I don't think any such thing exists - the alpha devkits were produced well before there was any production hardware, and they had "xbox" on them....
Since it's an early one that would have had those Cooper aerogel caps in it, it's quite likely destroyed already.
It doesn't look like stealth wiring - but it's very hard to tell exactly what chip it is, because all those glob-tops looked pretty much the same,...
The wobble is recorded in the ToC area of the disc and possibly at the end of the leadin, too. On all the discs I've looked at, it stops during...
No, no idea at all, unless the voltage drop across the vias is really excessive and the input to the regulator ends up below it's dropout voltage....
I've seen those 2 black wires before - even in some units that didn't appear to have ever been worked on. I suspect the purpose is to attempt to...
No, they were perfectly standard CD-Rs, which is why they only booted on debug stations. I guess you might be able to make a CD-R with this data...
It all looks plausible to me - those two wires on the expansion slot presumably select the correct boot ROM in the Mega-CD (which appears to be...
No, only the recordable discs have wobble - I can absolutely assure you that a regular audio CD or CR-ROM has a linear spiral, which is precisely...
I think this has to be a connection error... 50/60 EN/JP 0 0 Not used (would be 50Hz, JP) 0 1 50Hz /...
Because it would make absolutely no sense to do so - a drive that has a SMART failure is defective - and if you are a big OEM like Sony, you don't...
I hope it hasn't damaged anything - one of the horrible things about the design of the SNES cart slot is that VCC and GND are on the ends of the...
You can in principle run anything you like on a JTAG/RGH box - the basic purpose of the hack is to trick the machine into running the old (now...
Well, I've always thought that would explain why there seem to be so many of those HDDs that are still in their boxes unopened. They don't work.
Even when I was typing that I was thinking I should put a ? after it :)
I guess all you can do is hope that whatever is faulty isn't the actual EPROMS...
I think that is almost certainly a hardware problem on the cart - the power LED on the SNES is run off the 5V line using a series resistor - so if...
I assume this is a SCPH-10000 retail? And are the "dev drives" the ones marked "for TOOL"? I had a very similar experience, and eventually...
I've seen a few of them, they seem to have been produced by Sega Europe to supply to people that wanted a Cartdev system without the CD emulator.
Thin Ice Media was always Datel - they called it that because they were well aware they were operating in something of a legal grey area....
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