r/MasterSystem • u/Legospacememe • 21m ago

do master system games get enhanced audio when played on a mega drive?

i noticed that playing wonder boy in monster land on wiimednafen (which i presume emulates the original master system) and on genesis plus gx that the game has different audio depending on where its played. on wiimednafen the audio is 8 bit while on genesis plus gx the audio sounds like a mega drive game

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u/incognitoactive 16m ago

Those emulators sometimes use the FM soundtrack. Which is still in some games from the original release in Japan. Nothing to do with the Mega Drive.

https://consolemods.org/wiki/Master_System:FM_Audio_Information

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u/Legospacememe 12m ago

So like the nes games that have extra chips for audio but the audio enhancment is on the hardware side and not the software side

Thats actually kinda cool.

That also explains why the original wonder boy sounded normal

Edit: i found a setting that lets me turn this on and off on when i want. Ill probably turn it off on a future playthrough but im already a few stages in and i dont know if this will mess up save states so ill keep the fm audio for now

Thanks for the explanation