Well you see, I was alive back then and the Japanese government prohibited it, for fear that the Western nations would use our funky tunes (enhanced with all manner of cultural appropriation) to take over the world. For a while they were listed as export-banned munitions. I remember that the first time I heard this, I was wearing a Master System cartridge on my belt, as was the fashion at the time. They didn't have black cartridges at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big, yellow ones.
@@retro_boy_advance what the poop, this is dark witchcraft!! Actually speaking of Famicom/NES sound hardware, this is less impressive but I was deeply impressed that when Mario Maker made new snow music for the SMB3 style, and wanted to add sleigh bells, they confined the sleigh bell sample to what a NES sound chip could have replicated. Unlike my first comment on this thread this is actually factually true 😁
@@tskraj3190 I would love to hear more about this, even in the form of "here's a link/search terms". Does this mean that there Mega Drive is backwards compatible with Master System FM sound? I was really hoping Red Hot Sonamy would say whether or not putting this on an MD Everdrive would work, but judging from the video they instead engaged in a tickling and/or smooching match. Which hey, not gonna blame them for, it must be great to have a beloved with you right now.
@@mscottjohnson3424 I'm with my wife (we're bisexual, in a lesbian relationship) and she likes seeing me happy with new stuff, as long as I am being responsible with finances too. We're getting an N64 next month. I also collect Transformers too, and she thinks it's neat.
The master system is underrated. The 8bit sonic 1 is very different despite being called sonic 1. 8bit sonic 2 has tails on the box but tails isn't playable he actually gets kidnapped by eggman. The Sega master system 3 looks slick as hell it just looks so nice and cool.
I personally prefer the Game Gear version of Sonic 1, as it fixes a few bugs (like how you don't die by torching the bottom edge of the TV screen in Jungle Zone Act 2 >_
Not in Brazil and Europe In these places the Master System continues to survive until 1997 receiving numerous Game Gear ports. In Brazil the Master System even won an exclusive version of Street Fighter 2 and Battlemaniacs, even with the PS1, Saturn and Nintendo 64 in places like Brazil the Master System (and Mega Drive) became cheap options for those who didn't have much money to invest in a console.
I've always felt that Master System FM music elevates 8 bit games much more than you'd expect. Some games actually feel like their Mega Drive counterparts.
*Famicom not NES. Because Langrage Point is the only VRC7 FM game for the Famicom, there are actually more homebrew VRC7 chiptunes than that! (I know of two: Tappy - Aquarius and Fearofdark - The Coffee Zone)
For Phantasy Star I think most fans actually prefer the PSG soundtrack to the FM one. Although hearing a couple of the Phantasy Star 1 songs remade in Phantasy Star 4 is definitely a treat.
One thing the FM version misses out on - at the end of the game, when the points are being totted up, there's a static effect that fades in and out on the original.
The power of hardware modding at its finest to suit your tastes. Focusing on Sonic 1 FM, it's great to see these bonus changes or additions that spices the game a notch. Those interruptions and arguments from Millie were on point, especially at 7:59 😂 Luckily, digging deeper into this investigation was totally worth it.
ValleyBell is the king of music hacking. His work really impresses me! Music hacking is the one thing that I cannot wrap my head around. :V Also haha hearing your wife in the background was great! xD
I loved the sound of the master system. Probably the great songwriting helped a lot but I always liked the sounds as well. Phantasy Star, Sonic, Double Dragon, Master of Darkness, lots and lots of great soundtracks
What confuses me to this day is that I have clear memories of running Meka for DOS, enabling FM unit, and that enhancing game gear game music, including Tails' Sky Patrol. I went to a boarding school in like 2005, and I remember setting it up on old common use machines. Haven't figured how how to do that since.
