But Brazil had the same issues with videogaming because of import controls. The difference: Brazil was generations behind. Usually the low value of Cruzado/Cruciero would mean the masses were likely to shop the grey market and going legally above board would mean sticking with old consoles selling so high that nobody would buy them.
@@Code7Unltd they think they can make their own game console but they don't. but the leaders of brazil are super old and think its the same as making washing machines or something .
As someone who was born and raised in Korea, there was a time when Samsung, LG, and Hyundai made gaming consoles. People who had Samsung Gamboys were jealous of those who played Mario on the Hyundai Comboy (NES), and used to buy knockoff Mario games from sidewalk vendors.
Do you have any old photos from this time period? So much visual history of how the game shops and game culture looked at that time have been lost. The tiny photos in the game magazines do not reveal much detail. =)
If Hyundai (now Hynix Semiconductor) distributed for Nintendo and Samsung distributed for Sega, then what was Lucky-Goldstar importing if they hadn't made games?
@@Games_for_James I almost gave your comment a like, but realized that it would take the amount of likes from 69 to 70...so I thought better of it and opted for a comment. You're welcome, sir. 🤔
i LOVE regional variants of retro consoles, its one of the more forgotten parts of classic gaming. most people just talk about the ones sold in america and japan but there were so many like this that deserve to be seen
Yea way more variation between the region tat is what makes it more interesting than modern gaming. but usually the Japanese version was better and most the the changes they made were bad .
@@ItBurnsWhenIP_ They were just PAL versions of what was sold in Japan & the US, and also sold in places other than Europe - such as in Australia & here in NZ.
In India, Nintendo tried to enter the video game market here in India with the variation of the NES called the Samurai. It was unsucessful due to the cost being higher than that of the many Famiclones and Brick Game handhelds back in the day.
@@thardump859 there's a company called Tectoy in Brazil, and they we're the official distributor of sega consoles in Brazil. And when Sega stopped making consoles they decided to keep making them because it still was a very lucrative business selling the master system very cheaply (having in mind that in my country video games are VERY expensive)
The Samsung Gam*Boy and the Game Boy Advance both lacking dedicated sound processors is a fun new bit of trivia I can tell people at parties before they decide to never again speak to me.
Me when I explain to people how the sega saturn was technically more powerful than the PS1. Usually people respond with either "what is a sega saturn?" or "please leave me alone".
Probably works about as well as trying to discuss "jazz chords" with someone because they've got a big digital piano set up, and then they go "oh well I can play a couple of Proclaimers chord progressions" and demonstrate that (then you never get invited to another one of their parties, but you hear them happening when you take out the trash lmao)
4:13 That chip right between the controller ports is the I/O chip and the op-amp is part of the circuit for 3D glasses. 4:35 From what I've read, Sega manufactured the earliest Gam-Boys in their entirety and had them imported to Korea, then transitioned to only manufacturing the motherboard while Samsung produced the plastics, followed by Samsung fully taking over manufacturing later on
So glad to see that controller finally terminated and in use. I can't remember exactly where I got it except that I held onto it for a long time. There is also the hangeul version of the Gam*Boy with Korean lettering. Similar to the Hyundai Super Comboy I think it's the only non-English lettered variant. There are NO model 1 Aladdin Boys as the switch came midway through gen 2. You can find both variants of GamBoy II and Aladdin Boy II, with subvariants as Samsung changed their logo to the oval around that time as well.
The South Korean console market from the 80s-2010s is extremely interesting. It was very unique and overall quite overlooked in the west. It’s just a shame that getting these consoles/games outside of Korea is not exactly easy.
Getting a hold of any of these vintage consoles is extremely difficult even as a Korean. Gaming stuff is rare around here. One of the reasons is because gaming in general was frowned upon by adults then (and still kinda is today).
I own a Japanese Master System and yeah, other than the lack of FM audio and changing the external power supply to an internal one, the Gam*Boy is pretty much identical. The US/PAL Master Systems got rid of the rapid fire button on the console and replaced it with a reset button, but the Korean version retains said rapid fire. It's strange that they decided to remove the FM audio, as many Korean roms retained the capabilities of it, though that's true of US/PAL SMS roms as well.
@@SonicBoone56 Yeah, assuming you're not looking to get into mods. I don't really use the rapid fire on the console though, as there's no way to turn it off in the middle of a game. Better to just use a controller with turbo switches.
It comes from the Japanese habit of reserving the best for their own country, so you’ll see a minor missing feature in the international version of Japanese-produced products from consoles like this to videogames themselves, to professional cameras, etc.
