Konami Game Master
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The Konami Game Master, released as in Japan, is a special cheat cartridge
specifically designed for Konami
games on the MSX
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It allowed the player to start at different stages, with more lives, save the game's progress and high scores, make screen dumps, and play in slow motion, as well as other uses. The Game Master II was a second cheat cartridge made with additional support for MSX2 games.
Cheat cartridge
A cheat cartridge is a device that connects to any sort of cartridge-based video game system. It allows a user to input special cheat codes to manipulate a game in a way not permitted by its original programming. Usually the effect is to gain infinite lives, ammunition, unlock secrets, or do things...
specifically designed for Konami
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
games on the MSX
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
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It allowed the player to start at different stages, with more lives, save the game's progress and high scores, make screen dumps, and play in slow motion, as well as other uses. The Game Master II was a second cheat cartridge made with additional support for MSX2 games.