I went to a boarding school in like 2005 too (2005-2008 actually). On the residential side, there was a lot of gaming stuff going on if you counted everyone's stuff, like PC, NES, SNES, standard GameCube, modified GameCube (IcedCube), GBA SP AGS-001 (with GB/GBC/GBA games), DS Phat, DS Lite, PS one, PS2 Phat and Slim, PS3 Phat, PSP, original Xbox and Xbox 360. There was even some GBA emulation on the PC going on. No Sega hardware unfortunately; pre-2001 Sega was only represented by Sonic Mega Collection Plus on the PS2, the Radica Mega Drive plug-and-play (Volume 2) and the PC versions of Sonic 3D and Sonic R (although I did go to one of the boys' normal homes 4 years later in 2012 and he had a Mega Drive 2 sitting next to his PS3, but yeah). On the educational side, before the Windows 98 PC in one of the English classrooms (that we got to play on if we finished our work early) was replaced, it had a load of Sonic fangames on it! Like Sonic Robo Blast "1", and one which had the Sonic CD Quartz Quadrant "present" music in it which I'd like to know what it was called.
and Mega Everdrive X7 and Mega Everdrive Pro, but with all of those the YM2413 is in FPGA. You can use a db electronics Powerbase FM to get the Master System FM sound in real hardware on a Mega Drive / Genesis.
Oh lord, I wasn't ready for that Phantasy Star at the beginning there. Ugh, that pulled on the nostalgia cords pretty hard. For those of you who haven't played the original Phantasy Star, I'm sorry, you missed it. Yes, you can still play the game today, but it's the very definition of "a game of its time". You had to be there. If you were, you know what I'm talking about. If not, go play Final Fantasy 6, it's just as good as it was back then.
I think the reason why FM and PSG mixing didn’t work is because the FM might have simply replaced the PSG, causing the sound effects to not be able to play as they did not change to FM.
Oh actually this is worth a second comment - I've just noticed you do _proper subtitles_ and especially since that's much rarer on RUclips than television, as a partially deaf viewer thank you loads. I don't think I noticed that until now (though I kinda have the memory of a pensioner so I'm not sure), as I've usually been turning them off for the mobile app, since I didn't realise it had subtitle settings buried in it that (like the web player) let you remove the black background, shrink the text, add a drop shadow and generally make the subtitle display far less obnoxious.
I’m thinking of getting a Japanese Master System or Mark III, along with an adapter, did your official US/European MS game cartridges work on them or not.
I feel like most if not all games that use FM have all of their sounds set to FM as well. Are there any games that mix the PSG and FM officially back in the day?
It’s not the same thing... (not the same chip) , just because the American master system was released in 1986 (psg was only available at that time) and fm was introduced in Japan in 1987, sega couldn’t release it after the original release since companies didn’t tend to do that sort of thing back then, and it was to maintain compatibility
So, here's a question I assume was answered a REALLY long time ago... But still, I wonder. - Given that a Mega Drive with a Power Base Converter can run master system games, and the Mega Drive has both the PSG channels AND an FM synth chip... Does the Mega Drive play FM sound with any master system games, or did they arbitrarily disable this in spite of the hardware? Further, since FM synth was a standard feature of Japanese Mega Drives (and an add-on for the mkIII), does this vary at all between western and Japanese Mega Drives?
Thank you Red Hot Sonic, and more importantly Red Hot Amy (MVP PhD MD) for keeping us entertained during this apocalypse. You know, _I_ heard this virus was engineered in Robotnik Industries owned labs. Which explains why everyone who catches it turns into a terrifying cyborg. More seriously though, is the Mega Drive backwards compatible with Master System FM sound, like if you run these games from an Everdrive or whatever?
the hardware yes. this game never had a soundtrack for it made, until ValleyBell did in 2014 (the Japanese Master System was discontinued in 1989 but Sonic didn't exist until 1991)
I guess you're serious but hilarious wife made me subscribe for more "wife appearence, silly gags and marriage comedy" like this in the near future. You should thank her. I hope she let you live. Stay safe from your wife.
sega mark iii sound effects work if you press pause on title to switch back to psg modded master system and sms mk3000 sound effects still psg because fm sound interrupt music
Entertaining as usual RHS but you forgot to mention that if you have a Mega EverDrive X7 with Necronomfive's FM core built in via FPGA, you can play Sonic 1 FM edition on your Mega Drive/Genesis, which is a far cheaper option than spending god knows how much on all that equipment just to play a selection of SMS games with YM2413 sound.
