Unknown Mega Drive 1 clone ??

**Obviously** · 01-23-2011, 07:10 AM

A clone that works with the 32X? Man they knew how to make'em before the console-on-a-chip era.

**Defolto** · 01-23-2011, 07:18 PM

But how does the audio and video quality compare?

**TmEE** · 01-24-2011, 03:05 AM

Audio and video are BETTER in most cases

superclones FTW

**GMFattay** · 01-26-2011, 06:35 AM

The auction ended, I won =)

The console is called Dr Super Stardrive, made by Shenzhen Jichang Elec. co.

Pic:

Will open it up and take pics when it arrives.

**GMFattay** · 02-02-2011, 09:21 PM

I have uploaded some photos of the console and its internals to the Sega Retro Wiki here: http://segaretro.org/Unlicensed_Sega...PER_Star_Drive

**Ace** · 02-02-2011, 10:53 PM

Whoa, that must be one of the early super clones based off the VA1 to VA4 motherboard revision and has an 8-pin DIN for the multi-A/V out(yay for RGB!) along with an RF modulator.

Might wanna replace that power switch. Seems like someone melted it with a soldering iron.

Closest I ever got to getting a super clone was a Famicom super clone which was not NOAC-based and with a socketed CPU and PPU(not 100% faithful to a real NES, but if you have a dead NES or if you can find Ricoh 2A03s and 2C02s for sale, purchase 'em and stick 'em in the reverse-engineered 2A03 and 2C02's sockets. They're inferior to MegaDrive super clones due to the fact the Famicom super clones are inferior to a real Famicom unlike MegaDrive super clones which are typically superior to a real MegaDrive(for overclocking and sound quality, at least).

**ooXxXoo** · 02-03-2011, 02:19 AM

^ yeap, I did that swapping procedure a couple of years ago

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@GMfattay:
One of my Dinavision systems (MD Brazilian clone), has almost the same board layout as that Dr Super Stardrive you got there...I'm guessing yours is set to PAL-I?...

**GMFattay** · 02-03-2011, 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by ooXxXoo

^ yeap, I did that swapping procedure a couple of years ago

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@GMfattay:
One of my Dinavision systems (MD Brazilian clone), has almost the same board layout as that Dr Super Stardrive you got there...I'm guessing yours is set to PAL-I?...

Yeah, tis PAL-I. I might take a look at getting some parts to fix it up - namely the missing reset switch and damaged power switch. Does it look like it will take a standard Mega Drive power switch and reset button??

**GMFattay** · 02-03-2011, 03:12 AM

Originally Posted by Ace

Whoa, that must be one of the early super clones based off the VA1 to VA4 motherboard revision and has an 8-pin DIN for the multi-A/V out(yay for RGB!) along with an RF modulator.

Might wanna replace that power switch. Seems like someone melted it with a soldering iron.

Closest I ever got to getting a super clone was a Famicom super clone which was not NOAC-based and with a socketed CPU and PPU(not 100% faithful to a real NES, but if you have a dead NES or if you can find Ricoh 2A03s and 2C02s for sale, purchase 'em and stick 'em in the reverse-engineered 2A03 and 2C02's sockets. They're inferior to MegaDrive super clones due to the fact the Famicom super clones are inferior to a real Famicom unlike MegaDrive super clones which are typically superior to a real MegaDrive(for overclocking and sound quality, at least).

Not too sure about the video/sound quality, will have to plug in both my Star Drive and my Model 1 MD to compare. I did try out the headphone jack and the audio quality was really bad compared to my other MD but sounded fine when coming through the TV.

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