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Revision as of 22:40, 4 July 2021

Sega Master System
Sega-Master-System-Set.png
Sega-Game-Gear-WB.png
Top: Sega Master System.
Bottom: Sega Game Gear.
Developer Sega
Type Home video game console
Generation Third generation
Release date 1985
Discontinued 2001
Predecessor SG-1000
Successor Genesis / Mega Drive
Emulated ✓

The Sega Master System (SMS) was an 8-bit console released by Sega on October 20, 1985 in Japan and in September of 1986 in the US. It was retailed for $199.99. It had a Zilog Z80A at 4 MHz with 8KB of RAM and 16KB of VRAM. It had a Yamaha YM2602B VDP GPU. It was designed to be a direct competitor to the Nintendo Entertainment System, and was technically superior to it in some ways. The Sega Game Gear was released in April of 1991 and was a competitor for the Game Boy. It had a backlit screen, color, and a nice looking design. It retailed for $149.99. It had a Zilog Z80 CPU at 3.5 MHz with 8KB of RAM and 16KB VRAM.

There are a lot of hardware similarities between the SMS and the Game Gear (GG). Notably, SMS game cartridges can actually be played on the Game Gear via an adapter. For this reason, most SMS emulators can also run GG games.

Internally the Master System extends Sega's older SG-1000 by adding more RAM and a single new video mode; since the SG-1000 was built from the same CPU, video and audio chips as the ColecoVision many Master System emulators also run ColecoVision games.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version SMS GG Libretro Core Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
Genesis Plus GX[1] Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Very high ✗ ✓ ✓
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Emulicious Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 2024-03-31 ✓ ✓ ✗ Very high ? ✓ ~
BizHawk Windows 2.9.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ Very high ? ✓ ~
higan Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD v110 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ~
Phoenix Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 2.8.JAG ✓ ✓ ✗ Very high ✗ ✓ ~
TwoMbit Windows Linux macOS 1.0.5 ✓ ✓ ✗ Very high ✓ ✗ ✗
CLK Linux macOS FreeBSD Template:Clkver ✓ ✗ ✗ Very high ✓ ✓ ✗
Gearsystem Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 3.5.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✗
MasterGear Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 4.9.3 ✓ ✓ ✗ High ? ✓ ✗
Pantheon Windows 13.640 ✓ ✓ ✗ High ✗ ✓ ✗
Kega Fusion Windows Linux macOS 3.64 ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ✗ ✗ ✗
PicoDrive Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.93 ✓ ✗[2] ✓ Mid ✗ ✓ ✗
FreezeSMS Windows 4.6 ✓ ✓ ✗ Very high ? ✗ ✗
DarcNES Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 9b0401/9b0313 ✓ ✓ ✗ Low ? ✗ ✗
MEKA Windows Linux macOS 0.8-alpha (2023-08-26) ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ? ✓ ✗
SMS Plus Windows Linux macOS 1.3 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ✗ ✓ ✗
Osmose Linux 1.4 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
HiSMS Windows 0.01 beta ✓ ✗ ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗
nemulator Windows 4.4 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ? ✓ ✗
Essgee Windows v002.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
Mobile / ARM
Genesis Plus GX[1] Android iOS Linux Pandora 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Very high ✗ ✓ ✓
MasterGear Android 4.9.3 ✓ ✓ ✗ High ? ✓ ✓
PicoDrive Android iOS Linux Pandora 1.93 ✓ ✗[2] ✓ Mid ✗ ✓ ✓
GearMasterPlayer Android 1.0.5 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ? ✓ ✓
Consoles
PicoDrive PSP 1.93 ✓ ✗[2] ✓ Mid ✗ ✓ ✓
Genesis Plus GX GameCube Wii 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ? ✗ ✓ ✓
MasterBoy PSP 2.10 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ? ✗ ✓
Virtual Console Wii Nintendo 3DS N/A ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ✗ ✓ ✓
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Only available on PC and mobile as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named This game gear emulation doesn't work, gamegear it works in the Kega Fusion?
Dreamcast logo.png
 Consoles: SG-1000 • Master System • Genesis / Mega Drive • CD • 32X • Pico • Saturn • Dreamcast
Handhelds: Game Gear • VMU / VMS
Arcade: System series • Model 1 • Model 2 • Model 3 • NAOMI
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