@redhotsonic What? You're saying a Mega Drive isn't real hardware? It is real hardware, there's nothing wrong with playing Master System games on a Mega Drive or Genesis. The system has a Zilog Z80 and it was built off the Master System it's predecessor. Why do you think SEGA released the Master System/Power Base add-on? I'll go one further, the Analogue Mega SG has an FM core built right into it, so you can easily pop in any Master System cartridge and tick FM in the settings and don't you dare say it's emulation because it's not. I understand you're an EXTREME purist who enjoys spending big amounts of money on all the original 1st generation hardware from SEGA and it's great to see that, but it should still be pointed out that there are other, cheaper ways of getting SMS games to run with FM music. Only emulators out there are either on mobiles, PCs or those horrid ATGAMES consoles.
@@Oysterblade84 It's not actual Master System hardware though - it's a Mega Drive in back compatibility mode which isn't exactly the same thing (no SG1000-mode game support)
Well this finally answered my question as to why Master System games that had FM support didn't also use PSG sound effects, replacing them with weird, ugly FM ones instead: compatibility for Mark III owners! Maybe one day someone will make a "mixing" hack for Phantasy Star similar to the Sonic 1 hack featured... a man can dream!
The FM sounds really nice, but I'm partial to the PSG audio myself, it's what I grew up with. Kinda of like with Sonic CD's soundtrack, I like the American version a lot, but i am partial to the European/JP soundtrack! Different strokes for different folks, I guess! Also: "Don't get married!" "What!!!!" LOLS
Besides Phantasy Star, are there any other games that have FM support removed from the Rom or is it just Phantasy Star that does this unlike other games keeping it in code.
@@redhotsonic Thanks, but in addition, is there also a list of Genesis/Mega Drive games that use batteries (SRAM), because I can’t find any and I just got a JP copy of Phantasy Star 2 yesterday and that used a battery for saving. Oh and do you replace batteries in your carts, is so, then do you use knife and electric tape or do you do soldering or do you replace SRAM with FRAM/FeRAM.
It is incredible that Sega put an FM chip is such a limited console, it feels strange hearing megadrive type music with simple graphics.
GexoIsSad Wait till you hear and see Lagrange Point for the Famicom 😉
Well you see, I was alive back then and the Japanese government prohibited it, for fear that the Western nations would use our funky tunes (enhanced with all manner of cultural appropriation) to take over the world. For a while they were listed as export-banned munitions. I remember that the first time I heard this, I was wearing a Master System cartridge on my belt, as was the fashion at the time. They didn't have black cartridges at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big, yellow ones.
@@retro_boy_advance what the poop, this is dark witchcraft!! Actually speaking of Famicom/NES sound hardware, this is less impressive but I was deeply impressed that when Mario Maker made new snow music for the SMB3 style, and wanted to add sleigh bells, they confined the sleigh bell sample to what a NES sound chip could have replicated. Unlike my first comment on this thread this is actually factually true 😁
The Genesis/Mega Drive prototype was built from spare SG1000 and Master System parts.
@@tskraj3190 I would love to hear more about this, even in the form of "here's a link/search terms". Does this mean that there Mega Drive is backwards compatible with Master System FM sound? I was really hoping Red Hot Sonamy would say whether or not putting this on an MD Everdrive would work, but judging from the video they instead engaged in a tickling and/or smooching match. Which hey, not gonna blame them for, it must be great to have a beloved with you right now.
"Don't get married" says the guy whose wife gets mad at him to buy retro hardware from Japan. Weird, I have the opposite problem!
Don't you have enough?
Your husband is happy that you're buying new software from America??
Wow, I'd love a wife like that lol
@@Pavlinka__ Yes, I live in Asia and my husband (we're gay) loves it when I buy things from the west. Spot on, chap!
@@mscottjohnson3424 I'm with my wife (we're bisexual, in a lesbian relationship) and she likes seeing me happy with new stuff, as long as I am being responsible with finances too.
