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Re:I built my own Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) hardware dev kit... by londondev45 on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:40PM (#30028909)
A message of appreciation, you sound very cool. I'd love to have seen this when I was a young sega mega drive obsessive
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Re:I built my own Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) hardware dev kit... by tndata on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:44PM (#30028954)
Original blog post author here! Thanks for the kind words!
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Re:I built my own Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) hardware dev kit... by InvaderFizz on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:55PM (#30029087)
One point I didn't see in the article. How complete was your dev kit? Could it actually run commercial games?
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Re:I built my own Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) hardware dev kit... by tndata on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:58PM (#30029123)
Yes, I could run games and I also wrote some simpler demos where I for example could move a player around the screen using the joystick. So, it was fully functional.
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