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

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:So, uh, what's on it?

[Trent05]

Rob (Gotta have Phantasy Star; don't see how it would be worth it otherwise)

Phantasy Star was a classic and WAY ahead of its time I tought. There were other just kick-butt games for that system that never got the exposure they diserved, except for Shinobi.

Shinobi - Rocked
Double Dragon - FAR superior to the Nintendo version in graphics and it was 2 player!!!
Wonderboy in Monsterland - Awesome side-scroller w/ some basic RPG elements
??Some Zelda-ripoff game. It was really well done, the graphics were sweet, and you could get a ship. Rented it one time, forget what it was??

Anywho, I'm sure there were some other great ones too, but everyone else had NES sytems and only one of the rental stores carried games...grrrrrrrr