FRS' SMS Page

Patches for Sega Master System games

Glossary:

Patch Features
Gunstar Heroes
GG2SMS port, with the following features:
  • Two versions: one with a normal palette tweaked to show all the pixel art details in the SMS, and one that uses the 3D glasses to expand the SMS perceived palette to 216 colors, thus making the colors closer to the original GG game
  • Removed a software lock that caused trouble to run the game on the Master Everdrive
  • Garbage was removed from nearly all screens
  • Enabled the left column masking
  • The PAUSE button now works properly and doesn't crash the game anymore
  • Button-1 of the 1st joypad now acts as START where needed. Moved the text speedup to the 2nd button.
  • The 2nd joypad has SELECT on its button-1, and PAUSE on its button-2.
  • Megadrive joypad support. When one is used, the C button acts as SELECT and the START button will pause the game accordingly. There's no need to use two joypads anymore
  • Enlarged screen area.
  • The Sega logo screen now can be skipped
But the patch is far from finished and still has some known glitches:
  • Some elements have an offset when compared to the background. Specially the hitboxes of the houses in the 1st stage and their smoke after they explode, and the plant boss.
  • Some graphical glitches still occur at some specific points in some stages, notably on the pyramid of the 1st stage, and in the end of the stage when almost reaching some bosses.
  • The larger screen area makes some enemies appear imediately in some areas, like in the 1st screen of the 1st stage, and in the 1st screen of the airship stage.
Note: the Master System 3D glasses only work properly with CRT screens.
Lion King enhancement patch
This patch does many enhancements to the game Lion King:
  • The soundtrack is now played at the correct tempo in NTSC mode (60Hz)
  • Fixed a bug that caused the curb to stop rotating on acrobatics
  • The VRAM writing routines were optimized, making the game run smoother.
  • Mega drive controller support
    • START    = pause
    • Button-A = slash (adult only)
    • Button-B = jump
    • Button-C = roar
  • You can now press a button to skip the "Lion King over the sun" title screen
  • Turbofixed the stampede stage
Montezuma's Revenge joyfix patch
This patch fix the game to support Mega drive joypads. The START button can also be used to pause the game.
Penguin Land joyfix patch
This patch fix the game to support Mega drive joypads. The START button can also be used to pause the game.

It also enhances the pause routine. Once paused, it's now possible to scroll the stage up and down to analyse it.
Wonder Boy III fix patch
This patch does many enhancements to the game Wonder Boy 3:
  • Fix the FM detection to work on export consoles
  • The WB-III English logo is always shown
  • Added mega drive joypad support (START = pause)
  • Set border color to 0 (the game didn't initialize the border). This fixed the incorrect border color when started on flash carts

Don't forget read the included README.TXT file included inside of each package.