Coin? Arcade 3? What are these buttons?

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Coin? Arcade 3? What are these buttons?

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I don't see them on the Master System.

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Re: Coin? Arcade 3? What are these buttons?

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The core can run Sega System E games.

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Oh, is there any difference between Sega System roms and Master System roms? Like is fantasy zone the same on both?

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Re: Coin? Arcade 3? What are these buttons?

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The System E was roughly 2x the Master System as far as clock speeds and memory

I assume the Master System core is based on the stronger System E but this is only a guess.

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Re: Coin? Arcade 3? What are these buttons?

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The System E was a SMS with a second VPD chip and the CPU on a daughter board (this allowing Sega to use a Z80 with encryption technology for better copy protection).
This means the core can support the System E by doubling the VDP.
The system had 32 Kilobytes of VRAM opposed to the 16 Kilobytes of the SMS because each VDP chip had it's own 16 Kilobytes of VRAM.
I found a good summary of the system here:
https://nicole.express/2022/the-sega-ma ... again.html

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