Hey guys, pardon my newbie questions, I did search the forums but only came away confused and with more questions..
I've been drooling over MSX hardware for several years and finally decided to make the plunge. I picked up a Japanese Sony HitBit F1DX (MSX2), and it just arrived today! However, I just realized that the previous owner has not maintained the system. When I pulled it out of the box, I opened the battery cover to discover the original Sony AA batteries still in it!
The system is very dusty. The cartridge ports have gathered some of the protective foam that it shipped with. It looks like I will need to completely disassemble the system just to get this junk out, and give everything a proper wipe down. I have also read that the drive belts on the floppy drives will disintegrate over time, so I am sure I will need to replace the belt as well. I figure while I am doing this kind of maintenance on the system, I might as well look and see what else I can do.
Reviewing this forum, I found a thread on adding S-Video output to this exact model (http://br.msx.org/forumtopic9460.html), but all the pictures have since been deleted. Does anyone have these photos, or can give me some information regarding the solder points?
Briefly reviewing the forum, I found that some MSX systems are capable of stereo sound, while this unit only has a single mono audio port on the rear. Is this something I could add?
I'm interested in a flash memory card reader as well. All the information I found on this was two years old, and some of the vendors are no longer around. What are my options currently? Are there any that I can mount inside the system (maybe on the edge of the system board to be accessible from the side or read of the casing)?
Are there any other "gotchas", or cool modifications that I should be aware of?


