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I've been noticing recently quite a few people have been taking out the sound chips of the SEGA Megadrive/Genesis, and driving them directly from their PCs with arduinos and things like that. This got me thinking, do we actually understand enough about the SEGA Genesis now to, for example, connect wires to datalines on the motherboard, and inject a VGM music stream on the console while it is powered on, bypassing any need for carts or things like that? The raspberry pi for example has 8 GPIO pins, which is enough to drive a YM2612 directly but not enough for both that and the PSG.

Basically this is just a "what if?" question I've had kicking around my head for a bit and would really like to hear peoples take on it.

I was wondering, is it possible to extract audio samples from Sonic Rush? The soundtrack is available in mini2sf format from here (though the link isn't working right now).

Hello all,
Recently, SSRG got a revamp, with that a key new element to the site was introduced: Hacktube.

The idea behind this is simple, it's YouTube for your Sonic modifications. You can register (currently using the forum's database) and upload your hacks to the site, allowing others to comment and (eventually) give ratings. I figured some of you, when posting a topic about a hack you've made here, might find it useful to also give a hacktube link to help encourage people to play your hacks straight away.

Anyway I hope you find it fun and useful and let me know about any problems you encounter!

~Q

Hi all,
I recently aquired a TV which I'll have in my room for at least a week, meaning I can test some ROMs on hardware (up to 4MB/32Mbit) using my Double Pro Fighter!

Though from what I understand most of the "major" projects already have the ability to test on hardware, I figured I might be able to help out with those of you who don't have this avaliable.

I am also investigating the possibility of an automated service, where people can queue to use the copier, and get a video out streamed into their web browser, though the main difficulty I can forsee is relaying controls to the genesis while the parallel port is also in use by the copier, though I do have a USB->Parallel cable... so maybe I'll be able to figure something out! Would be pretty neat, but I probably won't be able to sort that out any time soon.

So yeah let me know

~Q

Here.

Not many done yet, but I thought I'd post what I'd done so far for some feedback and to check whether people think I'm approaching this in the best way etc.

I'm hoping to go on to do more advanced tutorials with SonED2 as well as tutorials with SonMapEd for art editing.

I'm also in the process of uploading these on youtube, the resolution is lower but they're still understandable (I hope!)

Anyway let me know what you think!
~Q