Interview: Joseph B. Hewitt (2017-11-25) by Asagoth

This is an unaltered copy of an interview of Joseph B. Hewitt, for use as a primary source on Sega Retro. Please do not edit the contents below. Language: English Original source: Asagoth at Sega Retro

Asagoth -- Greetings Mr. Hewitt... i know this might look strange to you sir ... im Portuguese, a Sega Fan and retro gamer... some time ago I've read some comments you made (i can't remember where) in a blog where you were looking for the Mega-Wice (Westwood Icon & Character Editor) ... i will ask you if you could take a look at this image and see if it's in fact what you were looking for? I don't want to look intrusive sir...

http://hiddenpalace.org/News/Sega_Art_Tool,_Sega_Sound_Tool,_GEMS_2.8_ROM

Mr. Hewitt -- Nope, that's not it. MegaWICE was on the PC and didn't have any connection to the console at all. We had those Chinese things that you plugged in to the cartridge slot that were really designed to pirate games to see what the art looked like on the console. At about $100 they were a lot cheaper than getting all the artist their own dev system.
Thanks for asking though. I'd really love to see that program again.

Asagoth -- Thank you for answering, sir... "those Chinese things" ... are you referring to this? https://segaretro.org/Super_Magic_Drive ... i will not bother you more ,sir ... I'm not a stalker... I'm a member of https://segaretro.org/Main_Page and http://www.sonicretro.org/ a community dedicated to preserve sega history and all about Sonic the Hedgehog ... we have a forum ... i'll leave the links here in case you want to take a visit...

Mr. Hewitt -- Yes, that is exactly what I was talking about. I'll check out those links when I get home. Feel free to shoot me a message if you think I can help with anything else, though there is no guarantee that what I may think I remember is actually correct.

Asagoth -- Thank you very much sir ... all the help will be appreciated ... we rely mostly on web research and contributions from the community... so we're somewhat limited in terms of sources of information... ''