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

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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.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by superballena on 7 Jul 2012 at 8:58

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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 ;-)

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2012 at 9:39

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