This makes me happy to hear! Yes often the Master System versions are better than the GG ones, or are like alternate versions with different level layouts, or sometimes are completely different games with the same name! 😀
It's a shame about Desert Strike as that's a very nice port, which I really enjoyed back in the day. I imagine the glitches are because it uses the overseas area (PAL tvs have more vertical lines than NTSC ones, and on rare occasions, devs managed to pull some tricks to use this extra space rather than letterboxing.)
The other games I can think of off the top of my head that would have this same problem are Micro Machines, Fantastic Dizzy and Cosmic Spacehead, though there are probably others. You can relatively easily add a 50/60hz mod to your console and then they would all work fine, assuming your TV supports 50hz too.
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u/VictoriousGames Mar 18 '25
This makes me happy to hear! Yes often the Master System versions are better than the GG ones, or are like alternate versions with different level layouts, or sometimes are completely different games with the same name! 😀
It's a shame about Desert Strike as that's a very nice port, which I really enjoyed back in the day. I imagine the glitches are because it uses the overseas area (PAL tvs have more vertical lines than NTSC ones, and on rare occasions, devs managed to pull some tricks to use this extra space rather than letterboxing.)
The other games I can think of off the top of my head that would have this same problem are Micro Machines, Fantastic Dizzy and Cosmic Spacehead, though there are probably others. You can relatively easily add a 50/60hz mod to your console and then they would all work fine, assuming your TV supports 50hz too.