Wrong hardware being used when loading SG-1000 games from emulated SMS

[Former user]

Original [issue 243](https://code.google.com/p/genplus-gx/issues/detail?id=243) created by superballena on 2012-07-07T20:58:31.000Z:

I'm posting this from my understanding that SG-1000 games running on SMS systems are supposed to show a darker color palette than real SG-1000 units. If it isn't the case, please disregard.

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Make sure you set the hardware to "Auto" (default value) 2. Select "Load game" 4. Select "Master System" 3. Select an SG-1000 game

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Regardless of the user specifying an SMS system, hardware emulation will change to SG-1000, showing its original brighter palette rather than the colors it would have on an SMS.

What version of the emulator are you using (official, SVN revision,...)? 1.7.0

Please provide any additional information below (Emulator settings, Console setting,...) It correctly shows the SMS colors when going to "System options->Console hardware" and setting it to "SMS", which disregards the selected system when loading games.

[Former user]

Comment # 1 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2012-07-07T21:39:59.000Z:

I think there is some confusion with the load game menus: they don't force the system being emulated, they only indicate what kind of game is being loaded in order to look in proper directories for screenshot, as well as displaying a specific cartridge layout. It only helps for fast access of different games types as they are linked to different rom paths.

The load menus are actually what they are meant to be, you virtually take a mega drive, cd, ms, ... game, insert it into the emulated system and power on the system

Emulated system can only be forced through the "console hardware" option, "auto" means system is autodetected from the loaded file extension (or specific string in header for cd image files), just like a you will know where a master system cartridge should normally go ;-)