Description

The MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD is a combo of MegaFlashROM SCC+ and a Flash card (Micro SD or Micro SDHC) interface. The last and current version of the MegaFlashROM has all of the previous versions (except the emulation of 4 ROMs in subslots) with additional one or two Micro SD card slots, 8 MB flash ROM instead of 1 MB and a Memory Mapper of 512kB (optional).

There are a few incompatibility cases, usually having to do with opfx(sd) misdetecting the mapper type, or the software not liking slot expansion etc.

The disks/partitions on Micro SD are formatted FAT12 or FAT16. These are controlled by Built-in Nextor (an improved MSX-DOS2). Disk partitions are supported by PC/Mac. The disk and partitions can be initialised from Basic. No floppy drive nor additional interface is required.

The cartridge contacts are gold plated (some batches are hard gold and others flash gold).

Price: About €90 or €120 + shipping costs

Gallery

MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD packaging

MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD cartridge

MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD PCB

MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD PCB bottom

Specifications

• Flash card: 1 or 2 slots compatible with micro SD and micro SDHC cards
  • Supports hot card swap
  • Uses Nextor as DOS (native FAT12/16 support)
  • Maximum partition size of 4GB
  • High speed transfer (read and write)
• RAM: 512K (optional)
  • RAM extention: Memory Mapper
• FlashROM: 8MB (64Mbits)
  • 7MB used for support of several ROM mappers
    • Multi-mappers support: Plain 64K, ASCII 8/16K, Konami without SCC, Konami SCC+
    • ROM-disk: You can install a DSK as ROM disk.
    • Load and run up to 9 disk images (DSKs)
    • MultiROMs up to 511 ROMs
  • Recovery mode
    • Install SD kernel directly from the SD card
    • Erase MegaFlashROM SCC+ content
    • Erase SD interface kernel
    • Erase ROM disk
• Sound
  • Konami SCC and SCC-I emulation
  • Extra PSG emulation (I/O ports: 10h-12h)
    • It is possible to clone the internal PSG sound using the external one.
• Others
  • Show SD cards information
  • Operates at standard 3.58 MHz as well as at overclocked speeds (tested up to 9.8 MHz)
  • Play EVA video files
  • Allows Konami cartridge combinations
  • Konami sized cartridge
  • Noob friendly

Minimum System Requirements

• MSX computer with one free slot cartridge (a primary slot) for the version with 512kB RAM, otherwise MSX with at last 128kB RAM to use MSX-DOS2 mode (Nextor) or MSX with at last 64kB RAM to use MSX-DOS1 mode.

Links

• MSX Cartridge Shop (Manuals and software are available here)
• Guide to emulate the MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD with openMSX