Sega Mega CD development unit arrives

Aha! I guessed right, then

Do you have anything else left?

 

If thats true that's far from 1992. This is the only SCD/MCD kit I've seen but I highly doubt that every developer at the time used this kit. Somewhere I have a list of all the licensed Genesis dev hardware developers circa 1993-4, there are around 10.

 

As many as that? Do you have any info about the systems they created?

 

Yes. Actually my partner bought everything they had. I am just listing some (whatever I can get). Big part of it he already sold.
I have a lot of back up tapes , workstations and e.t.c.
I caught a cold and dont feel like listing , but I will as soon as I feel better.

 

Your partner being Gavroche? I'm sure he was selling InterPlay stuff. I'm sure he said he got everything off them.

I offered to buy all the Saturn stuff he had, including any backup tapes, hard drives, betas etc. with data, any artwork, notes whatever. He laughed at me and told me that I'd need about $40,000 for that, and that the Saturn stuff alone fills a garage.

 

My business partner lives in Los Angeles.
I dont know the guy you are talking about. I doubt if he have any of Interplay stuff.

 

By the way all Interplay stuff has labels on it " Property of Interplay".
Can he provide photos with all the labels ?
I can.

PS. Of course I dont list items on ebay with the labels still attached.

 

From this thread. He also mentions Interplay in his sales thread here.

 

I see that he had a lot of stuff.
We did not buy entire Interplay. We bought partially what was up for sale. Since Interplay have trouble right now. It is possible that this guy got some interplay deal going.
I will ask my partner since one of the main Interplay guys is his friend.

 

Have you tried dumping the BIOS from this device using MoD's cable and Transfer Suite program? It might be interesting to take a look at it...

 

Yeah, I was gonna ask about this too. I'd be interested to see if it uses the same method as Aarakon's MultiBIOS (Jpn, US, UK Bios' with 2 switches to select) or is a truly region free BIOS. From what it sounds like with the Dip switches though I believe you are switching both the MD and MCD regions, so it probably is like the MultiBIOS. Still, it'd be interesting if it showed up an a certain FTP somewhere. I'd love a multiregion Mega CD.

 

Read the entire thread, specficially my posts

 

A Mega CD 2 I got at the same time as my MCD dev has 'dev config' etched into the front of it. I've never tried using it, it's back stored away with other old junk... would it be worth digging it back out & having a look?

 

Yes! Don't kill yourself, but I'm sure everyone would like to see it.

 

Umm, i'm pretty sure that a universal bios exists.
Cause, this special bios might check the region, and then copy the correct bios(according to the region) to the segacd ram...

I heard the segacd dev unit had a CDROM drive emulator that can be connected to a special computer (with a HDD).
So, the center board is certainely the "cdrom faker" that deals with the computer... Maybe some others features are availables like ram settings (there are many rams settings available), and some flags...

Very cool piece of hardware!

 

I've found some stuff you might like; here's a scan from Sega Power issue 44
(July 1993). These kits were used during development of Jurassic Park (Mega-CD)
at Multimedia studios USA.

Http://www.watluljenou.nl/mcddev.jpg

Another quote from 'Gordon Habefelde' main programmer; 'There's a vast number of sub-programs running all the time -CD quality sound, PC and FM sound effects, artwork, animation routines - so I use two PC's running a 68000 Assembler which are hooked up to a special Mega-CD that's manufactured in England'.

 

Awesome link Segafreak_NL! :thumbsup:

It makes more wonder now if this unit was the same one in the picture (of course there were prolly thousands more...)