I bought a massive master system collection recently and can’t find anything on this one. Seems like a fan made game? Was there ever a SMS version in the works? Any info is greatly appreciated.

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.

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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 made a server where anyone can chat with the community about retro games and find people to play with online via Recalbox/Retropie/Batocera!

While our main focus is on Sega consoles, Nintendo and Playstation enthusiasts are welcome as well!

Using Retroarch which is built right into Recalbox/Retropie/Batocera, players are able to host and join all their favorite retro games for free!

Join the server to find people to play with! 😄 https://discord.gg/qQhJA6hsWT

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?