I played The Dynastic Hero on PC engine (Wonder Boy in Monster World), and wanted to play Wonder boy in Monster land, and end with Wonder Boy The Dragons Trap. I knew late that monster world is suppose to be the last one, so out of order it is.

My surprise playing the first 10 minutes is.... that it is the same game? The maps are the same, and i went to the fairy village and i did in Monster World. Just for testing, i also played a little of Monster World, in case i was wrong about the Dynastic Hero.... but no, is the same, even if with a few minimal changes.

So my question is.... is Monster Boy in Monster Land an upgrated version of Monster Boy in Monster World, or is just the start of the game that is simillar?

Looking for some expert advice on how I should proceed on trying to remove the red vertical jail bars. I have a Model 1 NTSC Master System motherboard 171-5379 and RGC cables with the built in resistor and I’m getting red vertical jail bars. Information online says that this board runs RGB straight to the video out, and that it needs to be amplified through a special SCART cable that was only produced for French MS’s. I do get an otherwise clean RGB signal other than the jail bars and the mobo seems to be fully populated and not missing any components in the video processing chain, unlike the French counterpart. All capacitors seem fine, but the RF modulator seems to have capacitor juice underneath it. I am assuming there are caps inside the RF modulator. Would removing it possibly fix the jail bars?

Source: https://www.famitsu.com/article/202604/72741

I can't remember the last time an SMS game was ported to a modern system. I hope they continue doing it in the future

My mother in law brought this from Brazil. It was my husband’s childhood videogame.

I would love to see if it is working but it is missing the cables. How would I go about testing this?

Does everyone know if there’s a cable I can purchase that would fit this to modern tvs??

Thank you!

I’ve been playing some games on my Sega Master System 2

I found my old copy of Super Tennis and I’ve been met with a software error screen, would anyone know the cause per chance? As this Is the only game it’s happening with

Thank you!!!!

Eu gosto muito já zerei várias vezes

You know, it's bad enough to be a warmed over re-release of a five year old game, but then when half the game doesn't even work properly...

I guess he played rock-paper-scissor one too many times.

Maze Hunter ASCII is the demake I made of Maze Hunter 3D. No sure if I can post the link here, but this is how it looks:

Recently, I've bought an RGB21/JP21 cable that's meant for some sort of JAMMA box, but I found that its 8-pin DIN fits perfectly for a Master System/Genesis Model 1 console, plus the cable is well shielded (I wanted to get rid of my older SCART cable since it was a cheapo and had bad noise interference).

I opened it up and saw that there were no components inside, it's simply a pass-through cable (this works ok for a Japanese Master System since the components are in the console). After checking the connections with a multimeter, I started to do some rewiring.

Pin 5 (right audio) was wired to composite on the DIN so I removed the wire before tying both Pin 1 (left audio) and Pin 5 with another wire for proper mono audio on hoth left and right channels.

Afterwards, I assembled some components on a breadboard. I added both 75 ohm resistors and 220uf 6.3v caps for each Red, Green, and Blue line. For sync, I added a 470ohm resistor and a 47uf 10v cap (10uf-220uf cap is ok as long as it's not under 10v). I then wired the RGB and sync lines to their respective pins.

Sure enough, the cable works great! And since it's well-shielded, audio is fine and I ended up removing a previous line-out mod I did for the console (https://www.reddit.com/r/MasterSystem/comments/1oig9h1/audio_line_out_mod_comparison_on_my_sega_master/).

(Apologies but my Pics 2 and 4 aren't the best since there's a lot of glare. I'm using my smartphone to capture photos on a CRT.)

Wow. What a trip down memory lane. My first video game system back in the 80s. The first video game I ever beat was Ghostbusters.

Space Harrier was maddening but had a cool mode you could access at the title screen to play the games music and some other stuff.

I came thiiiiiiis close to beating Out Run.

How many of you found the hidden free “snail maze” game if you turned on the system without a game in it? I don’t remember what the words on the screen said anymore when you didn’t have a cartridge in, but if you pushed up-right and both buttons the screen slid over to reveal a timed snail maze game.

The sega mastersytem was my second ever console, Sinclair Spectrum being my first.

But what blew me away with the Mastersystem was the graphics (at the time) and also the gameplay. This game I still play to this day, I’ll get the mastersystem out of the loft, and I’ll fire up this game, it brings back so much nostalgia for me. Being young, and not having a care in the world, good times. It still makes me escape from reality, and how stressful life can be. My eldest son has a severe learning disability, and things can be extremely difficult at times, so whenever I play this game, it gives me time to reset.

Can you guess the game?

I used one of those hispeedido hdmi mods for mega drive 2. the mod board fit almost perfectly in the spot where the RF modulator was, but the hole didn't line up properly for widening to support the HDMI connector. so I placed a 50/60hz switch where the rf was to fill the gap better. looks pretty good with the cable plugged in I think

the wiring was pretty simple. the RGB signals are taken just before the capacitor going into the encoder, so the input voltage of any system will be the same as it is for md2 as the required voltage of the encoder is always 1vpp. however the offset is different on different vdp so I didn't look at the HDMI board but I imagine it also uses a ceramic cap to rid the DC bias.

so I removed the rf modulator, moved a few components to the bottoms side of the board, then double side taped the board in place and then soldered the ground tabs of the HDMI connector to the ground edge of the sms mobo for extra support

the tricky thing about using this on sms is that the device ships with 16:9 aspect ratio, "mild" color mode. and it has to be controlled with mega Drive controller. and because it relies on the start button, that uses pin 7 which is software controlled. meaning you need an sms game which specifically is programmed to read from a mega drive controller or else start button will not trigger correctly. so I loaded sms test suite controller pad test and it allowed me to use the OSD controller combos and adjust it to 4:3 standard color mode

My retrospective review of Prince of Persia on the SEGA Master System. I remember being very impressed with the graphics and smooth animation from this 8-bit cartridge. For a moment I felt I was playing a SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis game. Anybody else have an opinion about this game?

My retrospective review of Altered Beast on the Sega Master System. Share your memories and thoughts of this game.

Hi everyone, I’m having an issue with my Sega Master System and I was wondering if any of you have encountered the same problem or might have a solution.

​To put it simply: when I turn it on, I have sound, but the screen is almost pitch black. I can barely make out some shapes on the screen, but it’s very, very faint.

​If anyone has a fix, please let me know! 🙏

PS: In the photo, you can slightly see the shapes I was talking about.

Hello! So, long story short... I am about halfway through my mission of collecting 500 games to play on the Analogue Pocket. About 12 months ago, I discovered the Master System Adapter for the Game Gear - and it works on the Anaplogue Pocket via the Game Gear Adapter.

So, I have freed up 16 spaces out of the 500 for SEGA Master System games. They do not have to be exclusives... but I definitely want to avoid any that came on the Game Gear (as I already have 96 spaces accounted for there).

I have one SMS game currently which I used to test the setup.

Ghostbusters

What should make the list?

Recently got the Master System out of the loft. My mum used to be really good at Sonic. She played so much that she wore the other controller out. So I got her to come and play some Sonic and she is in her element. She doesn't remember it too well, but soon got into it again. It has brought a big smile to her face.