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|title = Sega Genesis / Mega DriveNintendo Wii U|logo = RS39200_MegadriveWii U.png|image = Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg|image2 = Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg|imagecaption = '''Top:''' Sega Mega Drive.<br/>'''Middle:''' Sega Genesis Model 2 with 6-button controller.<br/>'''Bottom:''' Sega Genesis Nomad, portable variation.|developer = [[:SegaNintendo]]

|generation = [[:Category:FourthEighth-generation video game consoles|Fourth Eighth generation]]|release = 19882012|discontinued = 19972017|predecessor = [[Master System Wii emulators|Master SystemWii]]|successor = [[Sega Saturn Nintendo Switch emulators|SaturnNintendo Switch]]

The '''[[gametech:Sega_Genesis|Sega Genesis]]Wii U''' is a 16-bit, fourthan eighth-generation console released by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega Sega] in Japan Nintendo on October 29November 18, 1988 and in the US on August 14, 1989. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU at 7.6 MHz and a Zilog Z80 2012 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 Sega CD was released on October 15, 1992 and retailed for {{Inflation|USD|299349.99|19922012}} and had . It has a Motorola 68000 Tri-Core IBM PowerPC CPU at 121.5 MHz and 64 kbit 24 GHz with 2GB of RAM. The Sega 32X was released on November 21, 1994 for {{Inflation|USD|159.99|1994}}It has a AMD Radeon GPU. It had 2 SH-2 RISC CPUs at 23 MHz with 256KB of RAM and 256KB of VRAM. Genesis emulation is very good, with a the first console by Nintendo to output to high degree of game compatibility definition (many of them claiming nearly 100% compatibility with commercial gamesHD) resolutions, including Virtua Racing)such as 720p and 1080p. They are available on many platforms. Many Genesis emulators also feature compatibility with It includes a tablet-like controller, known as the [[Master System emulatorswikipedia:Wii_U_Gamepad|Sega Master SystemWii U GamePad]] (SMS), and the to provide certain additional gameplay. Notably, it can play all [[Master System Wii emulators|Game GearWii]] (GG) games as well as earlier Sega consoles. Genesis-based arcade boards and support the [[Sega Pico]] are still sketchy, howeverWii Remote controllers for native Wii U games.

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;[[Genesis Plus GXCemu]]:A very solid closed-source Wii U emulator for the Sega Genesis / Sega Master System / Sega CD / Game Gear. The only things it lack are 32X created in October 2015 and Pico support, and a native desktop port; the only way to get this emulator on the desktop is regularly updated every 2 to use the libretro core, which allows for all the benefits 5 weeks. It can launch or play a lot of RetroArch like shaders, dynamic synccommercial games, and other enhancements. The version used in [[BizHawk]] adds features for speedrunners.;[[Kega Fusion]]:The project almost 20% of an employee with previous experience at Sega. Kega Fusion has high compatibilitytitles are perfect, is easy 35% playable which sums to use and has plugin-based filter support but it has some issues on newer versions 55% of Windows which can be solved total titles, with compatibility settingsvarying degrees of glitches.;[[PicoDriveDecaf]]:Strongly prioritizes performance over accuracyAn open-source research project for Wii U emulation. Compatibility and accuracy isn't as good as Genesis Plus GX but itIt's useful on very underpowered systems like the Raspberry Pi Zero. Currently the first and only cross-platform option for 32X and Pico able to boot some commercial games.;[[Exodus]]Kinnay:Think bsnes but for This emulates the Genesis. Even though higan is also getting into the Genesis game, Exodus has already achieved cycle-accuracy Wii U processors and hardware at the familiar cost of high system requirementslowest level. It is the newest Genesis emulator and is far from complete.;[http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/regen.html Regen]:A focus on accuracy has earned it high compatibility with games, but it does not 's currently able to emulate all the Sega CD and 32X. It also allows [[overclocking]].;[[BlastEm]]:Aims for cycle-accuracy but unlike Exodusway through boot1, aims for lower system requirements. It has substantially higher compatibility than Exodus IOSU and is catching Cafe OS up to Genesis Plus GXthe Wii U menu.;[[GENS]]:Close to Kega Fusion in features and compatibility, but has largely been surpassed Written by better emulators. There are many different forks the main CEMU developer exjam and iterations of Gens, so your experience will differ quite a lot depending on which version you use.;[[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 buildskinnay.;[[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. =Dolphin=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. * With Sonic 3: Unlocks You might have read about an alternate version unofficial branch of Sonic 3 [[Dolphin]] with more levels.* With Sonic 2: Unlocks an alternate version of Sonic 2 with playable KnucklesWii U support — but don't get your hopes up.* With Sonic 1: Unlocks While the Blue Sphere minigame with a level select to all possible levels. The Sonic & Knuckles cartridge can lock on to other cartridges[[wikipedia: * Smaller than 2MB: Will play a single random level from the Blue Sphere minigame generated from data PowerPC|PowerPC]] architecture family in the header.* Bigger than 2MB: Will boot to Sonic & Knuckles.* Has Battery Pack: All save data will be wiped out. Most emulators don't support Lock-On save for Genesis Plus GX, but there are pre-combined ROMs for Wii U is the Sonic trilogy available online that can be played same as a regular Megadrive ROM on any emulator the [[Wii emulators|Wii]] and still work. The Sonic 3 Complete romhack also achieves the same purpose. Genesis Plus GX's [[RetroArchGameCube emulators|GameCube]] core includes true Lock-On (this fact alone was the reason why Wii emulation. From the Core Options menuwas added to Dolphin, you can enable the Lockoriginally GameCube-On feature for either Sonic & Knuckles, Game Genieonly), or the Action Replay (Pro) -- the latter two using a different technology but with similar effects. Setting this option to anything other support is nothing more than "Off" will enable Lock-on to the cartridge you're currently playing as. After resettingfile viewer features (region, internal name, the game will boot in Lock-On mode. The following files need to be under the directory for BIOS files (usually "system"):* sk.bin (Sonic & Knuckles (2 MiB) ROM)* sk2chip.bin (Sonic & Knuckles UPMEM (256 KiB) ROM): If you can't find it onlinevarious info, extract it with a hex editor from a pre-combined Sonic 2 & Knuckles ROM from offset 00300000 to the end list of the ROM. For GG/AR, the files needed are areplay.bin and ggenie.bin, but most emulators support cheat codes from these natively. ==Mega Drive Plus / Genesis Plus== The Mega Drive Plus / Genesis Plus (sometimes abbreviated as MD+folders inside ISO and a way to extract them) is a special mode for certain Genesis games that use enhanced CDDA tracks with a Sega CDbeing expanded to Wii U disc images. 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 Nothing has been [https://downloads.terraonion.com/public/MegaSD_DEV_Manual.pdf documented] to be used done 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. 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. ==External links==* [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 actual emulation front as far as Dolphin is to provide the most detailedconcerned, accurate and up the Dolphin developers have said that they're not going to date information, add Wii U support to help homebrew development and repairs.* [http://segaretroDolphin.org/Category:Mega_Drive_emulators Mega Drive emulators] on Sega Retro* [https://archive.org/details/sega_genesis_library ARCHIVE.ORG Console Library: Sega Genesis]

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