Hello SMS / Sonic fans! I’m making good progress on an SMS port of « Get Blue Spheres » . Here’s a demo video, I plan to release the ROM by the end of September possible sooner. I’d appreciate any feedback here or on my YouTube channel ! Thank you 😁
Most of you likely remember “the dress”. I present “the phaser”. Is the photo black and blue, or white and gold. Have we all been duped into thinking the Master System phaser was black all this time? /s
I'm on a (re)discovery marathon of my MS collection (~half the set) because I collected some of those games years ago and barely touch them. Those last few days I was playing Master of Darkness.
It's a gothic action platformer set in the victorian era, with cool cutscenes between stages.
The elephant in the room: yes, it's a Castlevania-like. Some enemies are directly taken from Castelvania (mandatory zombies and squeletons, the eagles on stage 4, etc.), the way you use stairs, giant pendulums, the end boss is Dracula,... And it work very well at bringing a similar experience as Castlevania. In certain aspect, it's even better, for example the pushback is limited when being hit, you can use different weapons, and you have unlimited continues.
But the more you play it, the more you realize Master of Darkness is its own thing. Its setting bring new elements to the formula like Jack the Ripper, the house of wax, or occult societies. The possibilty to swap weapons give choices beetween range and power, and it changes the approach you take to clear stages. The stages themselves presents quite the variety of situations beyond jump and hit: some walls are destructible, there are extra hidden lives, a few forks alllow different paths, some rooms are locked until you kill all or a specific enemy, etc. The fifth and last stage is a maze, this is where unlimited continues are welcome, because I died to the timer depleting quite some times before finding the path to the exit.
I don't finish all the games I'm replaying, far from that. But I was hooked on Master of Darkness and I came back to it and it took me 4 sessions to beat the game. It was a great experience, the graphics are good for the MS and the controls are responsive. But some bg musics are more atmospheric than melodic and a bit repetitive, I suspect it's the sector the devs sacrified given the limited space on the cartridge.
I'm going through "the history of gaming" and playing through a bunch of old games between 1986 to around 1989. I'm adding as much as I can to the list, and specifically want more Master System recommendations, but of course any recommendations are welcome, even from other consoles.
Growing my physical media collection ✨️
We have our winner for Most Unique Experience in a Retro Game:
🥇- Seaman - 42 votes
🥈- Rez - 20 votes
🥉- LSD Dream Emulator - 18 votes
🏵️ - Kero Kero King - 10 votes
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Met the legend Yuzo Koshiro today and got him to sign my Sonic The Hedgehog
I have seen many cheap consoles that play NES games, SNES, Sega Genesys, or both NES and SNES, and even the three at once, but I haven't seen any modern Master System clone. All these clones play in HD. Is there anything like this but for Master System games?
This is something I've been wondering about lately, and I thought this might be the right place to ask since the SG-1000 is the Master System precursor which is retrocompatible with it and even use Sega Cards.
When I was a kid, I actually owned an MSX. I didn't have any Sega hardware myself, although I played the Sega consoles at friends' houses. So I never really paid much attention to the SG-1000 back then.
Recently, while going through the SG-1000 library on my MSXVR, I noticed something that immediately caught my attention: there are quite a few games that also existed on MSX. One that really made me curious was Magical Kid Wiz. I couldn't actually get it running in the virtualizer, unfortunately, but I started wondering how close the two machines really were.
As far as I understand, the SG-1000 and the original MSX are actually very similar from a hardware point of view: both use a Z80 CPU and the TMS9918-family video chip. The SG-1000 uses the SN76489 for sound, while MSX1 machines generally used the AY-3-8910, and there are also differences in the memory map and I/O.
So my question is: how close were these machines in practical terms?
Was porting a game between MSX and SG-1000 relatively easy because of the shared Z80/TMS9918 architecture, or were the differences significant enough that games generally had to be substantially rewritten?
And Magical Kid Wiz seems to be an especially interesting case, since apparently the SG-1000 version was actually based on the MSX version. Were there other examples where an MSX game was directly ported to SG-1000 (or vice versa)?
