Magnavox Odyssey² emulators

Magnavox Odyssey²

Developer	Magnavox
Type	Home video game console
Generation	Second generation
Release date	1978
Discontinued	1984
Predecessor	Odyssey, Odyssey series
Successor	Philips Videopac+ G7400
Emulated	✓

The Magnavox Odyssey², known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil as the Philips Odyssey, in the United States and Canada as the Magnavox Odyssey² and the Philips Odyssey², and also by many other names, is a second generation home video game console released in 1978 and had an Intel 8048 CPU with 64 bytes of RAM. It succeeded the first home video game console, the Odyssey, released in 1972.

Emulators

Name	Platform(s)	Latest version	Hardware features and peripherals	Accuracy	License	Active	Recommended
PC / x86
MAME		git artifacts 0.289 libretro core	✓	High	GPLv2 BSD-3-Clause	✓	✓
O2EM		libretro core 1.18 (Windows) 1.16 (others)	✓	High	Clarified Artistic License (Open-source)	✗	✓
o2em2 (O2EM fork)		1.5	✗	High	Clarified Artistic License (Open-source)	✗	✓
BizHawk		2.11.1	?	?	MIT GPL	✓	?
Pantheon		16.458	✗	High	Proprietary	✓	~
ARM
Provenance		3.3.0 git	?	?		✓	?
Consoles
O2em		1.0	✗	Low	Proprietary	✗	✓
Odd-DC		2001 beta	✗	Low	Proprietary	✗	✓
emuODD		1.0	✗	Low	Proprietary	✗	~
Videopac		[1]	✗	Medium	?	✓	✗

Launcher

• jo2emLauncher

Enhancements

Name		MAME	O2EM	o2em2

Hardware features and peripherals

Name		MAME	O2EM	o2em2
Hardware features	Philips Videopac+ G7400-mode enhanced games	?	?	?
Peripherals	C7030 RAM Cart	✗	✗	✗
	Chess Module	?	?	?
	Voice of Odyssey²	✗	✗	✗
	WICO Command Control Trackball	✗	✗	✗
Misc.	Frying	?	?	?

Philips Videopac+ G7400

Philips Videopac+ G7400

Developer	Magnavox
Type	Home video game console
Generation	Third generation
Release date	1983
Discontinued	?
Predecessor	Magnavox Odyssey²
Emulated	✓

The successor to Magnavox Odyssey² released only in Europe rarely encountered in the wild due to limited number of units released, it features a number of hardware improvements over its predecessor, such as 96-time RAM increase from 64 bytes to 6KB and resolution increase from 128x64 to 320x238. It was supposed to get a true mechanical QWERTY keyboard (instead of membrane), LaserDisc adapter, speech synthesizer, modem and computer module (the American analogue of the European BASIC module) but they never materialized (but the latter 3 did reach the working stage either as prototypes or actually released peripherals).

The planned American release under the name Odyssey³ Command Center was cancelled, because the system was doing very poorly in Europe, it was severely underpowered against other recent systems such as the Atari 5200 and the ColecoVision, and the market conditions at the time made it impossible to compete.

It was backwards-compatible with most regular G7000 games except: Videopac 5 (Blackjack), Videopac 31 (Musician) and Videopac 40 (4 in 1 Row) + Videopac 48 (Backgammon) won't work correctly on French systems.

It was also compatible with enhanced G7000 games (with additional high-res background graphics that would appear only when played on the G7400) as well as G7400-only games with high-res sprites and backgrounds.

French variation Jopac JO7400 by Brandt was released with design quite different. Games in the Jopac line are called "TO.TEK Editions," and consist of several renamed Philips games plus a number of original titles. Games that are unique to the Jopac line include Chez Maxime, Des Chiffres et des Lettres, Exojet+, Le Trésor Englouti +, Moto-Crash+, and Syracuse. In addition, several Jopac games featured "Plus" background graphics not found in any comparable Videopac release. These games include: Basket/Bowling+, Billard+, Demon Attack+, Flipper +, Western +. Western+, an enhanced version of Gunfighter (Showdown in 2100 A.D.) was announced by Jopac but apparently never released. Jopac games were only distributed in France and are consequently not terribly common; many of them are highly sought after today. Des Chriffres et des Lettres is particularly rare.

Hardware features and peripherals

Name		Emulator
Hardware features	Philips Videopac G7000 backwards compatibility	?
	Enhanced Philips Videopac G7000 games	?
	Jopac support	?
Peripherals	300-baud Command Center Modem	?
	C7420 Basic Module	?
	Command Center Computer Module	?
	Command Center Voice Module	?
Misc.	Frying	?