

It connects to the developers PC (running MS-DOS) via a port on the back of the cartridge 2. The Sega Dev Card by Western Technologies was a development kit that functioned in a similar way to modern day Flash Cartridges. What's this? Why it's a Super Mega Drive, Sega's Mega Drive development system. There was no known images of this rare development kit online until Phil Bennett posted one of my favourite tweets which you can see below: It is believed that this was the first development kit that Sega produced in the early years of the Mega Drive and that it was fairly quickly replaced with others such as the Cross Products SNASM.
SEGA GENESIS EMULATOR FOR PC CD MANUAL
This gives the information that it would be a Mega Drive console with the ability to use a In-circuit emulator such as the ZAX ICE to debug game code.Īt first glance it might seem that it was built by Sega Ozisoft due to the copyright notice that is on every page, however there is another version where the copyright notice is instead changed to “The Code Monkeys”.īoth Sega OziSoft and “The Code Monkeys” were games studios that developed games for the Mega Drive, so it is likely that Sega printed different versions of the user manual each with a watermark of the company they sent it to. There is very little information out there about the Super Mega Drive but a manual was leaked thanks to the website.
