{"id":4772,"date":"2018-01-29T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2024-09-08T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:52:38","slug":"ms-hidden-fm-c2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/2018\/01\/29\/ms-hidden-fm-c2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sega Master System Hidden FM Collection 2: Incomplete soundtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did you know that, unlike its Western Counterpart, the Japanese Sega Master System
\nhad its own FM soundchip? oh, you did? Well of course to you would – you’re a smart,
\nwitty and generally amazing Sega Master System fan.<\/p>\n

What you may not know, however, is that due to the Japanese Master System’s abrupt termination,
\na surprisingly large amount of Western-only Master System games retained FM soundtracks. Rather
\nthan take them out, programmers would often simply bury them inside inaccessible bits of
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This screen grab is glitchy…like these soundtracks!<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Good Few Years ago, SMS Power! User “Sonic of 8” uncovered a number of action replay
\ncodes that would allow these hidden soundtracks to be heard – although only in certain
\nemulators and not on the original hardware.<\/p>\n

I’d recently finished creating rom patches for all of the complete soundtracks,
\nso I thought I’d quickly go through and create patches for the games that contain only
\nfragments of sound (one or two finished jingles, or just place holder sounds\/drums.)
\nThis is really for curious completists only – there are no finished soundtracks here.<\/p>\n

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Thwack! I have no idea what i’m doing \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/div>\n

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To download the finished patch set please click: here<\/a>
\nThe package contains the necessary ROM patches, a multiplatform tool for patching the ROMs and a readme to walk you through it.<\/p>\n

What’s that? you want to here the soundtracks in action? Knock yourself out. Most soundtrack snippets are recorded from a Japanese Master System:<\/p>\n