MSX : MegaLoadOn16 CS12 MSX Cartridge

The MegaLoadOn16 CS12 MSX Cartridge is now available!

It's done!, i decided recently to design a separate PCB for the MegaLoadOn16 CS12, it will be available from now on.

What exactly is the MegaLoadOn16 CS12 :
This cartridge is like its almost namesake, one with 64 banks of 16 KB in a single MSX Cartridge, where the banks are switched by moving (a total of 6) jumpers.
This cartridge works in a different memory region than the other lots in the MegaLoadOn MSX cartridge family.
No more waiting for your tape to load, or endlessly changing cartridges to play a game.
Just everything on 1 cartridge at hand.
For the name I was inspired by the Megalodon , a large sized shark, I was looking for something to indicate that it was a large cartridge for the MSX computers.

The idea behind the MegaLoadOn16 cartridge was to build an MSX Cartridge with a basic setup and that would be simple to use.
Even though the Jumpers may seem to say something else, that's just how you look at the setup of this MSX Cartridge.
My idea was that this should be a cartridge with games that you like to play, and that you don't have to scroll through a menu every time you turn on your MSX to choose the game you are already playing before coffee. used to be.
You set your desired game, and until you move the jumpers, that's what automatically starts the game when you turn on your MSX.

You select the games on the MegaLoadOn16 using 6 Jumpers (A14 - A19)
the setup is actually simple 🙂

[A14] has 2 16KB banks    (2)
[A15] has 2 [A14] banks of 2 16KB banks (4)
[A16] has 2 [A15] banks of 2 [A14] banks of 2 16KB banks (8)
[A17 ] has 2 [A16] banks of 2 [A15] banks of 2 [A14] banks of 2 16KB banks (16)
[A18] has 2 [A17] banks of 2 [A16] banks of 2 [A15] banks of 2 [ A14] banks of 2 16KB banks (32)
[A19] has 2 [A18] banks of 2 [A17] banks of 2 [A16] banks of 2 [A15] banks of 2 [A14] banks of 2 16KB banks (64)

But to explain it a little easier you work from left to right:

Jumper A14 has 2 positions
Jumper A15 has 2 positions
if A15 is set to 0, then 0 and 1 of A14 have a different content than when A15 is set to 1.

Below is a test compilation that I used to test the functionality, all the titles shown work with this cartridge (and undoubtedly many more titles than just this one)

Sample Compilation (Part 1)

Sample Compilation (Part 2)