Mega EverdDrive

LMFAO!!!

It's coming from hell! It will get you from under the bed!! Your only hope the Mega Everdrive! LOL :clap::thumbsup:

Awesome trailer! You have some great skills for video trailers.

 

IT'S COMING SOON!!!! Finally?

 

FM SOUND SUPPORT?

sold

EDIT: damn, speedy read
it still is under the possibility list

 

Aw man, I just bought an EverDrive MD from Stone Age Gamer to replace the one lost/stolen during my last move, and now I find out about THIS??? Save states? Instant game loading? What the ???????? DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!! This will be the coolest retro gaming product EVER, and I just blew my wad on the old model. Arrived today, in fact. Oh well, I guess I can sell it if I need to, or give it as a gift to my best friend who would worship me forever if I did.

Stone Age, extremely classy package you've put together for the EverDrive MD. Krikzz and you are an unbeatable team!

 

Serial EEPROM already working?

I want to buy this sucka! :love_heart:

 

The Mega Everdrive will be sold via retrogate or only via stoneage gamer?
Will there be pre-orders via retrogate?

 

mega ed will be available via whole distributors net, including stoneagegamer and retrogate.
cart already done, and first boards will be shipped to dealers on next week. now i should prepare some release stuff, like manual, photo, video, device specs etc. extremely busy right now
by the way, little fun with mega ed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Ea2d82VBo

 

Nice )

Hey Krikzz, do you think an Game Gear emulator would be possible with Mega Everdrive?

 

genesis vdp can not show gg graphics

 

Krikzz, off of Sonicdude10's idea, would it be possible to have the FPGA work in tandem with a modified BIOS to create a virtual optical drive and mount Sega-CD ISOs onto it, and read the game from there? I'm just now learning about the full capabilities of FPGAs, so I'm not sure if this is a feasible solution or not. Thanks!

 

i don't know alot about mega cd architecture, but it is possible in theory

 

Hm. OK, thanks for the input! Keep up the good work!

 

I may look into the architecture for the Mega CD BIOS and the way the Everdrive operates once I can learn some basic coding. I may be able to make a modified BIOS to work this way as well as a simple file extension for the Mega Everdrive to make this idea work. If I do try this, it will be a long way off since my college won't start until sometime after September. I think that using the right coding, this idea will work. The basic thing that is needed for this is for the CD processors to read from the Genesis cartridge slot instead of from the CD drive. Coding should be able to handle that. The modified BIOS for getting the CD system to read CD data from the cart slot and a new line of coding in the Everdrive to get it to communicate with the CD extension for loading ISOs. The biggest issue may be the load speed from the Genesis cart to CD extension. Another complication will be from the games that also use the 32X with the CD. All of this will probably max the bandwidth of the data lines in the cart slots. Overclocking may help this but I've heard that strange things happen when someone overclocks a Genesis (Megadrive) CD 32X combo. Also, an overclocked one may have issues communicating with the Everdive since it all operates at certain clock frequencies. However, this is all worth a try. Any takers who wanna give this a try since I won't for quite some time? Hope my info is all correct and somewhat helpful.

 

It is a real sweet and awesome idea to get a communication line between the mega CD and the cart slot. If any talented coder read this, please show up. :love-struck:

 

Mega EverDrive was released! http://krikzz.com/mega-ed.html
special thanks to StoneAgeGamer for text translation and Manual creation!

 

First one: ORDERED!!!

 

I dunno if I was first, but I ordered mine over 3 hours ago now. I've been checking Retrogate a few times a day for the last 2 weeks.

 

some guy from Ottawa was first ​

 

Krikzz, you said that in theory it's possible iso loading via the mega everdrive. Well, do you think that in theory, would be possible to load files (roms, isos) via USB? Like a usb HD?
Because sega cd isos are big to storage in a SD. I mean, of course you can load a few in a SD but it would be better a single HD. What do you think?
And I know this is just a theory chat hehehehe.

 

That might be a better way to go, using the HDD for the ISOs over the SD card. USB drives can be had all the way to 3 Tb for 3.5" ones and 1.5 Tb for 2.5" ones. My idea stated above will still work, just need to change the code extension to point to the USB storage device instead of the SD card. However, there will need to be another line of code to support loading through the USB line. If this idea were to work, then this Everdrive will be TRULY Mega (pun intended).