The Sonic 3 Complete romhack also achieves the same purpose.
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. Has Battery Pack: All save data will be wiped out.Bigger than 2MB: Will boot to Sonic & Knuckles.Smaller than 2MB: Will play a single random level from the Blue Sphere minigame generated from data in the header.The Sonic & Knuckles cartridge can lock on to other cartridges: With Sonic 1: Unlocks the Blue Sphere minigame with a level select to all possible levels.With Sonic 2: Unlocks an alternate version of Sonic 2 with playable Knuckles.With Sonic 3: Unlocks an alternate version of Sonic 3 with more levels.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.
Green drivers are reported as OK, where red ones are reported as not working as of version 0.200. MAME Has the parent drivers genesis, sms, gamegear, segacd, and 32x. However, it can be used in the latest builds. higan Also developing cycle-accurate Genesis emulation, akin to its very own SNES emulator bsnes. There are many different forks and iterations of Gens, so your experience will differ quite a lot depending on which version you use. GENS Close to Kega Fusion in features and compatibility, but has largely been surpassed by better emulators. It has substantially higher compatibility than Exodus, but it should be noted that the last and current official release has inaccurate color emulation. BlastEm Aims for cycle accuracy but unlike Exodus, aims for lower system requirements. Regen A focus on accuracy has earned it high compatibility with games, but it does not emulate the Sega CD and 32X. It is the newest Genesis emulator and is far from complete. Even though higan is also getting into the Genesis game, Exodus has already achieved cycle accuracy at the familiar cost of high system requirements.
Currently the first and only cross-platform option for 32X and Pico games. Compatibility and accuracy aren't as good as Genesis Plus GX but it's useful on very underpowered systems like the Raspberry Pi Zero. PicoDrive Strongly prioritizes performance over accuracy.
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. Kega Fusion The project of an employee with previous experience at Sega.
Sega CD/Mega CD games are currently unsupported. Genesis Plus GX Wide Custom fork of Genesis Plus GX available as a libretro core, it includes experimental widescreen options. The version used in BizHawk adds features for speedrunners. 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 only things it lacks are 32X and Pico support, and a native desktop port.
Source code is still publicly available.Ĭomparisons Genesis Plus GX A solid emulator for the Sega Genesis / Sega Master System / Sega CD / Game Gear.
Genesis-based arcade boards and the Sega Pico are still sketchy, however. Many Genesis emulators also feature compatibility with the Sega Master System (SMS), and the Game Gear (GG) as well as earlier Sega consoles. 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). It had 2 SH-2 RISC CPUs at 23 MHz with 256KB of RAM and 256KB of VRAM. The Sega 32X was released on Novemfor $159.99. The Sega CD was released on October 15, 1992, and retailed for $299.99 and had a Motorola 68000 CPU at 12.5 MHz and 64 kbit of RAM. 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). In other regions, it was known as the Mega Drive. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU at 7.6 MHz and a Zilog Z80 at 3.58 MHz. The Sega Genesis is a 16-bit, fourth-generation console released by Sega in Japan on Octoand in the US on August 14, 1989.
Middle: Sega Genesis Model 2 with 6-button controller.īottom: Sega Genesis Nomad, portable variation.