We're getting an N64 next month. I also collect Transformers too, and she thinks it's neat.
"You finally satisfied me" 🤣🤣 RHS got roasted
The master system is underrated.
The 8bit sonic 1 is very different despite being called sonic 1.
8bit sonic 2 has tails on the box but tails isn't playable he actually gets kidnapped by eggman.
The Sega master system 3 looks slick as hell it just looks so nice and cool.
Wow I never knew
I personally prefer the Game Gear version of Sonic 1, as it fixes a few bugs (like how you don't die by torching the bottom edge of the TV screen in Jungle Zone Act 2 >_
@@RadioTails it isn't a bug it was removed because the game gear has screen crunch
@@RadioTails That isn't a bug, it's a feature
Not in Brazil and Europe
In these places the Master System continues to survive until 1997 receiving numerous Game Gear ports.
In Brazil the Master System even won an exclusive version of Street Fighter 2 and Battlemaniacs, even with the PS1, Saturn and Nintendo 64 in places like Brazil the Master System (and Mega Drive) became cheap options for those who didn't have much money to invest in a console.
7:50 has got to be my most favorite RedHotSonic moment of all time
Don't get married
@@varganyamuvek Yeah I wonder if that moment aged at all after I made that comment 🙃
9:56 says "Redhotsonic is sleeping on the sofa tonight"
No shit sherlock
I've always felt that Master System FM music elevates 8 bit games much more than you'd expect. Some games actually feel like their Mega Drive counterparts.
Outrun 3D in FM, simply the best and would go well with your statement.
Hi Nostalgia Nerd!
Red hot sonic
Thunder Blade
@@redhotsonic come back! We NEED YOU!
There was also a FM sound expansion for the NES called the VRC7. The only game to use it was Lagrange Point, but the soundtrack was really impressive.
*Famicom not NES. Because Langrage Point is the only VRC7 FM game for the Famicom, there are actually more homebrew VRC7 chiptunes than that! (I know of two: Tappy - Aquarius and Fearofdark - The Coffee Zone)
I installed an FM mod in my master system, and it was definitely worth the money and effort.
For Phantasy Star I think most fans actually prefer the PSG soundtrack to the FM one. Although hearing a couple of the Phantasy Star 1 songs remade in Phantasy Star 4 is definitely a treat.
7:58 "don't get married."
Wow. He just roasted his wife.
What a bastard.
I'm disappointed in him.
7:59
Then dies instantaneously afterwards.
@@ShadowtheRUclipsr523 *bathtub
8:18 Married Life in a nutshell
The FM sounds great, but the PSG has so much nostalgia to me that I'd still go with it 😁
It's scary when your wife comes in the room and the Eggman theme plays.
One thing the FM version misses out on - at the end of the game, when the points are being totted up, there's a static effect that fades in and out on the original.
The power of hardware modding at its finest to suit your tastes. Focusing on Sonic 1 FM, it's great to see these bonus changes or additions that spices the game a notch. Those interruptions and arguments from Millie were on point, especially at 7:59 😂 Luckily, digging deeper into this investigation was totally worth it.
9:56 (At The Split Second) redhotsonic is sleeping on the sofa tonight!
The delivery from 8:19 to 8:23 cracks me up
I died when your wife came in and dissed you.
Same 😂
ValleyBell is the king of music hacking. His work really impresses me! Music hacking is the one thing that I cannot wrap my head around. :V Also haha hearing your wife in the background was great! xD
Long Live The King🤴
“I’M A POET!”
“...AND I DID NOT REALISE THAT!”
best part of the video
8:00 It was at this point RHS Knew he f**ked up xD
no he F*cked up here 10:34
7:59
4:50
*wholesome assault noises*
I loved the sound of the master system. Probably the great songwriting helped a lot but I always liked the sounds as well. Phantasy Star, Sonic, Double Dragon, Master of Darkness, lots and lots of great soundtracks
4:44 that “Hey!” Really spooked me
That shot when the Mark III comes on the screen, my face involuntarily lit up with joy. Thank you for that. I needed it.
