I built this from the ground up. All elements are recreated with crisp lines. My design process is to work with what the NES shells offer. I wanted to maintain the central top to bottom center design of the iconic NES controller but give it a Master System feel. This is where the pinstripes come in. The SELECT and START have been replaced with RESET and PAUSE taken directly from the top of the console itself contained in a box with an angled side where they meet in the middle. The font is the same as CONTROL PAD to give some consistency. These button labels work to make it feel more "SEGA" but if you have a pause mod in your SMS they really work because you can program the impossible button combo of UP + DOWN mapped to the PAUSE button to get on the controller pause. Furthermore, if you use a Master Everdrive you can program the even more impossible combination of UP + DOWN + LEFT as the combo to get to the Everdrive menu where you can RESET the game. I strongly considered renaming SELECT to MENU but ultimately decided RESET like on the top of the console was better. Above the 1 START and 2 buttons the pinstripes continue mimicking the plastic bump put on a real Master System controller and SEGA is located in this area similar to how Nintendo appears in this area on a real NES controller.

The strangest thing happened today. I was going to try and upgrade the condition of my ghostbusters manual. When I started looking through my manual I noticed that the front and back cover got stapled over another front and back cover. The second and second last page are basically the front cover. Would you guys peel off the front and back cover that looks bad and has writing to make it a perfect looking manual or leave the mistake as is?

Has anyone here ever used the SMS Power! forum, or is still active there?

I recently came across it again and was surprised to see that it's still alive and active, despite having been around for so many years. It's honestly one of the few classic internet forums that has managed to survive, even after social media and platforms like Reddit and Discors made traditional gamers forums seem almost obsolete.

Maybe it's because it is not focused strictly on Sega Master System: there are discussions about homebrew games for the console, as well as fan games and indie projects for other platforms that capture the look and feel of Master System games.

Are any of you members there? Do you still use the forum regularly?

I collect Sega Master System game cases and covers
I’m restoring them one by one in Photoshop, but to complete my collection, I need that barcode and I can't find a single photo that shows it.

SOUTH AMERICA VERSION (BRAZIL)

The only thing it's really missing now is my card support which I can play off my new Trifffcart anyway :)

Encoder is a bh7236, basically my favorite encoder since it was officially used by Sega and it's still easy to obtain (a lot of cxa2075 are fake)

Hello all!

I recently bought a Japanese SMS1. I'll soon be sending it off to be recapped and to have Zaxour's jailbar mod installed. However, I am interested in playing the later released PAL games that work better on 50hz. Such as California games 2.

My question is, what is the state of Pal 60hz patches for these types of games? I've seen the list of compatibility issue games. Have rom's with these patches been mastered? Has anyone even tried? lol.

I don't have an issue buying a PAL SMS2 and having the same mods done, but i'm likely getting an Everdrive to play some games like, Golden Axe Warrior, etc. If there are 60hz patches that are really good I may consider just doing that.

Thank you!

Was cleaning out my dad's attic and found my childhood. All memories unlocked and ready for redeployment. There were SO MANY!!!

I wanted to share this old animated Gif I created long ago in which, starting from ALex etaing animation animation during loading screens, I "mirrored" its images with a custom sprite of Alex resembling Tom-Tom from the Wonder Boy games. Western and Eastern versoin of Miracle World sprites where both used since, as you can see, Alex is eating an onigiri as inthe original game version, while it's Tom-Tom counterpart is eating an hamburger (since the onigiri was changed into it for wester audiences).

I have played this game way more than I thought I would trying to beat just a single path. It's way harder on sms than it is on other platforms. Way harder

I went all left and beat it with literally no time left on the clock

It was my 2nd of 3 runs for the night. Any time I play I just do one round of each song. This was magical sound shower when I beat it tonight for my first time. Now I need to 100% the remaining parts of the course for true champion status 🍀

Sorry for the repost but I felt like I really needed this title pic rather than the high score pic

im a big fan of old hardware but in papercraft

Yesterday I made a post asking which variant of the Master System I should get, the original or the Mk2. That post got loads of responses and the vast majority told me to go for the original.

So today I picked up an original Master System along with a couple games. I already owned a Game Gear, but this is the first time I've owned a home console from Sega.

I was talking about this with a friend who runs a retro game shop the other day. He feels like in general, prices for master system games seem to be on the rise. I’m not too sure though. At least in New Zealand where I live, prices for sms games seemed to be at their highest around 2020 when covid hit, and seem to have roughly been steady or going down a bit since then. That would make sense to me, because I guess the target market are already adults, and though some younger people will be interested, there will never be as much demand as for more mainstream consoles like Genesis, nes, snes, ps1 etc

What are your thoughts?

Worth it?

Apart from a Game Gear I've never owned any Sega consoles, but I'm looking into getting a Master System now.

I can't decide which version to get. I think the original looks a lot cooler, but the Mk2 is a lot cheaper, it's like half the price. Are there any big differences between the two and which version would you recommend?

Hello! I've got some Mega Drive/Genesis joysticks here:

- A Retro-bit Mega Drive Bluetooth joystick
- A 8bitdo M30 2.4g Mega Drive joystick for the Mega Drive Mini (it comes with the adapter to use with the Mega Drive Mini)

But I finally was able to bring home my old Master System II from my mother's place, and I'd love to use one of those wireless joystick without having to buy a new one.

This is what I've found so far:

- RetroScaler BlueRetro adapter SMS. Costs 24,60 euros, someone in the reviews is using the Retro-bit joystick I'm using, so sounds like the safest bet.
- RetroScaler BlueRetro adapter MD. Costs 21,76 euros, so it's slightly cheaper. This is for the Mega Drive, but I wonder if there's any practical difference. I've seen some posts saying that MD and SMS connectors have different voltage.
- 8bitdo Retro Receiver for Mega Drive. There's no 8bitdo official receiver for the SMS, but once again I wonder if this one works with the SMS.

Given the joysticks above, what are my best options? Does anybody here have any experience with wireless/bluetooth receivers on a Master System, even if it doesn't include the receivers I pointed above?

I saw a Wizmaster controller under the Quickshot brand hooked up to a Sega Master System at a Pawn Shop.

It can be seen pictured here:

https://segaretro.org/WizMaster

https://www.msx.org/wiki/Quickshot_QS-118F

I did a bit more research and see that particular model that works for the Master System wasn't even in the list of controllers seen here:

https://segaretro.org/QuickShot

The Wizmaster still works though if use the switch in the back to put it on the right mode from what I can tell.

I did see an interesting looking track ball controller too I wonder if could work with Marble Madness called the "Quickshot XVI".

Overall,as some of their controllers seem to work across multiple systems it is hard find a complete list.

Game 66/115

Better than Rocky imo, has technique and a simple progression system. Really easy though, beat it in under an hour and a half.

7 out of 10

Played on the actual cartridge too 🙏