Master System KR card scans
From Sega Retro
There's a lot of these cards, maybe more than 90. The vast majority of which seem to be SG-1000 games. As SG-1000 was never sold in Korea, and these cards were sold as SMS games I've put them under SMS categories instead of SG-1000. This causes issues where a game has been released for both systems though. For example Choplifter. There is a Korean card for this, but as cards were restricted to 32KB it must be the SG-1000 version. As this isn't the same game as the SMS Choplifters it makes more sense to include it with the other SG-1000 versions.
To further complicate matters MSX had more RAM than SG-1000, so in Taiwan RAM expansion adapters were released for SG-1000 to play some MSX ports. Some of these MSX ports were also released in Korea as card games, but as SMS already had enough RAM the adapter wasn't required.
So we basically have three different types of Korean card games;
SG-1000
SG-1000+RAM
SMS
How to categorise them?
A) All SMS games as that's which platform they were released for in Korea.
B) SMS as SMS, SG-1000 and SG-1000+RAM as SG-1000 (Saturn+RAM are still considered to be Saturn games).
C) SG-1000 as SG-1000, SMS and SG-1000+RAM as SMS because SG-1000+RAM work with any SMS, but only work with SG-1000 through a third party adapter neither of which were ever released in Korea.
D) Consider SG-1000+RAM to be a separate platform between SG-1000 and SMS, which SMS is backwards compatible with.
Personally I lean towards B, what do others think?
--Pirate Dragon 11:58, 24 September 2012 (CDT)
- If it has "Gam*Boy" (or whatever) printed on the front symbolising that the game was intended for the Master System, treat it as a Master System game, even if it's an SG-1000 game "in disguise". For stuff like Choplifter where you might have both cartridge and card releases, we just need a field like "sms_date_kr_c=" in the releases template to take care of the card version (we already do this for other regions). It can cause confusion if the cartridge version is radically different to the card one, but this can always be written about on the page somewhere.
- I think for now, games which make use of that Taiwanese SG-1000 RAM adapter should be classed as SG-1000 games. There's awkwardness around this issue in some cases, but we can always make extra categories at a later date if it starts to cause problems.
- so yes, B. -Black Squirrel 13:10, 24 September 2012 (CDT)
- Right, that's the simplest way, and consistent with Loretta_no_Shouzou:_Sherlock_Holmes.
--Pirate Dragon 14:04, 24 September 2012 (CDT)
"For stuff like Choplifter where you might have both cartridge and card releases, we just need a field like "sms_date_kr_c=" in the releases template to take care of the card version (we already do this for other regions)."
- I tried this before for My Hero, but it doesn't seem to work for Korea.--Pirate Dragon 14:25, 24 September 2012 (CDT)