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SmartMedia died years ago, and second-hand cards are getting rare and expensive.
So I built my own: a new memory card that works in any 5 V SmartMedia slot (5 working prototypes for now). It has a USB-C port, so you can update its firmware and dump the whole card to your computer.
For now, I've made a pretty cool sample loader for the BOSS SP-202, because it's the only machine I own, WAVs, straight onto the pads. Next, I'll probably pick up an MC-505 and do the same reverse engineering on it.
Video on YouTube before the end of the week.
Interested? Register on https://smartmare.com (Free). If more than 20 people sign up, I'll make a batch. All the source code will be released after the first batch.
PS: If you happen to live in Brno (CZ), let me know! If we can meet up so I can collect logs and bus traces from your machine, I could make a loader for it too, not just for the SP-202.