Great video! I love learning more about the Master System. Also the part with you and your wife joking around was hilarious and cute
What confuses me to this day is that I have clear memories of running Meka for DOS, enabling FM unit, and that enhancing game gear game music, including Tails' Sky Patrol. I went to a boarding school in like 2005, and I remember setting it up on old common use machines. Haven't figured how how to do that since.
I went to a boarding school in like 2005 too (2005-2008 actually).
On the residential side, there was a lot of gaming stuff going on if you counted everyone's stuff, like PC, NES, SNES, standard GameCube, modified GameCube (IcedCube), GBA SP AGS-001 (with GB/GBC/GBA games), DS Phat, DS Lite, PS one, PS2 Phat and Slim, PS3 Phat, PSP, original Xbox and Xbox 360. There was even some GBA emulation on the PC going on.
No Sega hardware unfortunately; pre-2001 Sega was only represented by Sonic Mega Collection Plus on the PS2, the Radica Mega Drive plug-and-play (Volume 2) and the PC versions of Sonic 3D and Sonic R (although I did go to one of the boys' normal homes 4 years later in 2012 and he had a Mega Drive 2 sitting next to his PS3, but yeah).
On the educational side, before the Windows 98 PC in one of the English classrooms (that we got to play on if we finished our work early) was replaced, it had a load of Sonic fangames on it! Like Sonic Robo Blast "1", and one which had the Sonic CD Quartz Quadrant "present" music in it which I'd like to know what it was called.
new subber here, this is fantastic. very entertaining without being obnoxious or annoying, where have you been all my life RHS?
This also works on a Mega Drive using the Mega SD flash cart, that allows FM playback with MS games.
and Mega Everdrive X7 and Mega Everdrive Pro, but with all of those the YM2413 is in FPGA. You can use a db electronics Powerbase FM to get the Master System FM sound in real hardware on a Mega Drive / Genesis.
Oh lord, I wasn't ready for that Phantasy Star at the beginning there. Ugh, that pulled on the nostalgia cords pretty hard.
For those of you who haven't played the original Phantasy Star, I'm sorry, you missed it. Yes, you can still play the game today, but it's the very definition of "a game of its time". You had to be there. If you were, you know what I'm talking about. If not, go play Final Fantasy 6, it's just as good as it was back then.
I think the reason why FM and PSG mixing didn’t work is because the FM might have simply replaced the PSG, causing the sound effects to not be able to play as they did not change to FM.
Oh actually this is worth a second comment - I've just noticed you do _proper subtitles_ and especially since that's much rarer on RUclips than television, as a partially deaf viewer thank you loads. I don't think I noticed that until now (though I kinda have the memory of a pensioner so I'm not sure), as I've usually been turning them off for the mobile app, since I didn't realise it had subtitle settings buried in it that (like the web player) let you remove the black background, shrink the text, add a drop shadow and generally make the subtitle display far less obnoxious.
fun fact: the sms fm chip (YM2413 or OPLL) was the same used in the old Adlib cards (YM3812 or OPL2)
3:06 Yeesh! The death jingle now sounds pretty terrifying.
Spooky fest
Sonic 2 SMS Much Creepier
@ItzBreakerless Really? Where?
@@CobaltChono Just Search It On RUclips
''Don't get married''
Lmao
I read this EGGSACTLY when he said it XD
Hey bro love you're channel and stay safe
It was the "you finally satisfied me" joke that made me laugh out loud and subscribe. Classic.
I doesn't understand
2:05 the Mazda Everdrive? When did they make that car? 😂
Well That's How Us British Says Master So *DEAL WITH IT*
We say mazda, you say meastrr
Holy shit i forgot i left this comment
I’m thinking of getting a Japanese Master System or Mark III, along with an adapter, did your official US/European MS game cartridges work on them or not.
They sure did (with the adapter) :)
7:59 "don't get married!" 😂😂😂😂
"Dont get married" Redhotsonic 2020
"You've finally satisfied me" Redhotsonic's wife 2020.
