Hello I'm Calm Cal, welcome to another video this is another video in the build
your own console series, this is the eighth video in this series, in this one
I want to add the Master System and also show you the improvements in graphics so I
thought logically add the master system, it might show you more improvement on
the master system than the Mega Drive, but in both cases it is it is noticeable,
but you might notice it more with the Master System, that's my theory anyway
but here we go, let's get on with it so what we've got is a USB stick 16
gigabytes and this is the familiar file format that we've created before, you've
got the BIOS which is empty because we won't need this again this time but in the games
folder you've got your MD directory for the Mega Drive and they're all the Mega
Drive games and also the boxart for the Mega Drive, I'm just going to leave them as
it is, so what we have here is, I have created just a normal folder where I've
put all the games that I've got and also a box art folder and I've put the box
arts for all of these games except for one which I added recently, because this
is a recommendation from somebody on the comments page within one of my
videos, so I thought yeah I'm going to add this one I love Xenon 2 megablast
It's a great game so we'll see what it's like on the master system.
I've got the box art here and I've got the Xenon2 2 rom file
this is a zipped file, what we need to do is match these up, what I've done for
the master system is all on all of the games I put (MS) for the master system so when it
shows up on screen we can see which or for the master system and which is for
the Mega Drive, that's my theory anyway so what I'm going to do is just press F2
on here to rename the file... you can hear my clicky keyboard again.. (MS)
master system, then just press enter. Gonna press F2
again, it just highlights the file part of that file, so I'm just going to press
ctrl and then C to copy and then click on the second file press F2 to
rename and then we're going to press press ctrl + V to over copy that file
name which is the Box art file because it's a PNG. So all of these or all in
lowercase.... PNG is part of the box art files so we will put that in the boxarts - left-click and hold on here
highlight it and then drop it in there, so that's in the box arts and if
you notice box arts is spelt incorrectly here, so that's how it should be all in
lowercase, so I'm just going to rename that folder, gonna press F2 on here and
then change that to box arts in lowercase b, o, x, a, r, t, & s
and the "s" is important on the end just press Enter, alright, so now we've
got all the master system games that I want put on there and then the box arts
within, so what I wanted to do is then put it all on to this USB stick, so
we've already got one for MD and if we go into the manual, so we can see within
games we need a folder called MS, within MS we need the folder "boxarts" to put
all the box art in plus all the roms within ms, so that's what I'm gonna do, close this
for a second, so in here I'm just going to create a new folder and then
name that "ms" in lowercase, double click on this folder because we want to put
all of this information in here, so I'm going to hi light all that
by left clicking and holding down, I'm dragging the square across, right click
here press copy and then what I'm going to do is just click on this window here
right click and then paste, there we go that's pasted over all of the files including
the box arts in there so we just go back up, back up, so now we have the mega
drive folder and the Master System folder, what I'm going to do now is just
eject this, so I've gone on here, right-click and then select eject and now that is
ready to put inside the new game console. All right, so that's the console just
booting up now I've put the USB stick in and it's gonna go through all the
different files, all of the master system ones and all the box art for the
master system ones it's just resizing all of those, it just told
me I could take my USB out but I'm not gonna do that until they are
actually displayed on screen, It does show you that in the instructions, okay so we
have got everything on this one line it appears but we've got the "MD" at the end
and this is md, md, md, md, md, md, md, X-Men on the megadrive and then it's gone
on to the master system there after alphabetically
so it's all on the same line, megadrive here if we press down it's automatically
gone on to the master systems, so it jumps to the next system, so that is a
good feature, it's also good that it's separate alphabetized
separately, so what I'm going to do is, have a quick look at Xenon 2 it is one of my
favorite games, I just want to hear the music to be honest!!
this really is great music from bomb the bass
takes you back a few years ! !
Xenon 2 megablast, what a brilliant game that is is, so good I got the
Megadrive version as well, what I want to talk to you about now is the graphics,
improvements, because by pressing the Start menu you can go into the
settings.. within emulation you've got three options here to change things,
scanlines... sort of imitates the old CRT TVs or the old monitor displays, it sort of
adds lines but the image looks sharper somehow, sometimes it looks a bit darker
as well, the bilinear filter... that sort of smoothes the textures out a little bit
and the lines, it does add a little bit of a blur on some games so bare that in mind this
display mode is the original format, so if you press right on here you change
that to "pixel perfect" which I think is a pretty good effect
I like this with the bilinear filter on, that is my preferred method for most of
the games, Xenon 2 on the master system looks better with all of these
three on, so a case-by-case basis per game and also the TV, if you've got a
large TV the resolution is spread more across the screen so you'd have to play
with these options turn them on and off and see which one suits you best per game for
your TV sets, keep changing these until you get it as good as what you think it
could be. this is my preferred option "pixel perfect" and also have the
bilinear filter on, the scan lines off for most of the games.
So here are some of the combinations that you can have or experiment with as
a say with your TV being different or your monitor being different it's trial and
error, just see which one suits you best it might be different per game.
I hope you find these videos helpful, there are more to come and I'm thinking about
doing a competition soon, with some of these games the ones available on Steam maybe
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