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#### Sega Master System (1987)

The Master System (called Mark III in Japan) was Sega´s competitor for the NES. Though Sega constantly developed new (and good) games, the Master System never beat the NES. The MS was most successful in Europe, especially Great Britain, where most of the games were developed in the "final" days in 1993/94. Overall, about 6 million consoles were sold world-wide until the end of 1994. (note taken from www.eidolons-inn.de)

Features:
CPU: Z80 at 4 MHz
Custom video controller (VDP) derived from the TI chip TMS9918/9928
Resolution: 256x192 tile-based screen in 16 colors
Sprites: 64 at 8x8, 8x16 or 16x16
Color Pallette: 64; 32 max on screen (16 for sprites, 16 for background)
Scrolling: Hardware up/down/left/right - all or part of screen.
Sound chip: Generic SN76489 sound chip (PSG) made by Texas Instruments
Sound output: 3 square-wave sound and white noise/periodic noise channel
Music: Yamaha YM2413 FM sound chip

Links:
EIdolons inn - www.eidolons-inn.de

MESS Emulation State:
This driver runs just about everything!

created on Mon Dec 09 08:16:57 2002