Girl you savage and hilarious LOL
I feel like most if not all games that use FM have all of their sounds set to FM as well. Are there any games that mix the PSG and FM officially back in the day?
When it comes to the SEEEEGAAAAAAA master system, the first character you see is a once forgotten princess with a sword 🗡
Sword🗡️
Hello redhotsonic! I love your videos!
Missed opportunity to say “I’m a poet and I didn’t know it”
That's the joke.
I was hoping you'd upload this at some point, and I'm really glad you did!
The McGuinness Experiment Hello! 👋
@@cm-ih1jb well hello there!
I love Sky Base FM so much
Same
I think that Sega omitted the FM synthesis because of cost cutting and saving it for the Genesis
It’s not the same thing... (not the same chip) , just because the American master system was released in 1986 (psg was only available at that time) and fm was introduced in Japan in 1987, sega couldn’t release it after the original release since companies didn’t tend to do that sort of thing back then, and it was to maintain compatibility
Sonic Statue: "redhotsonic is sleeping on the sofa tonight!" RHS: Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Good to see the RHS household is calm and tranquil during the Covid-19 situation and that you're not, for example, tearing strips off each other.
The improvement to the soundtrack is comparable to the Famicom release of Castlevania 3
Redhotsonic:Don't get married.
Redhotsonics Wife:What did you say!?
This was an epic video. 1 day sooner and i could have watched this on my birthday
8:20 best moment ever 🤣🤣
*You can also buy a FM 8-Bit adaptor for your Mega Drive can also do the trick people!*
it was at 10:34
when he realized he phuced up
Sky base zone in fm absolutely slaps cheeks
instant like when the v2.1 space harrier bios ost played. you got the best japanese SMS
So, here's a question I assume was answered a REALLY long time ago...
But still, I wonder. - Given that a Mega Drive with a Power Base Converter can run master system games, and the Mega Drive has both the PSG channels AND an FM synth chip...
Does the Mega Drive play FM sound with any master system games, or did they arbitrarily disable this in spite of the hardware?
Further, since FM synth was a standard feature of Japanese Mega Drives (and an add-on for the mkIII), does this vary at all between western and Japanese Mega Drives?
These vds are heavily underrated
This video has really upped his standard for “real hardware”
Great video! Really enjoyed watching! 😁👍
Sky Base Zone sounds so cool
Thank you Red Hot Sonic, and more importantly Red Hot Amy (MVP PhD MD) for keeping us entertained during this apocalypse. You know, _I_ heard this virus was engineered in Robotnik Industries owned labs. Which explains why everyone who catches it turns into a terrifying cyborg.
More seriously though, is the Mega Drive backwards compatible with Master System FM sound, like if you run these games from an Everdrive or whatever?
7:54 Lol 2 of your screens went off xD
7:58 "Don't get married."
"WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!!"
The fact this is my second video is the best thing ever.
Good stuff! Love your content
you went above and beyond the call of duty. I probably just would have gotten the Power Base Converter and called it a day!
I believe that since Sega made the FM sound board and released it as official therefore legitimate.
the hardware yes. this game never had a soundtrack for it made, until ValleyBell did in 2014 (the Japanese Master System was discontinued in 1989 but Sonic didn't exist until 1991)
3:17 still not sure what he meant by this
If you hear well, it starts with Green Hill's music, and a while after changes to Emerald Hill's music
Tiene una exelente esposa como quisiera estar asi eres el hombre mas feliz del mundo ojala mi situacion pudiera estar asi como antes
fm chips on master system reminds me of the msu-1 chip in snes cartridges
The marble zone music is seen in the files of the game
the fm sound was then reused in creative arya's port of sonic 1 remade for mobile and pc
I like the "let's review Sonic (game) and does Sonic (game) work on real hardware and also Mario too
This is a fantastic video, love to mixed in humor
On paper this is cool but it's sadly not official.
The Hashtag you posted looks like Sonic 18bit!
The Brazilian Master System also don't have the FM sound chip.
