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alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social · 5 months ago

Next on my chronological list of consoles is the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis!

So does anyone want to recommend an emulator for me to study?
Or should I stick with Mednafen?

First though... I'll study several of GRUB's simpler subsystems...

Rafael Bonifaz

@rbonifaz@mastodon.social replied · 5 months ago

@alcinnz I have a lot of fun playing with #batocera

alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social replied · 5 months ago

@rbonifaz Hmmmm, that does like an interesting system!

I'm poking around for the relatively tiny piece I'd be interested in studying the implementation of...

Rafael Bonifaz

@rbonifaz@mastodon.social replied · 5 months ago

@alcinnz i just like to play. I have a live USB loaded with games, and I boot my laptop plagued to the TV and use a joypad. Is like having the history of videogames in my hand

alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social replied · 5 months ago

@rbonifaz Fair! That does sound appealing!

alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social replied · 5 months ago

@rbonifaz O.K., to emulate the Sega Megadrive/Genesis their wiki indicates that Batocera uses LibRetro!

So this appears to be the relevant repository: https://github.com/libretro/Genesis-Plus-GX

I'll take your recommendation & study this!

MrCopilot

@mrcopilot@mstdn.social replied · 5 months ago

@alcinnz @rbonifaz I was going to suggest libretro but it may be a rabbit hole if all you want is GG/MD/Gx.

Rafael Bonifaz

@rbonifaz@mastodon.social replied · 5 months ago

@alcinnz Batocera uses more than one emulator per console. You normally don't know what you are using, but sometimes there games that work better in one console than another. Normally I newer consoles as ps2 or n64

https://wiki.batocera.org/systems:megadrive

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