Sega MegaDrive - Super Magic Drive SMD800 Motherboard Reproduction
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Sega MegaDrive - Super Magic Drive SMD800 Motherboard Reproduction

  • Product Code: SMD800 Motherboard Reproduction
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  • Availability: 9
  • £20.00

  • Price in reward points: 360


These boards are often subject to damage caused by leaking capacitors and/or batteries. These recreations are based on the available schematics and reverse engineering using scanned images of the original boards' copper layers, so should be reasonably accurate reproductions.

These reproductions have been tested and verified as working, there is no warranty or support offered so you need to have suitable debugging experience if a problem arises.

NOTE: In order to use these PCBs sucessfully you will need to be proficient in:

  • Soldering fine-pitched surface mount components.
  • In most cases, desoldering said components to obtain these from a donor board.
  • Troubleshooting any issues that may arise.

These PCB's are 2 layer boards and have been produced in RED with HASL PLATING.


Available Companion Boards:

* DIP32 -> TSOP32 Board (This board is for the on-board RAM, some units used DIP32 style RAM and some used TSOP32 RAM).

* Interface Card Board (This board connects the SMD800 Mainboard to the MegaDrive cartridge slot).

* 16MBit RAM Expansion Board (This board connects to the expansion connector which increases the RAM size).

* 32MBit RAM Expansion Board (This board connects to the expansion connector which increases the RAM size).


BOM & Build Instructions:

Super Magic Drive Repro BOM - V2.xlsx


Credits

  • Rob Taylor (@PeepoUK) for the complete board reproduction.

  • Myself for Reproduction of the DIP32 -> TSOP32 Adaptor Board, 16Mbit RAM Board, 32Mbit RAM Board and the Interface Board.