@@SonicBoone56 Not really. The FM synth was an optional module that slotted in the back of the cartridge slot and all original Master Systems around the world have the pins to attach it because there wasn't any major modification done. The thing is games outside Japan had the FM sound code removed, so even if you slotted a FM module to a US or PAL console it does nothing unless you use an Everdrive with japanese or modified ROMs. So technically there isn't any superior model, all are essentially the same.
god, australians saying "seega" feels like hearing someone pronouncing gif as "jif" i've heard sega commercials in there caused this and i know the guy who invented gif format also calls it "jif" apparently, but still it feels wrong
They deleted the FM! Thanks for all the info! Really cool stuff So I guess the green motherboard pcb was from Japan, but the components were soldered on in Korea. The Koreans, were like: how many games support FM, How much does the FM chip cost? Fugg it! It works without the FM chip! The cat at the end got me, haha Looking at your backlog, I apprantly saw many of your content, subscribe it is! Also into arcade stuff, Good man!
I think you’re right, I even think the components may have been sourced by Samsung. A friend of mine opened his Gam*Boy for me and his has a Samsung Z80 in it. Haha thanks! I’m glad you like my vids!
It's not just the Korean model that didn't have FM, most of the foreign releases of the system depended on the built in PSG sound. Infact, FM was originally an add-on for the pre-Master System versions of the console. There's some modern third party add-ons that can add the FM back in and indeed many games still have the FM soundtrack if the chip is present.
S @TheTurnipKing But the Korean model came out after the Japanese SMS, so they did delete the FM chip as the Korean seems to be based on the Japanese SMS.
Korean versions of select consoles are always very interesting, The Saturn also had strange versions like the "Victor V Saturn" and "Hitachi Hi-Saturn"
I don't know about you, but my Sega Master System controller was threaded in the middle and came with different joysticks that could be screwed in. Loved it.
Even though many of these devices are older than me I still find them incredibly fascinating and cool, even more than modern technolog. To me these retro consoles seem like black magic, which is how I imagine a lot of people who grew up with these feel about modern consoles.
SCP - 100: The Secure Contain Protect procedure code for an anomalous controller that never existed in this dimension, and only exists in Korea. Which is, of course, an alternate dimension in real life.
Here's the Korean TV ad for the Samsung Gam*Boy. th-cam.com/video/NYhLke8LGZk/w-d-xo.html Samsung even made a Korean version of the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis in North America) called the "Super Gam*Boy" (later called the "Super Aladdin Boy"). It released a year or two after the original Gam*Boy. Hyundai (the electronic company, not the car maker) made Korean versions of Nintendo consoles. The Korean NES is just called the "Comboy", the SNES the "Super Comboy", the N64 the "Comboy 64", and the Game Boy the "Mini Comboy".
Actually, at the time, Hyundai Electronics and Hyundai motors were under the same conglomerate, Hyundai Group. Hyundai Electronics split off in 2001 and became their own company.
I can't believe James cares enough about his audience to fly round-trip to Korea just to show us this Master System. Can't wait to see what you do next 🙌
SEGA clearly were way ahead of their time, even Sega dreamcast was dam dope, in europe we had it all, plot spoilers!! i known all of this already back in the day 😎😎
In South America we had the Master System built under license by brazilian manufacturer Tec Toy. Which looked exactly like a Master System built anywhere else, except that it didn't have the SEGA logo on it. The controllers said Tec Toy on them instead of SEGA. Tec Toy also went and made some localized versions of games in Portuguese and even released some ports of games that weren't released anywhere else (like the Mortal Kombat II version for the Master System) or original games only released in Brazil, like the Woody Woodpecker video game, or one based on the popular Brazilian comic series "Monica's Gang". The insane thing is that Tec Toy still has that license to build Master System consoles, and they are STILL making them and selling them to this day. The "Master System Evolution" is basically a plug and play Master System with no cartridge slot because all the games are already built in the console. So if anyone ever wants a "Master System Mini" but is sad that hasn't been done yet, all you need to do is get to Brazil and buy one there. They are super cheap because Tec Toy makes them with the idea of people with low incomes to buy them (people that can never afford a new Play Station or Xbox). Oh, and if you wanted an Atari 2600, well you had to buy an Argentinean made "Edu Games 2600" which was a locally made version of the Atari 2600, which looked quite different and also the joysticks were bigger and more sturdy to hold than the Atari 2600 ones.
This is almost at the same level as nintendo switch chinese version with tencent. But better because it's not region locked at least to jp, and the sound chip is really bad but it's a better trade off ig than a small library of games available or censorship. Korea def has a lot of weird history in gaming, and this is really awesome james!
