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Revision as of 20:16, 13 March 2012

Welcome to the MegaDrive Development Wiki

This wiki is about every technical aspect of the SEGA MegaDrive hardware and software.

Its aim is to provide the most detailed, accurate and up to date information, to help homebrew development and repairs.
The wiki has 20 pages. Contributors list.
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How graphics are handled and displayed, from bitplanes and colors to the video output.

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VDP Pattern06:48, 17 July 2012
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Everything related to music and sound effects: The Z80 subsystem, synthesized and sampled sound, CDDA playback...

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What makes everything work (or not), physically. Schematics, chip pinouts and functions, troubleshooting hardware issues...

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Code snippets, register definitions, guides on how to display stuff, use BIOS functions, play music and sounds, read user input...

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Assemblers, emulators, utilities, cheatsheets, automations... Anything handy for developement.

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