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The Sega Master System (SMS) was an 8-bit console released by Sega in 1985-1989. It was designed to be a direct competitor to the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], as well as being technically superior to it. There is a lot of technical similarity between the SMS and the Game Gear (GG). Notably, SMS game cartridges can be played on the [[Game Gear]] by use of an adapter. For this reason, most SMS emulators can also run GG games.
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{{Infobox console
|title = Sega Master System
|logo = Sega-Master-System-Set.png
|image = Sega-Game-Gear-WB.jpg
|imagecaption = '''Top:''' Sega Master System.<br/>'''Bottom:''' Sega Game Gear.
|developer = [[:Sega]]
|type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Third-generation video game consoles|Third generation]]
|release = 1985
|discontinued = 1992
|predecessor = [[SG-1000 emulators|SG-1000]]
|successor = [[Sega Genesis emulators|Genesis / Mega Drive]]
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}
The '''[[wikipedia:Master_System|Sega Master System]]''' (SMS) was an 8-bit console released by [[wikipedia:Sega|Sega]] on October 20, 1985 in Japan and in September of 1986 in the US. It was retailed for {{Inflation|USD|199.99|1986}}. 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 emulators|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 {{Inflation|USD|149.99|1991}}. 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 '''[[gametech:Sega Game Gear|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 emulators|ColecoVision]] many Master System emulators also run ColecoVision games.
==Emulators==
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="Sega Master System">SMS</abbr>! scope="col" style|<abbr title="text-align: center;Game Gear"|>GG</abbr>! scope="col" style|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]! scope="text-align: center;col"|Mega Drive[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]! scope="col" style|Active! scope="text-align: center;col"|Sega CD[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]|-! scopecolspan="col9"|32xPC / x86! scope|-|[[Genesis Plus GX]]<ref name="colGPGXLibretro">Only available on PC and mobile as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]])</ref>|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|{{GenPlusGXVer}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Very high|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[MAME]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[http://emulicious.net/ Emulicious]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://emulicious.net/downloads/ {{EmuliciousVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Very high|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[BizHawk]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Very high|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.arts-union.ru/sites/default/files/ph28jag-win64.zip 2.8.JAG]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Very high|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[Pantheon]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[http://sourceforge.net/projects/twombit/ TwoMbit]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[http://sourceforge.net/projects/twombit/files/ 1.0.5]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Very high|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Clock Signal|CLK]]|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{clkver}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Very high|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[higan]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ {{higanVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|Gearsystem|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/drhelius/Gearsystem/releases {{GearsystemVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|MasterGear |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://fms.komkon.org/MG/ 4.5]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Kega Fusion]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/ 3.64]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[PicoDrive]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/notaz/picodrive/releases {{PicoDriveVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/ FreezeSMS]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/download.html 4.6]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Very high|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071206014650/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://segaretro.org/DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[MEKA]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/ocornut/meka/releases {{MEKAVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://0ldsk00l.ca/smsplus/ SMS Plus]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|Recommended[https://github.com/0ldsk00l/smsplus/releases 1.3]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://bcz.asterope.fr/ Osmose]|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}|[https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/osmose-emulator 1.4]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[HiSMS]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|0.01 beta|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}
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|[http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/KegaFusion Kega Fusion[nemulator]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows, Linux, OS X}}|[http://wwwnemulator.eidolons-inn.netcom/tiki-download_filedownloads.php?fileId=574 3html 4.642]| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|✓{{✗}}| style="text-align: center;"|✓?| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|✓{{✗}}
|-
|[[Genesis PlusEssgee|align=left|{{Icon|GenesisPlusGX]]Windows}}|[[Wii]], [[Gamecube]]|1https://github.7com/xdanieldzd/Essgee/releases v002.41]| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"{{✗}}|✓?| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✗| style="text-align: center;"|✓}}
|-
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|[[Genesis Plus GX]]<ref name="GPGXLibretro"></ref>|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}|{{GenPlusGXVer}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Very high|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[PicoDrive]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}|[http://emulation-generalnotaz.wikiagp2x.comde/wiki/BizHawk BizHawkpico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]|Windows{{✓}}|1.4.1{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Mid| style="text-align: center;"{{✓}}|{{✓}}| style="text-|GearMasterPlayer|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[http: center;"//www.arts-union.ru/sites/default/files/GearMasterPlayer_free_1.0.5.zip 1.0.5]|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✓}}| style-!colspan="text-align: center;9"|✗Consoles| style="text-|[[PicoDrive]]|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}|[http: center;"//notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Mid|{{✓}}|✗{{✓}}| style="text-|[[Genesis Plus GX]]|align=left|{{Icon|GCN|Wii}}|[https: center;"//bitbucket.org/eke/genesis-plus-gx/downloads {{GenPlusGXVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|?|{{✓}}|✗{{✓}}
|-
|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-masterboy-210-f28308.html MasterBoy]
|[http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_Portable PlayStation Portable]align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
|2.10
| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✗}}| style="text-align: center;"|✗?| style="text-align: center;"|{{✗}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}
|-
|[http://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php PicoDrive[Virtual Console]]|Multiplatformalign=left|1.80{{Icon| style="text-align: center;"Wii|✓3DS}}| style="text-align: center;"N/A|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"{{✗}}|✓?| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}
|}
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