@@channelname9843 omg i searched up ique, and it's legit nintendo wtf. I've always believe the ique player is defenitely a bootleg console, it looks so off brand lol never bother to look up, it's so great that they even release ds and 3ds lmao, and the branding is so off brand and sounded like an apple imitation that i'm glad they ditch it.
fun fact about other things samsung makes/made that most people wouldn’t expect: back in the late 80s to early 00s, samsung actually made cheap electric guitar pickups. epiphone, one of the largest budget brands, were made in korea at the time, and the cheaper models had samsung pickups. i have a 96 lp-100, a very cheap model from the time, that came stock with them. as interesting as that is, they don’t sound very good. very thin and a bit harsh, but somewhat usable if you really dial in your eq settings
When i looked at the thumbnail i KNEW what video is going be about. And yet i am still glad i clicked on it. I honestly have no clue when i heard about Samsung having a deal with Sega but i sure did...
i had no idea that samsung did something like this, well seeing the contest it makes sense after all. the huge change in sound is amazing tho, like how a single chip could change so much is wonderful!
I bought the Megadrive equivalent "Samsung Super Aladdin Boy" a few years back to check it out internally - the guts were identical to a Japanese Megadrive though - motherboard layout and all. Cool stuff!
1:55 Japanese word for "orange" is "orenji", it's a transliteration. To make the "a" sound in "orange" they replace it with "re" rather than "ra" because it's closer phonetically 2:11 "Samsung" just means "three stars" so it's technically two words. Weird to see it spaced out like that in English, but I suppose that unlike Chinese and Japanese written language, Hangul does use spaces to separate words Absolutely love your videos
Korea's ban on importing foreign electronic products existed until the early 1990s, especially for Japanese products, until the late 1990s. To avoid this, many products were entered into joint ventures with Korean companies, and Sega was a joint venture with Samsung.
I remember seeing these few years ago, I live in Korea and never heard of these… Apparently the real (jp gameboy) is called Super Com-Boy (슈퍼 컴보이) and ngl, as A NINTENDO Gameboy collector, I do want the Korean Version of it.
Not a knockoff? That's incredible. That percussion in the background is very grating though. I was checking I didn't have another tab playing some rubbish drumming!
IIRC Samsung sold Sega products under their own name in south korea up until the Saturn in the mid 90s. Not sure what the case with the Dreamcast was, but it's fun to see these "alternate reality" Sega consoles.
I own an official Korean copy of Sonic 1 for the Mega Dri- erm, I mean, Super Gam*Boy. Seeing the old Samsung logo on the cartridge for the first time really caught me off guard, lol.
I would love some more korean branded games! They are very hard to find. I have a cib hyundai super mario world for hyundai super comboy, winnie the pooh for samsung pico 😂, as well as virtual on and sega rally for Samsung Saturn. The saturn games are the weirdest to look at, it’s pretty much the same as the japanese saturn logo with samsung instead of sega
2:57 Oh jeez, i remember hearing the Gam*Boy version of the Master System startup in a "compilations of Video Game Start Ups" when i was younger. I was so confused why in that one video the Master System Bios Music sounded worse than other compilation videos i had seen Now i can rest easy knowing it wasnt a glitch and it was because of a GAM*BOY
My favorite game for Master System is Astro Warrior. It's not much, a pretty standard top down shmup , but the music ruled. Definitely recommend picking it up if you come across it. It was a pack-in game in the States.
For what I understand, the FM synth is an optional module, is not built in by default, and select japanese games had both the FM and PSG option (Phantasy Star for example) but all Master System can use the FM module because no motherboard modification was made to the original models, all Master System original models worlwide are the same. The catch is all games outside Japan had the FM sound part removed from the code so even if you got a FM module you couldn't use your non japanese games to have FM sound, you had to use an original japanese game which weren't cartridge compatible. So I believe the Gam*Boy can use FM sound easily since the cartridge slot is the same as the japanese Master System, you only need to put a FM module in the pins behind the cartridge slot (in 4:20 is easily seen where, the black line of pins next to the slot). Still, with an Everdrive you can use a PAL or US Master System with the FM module and japanese ROMs to have FM sound and people have also restored FM sound to non japanese games. Also also, there is a mod to restore FM sound capability to Master System 2 consoles, is a ribbon cable that attaches to the bottom of the cartridge slot and goes to a board containing the FM chip.
The Japanese Master System actually has it built-in, only the Mark III had it available as a separate add-on. "The catch is all games outside Japan had the FM sound part removed from the code so even if you got a FM module you couldn't use your non japanese games to have FM sound," This isn't exactly true, there's actually quite a few Western SMS games that still have code for FM sound, including a few that didn't even see a Japanese release. The Western versions of Phantasy Star and Ys however did have the FM audio stripped out due to the translated text.
So it's fundamentally deceptive in its existence. "We can't sell Japanese products here, so let's just put a Korean badge on it and put it in shops." Lying to consumers, capitalism's finest ideal.
