The Master System was a video game console produced by Sega beginning in 1985.  For audio, the SMS used a clone of the Texas Instruments SN76489 chip.  These clones were also present in the Sega SG-1000 (and SC-3000), Sega Genesis and Game Gear systems, the latter adding stereo functionality.

(sn76489 were also included in other game consoles like Colecovision, home computers like TI99/4A, BBC-Micro, IBM-PCjr, Bandai RX78, and in some arcade machines)

The SN76489 chip has 1 white noise and 3 square wave tone generators.  Each channel has 16 levels of volume.  The third square wave channel can also be used to control periodic noise in the white noise channel.

'[#[Tools]
'[t[b2]Main tools:'[/t]
- '[[SnevenTracker] - Fork of '[[FamiTracker] made by '[l[https://battleofthebits.com/barracks/Profile/hertzdevil/[HertzDevil]. Can export .VGM and .WAV.
- '[[DefleMask Tracker] - Multi-chip tracker supporting the SN76489, alongside its bigger brothers. Can export .VGM.

'[t[b2]Other tools:'[/t]
- '[[1tracker] - '[o]Technically'[/o] can do SN7. The SNBasic engine is basically a truncated SN7 tracker, so technically.
- '[[MOD2PSG2] - Tracker that can import .MOD, as well as import and export .MID and .VGM files.
- '[[VGM Music Maker] - Shiru's actual SN7 tracker and cousin to TFM Music Maker.
- '[[XPMCK] - MML compiler that supports SN7, among many other formats.

'[#[Accepted file format]
Both this entry format and the '[[sgen (format)[sgen entry format] share the .VGM file format.

'[#[Playback (for voting)]
'[l[http://vgm.mdscene.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=112[in_vgm] - a winamp plugin for playback
'[l[https://github.com/vgmrips/vgmplay[vgmplay]

For playback on actual hardware, there is '[l[https://www.smspower.org/maxim/SMSSoftware/VGMPlayer[SMS VGM Player] by Maxim.

For submitting a mp3 rendering you can use vgmplay with "LogSound=2" in the vgmplay.ini file - a GNU/Linux bash script would look like (on other operating systems it wouldn't look that different):
echo LogSound=2 > vgmplay.ini
vgmplay song.vgm
lame -b 320 song.wav song.mp3
rm song.wav vgmplay.ini #(this line if you want to delete these files)

'[#[See also]
Want to listen music ripped from the console’s games? check out the ripped chiptune repository!
- '[[Complete list of ripped chiptunes repositories]