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SMS cartridges on MegaDrive ????

Djidjo - Apr 19, 2004

		Djidjo	Apr 19, 2004
		SMS Adapter 1... and SMS Adapter 2... ??? Ok, I'm no SMS/Megadrive specialist, but I never heard of such an item ! Does it work ? Djidjo

		Arakon	Apr 19, 2004
		oh geezus, have you lived under a rock? there's even an official SMS adapter sold by sega and all over the stores back when it came out.. of course it works.. the MD has a SMS mode.

		Quakester2000	Apr 19, 2004
		The megadrive was orginally designed to have SMS capability but sega decided to make some money off it so create a cartridge to let you play your SMS games. There is a SMS convertor for the game gear too.

		Arakon	Apr 20, 2004
		that doesn't have much to do with "making money off it", it's simply impossible to stick a SMS cart in without a slot adapter. adding a second slot for SMS games would've driven the price of the unit higher, which would've sucked for the people who didn't care about playing SMS games on the MD/Genesis.

		RitualOfTheTrout	Apr 23, 2004
		Back in the day the rental store had a couple SMS games and that adapter. They also had some import games that you needed to rent that Honey Bee thing to play. I think thats what the Honey Bee was for.. I can't remember now..

		Xavier	Apr 25, 2004
		What funny is when people have a md to genesis adapter for sale (all you have to do is shave your system) same with famicom to super nintendo ...there adapters out there somwhere for those 2 .

		it290	Apr 25, 2004
		Well yeah, but the shave won't help you with territory lockout games. I don't think the Honeybee will either, but you can get around it with a game genie.

		RitualOfTheTrout	Apr 27, 2004
		What do you shave on the snes to be able to put nes games into it? I never knew this was possible.

		it290	Apr 28, 2004
		I think he meant Super Famicom to SNES; you can't play NES games in an SNES.

		Kaneda	Apr 28, 2004
		yep you can, with the Tristar8 you also have the tristar64 to play SNES&NES games on N64

		Alexvrb	Apr 28, 2004
		...and you can play NES/SNES/SMS etc on a Dreamcast, but I don't think that was his point. He's just saying you can't grab an unmodified SNES and shove NES carts into it and play away.

		RitualOfTheTrout	Apr 30, 2004
		How to these things work? IE this tristar thing.. Do these consoles have backward compatability built in that they just do not want people to use or what?

		Arakon	Apr 30, 2004
		the tristar for SNES has a complete NES on a single chip inside the unit.. it pretty much uses the SNES as a power supply.

		Link Hylia	May 1, 2004
		and input and output, too as for NES/SNES on dreamcast, emulation.

		Arakon	May 1, 2004
		input yes, output no.. it has its own AV out.

		ExCyber	May 2, 2004
		Genesis was able to have an SMS mode because SMS was a pretty clean design in the first place, based on tried and true interfaces and methods <s>stolen from</s> inspired by Texas Instruments chips, which were then expanded for Genesis. This isn't true of NES, which has heavily custom chip designs that interact with each other and the cartridge in rather odd ways. To add "NES modes" to SNES's processors would likely have been more work than just creating an "NES chip".