Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware

138 points
1/21/1970
3 days ago
by XzetaU8

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tndata

Wow! Nice work!

I reversed engineered the MegaDrive for 35 years ago and build my own hardware development kit, got a blog about this project at https://nestenius.se/hardware/how-i-built-my-own-sega-mega-d...

3 days ago

bananaboy

Woah this is amazing! Thanks for the write up!

3 days ago

tndata

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

a day ago

chrismaltby

Very nice! I've been building a drag & drop layer on top of GBDK [1] called GB Studio [2] for making Game Boy games for a few years now. I'm starting to think about how it could support other platforms eventually so this is definitely a project I'll keep an eye on.

[1] https://gbdk.org/

[2] https://www.gbstudio.dev/

3 days ago

wartywhoa23

Sega, such a nostalgic dear thing from my childhood! No other device gave me the feel Sega did..

The game experience was completely immersive, and it strangely felt both futuristic and absolutely belonging to its time at once. It was pure Zen of gaming. Oh yes, and the grass was greener, of course..)

Flashback is still the #1 game ever for me, followed by Earthworm Jim and Mortal Kombat.

3 days ago

poisonarena

>Flashback is still the #1 game ever for me, followed by Earthworm Jim and Mortal Kombat.

didnt even mention a genesis exclusive in your list!

3 days ago

F7F7F7

I come from a barely middle class upbringing. Now that I'm raising my own kids and seeing the pressures of holiday gift giving and budgets there's two things I regret.

1. Sega CD

2. Game Gear

My parents could have done better things with that money. Excited to see what people can do with this combination (CD + 32x) today that Sega couldn't.

2 days ago

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2 days ago

nebster

Ah, reminds me of playing mega-lo-mania and sonic the hedgehog as a kid... I played mega-lo-mania recently and I still enjoy it!

2 days ago

metalforever

Thank you for making this. I was genuinely considering a solution at this abstraction level for Megadrive / Sega development .

3 days ago

speakbits

This was a great reminder that there is so much hardware that continues to have software made for it

3 days ago