Samsung had a deal with SEGA to make their consoles locally (like this one or the Super Gam-boy/Super Alladin Boy which was a Genesis). Meanwhile Hyundai had a deal with Nintendo, and the Super Nintendo, Game Boy and NES were built in Korea with the Hyndai logo on them.
My first console was a Master System and soon as i saw this, i thought hey that looks familiar, i couldn't place it until you said it was basically a Master System as i mostly remember the sleeker Master System II, but that's pretty insane! xD
"Japan and Korea haven't always gotten along…" -I don't know how people in the U.K. would have coped with explicitly German branded consoles in the 1980s. Back then, a lot of people refused to buy (overtly) German branded cars… having your kids play a German console with games that were culturally German, and displayed in the German language… ? Not something many parents had to deal with (in France, England or the United States). Just saying: Koreans had a point.
Even Nintendo Partnered With Hyundai To Make 4 Localized Nintendo Retro Consoles To Sell In Korea. Like The Hyundai Comboy (NES) Hyundai Mini Comboy (Gameboy) Hyundai Super Comboy (European SNES) And The Hyundai Comboy 64 (N64)
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"Japan and South Korea did not always have a smooth relationship."
Understatement of the century lol
Yeah, but he’s James and he is a really chill Australian
But Brazil had the same issues with videogaming because of import controls.
The difference: Brazil was generations behind. Usually the low value of Cruzado/Cruciero would mean the masses were likely to shop the grey market and going legally above board would mean sticking with old consoles selling so high that nobody would buy them.
@@Code7Unltd they think they can make their own game console but they don't. but the leaders of brazil are super old and think its the same as making washing machines or something .
"The USA and Russia aren't overly fond of each other."
Well, then in the ideal bootleg world, we have Scny and of course, you guessed it, *Smasnug*
As someone who was born and raised in Korea, there was a time when Samsung, LG, and Hyundai made gaming consoles. People who had Samsung Gamboys were jealous of those who played Mario on the Hyundai Comboy (NES), and used to buy knockoff Mario games from sidewalk vendors.
Stuff like Super Boy I on the MSX 2 probably?
Yeah exactly:)
Do you have any old photos from this time period? So much visual history of how the game shops and game culture looked at that time have been lost. The tiny photos in the game magazines do not reveal much detail. =)
If Hyundai (now Hynix Semiconductor) distributed for Nintendo and Samsung distributed for Sega, then what was Lucky-Goldstar importing if they hadn't made games?
@@Code7Unltd3DO to the extend of my knowledge, I don't know if they had anything else.
This is definitely something that I could not afford to buy when it came out. Thanks for showing such an awesome and rare piece of retro gaming.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Games_for_James I almost gave your comment a like, but realized that it would take the amount of likes from 69 to 70...so I thought better of it and opted for a comment.
You're welcome, sir. 🤔
@@jazeenharal6013It's at 81 now if you'd like to come back
@@jazeenharal6013too late anyway cuz now he has 90 likes
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i LOVE regional variants of retro consoles, its one of the more forgotten parts of classic gaming. most people just talk about the ones sold in america and japan but there were so many like this that deserve to be seen
Yea way more variation between the region tat is what makes it more interesting than modern gaming. but usually the Japanese version was better and most the the changes they made were bad .
@@ItBurnsWhenIP_ They were just PAL versions of what was sold in Japan & the US, and also sold in places other than Europe - such as in Australia & here in NZ.
In India, Nintendo tried to enter the video game market here in India with the variation of the NES called the Samurai. It was unsucessful due to the cost being higher than that of the many Famiclones and Brick Game handhelds back in the day.
Sam = Three, Sung = Star
That remote is known as SCP-100
This SCP is of the class Keter and poses risk to all human life. Proceed with caution.
I thought it was Euclid?
was looking for this comment
It's Euclid.
By the way in Brazil the master system is yet to be discontinued
I know! I’d love some of the Tectoy consoles
@ptra4 Nope
.....How?
That's wild!
@@thardump859 there's a company called Tectoy in Brazil, and they we're the official distributor of sega consoles in Brazil.
And when Sega stopped making consoles they decided to keep making them because it still was a very lucrative business selling the master system very cheaply (having in mind that in my country video games are VERY expensive)
The Samsung Gam*Boy and the Game Boy Advance both lacking dedicated sound processors is a fun new bit of trivia I can tell people at parties before they decide to never again speak to me.
Me when I explain to people how the sega saturn was technically more powerful than the PS1. Usually people respond with either "what is a sega saturn?" or "please leave me alone".
At least you're still getting invited to parties.
