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I know the Vectrex scene has had some really cool demos that really exploited the hardware way beyond what the engineers ever thought was possible with it but I am wondering the same thing with my other favourite system: the Sega Master System.

So how's about it? Any cool demos on this system that showed off some cool stuff?

We only have three recorded productions for the platform over at the zoo, at least - of which two are pictuers and one is a piece of music.

http://demozoo.org/platforms/44/

I knew of the ones on pouet and SMSPower. I was wondering if there was anything else out there that really showed off something. Most of these are just basic scrollers and the like.

I find it crazy that the Vectrex demos out there really pushed way beyond the limits and has a smaller community than SMS but the SMS has no true demo that I'm aware of.

Go make a demo about it :)

Bro, I'm lucky if I can hello world it. Learning any form of assembly is on my list of things to procrastinate about until I die.

i didnt know others have the same list i do

id love to do one. unfortunately i cant code. but i can pixel!

I can vote on pouet.net!

I just realized there is also no Sega Saturn demo ever.

But many little master system things.

Lol, that's because it's a piece of shit ^^

....to code on. Maybe. But there were some really great games for it. :P

Also, don't expect anything great from a Master System with video hardware between the MSX1 and MSX2 but a worse soundchip than AY....

The Saturn isn't bad, it's just kind of awkward to code for because of its convoluted design. You've got two SuperH-2 CPUs, two graphics chips, a sound processing unit (FM/PCM + DSP + M68k), a System Control Unit that handles DMA and interrupt control, a System Management & Peripheral Control unit, and probably some other parts that I've forgotten.

I guess the complexity of it turns people off, so there has never been that many homebrew Saturn developers. I've dabbled in it occasionally over the years, but never made a demo about it.

(and yes, the Saturn had some awesome games)

Someday I'd like to see an Atari Jaguar demo; it was worse to code for than the Saturn.

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I always assumed the reason there isn't any Saturn homebrew at all (demos, games, etc.) was just the lack of a means to test stuff on real hardware (aside from the swap trick, which is rather wasteful since you need to burn a disc every time).

Back on topic, aside from Nine Pixels I can't really comment much on Master System demos, and even that one doesn't do that much that's interesting (off the top of my head: low-res scaling, the line when drawing the 9, the lighting at the sides of the text (which is just a sprite overlay) and the parallaxed scroll behind the 9).

I find it curious how the Master System entry with the most thumbs up is actually a test ROM for an emulator (hah!), at least if I remember correctly.