Mednafen – multi-system emulator

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument (command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features.

It emulates:

• Atari Lynx.
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color).
• WonderSwan.
• GameBoy (Color).
• GameBoy Advance.
• Nintendo Entertainment System.
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom.
• Virtual Boy.
• PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (CD).
• SuperGrafx.
• PC-FX.
• Sega Game Gear.
• Sega Genesis/Megadrive.
• Sega Master System.
• Sega Saturn (experimental, x86_64 only).
• Sony PlayStation.

Save states are supported, as is real-time game rewinding. Screen snapshots may be taken at the press of a button, and are saved in the popular PNG file format.

Due to the threaded model of emulation used in Mednafen, and limitations of SDL, a joystick is preferred over a keyboard to play games, as the joystick will have slightly less latency, although the latency differences may not be perceptible to most people.

Features include:

• Double-buffered video, enabled by default.
• Multi-threaded video blitting, allowing for a kind of software triple-buffering, and improving performance on SMP systems.
• Joystick support.
• Extremely versatile input configuration system; assign multiple physical buttons to a virtual button or action.
• Full-screen modes.
• Save states.
• Real-time game rewinding, up to 10 seconds.
• Remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, a joystick, or both simultaneously.
• Screen snapshots, saved in PNG format.
• Loading games from gzip and (pk)zip compressed archives.

Website: mednafen.github.io
Support: Documentation
Developer: bugzoom
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Mednafen is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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