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| − | |title = Sega Genesis / Mega Drive | + | |title = Nintendo Wii U |
| − | |logo = RS39200_Megadrive.png | + | |logo = Wii U.png |
| − | |image = Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg
| + | |developer = [[:Nintendo]] |
| − | |image2 = Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg
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| − | |imagecaption = '''Top:''' Sega Mega Drive.<br/>'''Middle:''' Sega Genesis Model 2 with 6-button controller.<br/>'''Bottom:''' Sega Genesis Nomad, portable variation.
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| − | |developer = [[:Sega]] | |
| | |type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]] | | |type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]] |
| − | |generation = [[:Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]] | + | |generation = [[:Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles|Eighth generation]] |
| − | |release = 1988 | + | |release = 2012 |
| − | |discontinued = 1997 | + | |discontinued = 2017 |
| − | |predecessor = [[Master System emulators|Master System]] | + | |predecessor = [[Wii emulators|Wii]] |
| − | |successor = [[Sega Saturn emulators|Saturn]] | + | |successor = [[Nintendo Switch emulators|Nintendo Switch]] |
| | |emulated = {{✓}} | | |emulated = {{✓}} |
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| − | The '''[[gametech:Sega_Genesis|Sega Genesis]]''' is a 16-bit, fourth-generation console released by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega Sega] in Japan on October 29, 1988 and in the US on August 14, 1989. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU at 7.6 MHz and a Zilog Z80 at 3.58 MHz. In other regions, it was known as the '''Mega Drive'''. It had several add-ons, including the Sega CD (a CD add-on, called Mega CD outside America) and the 32X (a 32-bit, cartridge-based add-on). | + | The '''Wii U''' is an eighth-generation console released by Nintendo on November 18, 2012 at {{Inflation|USD|349.99|2012}}. It has a Tri-Core IBM PowerPC CPU at 1.24 GHz with 2GB of RAM. It has a AMD Radeon GPU. It is the first console by Nintendo to output to high definition (HD) resolutions, such as 720p and 1080p. It includes a tablet-like controller, known as the [[wikipedia:Wii_U_Gamepad|Wii U GamePad]], to provide certain additional gameplay. Notably, it can play all [[Wii emulators|Wii]] games as well as support the Wii Remote controllers for native Wii U games. |
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| − | The Sega CD was released on October 15, 1992 and retailed for {{Inflation|USD|299.99|1992}} and had a Motorola 68000 CPU at 12.5 MHz and 64 kbit of RAM. The Sega 32X was released on November 21, 1994 for {{Inflation|USD|159.99|1994}}. It had 2 SH-2 RISC CPUs at 23 MHz with 256KB of RAM and 256KB of VRAM.
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| − | Genesis emulation is very good, with a high degree of game compatibility (many of them claiming nearly 100% compatibility with commercial games, including Virtua Racing). They are available on many platforms. Many Genesis emulators also feature compatibility with the [[Master System emulators|Sega Master System]] (SMS), and the [[Master System emulators|Game Gear]] (GG) as well as earlier Sega consoles. Genesis-based arcade boards and the [[Sega Pico]] are still sketchy, however.
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| | ==Emulators== | | ==Emulators== |
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| | ! scope="col"|Name | | ! scope="col"|Name |
| | ! scope="col"|Platform(s) | | ! scope="col"|Platform(s) |
| | ! scope="col"|Latest Version | | ! scope="col"|Latest Version |
| − | ! scope="col"|CD | + | ! scope="col"|Compatibility |
| − | ! scope="col"|32X
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| − | ! scope="col"|[[Sega Pico|Pico]]
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| − | ! scope="col"|[[Libretro|Libretro Core]]
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| | ! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr> | | ! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr> |
| | ! scope="col"|Active | | ! scope="col"|Active |
| | ! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]] | | ! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]] |
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| − | !colspan="10"|PC | + | ! colspan="7"|PC / x86 |
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| − | |[[BlastEm]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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| − | |[https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/changes.html {{BlastEmVer}}]
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| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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| − | |[[Exodus]] | + | |[[Cemu]] |
| | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows}} | | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows}} |
| − | |[http://www.exodusemulator.com/index.php/downloads/current-release {{ExodusVer}}] | + | |[http://cemu.info/index.html#download {{CemuVer}}] |
| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} | + | |Medium |
| | + | |{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} |
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| − | |[[Genesis Plus GX]] | + | |[[Decaf]] |
| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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| − | |{{GenPlusGXVer}}
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}* ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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| − | |[[BizHawk]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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| − | |[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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| − | |[[Kega Fusion]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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| − | |[http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/ 3.64]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
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| − | |[[PicoDrive]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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| − | |[http://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}<ref group=N name=PicoDrive>Only for the 32X as a cross-platform alternative to Kega Fusion.</ref>
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| − | |[[FinalBurn Neo]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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| − | |[https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/releases/latest stable] [https://ci.appveyor.com/project/tmaul/fbneo-kbhgd/branch/master WIP builds]
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| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |[[MAME]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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| − | |[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |[http://segaretro.org/Gens/GS Gens/GS]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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| − | |[http://www.dusers.drexel.edu/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/~korth/gens.git r7]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |[http://dgen.sourceforge.net/ DGen]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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| − | |[http://sourceforge.net/projects/dgen/files/dgen/ 1.33]
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| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |[[Genecyst]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|DOS}}
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| − | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20070205202050/http://www.zophar.net/genecyst/gcystxxx.zip x.xx]
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| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |[[GENS]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|BeOS}}
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| − | |[http://gens.me/downloads.shtml 2.14]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |[[higan]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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| − | |[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
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| − | |{{~}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}<small>(bsnes)</small> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |Megado
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
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| − | |[https://github.com/merwaaan/megado Git]
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| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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| − | |Regen
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| | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}} | | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}} |
| − | |[http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/regen.html 0.972]
| + | |[https://github.com/decaf-emu/decaf-emu Git] |
| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
| + | |Low |
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| + | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} |
| − | |AloneMD
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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| − | |[https://up1.xwikisas.com/#650YS5cXMSc7sGflY1dqeg 1.0.0] | |
| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||?