There's another thing I'm curious about. I vaguely remembered that Microsoft had something to do with the creation of the MSX standard. After looking into it again, I understand that MSX was developed by ASCII in cooperation with Microsoft, with Microsoft providing MSX-BASIC. But I also had this vague memory of Sega somehow being involved with MSX... Am I completely mixing things up here?
I’m searching for an English manual (and/or Swedish) to Phantasy Star to complete my copy. If anyone has one available please let me know, need it shipped to Sweden:)
I also have sonic 1 cart only and alex kidd in miracle world built in to my mark 2
When I was a kid, I somehow got it into my head that Wonder Boy was SEGA’s mascot.
In my childhood imagination, it made perfect sense. The original Wonder Boy was this little caveman-looking guy running around throwing axes, and to me he was basically SEGA’s answer to Super Mario. Whenever I saw the two games in arcades, they seemed like very similar platformers made by two rival companies: Nintendo had Mario, SEGA had Wonder Boy.
Then, when I started going to friends’ houses in elementary school to play on the Master System, I discovered another character: Alex Kidd.
In my country, one of the Master System bundles actually came with Alex Kidd built into the console, so suddenly this character was everywhere. And I remember being told Alex Kidd was actually SEGA’s mascot.
And honestly, that also made perfect sense to me. Alex Kidd absolutely looked like a character who deserved to be SEGA’s counterpart to Mario.
So for years I had this vague childhood memory of Wonder Boy and Alex Kidd fighting for the imaginary title of “SEGA mascot” in my head.
Then, much later, I started looking into SEGA history online and discovered something that completely confused me again: apparently, Opa-Opa is sometimes described as SEGA’s first mascot, thanks to Fantasy Zone.
I have to admit, I never even played Fantasy Zone as a kid (or as an adult - I'm not evens sure about the game title), so Opa-Opa was never remotely part of my childhood perception of SEGA. To me, that little flying spaceship/creature simply wasn't the face of SEGA at all.
So now I'm curious about what people here think: who was actually SEGA's first mascot before Sonic? Was it really Opa-Opa? Was Alex Kidd the more legitimate “mascot” during the Master System era? Was Wonder Boy ever genuinely treated as SEGA's mascot, or was that mostly something that existed in the minds of kids like me?
And, perhaps more interestingly, who did YOU think was SEGA's mascot when you were a kid?
Maybe it was Alex Kidd. Maybe Wonder Boy. Maybe Opa-Opa. Or perhaps you were convinced it was Psycho Fox!?
Did you no? Sonic the hedgehog, the beloved video game Icon, had his first game released 25 years ago in 1989. Today we celebrate sonic for being the single greatest video game character of all time. If your like me, and I know I am, then you LOVE sonic the hedgehog. Sonic is known for being the fastest thing alive, But throughout the years, one question has perspired: does sonic gotta go fast? Join me up on my high horse as we take a look at sonic’s life story, and finally find out what makes this tumblr sexy man of hedgehogg always run faster than the speed of light. perchance.
what set’s sonic apart from other video game characters of the time is his ability to go left and right. Pushing left on the control pad allowes sonic to move left, while pushing right on the control pad will instead move sonic to the right. What set’s sonic apart from other video game characters of the time is his speed. Most other video game characters are slow, but not sonic the hedgehog, no way no how. Sonic the hedgehog is Fast as Fuck! Why would anyone want to walk slow like a bitch when they could run fast like sonic? Sonic’s speed has always been the key to his success, and what sets sonic apart from other video game characters of the time is that he’s both fast AND Cool. Oh yeah, Baby!
and of course, we cannot talk about Sonic the hedgehog without talking about the music in sonic games. We quite literally can not! Refusing to talk about sonic music is punishable by up to 20 years of crabstration. Sonic tunes are like butter, and in sonic the hedgehog 3, they even got Michael Jackson involved. of course, in later rereleases of sonic 3, they had to remove Michael Jackson due to the fact that Michael Jackson is some kind of SICK FREAK. But even tue this day, listening to the sonic the airhog soundtrack is enough to melt your face off. Perchance. Those are some sick groves, sonic.
