Hello people!!! =)

This emulator is fantastic!!! \o/

I want to recommend it to everyone who appreciates emulation, as well as our beloved Genesis/Mega Drive games.

Overview:

BlastEm is an open source, higly accurate emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive that runs on modest hardware. It is the first emulator to properly run Titan's impressive Overdrive 2 demo and it is the only other emulator besides Genesis Plus GX that can properly run the original Overdrive. It is the only emulator other than Exodus that passes Nemesis' VDP FIFO Testing ROM, can display "Direct Color DMA" demos and emulates CRAM contention (aka CRAM dots).

Despite this high accuracy, even the most demanding software runs at full speed on modest hardware like a 1.6GHz AMD E-350 laptop. In the future, I would like to port it to the ARM architecture and optimize it further to run on systems as modest as the original Raspberry Pi.

Requirements:

BlastEm requires a computer with a 32 or 64-bit x86 processor running Linux, OSX or Windows. There is experimental support for x86 Android devices like the Nexus Player, but due to the rough state of that port I am not providing pre-built binaries at this time. BlastEm depends on SDL2, GLEW and OpenGL. Binary builds bundle all dependencies that can't reasonably be expected to exist on the host. If built from source, BlastEm should also run on most Unix-like systems that SDL2 supports.

Features:

- Save states;
- Integrated debugger;
- GDB remote debugging;
- Joystick/gamepad support;
- Mega/Sega Mouse emulation;
- XBAND and Saturn keyboard emulation;
- Support for homebrew using the SSF2 mapper with Mega Everdrive compatible heuristics;
- Save RAM and EEPROM support;
- Cartridge lock-on for both Sonic & Knuckles and XBAND;
- Turbo and slow modes;
- Configurable low pass filter;
- Single pass GLSL shaders;
- Sega Master System emulation.

For more information and download, see: https : //www.retrodev.com/blastem/

Enjoy!!! ;)

Nice! Good to see emulators still being supported and produced.

I honestly don't know. I don't use Retroarch. But you can contact the developer and ask, or you can consult the emulator documentation.

For me, BlastEm is by far the best Genesis/Mega Drive emulator! Very accurate on all fronts. I suggest you try it. ^^

De nada cara! =D It was last updated in 2019. =/ I hope the developer hasn't been disheartened and more updates will come. =D

Nope.

What's the technical reason it requires an x86 processor at the moment (and won't, say, work on a Raspberry Pi at this time)? What happens if you attempt to compile and run the emulator on an ARM Linux system at the moment? What about Game Genie?

(I'm talking about emulating the actual Game Genie cartridge with a game attached, not just the capability to use Game Genie codes with the emulator.) Wait, there's a mouse for the Sega Genesis? I remember one for the SNES (and actually had one, along with a copy of Mario Paint), but this is the first time I heard about a Sega one.

Hmmm i remember using a good genesis emulator back in 1995 for DOS, there's genisyst i think and then there was one that was beta and would crash one or twice in a week due, but otherwise it was my favorites...

Genesis and SNES have some good memories...

I'm really grateful for the information about Blast 'em, cara! I just read all the documentation, and luckily Blast 'em does indeed have Libretro support (a RetroArch core). I'm about ready to install it and see how wonderful it is. I would use it as a standalone program, but RetroArch is a little more convenient for me, as I emulate everything from Atari all the way to PS1 through the Arch. RetroArch is basically just a frontend GUI. Eu sou muito grato! Obrigado novamente!

I really wish there was an updated, standalone version of Blast 'Em, It's one of the only reasons I keep RetroArch installed, I truly despise the UI on it and always prefer using standalone software whenever possible. Wut? I'm looking at the Blast Em core in RA right now.

Is it better than Higan?

Oh, is it not separate then? That’s a pity, I too cannot stand the retro arch ui and prefer stand alone programs.

It is separate. It doesn't use RetroArch.

Edit:

Here is the link to download it from (same as link as op posted just a clickable link.) https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/

There IS a standalone version of Blast Em, but it's outdated compared to the RA core, and has its own half-baked UI with a lack of configuration options and a tendency to crash. For me it was a case of 'Can't adjust image quality to a satisfactory degree, so I had to turn to RetroArch'. If you don't mind a slightly blurry image, It works though.

Yes, by far, I really don't recommend Higan for anything other than the SNES core as that's the primary focus, all the rest were added later and none of them are really complete.

I didn't even know this. I know Higan is considered the most accurate NES/SNES emulator so I guess I just figured it was also the best for the other consoles it emulates. Thanks for the tip.

Higan isn't even the best NES emulator, that was always a work in progress too, there are many better alternatives to it, I recommend Mesen or Nintendulator over Higan.

Higan is best for SNES, that's undisputed, but even then, BSNES (which was the original emulator, before Byuu started developing other cores and turned it into Higan) continued development as a standalone BSNES after work stopped on Higan, so I would recommend the newer versions of BSNES over Higan there too.