DGen/SDL – emulator for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive systems

DGen/SDL is an emulator for Unix-esque operating systems supported by the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library.

It produces a virtual environment in which Sega Genesis (MegaDrive outside the US) games can be run with fairly accurate audio and video.

DGen was originally a windows emulator.

Features include:

• Game Genie/Hex codes support.
• PAL/NTSC, fullscreen modes.
• Joypad / joystick support.
• OpenGL textured video output.
• Screenshots, demos recording and playback.
• Musashi and StarScream (x86‐only) CPU cores.
• CZ80 and MZ80 (generic and x86‐only versions).
• 16‐bit, 8000 to 48000Hz sound output.
• Support for 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bpp modes.
• Archived/compressed ROMs support.
• M68K debugger.
• hqx and scale2x scaling filters.

Website: dgen.sourceforge.net
Support: Documentation
Developer: Dave, Joe Groff, Phil K. Hornung (original authors), Bertrand Janin
License: BSD License

DGen/SDL is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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