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I built my own Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) hardware dev kit from scratch

nestenius.se published 2022-01-188 min read

How I built a Sega Mega Drive dev kit from scratch: reverse engineering the cartridge slot, a homemade logic analyzer, a RAM cartridge and boot firmware.

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