Mega Everdrive - The next level?

[Drakon]

Don't think you could ever run a CD game from a cart. How would it utilize the CD processing?

fpga? But it's highly unlikely that would happen.

[Greg2600]

At that point, you're emulating the SEGA-CD on the FPGA, and just feeding it to the Genesis. Would prohibit CD sound though.

[Drakon]

blasphemy maybe the fpga could play..like...I dunno....mp3s? Although this's all highly unlikely. Master system FM on a fpga might be doable though.

[cleeg]

Just found out about this last night, I've ordered one from Retro Gate in (the?) Ukraine, looks pretty awesome. I'll now keep the old one with my Nomad, and one at home. Let's see if I can sneak it into the house unnoticed...

It's been posted to my Mum's house first, just for safety's sake. The new Retrode I bought was found out and declared an instant waste of money, which it was I already have the previous model which works fine. So I suppose this is too then.

At least I can save state the bonus rounds in S3&K now!

[keropi]

let's hope Krikzz makes some extras for the card now that TurboEverdrive is finished, I have the MegaED since ~1 month now and it's brilliant

[slobu]

It's all about the extras. Needing save states is an on-the-go thing. I can afford the time to play fair when at home so the standard EverDrive is more than enough. IF, however, someone puts an MSX emulator in there.. oooh man! That would be crazy good! By now there must be plenty of MSX cores to shoe in.

[Greg2600]

let's hope Krikzz makes some extras for the card now that TurboEverdrive is finished, I have the MegaED since ~1 month now and it's brilliant

He has said that is his plan. I would suspect Mega Everdrive and Everdrive64 will be his focus.

[Drakon]

Really the whole save-state thing was the last thing I could care about. I like the idea of it using a ram chip and being able to re-create the fm hardware from the master system.

[MEGADRIVE Jeroi]

The problem with me with mega everdrive is why not make new genesis hack all together and sell it 300$? A genny included internal memory and usb connection for external hard disk or usb stick and ethernet for hombrew netgame hacks and such would be cool.

[EclecticGroove]

The problem with me with mega everdrive is why not make new genesis hack all together and sell it 300$? A genny included internal memory and usb connection for external hard disk or usb stick and ethernet for hombrew netgame hacks and such would be cool.

What would all the people with real systems do then? The everdrive is nice specifically because it supports the actual hardware. If someone wanted something like you described they could build a mini PC with emulators easy enough on their own. Building another Genesis clone would probably cost a lot more than $300 a system for the low production run they needed due to research time and material costs. That's not even getting into licensing issues with Sega.

[MEGADRIVE Jeroi]

Well in this forum we have plenty tech people who knows how the machine works so there could be a joint venture to produce megadrive clone which is better than current clone systems. Also adding some everdrive features and cd combatibility like orginal systems. CD combatibility would be rather cheap to build as it dont need any extra connectors only drawing of expansion slot and chip that handles cd system. Also adding powerfull prosessor with usb and ethernet support might not be that expensive in hardware. Only thing is to build firmware for the system makes a lot of man hours. If there would be joint venture the coding part would become less hidious task. Plus Fonzie knows production firms in china so production would be cheaper than in eu or us. And as long as console is not named sega related but supports sega hardware I think there is no licencing problems because Sega has abandoned Genesis way back already. Tbh I am thinking why there is no developer from old days supplied to hombrew scene full developer manuals from 90's from Sega. Are all the game developer firms burned those or what?

Well I have every mega drive system that have been made and also 4 md2 and 3 md1 extra consoles and I would not mind to own proper clone box that has multiplayer possibilites and expanding megadrive games developing further a notch.

[moon]

Tbh I am thinking why there is no developer from old days supplied to hombrew scene full developer manuals from 90's from Sega. Are all the game developer firms burned those or what?

You mean manuals like this one?

[MEGADRIVER1]

How am I going to play with someone off the net? all my friends are in real and don't even play games much less sega megadrives.

[Barone]

Everdrive gives you games to play, not friends to play with.

[Solkia]

Will japanese games still require a region mod to work with this?