Sega Master System regions

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#1 AtelierFan
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So, I'm getting the itch to buy one of these (again)... I am wondering - are these region locked?
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#2 Darkman2007
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as far as I know, no , a game from the US will work in Europe and vice versa.

 

though I think Japanese games will not work on other systems as the cartridges are a different size (though in theory if there is an adapter, they would work)

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There are also a handful of Euro games that won't work on the U.S. Master System. Not a lot, but they are still there. I'm not sure exactly which ones they were, though. I'd chec the Sega-16 site, they'd probably have it listed.

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There are also a handful of Euro games that won't work on the U.S. Master System. Not a lot, but they are still there. I'm not sure exactly which ones they were, though. I'd chec the Sega-16 site, they'd probably have it listed.

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I would imagine these are PAL optimized games.
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as far as I know, no , a game from the US will work in Europe and vice versa.

 

though I think Japanese games will not work on other systems as the cartridges are a different size (though in theory if there is an adapter, they would work)

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It's not just the size, Japanese system use different BIOS, so they won't run.

There's a third party adapter that can bypass the BIOS check, though.