Sega Master System: Japan version BIOS demo [4K]
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2024
- This is 4K RGB capture of what you get when you boot up a Japanese Sega Master System without a game inserted: Namely, an 8-bit FM rendition of the Space Harrier theme with some dancing stars as you skin an infinite checkerboard. No snails for Japan... only jams. This BIOS demo is only present in the Japanese Master System, not the U.S. or European consoles, and not the Japanese Mark III.
Recorded from a Japanese Master System via RGB, upscaled to 4K via RetroTink 4K. Feel free to use for your own purposes, I guess? - Ігри
An extremely rare example of the Master System playing FM and PSG simultaneously! It's too bad more games couldn't take advantage of this hardware upgrade, because it sounds great!
Almost makes it sound like a Megadrive game. There were plenty of games there that used PSG as well, but it always especially stood out to me when developers decided to use it for percussion like in Super Hydlide and NCS' early efforts like Target Earth.
The Mark III with the standalone FM unit couldn't mix the two together so that's why Sega didn't produce any games that used both together.
This is so pretty. I always thought the "Space Harrier" theme kinda reminded me of "Twilight" by ELO. Any rendition of it is a dopamine hit.
I wouldn't be surprised if you solved the riddle. A lot of video game composers in Japan were hugely influenced by English Prog Rock bands. Heck, even the English progressive super group "UK" had just about all their live releases recorded in Japan. Some of the people who helped with the band UK then went on to make the band "Asia" haha
You are 100% correct about Twilight!
This, is a love note to Daicon IV, a 1983 fan anime made by a 12 person team which would become Studio Gainax.
The film follows a bunny girl as she fights thru virtually every IP you can imagine on the way to restoring the world with the power of harmony.
The film uses Twilight, by ELO, as the soundtrack, and it singlehandedly influenced more media than I could possibly reference here.
It is widely recognized to be one of the finest fan projects ever made, and it's echoes still affect the anime and games industries to this day.
With 100% sincerity, I urge everyone who reads this comment, to search Daicon IV on UA-cam and watch it.
It is absolutely worth it.
P.s. if you are still here, I also recommend you take a look at Daicon III. It is the predecessor to IV, and while not AS important to the universe, it too, is a truly awesome display of Fandom and skill.
Greatest BIOS music in the history of gaming. The Space Harrier theme is one of the greatest chiptunes, so sticking it on the BIOS is just a shortcut to greatness. The Famicom Disk System comes close, but that jingle is just a bit too short.
Might I suggest the FM Towns Marty?
The American Sega CD Version 2 theme is one of my favorites. It's got that "Wow, this is the future!" vibe that I absolutely dig.
@@XanthinZarda Also a good one, but not quite dynamic enough. It's got that same mixolydian flat-VII chord that gives the retro-futurist vibes, but it doesn't have all the delightful melodic minor borrow-chords of the Space Harrier theme that send chills up my spine.
@@lilwyvern4 I always preferred the Model 1 music. I might be biased though, since that's the one I had and still have to this day.
This gets you hype for gaming
Sega systems always had the best bios screens in the game, you can't change my mind.
The Sega CD version 2 is another great one
@@tekkensentai My man hell yeah
Sega Saturn also had a great Bios and menu screen... it really sucked that Dreamcast was forced by Sega of America's 90s management and killed every progression from the Sega Saturn.
With this soundtrack, I would never leave the boot screen
I particularly love the attention to the backdrop sky. Shooting stars on changes and loops, the twinkles in time to music sections, etc.
Man, if Sega had left the FM enabled in the US SMS and included that in the BIOS I bet it really would have helped the SMS sell better! Just imagine 80s kids showing that to their friends and then asking them what their NES does when they turn it on w/o a game inserted.
It's all the same, really. If you stare at the blinking screen of an NES with no game inserted long enough, eventually this is what you start to hallucinate.
Eh nope... You're pretty clueless about time lines... it didn't work that way and would never work that way at all.
Number one issue is that 1986 was Nintendo NES correcting their distribution channels
Sega was going to launch but right before they do Atari Corp comes out with mothballed warehoused hardware and just between 1986 to 1988 Atari Corp had three systems aimed at the console market... one could say they were dumping hardware on consumers and the result was that those who got caught up in that got burned while those who invested in the NES and Sega Master System at least got game evolution for those years but it stalled the chances Sega could have gotten.
As a result also the subsidiary branch was unable to be stable and Sega Enterprises LTD Japan headquarters had to fork over more money to reformat the subsidiary branch.
Lmao good one... the funny thing about his post is that it's clear he doesn't understand how things were during those years...
I don't believe Sega of America's management tried to hype themselves as having a more powerful system because back then there was no gamer magazines... the PC magazines were super lame with console coverage and then no matter how nice the SMS was you had to go to the console to hit pause...
