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Super Magic Drive/PLUS/2

Comment 1: This was produced by Front Far East. It's their Genesis/Mega Drive copier, the Super Magic Drive. With an adapter the Super Magic Drive can copy and play SNES games too, and another allows PE Engine games to be copied, but the games have to be loaded from the external disk drive every time instead of being able to play them from the memory. The Super Magic Drive has a parrallel port for transfers from a computer, support for four different 3.5" disk formats, it comes standard with 8 or 16Mbits of memory and 256Kbit SRAM to hold savestates. It can backup original MegaDrive/Genesis carts. It can also playback MegaDrive/Genesis/MasterSystem/Mark-III games.





================================================ MD Cartridge Copier BIOS (these run in SMS mode) ================================================ ------------------------------------------- SMDV3.ZIP ------------------------------------------- Super Magic Drive BIOS v3 Dumped by Mike Cukan. The BIOS contains the following string: *** MAGIC DRIVER V-3 *** PRODUCT MANAGER: LMM, DEBUG ENGINEER: JUS, BIOS PROGRAMMER: JSI, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, COPYRIGHT 1991 BY JSI, CHINA COACH COMPANY LTD., FRONT FAREAST CORPORATION. 8/17/91 ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- MDPBIOS.ZIP ------------------------------------------- Magic Drive Plus BIOS Dumped by David Han. David writes: "The MDP has more memory than the SMD copier, but it also runs in SMS-mode on a Genesis (and also enables running some SMS roms)." -------------------------------------------

Comment 2: 8 Megabits RAM (1MEG) onboard (expandable to 16Mbit)
256k Battery Backed RAM (save to disk for RPG games etc.)
3.5" High Density Disk control (drive supplied) 720/800k/1.44/1.6Meg
PC-Link interface through Parallel, Edit/Upload/Download files..
Auto download cartridge to disk - or play cartridge directly
Also serves as Japanese/American/UK Converter
DOS can be updated by disk (ala Kickstart image files)
Utility to allow conversion to and from Magic (?? - ed.) Game Doctor files

When formatted to 1.6 Meg format allows THREE games per disk (4M each) or TWO games (1 8M game & 1 4M game) or even SIX 2Mbit games!! .

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Sources

Lator.com, Red#9, Classicon, Console Horison, And here. Also fron various Far East shop web sites (the pages have now been removed to my knowlege, due to Nintendo ordering them to remove all backup devices and related items)