Probably works about as well as trying to discuss "jazz chords" with someone because they've got a big digital piano set up, and then they go "oh well I can play a couple of Proclaimers chord progressions" and demonstrate that (then you never get invited to another one of their parties, but you hear them happening when you take out the trash lmao)
Gotta love watchin 3 Aussie vids on a Friday morning. James' Channel, DankPods, and How Ridiculous.
I did a thing has one out today too...
And now I have to wonder if James wears shoes or is that just not how Aussies roll?
4:13 That chip right between the controller ports is the I/O chip and the op-amp is part of the circuit for 3D glasses.
4:35 From what I've read, Sega manufactured the earliest Gam-Boys in their entirety and had them imported to Korea, then transitioned to only manufacturing the motherboard while Samsung produced the plastics, followed by Samsung fully taking over manufacturing later on
New notification from "James Channel" Boy i never clicked on notification so quickly ❤
I'm so happy someone made a video about this system! Maybe a video about the Super Gam*boy/Aladdin Boy?
I haven’t got those but I have a a samsung saturn and a couple of samsung picos, most of the hyundai systems too
I disagree
So glad to see that controller finally terminated and in use. I can't remember exactly where I got it except that I held onto it for a long time. There is also the hangeul version of the Gam*Boy with Korean lettering. Similar to the Hyundai Super Comboy I think it's the only non-English lettered variant. There are NO model 1 Aladdin Boys as the switch came midway through gen 2. You can find both variants of GamBoy II and Aladdin Boy II, with subvariants as Samsung changed their logo to the oval around that time as well.
The South Korean console market from the 80s-2010s is extremely interesting. It was very unique and overall quite overlooked in the west. It’s just a shame that getting these consoles/games outside of Korea is not exactly easy.
Getting a hold of any of these vintage consoles is extremely difficult even as a Korean. Gaming stuff is rare around here. One of the reasons is because gaming in general was frowned upon by adults then (and still kinda is today).
I love the random cat meow at the end
I own a Japanese Master System and yeah, other than the lack of FM audio and changing the external power supply to an internal one, the Gam*Boy is pretty much identical. The US/PAL Master Systems got rid of the rapid fire button on the console and replaced it with a reset button, but the Korean version retains said rapid fire. It's strange that they decided to remove the FM audio, as many Korean roms retained the capabilities of it, though that's true of US/PAL SMS roms as well.
So that means the Japanese version is truly the ultimate version.
@@SonicBoone56 Yeah, assuming you're not looking to get into mods. I don't really use the rapid fire on the console though, as there's no way to turn it off in the middle of a game. Better to just use a controller with turbo switches.
It comes from the Japanese habit of reserving the best for their own country, so you’ll see a minor missing feature in the international version of Japanese-produced products from consoles like this to videogames themselves, to professional cameras, etc.
@@oceanman2394 Which was stupid in this case, since the SMS was a much bigger hit outside of Japan.
@@SonicBoone56 Not really. The FM synth was an optional module that slotted in the back of the cartridge slot and all original Master Systems around the world have the pins to attach it because there wasn't any major modification done. The thing is games outside Japan had the FM sound code removed, so even if you slotted a FM module to a US or PAL console it does nothing unless you use an Everdrive with japanese or modified ROMs. So technically there isn't any superior model, all are essentially the same.
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god, australians saying "seega" feels like hearing someone pronouncing gif as "jif"
i've heard sega commercials in there caused this and i know the guy who invented gif format also calls it "jif" apparently, but still it feels wrong
alternate reality sega and current reality sega mustve caused a rift in space for us to have this
They deleted the FM!
Thanks for all the info! Really cool stuff
So I guess the green motherboard pcb was from Japan, but the components were soldered on in Korea. The Koreans, were like: how many games support FM, How much does the FM chip cost? Fugg it! It works without the FM chip!
The cat at the end got me, haha
Looking at your backlog, I apprantly saw many of your content, subscribe it is! Also into arcade stuff, Good man!
I think you’re right, I even think the components may have been sourced by Samsung. A friend of mine opened his Gam*Boy for me and his has a Samsung Z80 in it.
Haha thanks! I’m glad you like my vids!
@@Games_for_JamesStuff like this is just so awesome to examine.
It's not just the Korean model that didn't have FM, most of the foreign releases of the system depended on the built in PSG sound. Infact, FM was originally an add-on for the pre-Master System versions of the console. There's some modern third party add-ons that can add the FM back in and indeed many games still have the FM soundtrack if the chip is present.
S @TheTurnipKing But the Korean model came out after the Japanese SMS, so they did delete the FM chip as the Korean seems to be based on the Japanese SMS.
Korean versions of select consoles are always very interesting, The Saturn also had strange versions like the "Victor V Saturn" and "Hitachi Hi-Saturn"
And the Samsung Saturn too, can't forget about that.
