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Okay, I need someone with an actual 32X to test this. On my own 32X, I have this issue where if the 68000 tries to read from ROM addresses 0x210000, 0x210001, or anywhere in 0x2130D0-0x2130DF (basically, 0x910000, 0x910001, 0x9130D0-0x913D0F with the bank set to 2), something else gets read, and the results are consistent every time I run it. With 0x210000 and 0x210001, bits 6 and 7 get masked out, and the other addresses read something completely different (the values are always the same, 0000 C000 55A0 [random] FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF). Does this happen for anyone else, and if anyone happens to know, why does this happen?

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These are my results, with each column being the 4 ROM banks being compared with each other:



EDIT: After some testing...

Happens:

• Model 1 USA VA3 Genesis, VA0 USA 32X, Mega Everdrive Pro
• Model 1 Japan VA5 Genesis, VA0 USA 32X, Mega Everdrive Pro
• Model 1 USA VA6.5 Genesis, VA0 USA 32X, Mega Everdrive Pro
• Model 2 USA VA0 Genesis, VA0 USA 32X, Mega Everdrive Pro

Does not happen

• Model 2 USA VA0 Genesis, VA0 USA 32X, Everdrive X3
• Model 1 USA VA6.5 Genesis, VA0 USA 32X, Everdrive X3
• Model 1 USA VA6 Genesis, VA0 USA 32X, Everdrive X7
• Model 2 Europe Mega Drive (board version unknown), Europe 32X (board version unknown, "20-6923 04049-01-2 ABS"), "Everdrive MD" (either super old or a bootleg)

I'm starting to think it's an issue with the Mega Everdrive Pro with the 32X, considering that's the only difference between the 2 Genesis model 2 VA0/32X VA0 tests. For the tests outside of my initial one in which the issue happens, the results are exactly the same.

I did notice that the old version of the extended SSF mapper for the X3/X5/X7 series used to have registers mapped at 0xA130D0-0xA130DF, which looks suspiciously alike to 0x9130D0-0x9130DF... I have no clue if there's some sort of relation or not, but it's a thought.

Once upon a time, I happened to have these kind of strange behaviour.
I can not tell you my MD nor 32X model, not even MegaEverdrive version,
but I definitely remember reading unexpected bytes.

Could be / hope it only comes with the Mega Everdrive.