in all of sonixs adventures, he fights against Dr. Eggman, a fat red man with a mustache. But did you notice anything conspicuous about Eggmn’s appearance? That’s right, my friends. As we all know, Eggman is actually an anagram for Joseph Stalin. He always trapping small animalts in robits in order to industrialize sonic’s world. one of the most auspicious reasons sonic funs faster than the univers it’s self is because he’s trying to outrun communism. Perchance. It’s like they always say: you can take the hedgehog out of the green hill zone, but you can’t take the green hillz hedge out of the zone hog. Our cause is a just one.
sonic is not along in his indevers. Sonic the hedgefund had many a friends by his side at all time. starting in sonic 2, sonic would be Joined by Miles “tails” prower tails the fox. This fluffy little yellow guy is able to use his tails like a helicopter, helping sonic fly over ostacles; tails can be controlled by player 2, but player one sonic will usually run much faster than tails, leaving him behind. But worry not my happy little fox trotters, as tails will always come back, flying to his best friend sinic’s side. sweet, sweet lemonade.
starting with sonic 3 and knuckles, sonic wood also be Joined by another friend, Knuckles the echidna. Knuckles LOVES women. He said so himself in an episode of the hit Tv series sonic underground: “I may be a meat head but I’m also a feminist”. That’s why Knuckles are such good friends with rogue the bat. Perchance. How holesome, knuckles is. There’s a good reason why he’s irrestopibly concindered one of the sonic heroes.
as sonic runs through all the green hill zones, he picks up many rings along the way. why does sonic do this? well, starting in sonic CD, we introduced to Sonic’s girlfriend, Amy the rose. Sonic looks for all the rings and the chaos diamonds because he’s trying to impress her. but Amy love sonic for who he is. Perchance. I hope they have a happy life together in hell.
Yeehaw, pardner. We love team chaotics here in the old west. Vector the crocodile, charmy bee and everyone’s favorite, espio the chameleon. Espio is a ninja. Everybody loves ninjas. Why would you not love ninjas? What the hell is wrong with you? a treu shindobi warrior never unraveals himself. Hide your husbands, boys.
starting with the sega Saturn, Sonic would make the leap into the thirt dimension starting with sonic adventure. Too this day, many people still await sonic to make the Jump to the 4th dimension. Perchance. But what many people don’t realize is that the forth dimensnion does not exist, as neither does the 1st or second. what we call the third dimension is all there is, all else is man made concepts. Just like time it’s self. The only reason humans began to measure the earth’s rotation around the earth is because we are all going to die some day. Even the fastest thing alive cannot outrun his own mortality, so why should we? Engrace the time you have left, for it is limited. Eat chilli dogs and collect rare gem stones. We are all sonic.
and now for the hedgehog who needs no introductions. Allow me to introduce you to sonic the hedgehog himself. H’es cool, his blue, and hes fast. What more due I need to say? Sonic is the greatest hedgehero in all of video gaming. Trhu out tens of adventures, shonic has met many friends, all of whom celebrate his birthday. But one of sonic’’s greatest friends of all is himself. In sonic generalizations, sonic teams up with his passed self to go on the ultimate adventure of two lifetimes. Soni’c from the past, called “”classic sonic”, is much shorter than modern sonic. People grow, and so does sonic. Perchance.
sonic has ashieved many comploshintments through his years, appearing in super smashed brothers mellee, competing in the Olympics, and got many spin off games like sonic spinball and Dr. eggbot’s lean mean bean fighting machine. too this day, there’s not a single person on earth who doen’t known sonic. He’s more famous than Jesus christ himself. Aint that the truth?
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starting with sonic 3 and knuckles, sonic would also be Joined by another frend, Knuckles the echilada. Knuckles HATES Women. Just look at sonic adventure, Knuckles spends the entire game beating up rouge the bat. And honestly, that whore deserves it. Rouge the bat? More like Rogue the bitch. Am I right yall?
as sonic strolls around past the speed of sound, tripping balls through greenhill zone, he picks up many rings along the way. but why does sonic never give any of these rings to his long time girlfriend, Amy the rose.? Is sonic afraid of commitment? Is that why he’s running? You’re never going to compress her like that, sonic. All I’m saying is if Sonic liked it, then mayhaps he should have put a ring on it. some people just want to watch the world burn.
