Sonic for the master system US

[asbury6647]

Need your alls help. Did this come out for master system in the US? I cant find any box art on it at all.

[Valhalla]

Yeah, i beleive it did, but as far as I know the only difference between the US and Euro packaging is a sticker on the US version.

[asbury6647]

I just cant find it anywhere. Where the other games like that, that only had a US sticker on it?

[darkslime]

Yeah, there were other games like that.

You probably can't find it because it goes for a couple hundred dollars.

[zektor]

Sonic and Buster Douglas are the two hardest titles to find (USA) in my opinion. If you keep looking you will find them however. Not for "hundreds", but more like in the hundred dollar range. Alternately, you can pick up the European version of the same SMS game for a few bucks and it will work just fine on your USA SMS console. Same game too...

[swlovinist]

Sonic with the UPC sticker can fetch quite a price complete. Price can very widely, pending on who is going for it. It is near impossible to find. I would personally value the Sonic title at least a couple hundred dollars. Spiderman and Strider are also some games that had the UPC sticker on the back, the only thing that was the difference between the US and UK counterpart. Expect if you ever see one on ebay to have several people bidding on it due to it being so scarce.

[megasdkirby]

Sonic and Buster Douglas are the two hardest titles to find (USA) in my opinion. If you keep looking you will find them however. Not for "hundreds", but more like in the hundred dollar range. Alternately, you can pick up the European version of the same SMS game for a few bucks and it will work just fine on your USA SMS console. Same game too...

Yes, both are the hardest games to find. Right now, I am only missing Sonic (w/UPC) and Spiderman (w/UPC).

To be perfectly honest, I am only interested in the box and insert. Since it's basically the same UK game, I can just switch carts around if I need to do so. But if I can find them with at least the cart, then I can take the UK manual.

But I hate paying high amounts for a simply UPC sticker. It's insane...alas, necessary to do if one wants to obtain a complete US set.

Ironically, I will be posting a copy of James Buster Douglas for sale soon. It's a spare I have, since I obtained one recently from a very awesome guy.

Another game I found tediously hard to find (complete) was Power Strike. I lucked out but it was a pain. Will also sell my spare game (without manual) for sale soon.

Thanks to Scrimble, I was able to pindown which games have UPC stickers:

Golden Axe Warrior
Strider
Spiderman
Sonic

They are all the UK editions, just with a little UPC sticker in the back.

In Sonic's case, one will have to pay plenty of $$$ on a UPC sticker...

[Yukio]

Actually, there could be a difference between PAL and NTSC game ROMs. If the scroll is not smooth on a NTSC system, the cartridge probably is for a PAL market ... Not sure about the Sonic cartridge and yes, the game is similar to the SEGA Game Gear one. One thing that is missing from most Sonic games on the SEGA Master System is the SEGA voice, the inertia effect is on the Game Gear (the games are a little harder to play). One thing that is better on the SEGA Game Gear is the demo play that has more than just one stage.

[s1lence]

i haven't noticed that with my PAL carts, since the SMS is region free.

[Yukio]

The SEGA Master System was never region free. The Japanese SEGA Master System/Mark III games used a different size for the cartridges. Most games that were released on America and Europe (along other places) could be "free" exchanged, but some games and music went out of sync because of the different clock cycles. The game play and music could be different too ...

[Yukio]

Did you noticed something weird on the bridge stage? The one with continuous scroll !? The stage with the very nice music!!!

That stage went out of sync ...
Did you noticed that some stages had some problems when you ran? Like a stop in the action.

Other titles.
Some games that were not produced by SEGA are not compatible with early SEGA Master System units. The first batch was reported to be unable to use some tricks or even some "full screen" games. There are even some games that are country locked.
The Master System on the United States was reported to be incompatible with cartridges above 4 megabit (Sonic Blast has 8 megabit).The early editions of the SEGA Master System BIOS has a limit on the megabit counter. Some people even got some ads from the system.