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There are severial major emulators available. Most do a descent job at emulating games
graphically, but when it comes to sound, only KGen and Genecyst makes it worth your while.
So, is it worth all the trouble you will more likely have to endure? It all depends on
what type of PC you have. If you have a speedy Pentium, preferably a Pentium 100, then you
should have no trouble at all, in the sense of speed. But, if you have anything slower,
then the game play will be too jumpy and unbearable at times. Genecyst is everyone's
favorite, Genem is dieing in popularity, and KGen is rapidly gaining respect in the
Genesis emulation areana.
You will noticed that when you download the emulator, you get two .EXE files: Genem.exe and gennew.exe. Gennew will run more games the the other version, which is based on non-assembly code, but some games will work the genem and not on gennew because the assembly engine that the emulator is based on is not yet complete. Therefore, both EXE. are included for compatibility. If it happens to work on both versions, use the program on the later version, because it run faster. Note: command line to run emulator MUST be in lowercase, not UPPER CASE. If you don't, the emulator will tell you that the game you want to run is damaged, even though it may actually be fine. Example: genem sonic1.bin NOT GENEM SONIC1.BIN For DOS, Win 95 and MacOS and Lynx
The emulator's digital sound playback (PSG) is near perfect, with FM sound is as accurate or a bit less then Genecyst. Some features include, screen shot capability, auto speed-down adjustment, joystick support, in-play volume control, a mouseless GUI,
and a savestate option, where the savegame files are compatible with Genecyst savestates
files. ( A HUGE plus.) The author has been hard at work latly updating the emulator. The
biggest change that I have seen is the absence of the annoying long pause of the emulator
initializing when executed. If you have a fast PC, can live without all those GUI extras
and want one of the most perfect Genesis emulators avalible with a no BS interface, then
this is the emulator of choice for you.
This emulator is JUST starting out. Programmers (assembly only) should contact Michael Kikuta if they are interested in joining the project. The emulator is named after Haruki Ikeda home city, Kyoto Japan. Haruki Ikeda started the project out in 1996 and died in a tragic car accident while on vacation in India? The emulator project is being continued in his honor. Though there is no release out, the webpage will provide a vast amount of information about the operations of the Genesis. Apperently, no one wished to continue Haruki Ikeda work. After Michael setup his webpage which asked for people to continue the Kyoto project, Genecyst, KGen and several other Genesis emulator projects were started. They were all started a month or so after this webpage was created. It appeared that no one really cared to continue the Kyoto project or carry the Kyoto name. The webpage containing this emulator project is now gone. It's safe to say that this emulator project is over.
Another Dos based emulator. I never really bother with this emulator too much because
has too many graphical bugs. It's also extremely slow and has no frame skipping
option to make it run faster. It also lacks support sound, but it does have joystick
support. The author of the emulator had a hard drive crash and lost his source code.
Therefore, he says he has abanded the MegaDrive project. I'm not posting the emulator on
my page because, when unzipped, the emulator is 1.7 megs, and also because it's way to
slow!!
An "all SEGA console system emulator under one roof" project! The goal of
this emulator project is to create an emulator that will run any game from ANY SEGA
console unit. Currently, the SMS/GameGear emulation aspect is nearly complete. Work on the
Sega Cd aspect has been halted due to lack of technical information, and the Genesis/32X
part of the package is in the works.
This emulator is just getting started. Expect to see something from this emulator
project soon.
This emulator is has pretty good sound support and runs many games. It
is not, however, as compatible as Kgen or Genecyst. One thing this emulator has that, so
far, no other emulator has is preliminary Sega CD support. Right now it can only display
the bios screen, but hey, you have to start somewhere. |
Last modified: juin 28, 2012 |