DIFFERENCE BETWEEM SEGA MARK3 AND SEGA MASTER SYSTEM JAP

hello,
does anyone know which differences are betwen SEGA MARK3 and SEGA MASTER SYSTEM JAPANESE.
which is the rarest system?
I knew that the sega master system was released only in US and EUROPE but i knew that in japan the same system was called Sega MArk 3 ; some day ago i saw an ebay auction of Sega MAster SYSTEM (JAPANESE)...I HAD NEVER SEEN IT and i had never known about it!!!!
if anyone has some informations about that system please let me know.
Here there is a picture of the SEGA MASTER SYSTEM JAP:

 

The Japanese Master System was released a year or two after the Mark III, and while it's cosmetically based on the Western SMS, it also includes a built-in FM Unit, Rapid-Fire Unit and 3D Glasses Adapter.

 

THe japanese Master System is much harder to come by than the mark III. I'd love to own a Japanese Master System !

Yakumo

 

Yakumo, what does a used Japanese Master System run approxamately? It's always been one of those things I'd love to play around with, probably more than anything for the FM unit. Would love to hear all my favorite game music on that.

 

No idea how much they would be in Japan, but on eBay you'd probably be looking at around $100-$130 for a loose unit, and maybe $200 or so boxed.

 

Thats kinda what I would've figured for eBay prices... everything collectible video game related is expensive on eBay. Not to mention shipping from Japan, which brings me to an off topic question. Why the heck is shipping so expensive from Japan? Is it just that people mark up the shipping riddiculously or what? I shipped a 35lb typewriter to Italy last month and it only cost about $50 to ship, but I import a game from Japan (that weighs all of a pound at most) and I end up paying like $20 half the time. I've never really understood it.

 

Its not shipping from japan is expensive, its that from the US is cheap.

 

A bopxed mint looking Japanese Master System here would probably set you back around 12000 yen !! That's more than 100 US. Maybe around 140 US but then you'll have to add postage and so on. I have seen them going for 18'000 yen !!

Yakumo

 

Haha, I guess you are probably right there. We get so used to cheap stuff here that we forget that it's not like that everywhere else. Everyone is angry that gas prices are over $2.00 a gallon here, when over in the UK you are probably paying the equivalent of over $5.00 a gallon. I drive a little Mazda so I'm not complaining, but some people just have to have their Hummers....

 

Thats pretty much it. As an example:

When I filled my car up with petrol, I paid 88.9p/litre. Back a couple of months ago, when katrina closed a number of refineries in the states I paid 96.9p/litre. Thats £3.36 ($5.83)/US gallon (3.8 litres) and £3.66($6.35)/US gallon respectively. Thats at todays exchange rates from xe.com

 

I know it's not necessarily fair that you have to pay more...but we need gas to be cheap. Your country is smaller, and our public transportation infrastructure (nationwide) sucks. The US would come to a screaming halt at six dollars a gallon.

 

+ The only reason we have to pay full price in the UK is because our goverment doesn't subsume it as another subsidised product a la US. Quite right too, cos old Blair can sublimate it into something useful. The UK would grind to a halt if half our goverments cash went to controlling the price of oil.

 

I find it funny that US congress is holding hearings against the Oil company execs who recorded record profits at 80-90% in just one quarter. The executives are saying that they'll be taxed more but funny thing is, is that these guys got a couple hundred million dollar bonuses from all of this. I just hope the politicians get their heads out of the oil companies asses if they want to be around next term.

Another excuse from them is that they don't control prices, OPEC does, which is bullshit. All OPEC does is control output, the distributors (exxon, etc.) have to set the prices to make sure theres enough to go around.

Now that I drive a new car, which is a V6, I spend about $33-35 to fill it up every week. I'm not complaining but its more than what I paid for for my 4cylinder Saturn that I used to own.

Sorry that I went off topic there.

 

Sorry mate, but you're wrong there. In large cities public transport is pretty good, but it is in the states too, but everywhere else has hardly anything. Most bus services between medium sized towns (around 10k population) are either 1bus per hour or 1 every 2hrs, and generally take 2x as long as driving between the 2 places. The cost of the bus services are huge too, approx £1 for 3miles.

Nationwide infrastructure is not that important in the states, as there is very little that needs people to travel nationwide. How often do you need to travel more than even 200 miles, when you could travel less?

I know there are people who live "out in the sticks", but you get that in any country larger than Monaco... I personally live 8 miles from a medium sized town and 20 miles from a city, and there are people a hell of a lot worse off than that.

Another point, is that if the US was taxed more on fuel, then that money could be invested into better public transport. Unfortunately, the US has got too used to cheap fuel, and won't change anytime soon, until it starts to run out... Fuel will inevitably hit $6/gallon, being a finite resource, and I bet the US will not come to a standstill

 

I completely agree with you there, I am all for hiking the gas prices personally. If anything, it'll get all these stupid SUV's off the roads. Take a look at the SUV's you see around you, if they don't have a trailer hitch and ball on the back, they are never used for more than a soccermom-mobile, which accounts for 90% of them. You don't need an SUV to haul kids, hell, a Geo Metro will work for that. You can pack kids in a Metro like clowns at the circus. I have a Ford F150 V8, but the only time I ever use it is for towing my boat or car trailers. The rest of the time I drive my Miata and enjoy the 32mpg I get.

 

Oh wow... I just realized that this topic has gotten incredibly off topic and its all my fault. Sorry to screw up your post grandesolt.

 

I like much more the mark 3 version, jp master system looks almost the same of US, EU and BR versions and mark 3 version have an external Fm, I love external stuff plugged on system like sega cd, n64 dd and etc, yeah I'm crazy

Jp master system is easy to found on yahoo japan but little expensive

 

I'm in the same boat here, external addons kick ass! My all time fav setup is when you have a Genesis with a Sega CD and a 32x connected. What a beast! One question though, how different is the main board on a Japanese SMS versus a US one? I'm almost tempted to crack open my SMS to see, wonder how hard it would be to mod an FM unit into a US Master System... FM sound is so awesome!

 

Probably the jp sms board is very different than US one because japanese have different cart slot, fm chip built in and 3d adaptor built in

 

Thats what I would have figured. I'd still like to crack it open and see, other than the cart slots being different, I wonder if there are solder pads for the missing chips that the US unit doesn't have. I'd love to play all my classics with FM sound, 3d adaptor doesn't really matter to me though as I've just got the one that slides in the card slot. I'll hafta search around for more info on this, although I doubt that adding FM to a US SMS is possible... we can always dream though!