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geppettoz · Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 23

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madman · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598

The worst MD backup unit ever. Piece of crap, don't even bother.

Tanooki · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 73

madman · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598

Sorry if it wasn't 1337 enough for l0c4lh0st. It's a Mega Disk Interceptor. Total piece of shit, not worth knowing anything about. Can't even read DOS disks.

kiki77 · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:

It's a big bad fat black copy station. Very Happy

conceitedjerk · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject:

Based upon all the previous glowing endorsements (har), I've bought the one Tomy had for sale, strictly for morbid curiosity and a bit of learning. This oughtta be fun!

RGB_Gamer · Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 879

conceitedjerk · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject:

My MDI arrived on Friday, and I had a few minutes last night to play with it. It's not a bad machine overall, despite not having what I'd call an intuitive user interface.

I popped in a Japanese cart, threw a disk in the drive, powered the unit on, pressed "B", and the machine dumped the cart to disk. Pretty simple. Didn't need to format the disk (which was full, incidentally), the MDI overwrote whatever was on the disk.

Next, I converted a Genesis ROM (Undeadline) to .SMD format, used the imc.exe utility to write the ROM to another floppy (which, again, was full), then popped it into the MDI. Worked like a charm.

Finally, I converted a few Master System ROMs (R-Type, Rygar, Quartet) using the ts-ggmd.exe utility, copied to floppy using the imc.exe , popped each separately into the MDI, and they all worked.

Not a bad machine overall, just takes a few extra steps than I'm used to. My only gripes are that it doesn't have SRAM built in (for saving games, although a save cart is available - probably like hen's teeth now), lacks a parallel port, and only fits properly on the first model of the Genesis. Could be made to work on a Genesis 2 by relocating the power and reset switches, but I'm not that ambitious.

I'm gonna try a few Game Gear games on the unit tonight, and see if I can't figure out how to put more than one game on a disk (although I don't think the BIOS supports it... could be wrong).

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

Not a bad machine overall? Heh, it's horrible! At least on the later Super Disk BIOS (and probably Mega Disk II) you can load DOS floppies.

Are you sure there isn't SRAM built in? Open it up and see... I'm pretty sure there was (I sold off my Mega Disk a looong time ago.. kinda wish I still had it to laugh at), you must use a save utility disk though to copy the SRAM to a "bank" on the disk or copy a "bank" back to SRAM. To make the disk you either need a DOS tool or maybe the Mega Disk made it for you... can't remember.

Oh and Game Gear games? It's kinda hard to find GG games that don't use the GG's expansions over normal SMS. You could however try porting GG games to SMS, it's not SO hard since generally little has to be rewritten, but not worth the end results IMO. All that TS-GGMD program does is add a Magic Drive header to SMS ROMs... If you use uCON64 you can throw it out ;)

conceitedjerk · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: