05-10-2018, 05:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2024, 12:43 PM by Yawackhary.)
Since there is already a NES Ripping Project, it only makes sense to have a project from its rival the Master System.
The good news already is that a majority of the games already significantly ripped from this console. What makes it even better is because there are less games on the Master System than on the NES, it is possible and a bit easier for tSR to have the complete library. Also there is some variation in terms of the games whether they are shoot em ups, RPGs, platformers, fighters and yes even sports games so its not as restricted to a genre, even a few classics are here.
Only 2 games left until the complete US library is here!
Aerial Assault
After Burner
California Games
Casino Games
Choplifter
Dead Angle
F-16 Fighting Falcon/F-16 Fighter
Fantasy Zone 2: The Tears of Opa-Opa
Galaxy Force
Gangster Town* (soon...)
Global Defense / SDI
Great Baseball
Great Ice Hockey
Great Volleyball
James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing / Heavyweight Champ
King's Quest (USA)
Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord [have to rip ingame, ROM compressed]
Monopoly
Paperboy
Parlour Games / Family Games / Party Games
Poseidon Wars 3-D
Power Strike / Aleste
Rambo III*
Shooting Gallery
Slap Shot
Super Tennis
Thunder Blade
TransBot / Astro Flash
These are the missing games from the rest of the world (e.g. PAL regions, Brazil, Japan, Korea):
3D Gunner (Prototype)
Ace of Aces
Adventure Kid
Alien3
Andre Agassi Tennis
Assault City (note: this game has both a light phaser and a controller version of the game)
Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II
Back to the Future Part III
Bank Panic
Block Hole (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Bugtris (Bootleg/KOR?) [Appears in a compilation]
California Games II
Castelo Ra-Tim-Bum (Brazil)
Championship Hockey
Chase H.Q.
Cheese Catastrophe starring Speedy Gonzales
Cool Spot
Cosmic Spacehead
Cyborg Z (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Dallyeora Pigu-Wang (Unlicensed)
Dinobasher starring Bignose the Caveman
Double Hawk
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Eagles 5 (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Ecco the Dolphin
FA Tetris (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Fantastic Dizzy
Ferias Frustradas do Pica-Pau (aka Woody Woodpecker) (Brazil)
Fire & Forget II
Flashpoint (Bootleg)**
Galactic Protector (JPN)
Game de Check! Kōtsū Anzen (JPN)
Gangcheol RoboCop (Bootleg)**
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Geraldinho (Brazil)
Global Gladiators
G-LOC: Air Battle
Great Baseball (JPN)
Heroes of the Lance
High School Kimengumi (JPN)
Incredible Crash Dummies
James Pond 2: Codename Robocod
Jurassic Park
Klax
Lemmings
Line of Fire
Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes (JPN, SG-1000 mode)***
Mahjong Sengoku Jidai / Mah-Jong (JPN, Hong Kong)
Masters of Combat
Monica no Castelo do Dragao (Brazil, hack of Wonder Boy in Monster Land)
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
Nekkyū Kōshien (JPN) [Original Japanese version of Reggie Jackson Baseball but has different graphics]
New Boggle Boggle 2 (Bootleg)*****
Olympic Gold
The Ottifants
Populous
Power Block / Suho Cheonsa (Bootleg)
Power Strike II
Puznic (Bootleg)**
The Pro Yakyuu: Pennant Race (JPN)
Putt & Putter
Rampart
Renegade
RoboCop vs The Terminator
Sagaia (aka Darius 2)
Sapo Xule: S.O.S Lagoa Poludia (Brazil, Portugal)
Satellite 7 (JPN)
Sega World Tournament Golf
Sensible Soccer (soon...)
Shadow of the Beast
Simpsons: Bart vs the World
Sitio do Picapau Amarelo (Brazil)
Space Gun*
Speedball
Speedball 2
Street Master (Bootleg)
Strider II
Submarine Attack [have to rip ingame, ROM compressed, have to use MEKA and hack the palette]
Summer Games
Super Bubble Bobble (Bootleg)**
Super Columns & Tetris (Bootleg)**
Super Kick Off
Super Penguin (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Super Space Invaders
Taz in Escape from Mars (BRZ)
T2: The Arcade Game
Tennis Ace (aka Passing Shot)
Tensai Bakabon (JPN)
The Terminator
The Three Dragon Story (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Turma da Monica em: Os Resgate (Brazil, hack of Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap)
TV Colosso (Brazil, hack of Asterix and the Secret Mission)
Twin Mouse (Bootleg)
Wolfchild
World Games
Wimbledon
Wimbledon II
Winter Olympics
Wonsiin (Bootleg/KOR?)**
World Class Leader Board
Xevious / The Micro Xevious (Bootleg)**
* - Light Phaser game
** - Uses SG-1000 graphics mode
*** - Advertised as a dual compatibility game as in that it works on both the Master System and the SG-1000. Optional.
***** - Shares assets with Super Bubble Bobble, same developer.
Luckily for most of the remaining Japanese games they either can be played without any language barrier problems, are baseball games, both High School Kimengumi and Tensai Bakabon have English translation patches. Only the Sherlock Holmes game has problems with the language barrier due to being an adventure game.
As usual, all it takes is one sheet to have its own section.
How come some games are missing? Wikipedia lists 341, Sega Retro lists 360 but the project lists less games?
This is because they are already on the site. Some Master System games re-release to use different accessories so Sports Pad Football and Sports Pad Soccer are there as Great Football and Great Soccer/World Soccer. American Baseball and American Pro Football are on the site as Reggie Jackson Baseball and Walter Payton Football. Some Master System games have a Game Gear version that is on the site that use identical sprites such as Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap. Some Game Gear games are literally Master System games in Game Gear cartridges, some examples include Castle of Illusion, Out Run Europa and Rastan.
There are also games that are compilations. Master Games 1 just cycles through the 3 games by resetting/power cycles and most of the existing ones do the same, with the exception of two Korean multicarts that have a basic menu. There are also cases of renames, most of the time it is packaging only such as Super Futebol (World Soccer). Game Box Esports Radicais is just a cutdown version of California Games with the only difference is a title screen.
Speaking of which The Excellent Dizzy Collection is a broken game. Only Panic Dizzy works out of the 3 games and even then its badly glitchy. This is why its not on the list... Game Gear version works no problem though.
While tSR does have a few on the site, the MSX ports are not counted in this project as they are not officially classed as Master System games and many were also on the SG-1000 as well, some with RAM adapters. The exception are the Zemina games as they are cross platform between the Master System [Samsung GamBoy] and the MSX as well as Sieco and FA due to the games are original rather than a company adapting a random game usually from Konami or Compile with the copyright changed or removed. Another reason is that not all of the MSX ports are dumped due to their rarity.
How can I rip from these?
There are two emulators for the system, they are MEKA and Emulicious. Both have tilemap (background) viewers, tile viewers, MEKA also has layer removal if you want to capture. For some games, you may need TileMolester to rip them if the sprites are dynamic but for many of the games, these two emulators are basically what you need. Since the Master System only has two palettes with half for sprites and half for backgrounds (even though some game do have palette cycles and changes), it also means that you will have less trouble finding which is the correct palette. For someone who wants to start sprite ripping, it's a good system to start off with like the NES or the GBA. It is beginner friendly, feel free to join.
Finally, how come you decide to go through the project?
After all 11 years ago, my first rip on tSR was from a Master System game. A long time ago, I was ripping Master System games almost single handedly however got burned out since there was a lack of interest. A passionate ripper came along and did an excellent job ripping from the console. After seeing 200 games on the site, it is a case wow how many games are left to do. It would be a great idea to have a complete library from a console on the site, especially from a console that is sort of well known.
As for rewards, well this is an unofficial project so its mainly more for fun rather than for badges. Now there are no limits.
The good news already is that a majority of the games already significantly ripped from this console. What makes it even better is because there are less games on the Master System than on the NES, it is possible and a bit easier for tSR to have the complete library. Also there is some variation in terms of the games whether they are shoot em ups, RPGs, platformers, fighters and yes even sports games so its not as restricted to a genre, even a few classics are here.
Only 2 games left until the complete US library is here!
Aerial Assault
After Burner
California Games
Casino Games
Choplifter
Dead Angle
F-16 Fighting Falcon/F-16 Fighter
Fantasy Zone 2: The Tears of Opa-Opa
Galaxy Force
Gangster Town* (soon...)
Global Defense / SDI
Great Baseball
Great Ice Hockey
Great Volleyball
James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing / Heavyweight Champ
King's Quest (USA)
Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord [have to rip ingame, ROM compressed]
Monopoly
Paperboy
Parlour Games / Family Games / Party Games
Poseidon Wars 3-D
Power Strike / Aleste
Rambo III*
Shooting Gallery
Slap Shot
Super Tennis
Thunder Blade
TransBot / Astro Flash
These are the missing games from the rest of the world (e.g. PAL regions, Brazil, Japan, Korea):
3D Gunner (Prototype)
Ace of Aces
Adventure Kid
Alien3
Andre Agassi Tennis
Assault City (note: this game has both a light phaser and a controller version of the game)
Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II
Back to the Future Part III
Bank Panic
Block Hole (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Bugtris (Bootleg/KOR?) [Appears in a compilation]
California Games II
Castelo Ra-Tim-Bum (Brazil)
Championship Hockey
Chase H.Q.
Cheese Catastrophe starring Speedy Gonzales
Cool Spot
Cosmic Spacehead
Cyborg Z (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Dallyeora Pigu-Wang (Unlicensed)
Dinobasher starring Bignose the Caveman
Double Hawk
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Eagles 5 (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Ecco the Dolphin
FA Tetris (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Fantastic Dizzy
Ferias Frustradas do Pica-Pau (aka Woody Woodpecker) (Brazil)
Fire & Forget II
Flashpoint (Bootleg)**
Galactic Protector (JPN)
Game de Check! Kōtsū Anzen (JPN)
Gangcheol RoboCop (Bootleg)**
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Geraldinho (Brazil)
Global Gladiators
G-LOC: Air Battle
Great Baseball (JPN)
Heroes of the Lance
High School Kimengumi (JPN)
Incredible Crash Dummies
James Pond 2: Codename Robocod
Jurassic Park
Klax
Lemmings
Line of Fire
Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes (JPN, SG-1000 mode)***
Mahjong Sengoku Jidai / Mah-Jong (JPN, Hong Kong)
Masters of Combat
Monica no Castelo do Dragao (Brazil, hack of Wonder Boy in Monster Land)
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
Nekkyū Kōshien (JPN) [Original Japanese version of Reggie Jackson Baseball but has different graphics]
New Boggle Boggle 2 (Bootleg)*****
Olympic Gold
The Ottifants
Populous
Power Block / Suho Cheonsa (Bootleg)
Power Strike II
Puznic (Bootleg)**
The Pro Yakyuu: Pennant Race (JPN)
Putt & Putter
Rampart
Renegade
RoboCop vs The Terminator
Sagaia (aka Darius 2)
Sapo Xule: S.O.S Lagoa Poludia (Brazil, Portugal)
Satellite 7 (JPN)
Sega World Tournament Golf
Sensible Soccer (soon...)
