Remember these classic Sega innovations – the Master System console and the Game Gear handheld? Well if ya don’t, here’s a little blast from the past: the cartridge-based Master System, predecessor to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, was released in 1985 in Japan (1986 for the US) during the 8-bit gaming era. In 1990 Sega released the Game Gear in response to Nintendo’s Gameboy. Yadda, yadda, yadda…

Now onto this newly released emulator from [Bo]Trops, PSPMaster – emulating both the Sega Master System and Game Gear! I just gave this a quick test-run and it runs quite well.

The emulator uses the old Marat Z80 emulator by Marat Fayzullin, some parts of SMS Plus by Charles Mac Donald, and is heavylly optimized for the PSP system. PSPMaster is running at full speed without frame skiping when the YM2413 sound emulation is disabled. Please do not change default options if you don’t know what you are doing.

v0.0.2b changelog:

• Game Gear emulation is ok.
• Some speed optimizations.
• The analog button can be used as the SMS DButton.
• Fixed a sound bug.
• Options menu.
• Screen shots in gif format.
• Language file suport.
• Suport for YM2413 sound chip, but emulation became slow when enabled.

Download: PSPMaster v0.0.2b

- source: pspmaster