Sega Master System on the Papilio Plus

Papilio user Ben Leperchey has successfully managed to run a Sega Master System on a Papilio Plus prototype and he has started an interesting topic in the forum to share with us his work.

If you want to try this project on your Papilio Plus prototype you must have these wings:

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• Joystick wing
• VGA wing
• MicroSD wing
• Audio wing

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Since the first version uses a SD card we can’t use the Arcade MegaWing. Instead of all these wings listed above to run this project, but Ben has been working on a new version that should work fine with the Arcade MegaWing.

Ben wrote a nice bootloader to select ROMs from a SD Card.

“Load the bit file : the bootloader shows the content of your SD card. Pick a rom and it gets loaded into the SRAM, and the system boots it : you’re ready to go !”

Feel free to discuss in our forum this interesting topic and share with us your suggestions to help improve this project.

The full source code is available for download on Github, and we’ve got the original forum thread here if you’d like to read the whole thing, complete with tech specs, etc.

Thanks for sharing your work with us, Ben