CD? how much will these things cost? There will only be 50 made?

[Fonzie]

Hi, thx for ur answer.

From the website, you will be able to dl and burn other discs... The tool to mount the iso will be released of you want to burn yourself disc-roms.

The actual cost isn't set for now (but lets estimate 45-70usd, shipping included), bluk orders can rise down the price of course.
This cartridge required several programming tricks and a heavy hardware addon, it comes in new box + one disc.
The limited run of 50units also explain the price.

Of course, if it gets more than 50 preorderings, maybe more will be produced, but it is a single run production...

[Genesis Knight]

Much cheaper than NeoFlash, I notice. 50 seems a little low, though - surely there's a lot more interest than that.

[FishySaysSpoon]

I am so interested.

[XMARLTONX]

I am interested as well.


Anyone with a link to the Neo? I found the page but only see one cart for like $200

[David J.]

Wouldn't it cost less if you made more? I'm sure more than 50 people want one!

I wouldn't mind one!

[David J.]

Hey, I have a good number of Japanese ISO's that I could burn w/o changing the region or anything... I could do some testing if you wanted?

[segagamer]

I am very interested in this, as long as it allows me to play JPN Mega CD games on my US Sega CD model 1. Count me in as long as the answer is "yes" to my remarks here.

[Elusive]

My questions:

How will this work properly with original hardware? I'd guess it'd boot as a standard cartridge, and running all functions (internal memory backup etc.) from the cart while loading data (ROMs etc) from the disc. Like the Saturn 4-in-1 Action Replay. I'd love to hear how you accomplished this.

Will this device be region-free - working with all combinations of Mega Drive/Mega-CD hardware and game software?

Also, what's the interface like? I'd love a simple 'Boot Disc' option to play Mega-CD imports and such without fiddling with BIOS settings, 'Memory Manager' option to transfer files between the cart and the backup memory on the cart, and a 'Boot ROM' option to select a ROM from the disc to boot as a Mega Drive game.

I don't understand how it would work with the Nomad. Do you mean the cart can work like a universal storage drive - storing both memory saves and ROMs transferred from the disc?

Is it complete yet? :P

From what you've described, this sounds incredible - I'd definitely pay money for this. Christ, this is what Mega-CD owners have been waiting for for over a decade, man. Good show.

Keep us posted!

[HetmanTancred]

Wow this sounds fantastic. I really want one...

[Fonzie]

Hi, thx a lot for your interest.
"I could do some testing if you wanted?"
Thx a lot, for 100% compatibility, you may have to switch your system for very few games.
However, for testing, the prototype cartridge is already tested on various HW with success (could u PM me your system list?)...


"to play JPN Mega CD games on my US Sega CD model 1. "
Yeah, it works on any segacd region and discs, any models.

"I'd love to hear how you accomplished this."
Hello, You are right, the megacart boots *as* a cartridge (this cartridge contains the first firmware) and then execute a second firmware to achieve all the functions we wants using a powerfull hardware addon.
More details soon... for some reasons, I can't give such informations now :P

"Will this device be region-free - working with all combinations of Mega Drive/Mega-CD hardware and game software?"
Of course... i just validated its working on cdx/multimega today.

"Also, what's the interface like? I'd love a simple 'Boo...nd a 'Boot ROM' option to select a ROM from the disc to boot as a Mega Drive game."
Yeah, it is a full 16bit glory interface, never seen before... very stylish and easy to use.
All the functions can be found there.
Also, on power-on, if you hold A you get JAPAN config, if you holdB USA, C for EUROPE and start to boot your original system bios (when you do those four buttons, the cartridge is 100% transparent and do not show any menu).


"I don't understand how it would work with the Nomad. Do you mean the cart can work like a universal storage drive - storing both memory saves and ROMs transferred from the disc?"

Once you loaded roms from your segacd, you can take the cartridge on your nomad to play roms (but segacd's functions wont work for sure LOL).

"Is it complete yet? :P"
Yeah, there is a prototype floating around ;P.
The label/bios/firmwares are finished, the hardware too... just the printings missing.

"From what you've described, this sounds incredible - I'd definitely pay money for this. Christ, this is what Mega-CD owners have been waiting for for over a decade, man. Good show."
Thx a lot, i hope 99% games will run without freq/region switch... gasp.

[108 Stars]

I don´t quite understand all this...
I can burn roms to a CD, play the CD on a Sega CD and then copy the roms to a cartridge???

[Zebbe]

I am interested if it can make my EU Mega CD play US Sega CD games. What is the url to the site of this Megacart?

[winona]

I want one too. Seriously, youll prolly fin 50 ppl in this forum alone that wants one. 50 is way too low.

/signs up.