Whats the point of emulating gamegear as Master System has all the games?
I was rushing in a killing frenzy in your direction... LOL
GG on the other hand at least made a modest showing against Gameboy and had major games made for it clear into the mid-90s. None of us knew it had any connection to SMS hardware either.
That said, the distinction for emulation is pretty moot, since any GG emulator I've ever heard of is also an SMS emulator and vice-versa.
I have a SMS to GG adaptor and I used it with a lot of games 20 years ago, It was very cool to been able to play even SMS titles on the go, and never found any problems !!
The GG was a very great device. I can't prove it, but I think it was more powerful than the SMS, I played the hell out of my GG... until it died...
Speaking about emulators I don't think that all GG emu are able to play SMS games, you just know it after loading a rom, if the colors are wrong then it's not a GG rom... But I have the feeling that some SMS games where "natively compatible" with GG, maybe them had different palettes ready to use, maybe to use the same data for GG and SMS cartridges... but again It's just an impression.
My "Mikey Mouse - Castle of illusion" cartridge for GG sometimes where starting with the wrong colors in the GG itself !! I had always to reset to have the right colors, and I have seen that the game is exactly like the SMS version.
GG was the greatest portable console, but was TOO MUCH powerful for the time !! It was backlighted, the resolution was high and with very clear colors, and had even a TV tuner that made it one of the smallest TV I ever seen !!
The drawback was the power consumption... it needed 6 (SIX !!!) AA batteries for 2 HOURS of play !!! WTF !! In a time where buying rechargeable batteries was no so cheap, and I did't have them...
One of the things that made me hate the GameBoy (in a "why GG does not have it ?!" way), was the fact that it "seemed" better for some tipe of games... for example the Pokemon series !!
Those games where LOOOONG to finish, with a great replayability, and you were even able to SAVE !!
I was asking myself why in the GG there wasn't a SAVE option, and why there wasn't RPG games !!
...now that I have access to all the list of games I know that those capabilities WHERE THERE TOO !!! But those games where not distributed so much...
I didn't know them at the time, even if I were always in the lookout for such argument !!