@@JomasterTheSecond that's a rare one too
I love how your videos have a lott of character to them now, can really tell your starting to have a lot of fun with it. Keep it up ;P
I've been a gaming fan for years and its been a while since I've seen a system I haven't heard of before. Great video!
I don't know about you, but my Sega Master System controller was threaded in the middle and came with different joysticks that could be screwed in. Loved it.
Yeah some were, pretty rare though
Even though many of these devices are older than me I still find them incredibly fascinating and cool, even more than modern technolog.
To me these retro consoles seem like black magic, which is how I imagine a lot of people who grew up with these feel about modern consoles.
SCP - 100: The Secure Contain Protect procedure code for an anomalous controller that never existed in this dimension, and only exists in Korea. Which is, of course, an alternate dimension in real life.
I love random retro gaming crap
Here's the Korean TV ad for the Samsung Gam*Boy. th-cam.com/video/NYhLke8LGZk/w-d-xo.html
Samsung even made a Korean version of the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis in North America) called the "Super Gam*Boy" (later called the "Super Aladdin Boy"). It released a year or two after the original Gam*Boy.
Hyundai (the electronic company, not the car maker) made Korean versions of Nintendo consoles. The Korean NES is just called the "Comboy", the SNES the "Super Comboy", the N64 the "Comboy 64", and the Game Boy the "Mini Comboy".
Actually, at the time, Hyundai Electronics and Hyundai motors were under the same conglomerate, Hyundai Group. Hyundai Electronics split off in 2001 and became their own company.
I can't believe James cares enough about his audience to fly round-trip to Korea just to show us this Master System. Can't wait to see what you do next 🙌
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Short, informative, and all james, just what i needed right now
What a nugget. Also I love how aussies say Sega. In America it’s more “say-guh”, but you really emphasize the e. See-gah
Oh no, James, your warranty!
No one cares about warranty
@@Pleyer7575lol that's the joke, yes.
SEGA clearly were way ahead of their time, even Sega dreamcast was dam dope, in europe we had it all, plot spoilers!! i known all of this already back in the day 😎😎
EVERYONE WAKE UP JAMES MADE A NEW VIDEO!!!!
In South America we had the Master System built under license by brazilian manufacturer Tec Toy. Which looked exactly like a Master System built anywhere else, except that it didn't have the SEGA logo on it. The controllers said Tec Toy on them instead of SEGA. Tec Toy also went and made some localized versions of games in Portuguese and even released some ports of games that weren't released anywhere else (like the Mortal Kombat II version for the Master System) or original games only released in Brazil, like the Woody Woodpecker video game, or one based on the popular Brazilian comic series "Monica's Gang". The insane thing is that Tec Toy still has that license to build Master System consoles, and they are STILL making them and selling them to this day. The "Master System Evolution" is basically a plug and play Master System with no cartridge slot because all the games are already built in the console. So if anyone ever wants a "Master System Mini" but is sad that hasn't been done yet, all you need to do is get to Brazil and buy one there. They are super cheap because Tec Toy makes them with the idea of people with low incomes to buy them (people that can never afford a new Play Station or Xbox).
Oh, and if you wanted an Atari 2600, well you had to buy an Argentinean made "Edu Games 2600" which was a locally made version of the Atari 2600, which looked quite different and also the joysticks were bigger and more sturdy to hold than the Atari 2600 ones.
Capcom couldn't do Street Fighter 2 on the Master System, but Tec Toy sure as hell did lol
@@Whateverfloatsurboat2 yes. AND Mortal Kombat 2 as well.
This is almost at the same level as nintendo switch chinese version with tencent. But better because it's not region locked at least to jp, and the sound chip is really bad but it's a better trade off ig than a small library of games available or censorship. Korea def has a lot of weird history in gaming, and this is really awesome james!
@@channelname9843 omg i searched up ique, and it's legit nintendo wtf. I've always believe the ique player is defenitely a bootleg console, it looks so off brand lol never bother to look up, it's so great that they even release ds and 3ds lmao, and the branding is so off brand and sounded like an apple imitation that i'm glad they ditch it.
FM sound is no big loss. Though that Space Harrier FM clip sounded pretty pretty pretty good.
fun fact about other things samsung makes/made that most people wouldn’t expect: back in the late 80s to early 00s, samsung actually made cheap electric guitar pickups. epiphone, one of the largest budget brands, were made in korea at the time, and the cheaper models had samsung pickups. i have a 96 lp-100, a very cheap model from the time, that came stock with them. as interesting as that is, they don’t sound very good. very thin and a bit harsh, but somewhat usable if you really dial in your eq settings
When i looked at the thumbnail i KNEW what video is going be about. And yet i am still glad i clicked on it.
I honestly have no clue when i heard about Samsung having a deal with Sega but i sure did...
