Post by gogo on Jul 4, 2018 13:17:23 GMT
First of all, hello, I'm new and this is the first post I have made here and the reason I joined was so I could show you a boxed SMS II I bought at a flea market yesterday. I am very new on Master System stuff and it is the first one I got. The box has the console, a controller, an RF cable (but no switchbox), an ac adapter and the system manual, but no inner packaging. Here are some photos:
At first glance, nothing seems weird, it's just an SMS II with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built-in. At first I thought it was a regular PAL set (I live in Greece) Then, after looking the console itself, I noticed this:
For some reason, even though the box has european languages on it, the console is NTSC and from the research I did it is a saudi arabian console as you can see in sega retro here. Even though Saudi Arabia uses (or at least used) PAL and SECAM, Sega made NTSC consoles for that country. And as you can see here and here, the box it has isn't very different than mine, except for some stickers which could have been removed. The barcode is exactly the same, and the only thing that is different is that mine doesn't have the text "PRINTED IN HONG KONG".
This led me to the conclusion that someone just used the box and put parts from different regions. This could also be why there is no switchbox. But maybe it just is a saudi arabian master system without the stickers that differentiate it from the PAL ones. The manual also uses a standard multilingual format that has major european languages. If the saudi arabian box set uses the same manual then it probably is a saudi arabian box set. But the main reason I was weirded out was because of the ac adapter:
First of all, I couldn't find any info about it online. The only thing I saw was that it said "Made in EEC", which stands for European Economic Community, which was kind of what the EU was called before 1993. Secondly, the console needs DC 9V and 0,5A while the ac adapter has DC 10V and 1,2A. And it has Sega's logo on it, so it can't be unofficial. But the weirdest thing is that above the plug it has greek(!) writing:
It translates to "Approval Υ.Β.Ε.Τ. number: 172/94" So I think it means that it passed quality control, but I have no idea what Υ.Β.Ε.Τ. stands for in greek. So if someone just used the box and put parts from other regions in it, the only thing of interest is the ac adapter. But if it is in fact a saudi arabian box set, why is the adapter in there?
If anyone knows or can find any info about this, please reply. Also, I would like to know if the ac adapter is safe to use with the console.
At first glance, nothing seems weird, it's just an SMS II with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built-in. At first I thought it was a regular PAL set (I live in Greece) Then, after looking the console itself, I noticed this:
For some reason, even though the box has european languages on it, the console is NTSC and from the research I did it is a saudi arabian console as you can see in sega retro here. Even though Saudi Arabia uses (or at least used) PAL and SECAM, Sega made NTSC consoles for that country. And as you can see here and here, the box it has isn't very different than mine, except for some stickers which could have been removed. The barcode is exactly the same, and the only thing that is different is that mine doesn't have the text "PRINTED IN HONG KONG".
This led me to the conclusion that someone just used the box and put parts from different regions. This could also be why there is no switchbox. But maybe it just is a saudi arabian master system without the stickers that differentiate it from the PAL ones. The manual also uses a standard multilingual format that has major european languages. If the saudi arabian box set uses the same manual then it probably is a saudi arabian box set. But the main reason I was weirded out was because of the ac adapter:
First of all, I couldn't find any info about it online. The only thing I saw was that it said "Made in EEC", which stands for European Economic Community, which was kind of what the EU was called before 1993. Secondly, the console needs DC 9V and 0,5A while the ac adapter has DC 10V and 1,2A. And it has Sega's logo on it, so it can't be unofficial. But the weirdest thing is that above the plug it has greek(!) writing:
It translates to "Approval Υ.Β.Ε.Τ. number: 172/94" So I think it means that it passed quality control, but I have no idea what Υ.Β.Ε.Τ. stands for in greek. So if someone just used the box and put parts from other regions in it, the only thing of interest is the ac adapter. But if it is in fact a saudi arabian box set, why is the adapter in there?
If anyone knows or can find any info about this, please reply. Also, I would like to know if the ac adapter is safe to use with the console.