SEGA Pluto Prototype (Hands-On Review and Ben Heck Repair)

[A Murder of Crows]

Some photos

 

[A Murder of Crows]

and pix of the hard drive

 

[ANU81517]

Love old SEGA stuff!

 

[LeonTheo02]

Old SEGA Development gear is always so interesting!

 

[Getta Robo]

Yeah, adam brought it over to my place and i made a dump of the hard drive. completely blank, not even old partition information existed on it.

we also attempted to get several carts to be recognized. nothing with a bootloader on it that we were willing to try (such as the gamer's cart) would work. we got Marvel Super Heroes (US original) to boot and recognize my 1mb/4mb switched cart and i sent that with him along with a JVC/Victor MPEG card. also lightly installed a Phantom universal into the unit (no solder so it can be easily removed, replaced, or reinstalled if needed) and tried booting up japanese games with the region changed to US, which did work.

Pluto Project – Google Drive

drive.google.com

Thank you so much for everything you've done - this is a huge deal for so many people.
Just being curious, were you able to also extract the bios? If yes, would it be please possible to share it as well?

 

[nitelich]

The whole sega solar system...

 

[Druid II]

Thank you so much for everything you've done - this is a huge deal for so many people.
Just being curious, were you able to also extract the bios? If yes, would it be please possible to share it as well?

From what I remember, from seeing the board images, the bios was the stock vanilla US rom (MPR-17941 visible on the video).

 

[A Murder of Crows]

The system will make it's way back in my direction likely in the fall, maybe sooner. we're doing a bios dump then and i plan on taking some hi-res photos as well.