'Sam' means 'three' and 'sung' means 'star', but they're some kind of prefixes rather than words.
i had no idea that samsung did something like this, well seeing the contest it makes sense after all. the huge change in sound is amazing tho, like how a single chip could change so much is wonderful!
Of course Nintendo patented the d-pad. That explains so much.
The NES & SNES d-pad's are the most overrated in history IMO.
this setup is oddly reminiscent of another aussie tech informer
D A N K P O D S
I bought the Megadrive equivalent "Samsung Super Aladdin Boy" a few years back to check it out internally - the guts were identical to a Japanese Megadrive though - motherboard layout and all. Cool stuff!
ohhh I still need one of those!
Blows my mind how the PSU was just hucked in the case, no shielding or anything.
Some pre 2000's Samsung right there.
they just wanted to bypass korea ks regulations fee for seperate adapters. korea is still notorious for their electric regulations.
There’s a retro gaming bar I like to go to called zed 80. Never knew it was an old cpu!
1:55 Japanese word for "orange" is "orenji", it's a transliteration. To make the "a" sound in "orange" they replace it with "re" rather than "ra" because it's closer phonetically
2:11 "Samsung" just means "three stars" so it's technically two words. Weird to see it spaced out like that in English, but I suppose that unlike Chinese and Japanese written language, Hangul does use spaces to separate words
Absolutely love your videos
I just heard that French indie publisher 2minds will be releasing Mark 3 versions of their Master System games! Those should play on your Gam*boy!
Tiny controllers call for claw grip!
Also, your cat is very nice.
Mine made me say that.
james pronouncing sega as "see-ga" is killing me
It’s the Australian way!
@@Games_for_Jamesmust be a regional thing cos it’s “say-ga” in NSW
@@ABadImagination It's an Albany expression
@@ABadImagination I suspect so, although if you look up vintage australian sega tv ads they say seega
@@bruce11121314I see. You know these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at krusty burger.
Thank you James for another educational yet fun video
Very welcome
2:57 the intro
3:03 the chorus
Both absolute bangers
every time I forget the cat at the end and every time it puts a smile to my face
James is as good as dankpods
Korea's ban on importing foreign electronic products existed until the early 1990s, especially for Japanese products, until the late 1990s. To avoid this, many products were entered into joint ventures with Korean companies, and Sega was a joint venture with Samsung.
I remember seeing these few years ago, I live in Korea and never heard of these… Apparently the real (jp gameboy) is called Super Com-Boy (슈퍼 컴보이) and ngl, as A NINTENDO Gameboy collector, I do want the Korean Version of it.
that fm chip really does make a huge difference!
2021: samsung distributing oled displays to nintendo
1989: sega distributing master system console to samsung
Sick Subbed,I knew about the Samsung mega drive but never seen this Samsung master system ,thanks for sharing its so cool
It is good that your cat got its Woolies Worth at the end.
Bro is dankpods except red and gaming 😭 (Btw I subbed😊)
Not a knockoff? That's incredible. That percussion in the background is very grating though. I was checking I didn't have another tab playing some rubbish drumming!
Boy, Sam has nice gams
IIRC Samsung sold Sega products under their own name in south korea up until the Saturn in the mid 90s. Not sure what the case with the Dreamcast was, but it's fun to see these "alternate reality" Sega consoles.
Yep, I have a Samsung Saturn too. The Dreamcast was Sega branded but distributed by a korean partner, I can’t remember who
@@Games_for_James Hyundai apparently. Neat little factoid.
That’s pretty funny, Hyundai made all the nintendo consoles up to and including N64. Imagine the dreamcast being the successor to the N64!
@@Games_for_James I mean, the dreamcast does have those four controller ports 😉
@@seanmckelvey6618haha can’t argue with that!
actually this was one of the first steps for samsung to become a major semiconductor company, transitioning from just appliances manufacturer.
I own an official Korean copy of Sonic 1 for the Mega Dri- erm, I mean, Super Gam*Boy. Seeing the old Samsung logo on the cartridge for the first time really caught me off guard, lol.
I would love some more korean branded games! They are very hard to find. I have a cib hyundai super mario world for hyundai super comboy, winnie the pooh for samsung pico 😂, as well as virtual on and sega rally for Samsung Saturn. The saturn games are the weirdest to look at, it’s pretty much the same as the japanese saturn logo with samsung instead of sega
Liking this just for the random cat shot at the end alone. XD
2:57 Oh jeez, i remember hearing the Gam*Boy version of the Master System startup in a "compilations of Video Game Start Ups" when i was younger.
