New Sega Master System Hardware Debuts In Brazil

jagripino writes "Brazilian SEGA licensee Tec Toy has announced a new edition of the Sega Master System hardware, the Master System Handy (Google Translation), another one in their series of portable SMS, following the SMS Compact and the pink SMS Girl. The system sports a new design, resembling a Dreamcast controller, comes with 27 built-in games and Composite Video Out (the previous compact systems had RF output only). No details yet on whether or not it has a cartridge port. Note to would-be importers: the system runs in PAL-M, it will work on NTSC TV sets in black & white. It's probably a trivial mod to make its output pure NTSC, but I won't know until I can get my hands on one." Definitely interesting to note that TecToy is a legitimate Sega licensee, unlike most third-party console hardware.

Comments

Re:So, uh, what's on it?

[simoniker]

Seems like there's a list of Master System games on the site, but it's not clear which of those is included, unfortunately.

I'll pass

[lightspawn]

since the Dreamcast is backward compatible with the SMS.

P.S. source code is included, and the original developer needs somebody to maintain it. What are you waiting for?

Re:Abandonware? Quasi-legal ROMs?

[Leynos]

Tectoy is the official licencee for Sega in Brazil, so it's perfectly legal. They've been publishing Sega's games there for years, up to and including the Dreamcast. They also produced a number of Brazil only Master System games, mostly ported from the Game Gear (eg, Gunstar Heroes and Sonic Blast), but they also released a quite respectable port of Street Fighter II. They were still releasing Master System up to 1998.

I believe the Dreamcast is still being manufactured there under licence too.

Later.