Wonder Boy III: The Dragons Trap also got FM music
I have a good request: (if you didn't already did it) try to see if "An ordinary Sonic rom hack" work on real hardware. Hope you see my suggestion ^^
I'll repeat what I told another person; it's not Halloween yet 😉
Okay, thanks for the answer and good luck for the future.
Nice giving the mark iii some love
4:43 agrument
Don’t get married.
- redhotsonic
Hi! How r u RHS! I really like this vid!
I guess you're serious but hilarious wife made me subscribe for more "wife appearence, silly gags and marriage comedy" like this in the near future.
You should thank her. I hope she let you live.
Stay safe from your wife.
sega mark iii sound effects work if you press pause on title to switch back to psg
modded master system and sms mk3000 sound effects still psg because fm sound interrupt music
wife encounter BGM: SMS sonic 1 boss (FM)
I loved the music from Sonic on master system........far better than the mega drive music.
Entertaining as usual RHS but you forgot to mention that if you have a Mega EverDrive X7 with Necronomfive's FM core built in via FPGA, you can play Sonic 1 FM edition on your Mega Drive/Genesis, which is a far cheaper option than spending god knows how much on all that equipment just to play a selection of SMS games with YM2413 sound.
That's not real hardware, is it? That's a Mega Drive? Hence it was not included.
You could also get the Power Base Mini FM which is REAL HARDWARE as it has the FM chip in it. And it's only $60.
He does it so you don't have to.
@redhotsonic What? You're saying a Mega Drive isn't real hardware? It is real hardware, there's nothing wrong with playing Master System games on a Mega Drive or Genesis. The system has a Zilog Z80 and it was built off the Master System it's predecessor. Why do you think SEGA released the Master System/Power Base add-on?
I'll go one further, the Analogue Mega SG has an FM core built right into it, so you can easily pop in any Master System cartridge and tick FM in the settings and don't you dare say it's emulation because it's not.
I understand you're an EXTREME purist who enjoys spending big amounts of money on all the original 1st generation hardware from SEGA and it's great to see that, but it should still be pointed out that there are other, cheaper ways of getting SMS games to run with FM music.
Only emulators out there are either on mobiles, PCs or those horrid ATGAMES consoles.
@@Oysterblade84 It's not actual Master System hardware though - it's a Mega Drive in back compatibility mode which isn't exactly the same thing (no SG1000-mode game support)
8:19 Wait, what? DAMN!
Awesome Video
Well this finally answered my question as to why Master System games that had FM support didn't also use PSG sound effects, replacing them with weird, ugly FM ones instead: compatibility for Mark III owners! Maybe one day someone will make a "mixing" hack for Phantasy Star similar to the Sonic 1 hack featured... a man can dream!
I'm Glad This Mod Didn't Use It Because It Will Cause Channel Cutout When Sound Effects Is Played Like The Mega Drive/Genesis
The FM sounds really nice, but I'm partial to the PSG audio myself, it's what I grew up with. Kinda of like with Sonic CD's soundtrack, I like the American version a lot, but i am partial to the European/JP soundtrack! Different strokes for different folks, I guess!
Also: "Don't get married!"
"What!!!!"
LOLS
Besides Phantasy Star, are there any other games that have FM support removed from the Rom or is it just Phantasy Star that does this unlike other games keeping it in code.
List of games with conditions here: etim.net.au/smsfm/smsfm.html
@@redhotsonic Thanks, but in addition, is there also a list of Genesis/Mega Drive games that use batteries (SRAM), because I can’t find any and I just got a JP copy of Phantasy Star 2 yesterday and that used a battery for saving.
Oh and do you replace batteries in your carts, is so, then do you use knife and electric tape or do you do soldering or do you replace SRAM with FRAM/FeRAM.
Welp time to finish Sonic 2 Recreation
Will your friend also make these things for the NTSB-U market as well?
How you got Mighty and Raves of the 8-Bit remake on your other channel
9:55 "redhotsonic is sleeping on the sofa tonight!"
If we learned one thing from this video: it's that Sonic 2 Recreation needs to be finished