I was so confused why in that one video the Master System Bios Music sounded worse than other compilation videos i had seen
Now i can rest easy knowing it wasnt a glitch and it was because of a GAM*BOY
2:05 ...SCP-100? ...the Foundation?! 😱😱
Mom can i get a gameboy? No we have gamboy at home
My favorite game for Master System is Astro Warrior. It's not much, a pretty standard top down shmup , but the music ruled. Definitely recommend picking it up if you come across it. It was a pack-in game in the States.
My takeaway from the video: Aww, nice little kitty cat.
Oh, and regional Sega console stuff happened as well, I think.
Wow Samsung. But I prefer the kitty at the end of the video. 🐱👍
I know hardly anything about retro consoles and you do a real good job explaining how and why stuff you show us is just really weird lol
For what I understand, the FM synth is an optional module, is not built in by default, and select japanese games had both the FM and PSG option (Phantasy Star for example) but all Master System can use the FM module because no motherboard modification was made to the original models, all Master System original models worlwide are the same. The catch is all games outside Japan had the FM sound part removed from the code so even if you got a FM module you couldn't use your non japanese games to have FM sound, you had to use an original japanese game which weren't cartridge compatible. So I believe the Gam*Boy can use FM sound easily since the cartridge slot is the same as the japanese Master System, you only need to put a FM module in the pins behind the cartridge slot (in 4:20 is easily seen where, the black line of pins next to the slot).
Still, with an Everdrive you can use a PAL or US Master System with the FM module and japanese ROMs to have FM sound and people have also restored FM sound to non japanese games. Also also, there is a mod to restore FM sound capability to Master System 2 consoles, is a ribbon cable that attaches to the bottom of the cartridge slot and goes to a board containing the FM chip.
The Japanese Master System actually has it built-in, only the Mark III had it available as a separate add-on.
"The catch is all games outside Japan had the FM sound part removed from the code so even if you got a FM module you couldn't use your non japanese games to have FM sound,"
This isn't exactly true, there's actually quite a few Western SMS games that still have code for FM sound, including a few that didn't even see a Japanese release. The Western versions of Phantasy Star and Ys however did have the FM audio stripped out due to the translated text.
Ive recently gotten jnto retro games and i fuckin love tinkering so this channel is the perfect mix of what i love.
2:08
품명: 콘트롤 패드
형명: SCP-100
Korea was "the wild west" of East Asia. _And it still is._ Life in Cambodia, by comparison, seems tame. Not joking.
The Japanese Sega BIOS FM sound is simply glorious
That’s a weird looking dog. Could we get more videos of it.
I always click on these videos and think "why does dank pods sound so different today???"
So it's fundamentally deceptive in its existence. "We can't sell Japanese products here, so let's just put a Korean badge on it and put it in shops." Lying to consumers, capitalism's finest ideal.
BAG KITTY! My heart, it melts! 😻
Also: Is that a Dank Beat soundtrack? 🤔
I have heard Segger, Sayger, and now Seeger. I wonder what other ways people say it lol
Samsung had a deal with SEGA to make their consoles locally (like this one or the Super Gam-boy/Super Alladin Boy which was a Genesis). Meanwhile Hyundai had a deal with Nintendo, and the Super Nintendo, Game Boy and NES were built in Korea with the Hyndai logo on them.
Oh shit, I just realized this is the dude that made the bluetooth Ipod
Aww, kitty in the woollies bag
My first console was a Master System and soon as i saw this, i thought hey that looks familiar, i couldn't place it until you said it was basically a Master System as i mostly remember the sleeker Master System II, but that's pretty insane! xD
Random comment but I love the cat clips at the end of the video
Thank you
Yeah. Samsung was the Korean SEGA in the 90s.
Thanks to James, I began reading about South Korea's transition from a 100 V to a 220 V grid.
I played Laser tag today and they were using the corpse of a broken Master System II as an ‘Alien Battery’ prop in the arena!
"Japan and Korea haven't always gotten along…" -I don't know how people in the U.K. would have coped with explicitly German branded consoles in the 1980s. Back then, a lot of people refused to buy (overtly) German branded cars… having your kids play a German console with games that were culturally German, and displayed in the German language… ? Not something many parents had to deal with (in France, England or the United States). Just saying: Koreans had a point.
Even Nintendo Partnered With Hyundai To Make 4 Localized Nintendo Retro Consoles To Sell In Korea.
Like The Hyundai Comboy (NES)
Hyundai Mini Comboy (Gameboy)
Hyundai Super Comboy (European SNES)
And The Hyundai Comboy 64 (N64)
I just can't wait the release of Super Mario Galaxy Note for the Samsung Z switch oled
I still have my childhood super Aladdin boy 2 which is the Korean sega genesis.
This is wonderful,
Retro games
Retro history
Breaking stuff
Fixing stuff
A cat.
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This is a very cool niche, I really enjoy your commentary. Please keep making content (just like everyone I came here from Wade).