Krikzz just showed, through a tweet, his progress on implementing Sega-CD support into the upcoming Mega Everdrive Pro
Development for the next-in-line Mega Everdrive cart seems to be in its very early phase(s) as Igor (aka Krikzz) admitted that, after some testing, he just figured out what parts/components are needed to accomplish full Sega-CD support.
After little research i managed to recreate cd-rom drive interface at my dev board. Mega-CD reads CD data streams of dev board successfully. Now i have better understanding what hardware i need for full implementation of mega-cd. pic.twitter.com/s1jX6NaXBF
— Igor Golubovskiy (@krikzz) October 5, 2019
Krikzz also hinted that the final price point should be similar to the SD2SNES PRO‘s current rate, which is around 200$ (~55$ less than the Mega-SD).
can’t give exact estimation, but not more than 200usd. in terms of required hardware it very close to sd2snes so it makes an hint about the price.
— Igor Golubovskiy (@krikzz) October 5, 2019
Considering Krikzz‘s extremely impressive résumé, the Mega Everdrive Pro should be a solid and quasi-affordable product. But will it bring any new asset(s) (e.g. no need to unplug the actual Sega-CD attachement, whenever you’re loading a CD image file) that the Mega-SD is currently missing?
Krikzz‘s official website: https://krikzz.com/