Master System 40 years of Sega Mark III

[ThunderBoy]

The Japanese Master System

 

[Heinzu]

this device is hot

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[Heinzu]

Sega hmm I hate this company for just he giving up the Dreamcast was a great console.

 

[qw90700]

this device is hot

Mhm yessss. But... but... ummm I would like to see what it hides under its "clothes"...

My Jr. is Metal Gear Solid thinking about it!!!!!!!!

lolol

 

[bjork]

Cool looking system, I loved that you could have one for a mag in PSO

Sega hmm I hate this company for just he giving up the Dreamcast was a great console.

That's not exactly how it went, but ok

 

[Don Patch]

Hot diggity that's a sexy console!

 

[Goshikk]

I find it interesting that even tho the MKIII was a complete flop, a few awesome games never got localized

There's obviously more games that never got out of Japan but they had valid reasons not to be localized

 

[SeventhSon]

Did the Mark III have a police scanner attachment?

 

[Heinzu]

Cool looking system, I loved that you could have one for a mag in PSO


That's not exactly how it went, but ok

Yes, I know.

 

[Goshikk]

Did the Mark III have a police scanner attachment?

that's a good question wtf is that

 

[ThunderBoy]

That strange thing was the TeleconPack

https://segaretro.org/Telecon_Pack

 

[Goshikk]

That strange thing was the TeleconPack

Why would you want that. Why not hook it up to the TV as usual. The console just sits there.

https://segaretro.org/Master_System_Super_Compact

This is the same type of thing but it makes a lot more sense...

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

What a funky little thing! And I thank it for giving us Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd, the first ports of Shinobi, Fantasy Zone, Outrun, AfterBurner, and more! Plus a bevy of games nobody talks enough about (I’ll never not ride Kenseiden).

The Famicom may have killed it in sales, but since when did sales mean something didn’t have awesome games? SEGA’s 8-bit beast is a great big wonderful system, and I’m excited to see where it goes in the future. Never forget: you can still buy a system that uses the Mark III as a basis from TecToy to this day! Now that’s some staying power!

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That strange thing was the TeleconPack

https://segaretro.org/Telecon_Pack

SEGA’s wild ability to make a “cool, but whyyyyyyy” peripheral strikes again. I love this stupid company’s stupid hardware. It’s all so stupid and dumb and genuinely the best thing ever.

This whole add on is literally just to flex. It has no other purpose. Radio interference can literally cause connection issues for your game. It’s immeasurably dumb, but god do I love it.

 

[Max]

Great games, bad sound chip. Certainly an all time console

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Great games, bad sound chip. Certainly an all time console

Totally agree on the chip! PSG alone with three channels is… not good. Thank goodness for the FM module. An actually great SEGA accessory!

 

[Goshikk]

Totally agree on the chip! PSG alone with three channels is… not good. Thank goodness for the FM module. An actually great SEGA accessory!

Eh. Had the FM module worked in tandem with the PSG (kinda like what they did for the Mega Drive), I think the results would have been more interesting, but with how the console was set up I'm not a fan of either configuration.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I love it, but Red & Black is the way to go.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Happy Birthday 40th Anniversary! SEGA Mark III in Japan for being a fairly iconic Sega console although it did not succeed enough in Japan and in the USA later as a Master System due to low sales at least had colorful and decent game catalog games and also for providing hours of entertainment and fun.

And also that as I said that the SM3/SMS did not succeed enough in Japan and the USA at least the console was moderately successful in Europe and Brazil, mainly as a solid alternative to the NES in those regions at the time.

 

[Alarond]

Why would you want that. Why not hook it up to the TV as usual. The console just sits there.

https://segaretro.org/Master_System_Super_Compact

This is the same type of thing but it makes a lot more sense...

Well, in theory, with just one antenna in 1 console, you can broadcast for a bunch of near TVs at the same time, with no cables at all. So, here we go. I'm sure any typical rod or circle TV antenna would receive the signal, no need to use that "SEGA's white antenna".

Why you would want to do that? Don't know. Being a more portable system? Do a neighborhood tournament using more than a single TV? Broadcasting to the TV of your nearby neighbor friend?

In any case, any Master System or Mega Drive 1 (not MD 2) had a native internal RF module with an RCA type output (it was in fact, the most popular way to connect those consoles to a TV in the 90s, using that RF output with the cable the company included with the console).

But that RF module means... they are broadcasting some radio frequency, so you just need to connect that output to any little antenna instead of a cable... and it will do the trick, you will be, literally, analogically broadcasting your playing.
No need of Youtube or Twitch XD.
But obviously, your action radio will be... some few meters.

I did it years ago, bought some cheap chinese little antenna, and an "RCA to RF adapter" (that "adapter" costed literally something like 50 cents). Just a thing like that:

It worked fine, with a mid-90's TV using its own V shaped antenna to receive the signal.
It was like magical. Also the idea that every console, by then, had an RF module to literally "broadcast" analogically... Impossible to imagine now.