Repair & Schematics
Sega Mega CD
Side Connector (Sega Mega CD)
1 min
the connector block that joins the mega cd to the mega drive has several versions, and it must match the mega cd motherboard revision to work correctly some mega cd revisions use a side conector with passive components, while others use a version that has peel ic (custom fpga/pld) if you use a passive side connector with a motherboard that requiers a peel ic or the other way around, it may not work at all, or it may work but with graphical glitches on the bios screen there is a remake of the side connector pcb with the peel ic logic https //github com/board folk/megacd connect bd remake there are motherboard remakes and details of identifying which motherboard uses which side connector https //github com/board folk/megacd main bd?tab=readme ov file