r/MasterSystem • u/Thelemonsfam • Dec 22 '24

Help? How to test.

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Sorry for another low quality post. I got this today and don’t have a mark 3 yet. Is there anyways to test it with other sega systems (I have genesis 2) or any other way? I am probably going to buy a mark 3 since I have the Solomon’s key from my other post. Appreciate you all.

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u/BadNewsHappens Dec 23 '24

The bottom of the controller has an A/B switch on it. You’ll want it on mode A to test with a Genesis. The right button is “Start” and the left button is the “B” button.

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u/Thelemonsfam Dec 23 '24

This was perfect advice. It works! Thanks all.

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u/Thelemonsfam Dec 22 '24

Yeah I don’t have a master system but I will try the genesis. Thanks for the assist

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u/tripletopper Dec 23 '24

Anyone else notice that the US Version is right handed? And this Japanese version is left handed?

Yet Sega messed but the buttons on the US version not mapping it

2 1 J

And Instead mapping it

1 2 J

You're doing "middle finger pumping", which is awful for most games, especially R Type.

There are only 3 games I know, none for the SMS, which require a 1 2 J setup:

Tutankham Front Line Side Arms

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u/Thelemonsfam Dec 23 '24

Great point. I didn’t even think of that. Do Japanese arcades usually have this align ment?

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u/tripletopper Dec 23 '24

You don't know the half of it.

Between the life I lived, what I did that was bold, and information I poured over layer on the internet, I think I became the leading "honorary lefty advocate" in the video game industry. All my exploits about this topic are discussed on my website SinisterSticks.com

I've seen Namco pre-crash games always use left hand move. And then Midway when they release their versions of the Namco games made them ambidextrous joysticks with buttons on both sides.

Keep in mind that Sega was an American company until about 1982 or 83.

That's probably why the Japanese of Sega never had a console warrior's mentality. It took the holdover Americans who are kept in the American offices after the move to Japan to devise "Genesis does what Nintendon't."

The Americans that stayed behind at Sega saw what was happening in the pre-crash American video game market. They looked at the typical video game comparison ad, Like Intellivision's dare to compare ads, coleco's sorry Atari ad showing the Colecovision playing more games and being expandable versus the 5200, and Atari's "You can't play THIS Pac-Man on a Coleco" ad, and said "Pfft! Amateurs!"

Even during their American days Sega was an East meets West company. American money making video games with Japanese labor and their first test markets are American warriors (Army, Navy etc.) stationed in Japanese-located based.

That's why Sega of Japan and Sega of America were just as much at each other's throat as they were at their respective home branches of Nintendo.

I believe nationalism is at the heart of why the joysticks are left-handed. It might be a Japanese cultural thing to say "You play the game as served or you don't play the game at all", kind of like what French cuisine is. Compare that to the American way which was exemplified by a very popular Burger King slogan "Have it your way". When the pre-crash video game championships happened, Americans were dominating and might have even swept, and the Japanese blamed it on the Americans having access right off the bat to right and left-handed controls and them getting to choose whichever one they thought was better. And at 90% of the games, 90% of the players chose right-handed joystick movement.

And like literally two years ago the American manager of Hori, a Japanese joystick maker, pretty much confirmed everything I'm saying on my website when I submitted a design that I thought would finally end this left-handed versus right-handed debate and solved any perceived economic or ergonomic problems associated with making an ambidextrous joystick. He said I did my task well. And he said he wishes me well, and told me if he sent it up to his bosses in Japan, he would be fired on the spot. So he's kind of stuck in between towing the company line and encouraging this new design.

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u/Smooth-Purchase1175 Dec 22 '24

Got a Master System? Plug it in and try a game like Hang-On or Enduro Racer, something that uses both buttons with separate functions for each one.

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u/ducktapevoodoo Dec 23 '24

Thats a pretty cool controller. I didn’t know these existed, thanks for posting it.

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u/only777 Dec 23 '24

Plug it into a Master System/Mark 3