| Document | Author | Description |
SMS/GG hardware notes (2002/11/12) |
Charles MacDonald | General and very complete documentation about the SMS/GG. Also see "SMS VDP Documentation" by the same author. |
Sega SC-3000 Hardware Notes (2004/07/29) |
Charles MacDonald | Very complete notes on SC-3000 and related systems |
Sega Master System Technical Information | Richard Talbot-Watkins | General and very complete documentation about the SMS |
Sega Master System and Game Gear Architecture (1.0) | Marat Fayzullin | Incomplete but covers quite a few interesting things |
Jon's Technical Documentation (1991/11/23) | Jon | Very old document covering many aspects of the SMS/GG |
Super Majik Spiral Crew's Guide to the Sega Master System (0.02) | Super Majik Spiral Crew | General documentation about the SMS |
Game Gear Documentation | Unknown | Covers video ports, video registers, and inputs ports |
Full port 3F and controller port details | Asynchronous | Forum post regarding SMS port $3F |
Mail Extract #1 | James McKay and Neon Spiral Injector | Miscellaneous issues |
Sega Game 1000 (SG-1000) Information (Draft) | Omar Cornut | Stripped down SMS documentation covering only SG-1000 specifics (outdated) |
techdoc.txt | PolestaR (Jason Starr) | Notes on CodeMasters games, Light Phaser, Paddle, 3-D Glasses |
Sega Master System Schematics | "Gringoz" | Sega Master System Schematics |
Official SMS/GG documentation |
Sega | The real thing |
| Document | Author | Description |
Z80 Family CPU User Manual | Zilog | Official Z80 User's Manual (Zipped PDF document) |
The Undocumented Z80 Documented (0.4) | Sean Young | Excellent document covering some of the less known Z80 aspects |
Zilog Z80 Product Specification | Zilog | Official Z80 documentation |
Zilog Z80 Documents | Various | Miscellaneous collection of Z80 documents documents |
| Document | Author | Description |
SMS VDP Documentation (2002/11/12) | Charles MacDonald | Excellent document covering the SMS and GG VDP hardware |
TMS9918A Data Sheet | Texas Instruments | Official specification of the TMS9918a Video Display Processor (VDP) (used by SG-1000/SC-3000, and in legacy video modes on the Master System) |
Portar (1.5) | Mayer | Very complete MSX documentation (MSX uses a TMS9918 video chip) |
TMS9918A Document | Sean Young | Description of the Texas Instruments TMS9918a Video Display Processor (VDP) |
Super Majik Spiral Crew's Guide to using their code (0.00) | Super Majik Spiral Crew | Primitive documentation regarding the tile format and the palette |
| Document | Author | Description |
Sega 315-5208, 315-5235, and 315-5365 Master System Memory Paging Chips | S8-Dev Team | Description of 315-5208, 315-5235, and 315-5365 paging chips and their use in homemade development cartridges. |
Mail Extract #2 | James McKay | Covers paging registers |
SMSArch Documentation | Eric Quinn | Covers memory map and paging registers |
| Document | Author | Description |
SN79489 notes | Maxim | Excellent document covering the SN79489/SN76496 |
YM2413 Application Manual (HTML) | Yamaha / Maxim | Programmer's manual for the YM2413 sound generator, converted to HTML and with redrawn diagrams |
YM2413 Application Manual (PDF scans) | Yamaha / Ricardo Bittencourt / HansO | Programmer's manual for the YM2413 sound generator, converted to PDF |
YM2413 Application Manual (Scans) | Yamaha | Programmer's manual for the YM2413 sound generator |
YM2413 Programmer's Manual (PDF) | Yamaha | Programmer's manual for the YM2413 sound generator |
Project SMS OPLL | Leonard Silva de Oliveira | Schematics and mail extract about Leonard' successful attempt to adding a YM2413 for his non-Japanese Master System. |
| Document | Author | Description |
SC-3000 Tape Format Notes |
Sega | Four scanned pages from manual with notes about SC-3000 tape format. |
| Document | Author | Description |
Game Gear Pinouts | Unknown | Standard GG cartridge pinouts |
European - Japanese Master System connector & MasterSystem - GameGear converter | Sankichi | Export/Japanese SMS pinouts, GG pinouts |
SG-1000/SC-3000 pinouts | Skyhigh | SG-1000/SC-3000 pinouts and mail extracts |
SMS Gender Adapter Instructions (v.03) | Mike Gordon / Omar Cornut / Mike Cukan | Picture showing how to build a simple gender adapter to plug a cartridge on the expansion port. It is especially useful to play export games on a Japanese Master System. |
SMSArch Documentation | Eric Quinn | Include SMS pinouts |
| Document | Author | Description |
SMS Reader | Mike Gordon | Cartridge reader/writer for 8-bit Sega systems and rewritable cartridges |
SMS 512K Flash Memory Cartridge | Charles MacDonald | Instructions to modify a SMS cartridge to accept a Am29F040 flash memory chip |
128k EPROM modification for 315-5208 based SMS cartridges | Mike G. | Procedure for creating a 1 Megabit re-programmable development cartridge. |
Homemade Devcarts, Chapter 1 | Flavio Morsoletto | Introduction to creating homemade SMS development cartridges |
| Document | Author | Description |
JavaGear Final Project Report | Chris White | Final project report submitted by Chris White to his computer science school. Covers the development of the JavaGear emulator. |
JavaGear Specification | Chris White | Original project specification of the JavaGear emulator. |
Game Gear Sound Fix Instructions | Ky Crout | Instructions to fix the sound problem happening on many Sega Game Gear. |
Game Gear Sound Fix Instructions (HTML) | Ky Crout | Instructions to fix the sound problem happening on many Sega Game Gear. Converted to HTML by Maxim. |
