master system

How to improve the speed of the SEGA Master System by overclocking from 3.5 MHz to 4.4 MHz. Eliminate flickering and see the games much more fluid. We all know that one of the weaknesses of the Master System was that it was on the market for many years and shared the stage with the next generation consoles of the time. In fact it was easy in the 90s to find the same titles on Megadrive as well on the Master System, the second one logically with cuts due to the reduced power of the hardware. One of the problems of the SEGA Megadrive " ports " was that for the Master System games some times where not finished, were working not correctly, h...

Welcome to the Sega Master System technical document, a collation of all my current knowledge of the SMS hardware and architecture. The information within comes from a number of sources - much of the credit is due to Marat Fayzullin (http://www.komkon.org/fms) whose original, but sadly incomplete, technical document was a very good starting point. Some of this text file is loosely based on this document which can be found at Marat's website, above. The information represented within isn't based on any official Sega information (if only it were...), and so I can't vouch for its correctness or completeness - it just ...