
This is another multi-purposed dumper, which supports various platforms (NES/Famicom, Genesis/Mega Drive, SNES/Super Famicom, GB, GBC, GBA, N64). Only 1 game is not recognised by the dumper, it’s the Virtual Racing, which uses extra hardware.ģ)Check for new external drives – if none is shown, press the lower button on retrode to restart, the drive will then appear You can not only dump the game, you can also attach the original Genesis / Mega Drive controller and use it to play the rom file in any emulator.

The save-files cannot be changed by default, but you can disable the write protection in the configuration file ( option) and write changed save file back to cartridge!Īnother interesting feature of this dumper ist the ability to use original controllers. They are then just listed together with the bin file. This dumper can also dump saves from cartridges. Genesis / Mega Drive roms will appear as “bin”-files. You insert your cartridge, then connect the dumper to the PC using a mini USB cable and it appears there as an external drive where you can see the contents of the cartridge. It actually supports multiple cartridges (Genesis/MD, SNES/Super Famicom, and using adapters platforms like GameBoy, Sega Master System and N64). You can read about this dumper on this page. Let’s compare them and test with three catrtidges, one classic, one special, one modern:

There are several devices out there, which allow you to dump Genesis / Mega Drive cartridges.