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| − | !colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
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| − | |[[Genesis Plus GX]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
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| − | |{{GenPlusGXVer}}
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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| − | |[[PicoDrive]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
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| − | |[http://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}] | |
| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}<ref group=N name=PicoDrive />
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| − | !colspan="10"|Consoles
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| − | |NeoGenesis
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Xbox}}
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| − | |[https://digiex.net/threads/neogenesis-v25-download-sega-genesis-megadrive-32x-segacd-megacd-emulator.13698 NeoGenesis v25]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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| − | |Sega Genesis Plus | + | |Kinnay |
| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Xbox360}} | + | |align=left|{{Icon|Linux}} |
| − | |[https://digiex.net/threads/sega-genesis-plus-libexnon-genesis-megadrive-emulator-for-xbox-360-download.9936 Libxenon] | + | |[https://github.com/kinnay/Wii-U-Firmware-Emulator Git] |
| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
| + | |Low |
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| + | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} |
| − | |[[Genesis Plus GX]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|GCN|Xbox360|Wii|3DS}}
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| − | |[https://bitbucket.org/eke/genesis-plus-gx/downloads {{GenPlusGXVer}}]<br/>[https://digiex.net/threads/retroarch-360-0-9-8-3-download-sega-sens-gameboy-finalburn-emulator-for-xbox-360.12395 RetroArch 360 0.9.8.3]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} | |
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| − | |[[PicoDrive]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|PS2|PSP|3DS}}
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| − | |[http://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]<br/>[https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=1710 PicoDrive 1.51b]
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| − | |{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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| − | |[[Virtual Console]]
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| − | |align=left|{{Icon|Wii}}
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| − | |N/A
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| − | |{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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| − | <nowiki>* Available exclusively as a libretro core</nowiki>
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| | ===Comparisons=== | | ===Comparisons=== |
| − | ;[[Genesis Plus GX]]:A very solid emulator for the Sega Genesis / Sega Master System / Sega CD / Game Gear. The only things it lack are 32X and Pico support, and a native desktop port; the only way to get this emulator on the desktop is to use the libretro core, which allows for all the benefits of RetroArch like shaders, dynamic sync, and other enhancements. The version used in [[BizHawk]] adds features for speedrunners. | + | ;[[Cemu]]:A closed-source Wii U emulator created in October 2015 and is regularly updated every 2 to 5 weeks. It can launch or play a lot of commercial games, almost 20% of titles are perfect, 35% playable which sums to 55% of total titles, with varying degrees of glitches. |
| − | ;[[Kega Fusion]]:The project of an employee with previous experience at Sega. Kega Fusion has high compatibility, is easy to use and has plugin-based filter support but it has some issues on newer versions of Windows which can be solved with compatibility settings.
| + | ;[[Decaf]]:An open-source research project for Wii U emulation. It's able to boot some commercial games. |
| − | ;[[PicoDrive]]:Strongly prioritizes performance over accuracy. Compatibility and accuracy isn't as good as Genesis Plus GX but it's useful on very underpowered systems like the Raspberry Pi Zero. Currently the first and only cross-platform option for 32X and Pico games. | + | ;Kinnay:This emulates the Wii U processors and hardware at the lowest level. It's currently able to emulate all the way through boot1, IOSU and Cafe OS up to the Wii U menu. Written by the main CEMU developer exjam and kinnay. |
| − | ;[[Exodus]]:Think bsnes but for the Genesis. Even though higan is also getting into the Genesis game, Exodus has already achieved cycle-accuracy at the familiar cost of high system requirements. It is the newest Genesis emulator and is far from complete. | + | ===Dolphin=== |
| − | ;[http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/regen.html Regen]:A focus on accuracy has earned it high compatibility with games, but it does not emulate the Sega CD and 32X. It also allows [[overclocking]].
| + | You might have read about an unofficial branch of [[Dolphin]] with Wii U support — but don't get your hopes up. While the [[wikipedia:PowerPC|PowerPC]] architecture family in the Wii U is the same as the [[Wii emulators|Wii]] and [[GameCube emulators|GameCube]] (this fact alone was the reason why Wii emulation was added to Dolphin, originally GameCube-only), this support is nothing more than the file viewer features (region, internal name, various info, list of files and folders inside ISO and a way to extract them) being expanded to Wii U disc images. Nothing has been done on the actual emulation front as far as Dolphin is concerned, and the Dolphin developers have said that they're not going to add Wii U support to Dolphin. |
| − | ;[[BlastEm]]:Aims for cycle-accuracy but unlike Exodus, aims for lower system requirements. It has substantially higher compatibility than Exodus and is catching up to Genesis Plus GX.