Shadow of the Beast
Simpsons: Bart vs the World
Sitio do Picapau Amarelo (Brazil)
Space Gun*
Speedball
Speedball 2
Street Master (Bootleg)
Strider II
Submarine Attack [have to rip ingame, ROM compressed, have to use MEKA and hack the palette]
Summer Games
Super Bubble Bobble (Bootleg)**
Super Columns & Tetris (Bootleg)**
Super Kick Off
Super Penguin (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Super Space Invaders
Taz in Escape from Mars (BRZ)
T2: The Arcade Game
Tennis Ace (aka Passing Shot)
Tensai Bakabon (JPN)
The Terminator
The Three Dragon Story (Bootleg/KOR?)**
Turma da Monica em: Os Resgate (Brazil, hack of Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap)
TV Colosso (Brazil, hack of Asterix and the Secret Mission)
Twin Mouse (Bootleg)
Wolfchild
World Games
Wimbledon
Wimbledon II
Winter Olympics
Wonsiin (Bootleg/KOR?)**
World Class Leader Board
Xevious / The Micro Xevious (Bootleg)**
* - Light Phaser game
** - Uses SG-1000 graphics mode
*** - Advertised as a dual compatibility game as in that it works on both the Master System and the SG-1000. Optional.
***** - Shares assets with Super Bubble Bobble, same developer.
Luckily for most of the remaining Japanese games they either can be played without any language barrier problems, are baseball games, both High School Kimengumi and Tensai Bakabon have English translation patches. Only the Sherlock Holmes game has problems with the language barrier due to being an adventure game.
As usual, all it takes is one sheet to have its own section.
How come some games are missing? Wikipedia lists 341, Sega Retro lists 360 but the project lists less games?
This is because they are already on the site. Some Master System games re-release to use different accessories so Sports Pad Football and Sports Pad Soccer are there as Great Football and Great Soccer/World Soccer. American Baseball and American Pro Football are on the site as Reggie Jackson Baseball and Walter Payton Football. Some Master System games have a Game Gear version that is on the site that use identical sprites such as Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap. Some Game Gear games are literally Master System games in Game Gear cartridges, some examples include Castle of Illusion, Out Run Europa and Rastan.
There are also games that are compilations. Master Games 1 just cycles through the 3 games by resetting/power cycles and most of the existing ones do the same, with the exception of two Korean multicarts that have a basic menu. There are also cases of renames, most of the time it is packaging only such as Super Futebol (World Soccer). Game Box Esports Radicais is just a cutdown version of California Games with the only difference is a title screen.
Speaking of which The Excellent Dizzy Collection is a broken game. Only Panic Dizzy works out of the 3 games and even then its badly glitchy. This is why its not on the list... Game Gear version works no problem though.
While tSR does have a few on the site, the MSX ports are not counted in this project as they are not officially classed as Master System games and many were also on the SG-1000 as well, some with RAM adapters. The exception are the Zemina games as they are cross platform between the Master System [Samsung GamBoy] and the MSX as well as Sieco and FA due to the games are original rather than a company adapting a random game usually from Konami or Compile with the copyright changed or removed. Another reason is that not all of the MSX ports are dumped due to their rarity.
How can I rip from these?
There are two emulators for the system, they are MEKA and Emulicious. Both have tilemap (background) viewers, tile viewers, MEKA also has layer removal if you want to capture. For some games, you may need TileMolester to rip them if the sprites are dynamic but for many of the games, these two emulators are basically what you need. Since the Master System only has two palettes with half for sprites and half for backgrounds (even though some game do have palette cycles and changes), it also means that you will have less trouble finding which is the correct palette. For someone who wants to start sprite ripping, it's a good system to start off with like the NES or the GBA. It is beginner friendly, feel free to join.
Finally, how come you decide to go through the project?
After all 11 years ago, my first rip on tSR was from a Master System game. A long time ago, I was ripping Master System games almost single handedly however got burned out since there was a lack of interest. A passionate ripper came along and did an excellent job ripping from the console. After seeing 200 games on the site, it is a case wow how many games are left to do. It would be a great idea to have a complete library from a console on the site, especially from a console that is sort of well known.
As for rewards, well this is an unofficial project so its mainly more for fun rather than for badges. Now there are no limits.