Not a problem when I got to play it but after a while it just made you think why...
The Yamaha FM processor was a thing in Japan cause it could but Sega had not secured their install base... also iirc the FM module came out in 1987 Japan.
gotta love that Space Harrier theme
Is this more than just Space Harrier though?
Thank you for blessing us with a 4K version of this screen.
Proving that Daicon IV, was the most important fan project ever.
Hat tip to Twilight, by ELO for providing the soundtrack to 1 million dreams, and an infinite number of futures.
We were so blessed.
Incredible observation!
This is a really cool bios. It felt like there was more soul in bios screens back then.
The mighty Mark IV! Everything the Master System was supposed to be, but no one else got to see it outside of Japan.
That's reaching.. all the Japanese Master System was is a last ditch attempt to make the MKIII successful... you need to understand that the console wars in Japan were just ultra fierce in the 80s.
@@apollosungod2819 That has almost nothing to do with what I said. And the Master System had another half decade of life outside of Japan, but none for the MkIV version.
thx so much for this. this is a great chiptune and i never would have known it existed if u hadnt posted it!
Thanks for uploading jeremy! This is such a bop
Thank you for an HD I upload to this!
I like to consider this as “Victory music”
The 3-D Battles of WorldRunner meets the Famicom Disk System BIOS screen w/ a banger track. Love it.
Love or hate them, Sega always brought the jams to their games & systems
Who could hate a Sega!?
I kinda love it. Thanks for uploading this!
I still remember the Snail Maze song. It’s a tie.
Ah, so this is the source of the easter egg that used to be on the Games Done Quick website.
the Unicorn Chaser I didn't know I needed. Thx Jeremy
Time for this theme to get stuck in my head again with this rendition. Nice find.
This demo is very impressive, there are a lot of things happening here.
Thank you for this!
Thanks for sharing! Jams are better then snails!
Such a joyous tune to get you ready for a trippy blast-a-thon (or in the case of SH3D, a choppy blast-a-thon)
A much more peaceful land without the likes of Wi Wi Jumbo.
Sega's so good, even without a cartridge!
wow, i never knew the japanese master system bios was like this, i don't know which i prefer, this space harrier inspired scroll with the jam or snail maze
Although I have nostalgia for the western Master System boot up sound (& prefer PSG over FM simply because of nostalgia), I absolutely adore this one.
I never enjoyed the weedy sound of the Western Master System, but the Japanese hardware was another story. It’s too bad we never got the FM version in the UK
This is the first time I've realized that SEGA shipped a box called the master system in japan. I never knew they dropped the MARK 3 branding over there
Heaven.
Piss off, Alex Kidd. I don't care if you're a built-in game, this is what I'm here for.
Bless 🙏
Barring Lagrange point,
Sound design : point Mark 3
MAster System BIOS got me feeling like Garfield
I was 6 in 1987. I don't remember it, I barely remember 6 hours ago.
It’s all good, man, videos games are for the mentally enfeebled as well
man love the look of the mark3 but this is peek
I agree that the Mark III is 3x better looking than the Master System. But what can ya do
@@JeremyParish yea better value too
What the kids 5 years ago called "a real banger of a song".
They would still call it that!
Sega forever!!❤❤❤ ..my 9 yo brain would have been fried if i'd had this on my pal master system back in the day... sadly wasn't to be..
If that tech demo wanted to impress me, the least it could have done was had a guy running off to the horizon, or a Ferrari Testarossa!
The fact that this even exists is about as wacky to me as the fact that theres a JAPANESE version of the American Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
What. That is just patently absurd.
I’m not saying I don’t believe you, just that it’s patently absurd.
@@rootbeer_666 Of course theres an English subtitled version out there too. Cause why not.
SEGA of America should have had free-ish reign to actually use their superior tech. What a better world we would have had, The Nintendo Switch would not exist. The fear of releasing old technology would have died with the NES.
Big day for someone like myself, relying on old UA-cam uploads of an emulator to experience this electrical shock of whimsy until now.
It’s a brand new upload. Also, the description indicates it’s taken from original hardware, not an emulator.
@@funforalgernon Sorry, I should clarify: what I mean is that it's great to have a high-quality upload of this screen with footage from real hardware. I couldn't find any uploads like this except from emulators until now (and even those aren't in 4K like this, because they were from a time before that made sense).
電源をOFFにして、ソフトを入れてください。
Pretty cool, I guess......wasn't there a snail maze game or something?
Not on the Japanese SMS, this is all it does if you turn it on without a game inserted
Alas, no snail game. 0/10
Snails belong in aquariums cleaning fish poop, not in mazes