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| − | ;[[GENS]]:Close to Kega Fusion in features and compatibility, but has largely been surpassed by better emulators. There are many different forks and iterations of Gens, so your experience will differ quite a lot depending on which version you use.
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| − | ;[[higan]]:Also developing cycle-accurate Genesis emulation, akin to its very own [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES emulator]] bsnes. It's promising but incomplete. However, it can be used in the latest builds.
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| − | ;[[MAME]]:Has the parent drivers <code style="color:green">genesis</code>, <code style="color:green">sms</code>, <code style="color:green">gamegear</code>, <code style="color:darkred">segacd</code>, and <code style="color:darkred">32x</code>. Green drivers are reported as OK, where red ones are reported as not working as of version 0.200.
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| − | ==Lock-On Emulation== | |
| − | Lock-On Technology is a unique feature found on Sonic & Knuckles cartridges for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis that allowed a player to connect an older game to the cartridge's pass-through port for extended or altered gameplay.
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| − | * With Sonic 3: Unlocks an alternate version of Sonic 3 with more levels.
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| − | * With Sonic 2: Unlocks an alternate version of Sonic 2 with playable Knuckles.
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| − | * With Sonic 1: Unlocks the Blue Sphere minigame with a level select to all possible levels.
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| − | The Sonic & Knuckles cartridge can lock on to other cartridges:
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| − | * Smaller than 2MB: Will play a single random level from the Blue Sphere minigame generated from data in the header.
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| − | * Bigger than 2MB: Will boot to Sonic & Knuckles.
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| − | * Has Battery Pack: All save data will be wiped out.
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| − | Most emulators don't support Lock-On save for Genesis Plus GX, but there are pre-combined ROMs for the Sonic trilogy available online that can be played as a regular Megadrive ROM on any emulator and still work. The Sonic 3 Complete romhack also achieves the same purpose.
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| − | Genesis Plus GX's [[RetroArch]] core includes true Lock-On emulation. From the Core Options menu, you can enable the Lock-On feature for either Sonic & Knuckles, Game Genie, or the Action Replay (Pro) -- the latter two using a different technology but with similar effects. Setting this option to anything other than "Off" will enable Lock-on to the cartridge you're currently playing as. After resetting, the game will boot in Lock-On mode.
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| − | The following files need to be under the directory for BIOS files (usually "system"):
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| − | * sk.bin (Sonic & Knuckles (2 MiB) ROM)
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| − | * sk2chip.bin (Sonic & Knuckles UPMEM (256 KiB) ROM): If you can't find it online, extract it with a hex editor from a pre-combined Sonic 2 & Knuckles ROM from offset 00300000 to the end of the ROM.
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| − | For GG/AR, the files needed are areplay.bin and ggenie.bin, but most emulators support cheat codes from these natively.
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| − | ==Mega Drive Plus / Genesis Plus==
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| − | The Mega Drive Plus / Genesis Plus (sometimes abbreviated as MD+) is a special mode for certain Genesis games that use enhanced CDDA tracks with a Sega CD. This was not used in any official games, however, the mode itself was first used in the first batch of Pier Solar releases. This feature was been [https://downloads.terraonion.com/public/MegaSD_DEV_Manual.pdf documented] to be used on Terraonion's Mega SD flash cartridge, to give similar effects for Genesis games in a way how MSU-1 does in patched SNES games.
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| − | Currently, no Genesis + Sega CD emulators feature this function, although there is [https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/297 plans to be added] in Genesis Plus GX.
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://wiki.megadrive.org/index.php?title=Main_Page MegaDrive Development Wiki] - A Wiki about every technical aspect of the SEGA MegaDrive hardware and software. Its aim is to provide the most detailed, accurate and up to date information, to help homebrew development and repairs.
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| − | * [http://segaretro.org/Category:Mega_Drive_emulators Mega Drive emulators] on Sega Retro
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| − | * [https://archive.org/details/sega_genesis_library ARCHIVE.ORG Console Library: Sega Genesis]
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| − | {{Sega}} | + | {{Nintendo}} |
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| | [[Category:Consoles]] | | [[Category:Consoles]] |
| − | [[Category:Sega consoles]] | + | [[Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles]] |
| − | [[Category:Sega Genesis emulators|*]] | + | [[Category:Nintendo consoles]] |
| − | [[Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles]] | + | [[Category:Wii U emulators]] |
