Are there any fan made Megadrive compilations on CD?

[CCCP alert]

I was looking for some CD ISOs that had loads of Megadrive cartridge games in a single ISO to load on a Mega CD, a bit like the official ones Sega bundled with it.

I know the Mega CD is a bit of a rare beast like the CDTV these days but I couldn't find anything remotely like that, do they not exist?

[Rochabian]

Why not use an Everdrive with your Megadrive instead of burning isos ?
Worth the price i think

Never heard of homebrew Genesis compilations for Mega CD

[alexh]

I think it is relatively hard to re-source each game and patch it to load from CD instead of from cartridge. Not to mention the load times. And for a compilation CD you'd have to do lots of them. With the launch of Everdrive (and the tens of clones) it's just not worth the effort.

But if you fancy a challenge... Get going :-)

https://www.retrodev.com/segacd.html

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by CCCP alert

I was looking for some CD ISOs that had loads of Megadrive cartridge games in a single ISO to load on a Mega CD, a bit like the official ones Sega bundled with it.

Was the Mega CD and espansion unity to mount on Mega Drive? So you should have the possibility to continue to use cartdrige or not?

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Seiya

Was the Mega CD and espansion unity to mount on Mega Drive? So you should have the possibility to continue to use cartdrige or not?

Yep, that's why Rochabian suggested using the Everdrive (SD card in cartridge format).

[Anubis]

I was just lost at him saying that is worth the money... 257 dollars for Mega Drive cartridge. I got MiSTer FPGA for cheaper and don't see any difference between games on MiSTer and real hardware.

[Matt_H]

AFAIK, no method of running MD/Gen ROMs from CD has yet been discovered. The compilations that Sega produced are, in fact, native code ports rather than ROMs and a loader.

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Anubis

257 dollars for Mega Drive cartridge. I got MiSTer FPGA for cheaper

That's the most expensive pro version. That is effectively a mini-mister. It supports MSD and MD+ (Fan based hardware enhancements originally written for emulators).

You can get an Mega Everdrive X3 for $40 (or a clone for $20)

[CCCP alert]

I guess the way those old 'disk doctor' type backup devices for SNES etc worked was just loading directly into the hardware's RAM with minor modifications for crack screen info added to the dumped ROMs you could download from BBS setups back then.

I was hoping those copied ROMs from these devices would be easier to make compilations out of but I guess they are pretty much a 90s version of an Everdrive etc so without the RAM in the back up device making up the fake 'ROM space' to load it into it's not going to work with just a Mega CD.

When ebay allow the $20 Chinese bootleg flash carts to be listed I will grab one.

[r.cade]

The CD unit only has 6Mbit of RAM, so if you could get a loader to work, you would be very limited in the games that would play.

[RichL]

AliExpress is your friend. Forget eBay.

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Originally Posted by RichL

AliExpress is your friend. Forget eBay.

https://m.aliexpress.com/wholesale/e....best.header.0

They are certainly more common there!