soncs is always alone in his endebers because he abandoned his good friend miles the tails the prower in favor of a weird little dog thing named chip.sonic turned into a werehog, a mix between a werewolf and a hengehog. This was during sonic’s cringeworthy teenag years when he started reading twilight. Perchance. When sonic is werehoff, he is’nt fats at all. They did give him weird stretchy hands, but those aren’t going to help sonic when he’s gotta go fast. Got milk?
sonic was a constent disappointment in everyone’s lives, which is why starting with sonic adventure 2, sage indicted Shadow the hedgegog into the franchise. Shadow is the cooler, edgier, antisystemetic hedgehog ment to replace sonic in the hearts of the fans. Perchance. And who wouldn’t love shadow? He’s so sexy. He looks like if a hedgehog and a hottopic had a midnight love child. Shadow is so much better than that loser, sonic. Sonic may be fastter than the speed of light, but shadow is faster than the speed of dark. While sonic’s out here still trying to fit into his big boy pants, Shadow the Absolute unit is kicking major ass. How’s that for a pipe and smoke it?
in all of sonic adventure’s, he fights against Dr. robotnic, a fat elderly man with a mustache. And that’s great because old people suck. All they do is take up space and ruin the economy. the economy sucks. No wonder why in Shadow the hedgehog for the Nintendo gamecube, shadow fights the US government. He even destroys the whitehouse with a giant space laser. Whos laughing now>?
while shadow looks for that damn fourth chaos emerald, we have another hegdegod to talk about; silver the hedgehog! Initial introduce in sonic the hedgehog 2006, the game where sonic kisses a human girl because he’s gay, we also meat Silve the hedgehog, an awesome hedgehog from the future sent back to stop sonic from kissing the princess. Silver has cool psychic powers, but they’re not as cool as shadow’s awesome darkness powers. But stil way cooler than sonic, who doesn’t process any powers at all. He can just run a little fast. Perchance. Not cool, bozo.
shiver me timbers has a really cool friend all the time friend named blazes the cat. This cat is on fire!!!!!!! Blaaze is like a hedgehog if a hedgehog was a cat, and she’s even faster than snonic. Austencibly, There are two cats in the sonic series, one of them is big the cat, and he’s a lorge cat looking for froggy. Both of them are purple, but neither of them are ninjas. But the best part about blaze is that she is the size of the average human mother.
nowadays, sonic does nothing but release crappy iphon james. Each game more gristueshous than the last. Just looks at sonic frontiers, sonic copied legend of Zelda breaths of the wild by trying to make his own opened world game. THIS IS BULLSHIT!! Sonic is just a shell of his former self, and he was never cool in the first place. His first game ever, sonic the hedgehog 2, is an over rated piece of dumpster fire. And where is sonic adventure 3, Reggie!?
Soniff the hibhob is a shamm. He’s extabably the worst thing to ever happen, and a stain on mankinds otherwise ambroshous record. Play a real game, like super mario. Mario is based and redpiled. The embodiment of masculinity it’s self. Just look at that mustache. No villain would ever have a mustache. Mario stomps on turtlels all day while sonic goes around cheating on his grillfran amy with a human princess. What a disgraced! If you;;’d ask me, your’e much better off spending your limited time on this planet playing Mario than letting that piece of shit sonic the eggnog play with your heart. Don’t let your children near sonsic, let them near a trustworthy roll model like Michael Jackson. They’ll grow up to be respecitable members of susiety that way. Perchance.
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I have Alex Kidd BMX trial (and probably more games that use the paddle) in an Everdrive cartridge. If I get a SM3 paddle, will it work on the MS2?
I bought a Sega Mark III in Japan. It came with a golf game and I decided to buy a 600-in-1 Everdrive clone from AliExpress, with an SD card. When I inserted the cartridge (using an adapter because the Everdrive is designed for the Master System), there was no video signal in the menu, but I could load ROMs "blindly." The games loaded and ran fine, but the Everdrive's main menu wouldn't appear visible.
After searching online, I found that in some cases this problem could be solved by replacing an internal capacitor in the console. I did this, and after replacing the 10µF capacitor C18 with a 1µF capacitor in the console (5th img), the Everdrive now displays video, and all the games work correctly. One drawback is that the modification removes compatibility with the FM-70 accessory, which adds more sound channels to some games. I hope this helps. Cheers.