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>even the Genesis needed an extra add-on to play Master System

The Genesis/ MD has all of the hardware needed internally to run Master System games. It even uses the same 9-pin controller ports, so you could plug master system controllers into the Genesis /MD. The Power Base converter added a SMS cartridge slot and card slot . Back then the Power Base Converter was sold at roughly $20.00 and Sega would even give it away for free in some promo deals. But considering the low sales numbers of the Sega Master System in the North American market, Sega only put the Power Base Converter out on the marketplace long enough to just please the Master System user base. There were a lot of complaints about the SNES not being backwards compatible, because parents didn't want to get rid of all of their old 'tapes' that they invested hundreds of dollars in and wanted them to be playable on the newest Nintendo hardware. To be honest, the WDC 65C816 derivative in the SNES could run 6502 code. Maybe they could have found a way to add a NES mode in the SNES PPU, but the audio would have been a problem. Maybe they could have released an adaptor like Sega for older SNES games?

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