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Super Magic Drive is a Genesis/Mega Drive copier produced by Front Far East. With an adapter the Super Magic Drive can copy and play SNES games too, and another allows PC 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 parallel 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 Mega Drive/Genesis carts. It can also playback Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System/Mark III games.
NAME: Super Magicom Drive
PRODUCED: xxx - 1993
DRAM SIZE: xxMbit (Depends on Super Magic Drive)
BRAM SIZE: xxk (Depends on Super Magic Drive)
INSTANT SAVE: No
SLOW MOTION: No
RAM EXPANSION: No
CART UTILITIES: Yes
DISK UTILITIES: Yes
GOLDFINGER: Yes
GUI: Text
PRODUCED BY : ?
LOAD FEATURES: 3.5" (1.44mb) External Disk drive, Parallel Port via Super Magic Drive
MANUAL:
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MD Cartridge Copier BIOS (these run in SMS mode)
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SMDV3.ZIP
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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
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MDPBIOS.ZIP
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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)."
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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!!
The Magic Drive Plus has been released from the creators of the Super Magic Drive. Also known as the Super Magic Drive 2, this has 24 megs and can copy all Genesis games, including SF2:SCE. But it can't play SF2:SCE from a backup.
