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Can anyone recommend a megadrive emulator for the PC please? I Have found a few that work fine but are not compatible with my USB pad, so has anyone got an emulator that works with a pad? any help much appreciated. |
megadrive emulator??
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OllyJ 4,866 posts
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoDGEN is your friend.
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGENS is meant to be good, but I always thought KGEN was the best. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoP'raps it's KGEN I mean.
Whichever one it is, it works nicely with my MS USB pad.
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OllyJ 4,866 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI tried Gens but it did not work with the pad, by the way it's a PS2 pad using an adapter, so maybe this causes some conflict...
I'll give DGEN a go!
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Fusion works very nicely with PS2 pad/adapter setups, and is a cracking emulator to boot. -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYeh, I'm using DGEN with one of those Streetfighter anniversary pads. PERFECT SOLUTION. -
GENS is by far the best sega emulator out there. it emulates pretty much everything bar the saturn and dreamcast. -
OllyJ 4,866 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThanks alot chaps that worked a treat!
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Slippy 745 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIf you have a chipped Xbox, I could send you a rather magical disc if you like. Could also give you instructions on rewiring an old megadrive pad to work with the big green machine. -
Slippy 745 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSlippy wrote:
If you have a chipped Xbox, I could send you a rather magical disc if you like. Could also give you instructions on rewiring an old megadrive pad to work with the big green machine.
Guess I should have read to the end of the thread before posting
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OllyJ 4,866 posts
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Registered 17 years agonah don't have a chipped xbox due to the livemessing up of! thanks anyway! -
Slippy 745 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOllyJ wrote:
nah don't have a chipped xbox due to the livemessing up of! thanks anyway!
Mine's been chipped well over a year now, never had any Live problems at all. It's only people who forget to turn the chip off that get shafted. You can actually get chips now, IIRC, that disable themselves automatically so you can't make that mistake.
Anyway, offer's there if you do ever come over to the Dark Side. -
OllyJ 4,866 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSo what does chipping involve? what a the benefits?
BTW I'm not really into copying rented games to a HD so no need to mention that
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Slippy 745 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOllyJ wrote:
BTW I'm not really into copying rented games to a HD so no need to mention that
Nor I!! I'm totally anti piracy but I'm pro 'being able to play import games, DVD's and run emulators so I don't have to swap cables whenever I wanna play my old 16-BIT games'.
Chipping is pretty easy now. Solderless. It's a case of opening the console and fixing the chip in. If you don't wanna do that, it's even easier to soft mod your console using a re-written save game file. You'd need one of Mechassault, Original Splinter Cell (not the classics version) or 007: Agent Under Fire. You can load the game, select to play the save game and it boots Linux. From there you can install programmes which allow you to run emulators along with a whole host of other stuff.
Razz's fool proof Xbox softmod guide -
AlcohollicA 2,377 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIm using gens with my usb adapter and ps2 pad and it works a treat for mega drive games.
Also use it with Snes9x for snes
Winkawaks for arcade games (metal slug)
and Project 64 for N64 games.
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Pierre2k 1,466 posts
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Registered 9 years agoBeen a while since I used a Mega Drive emulator, but my favourite last time I checked was Fusion. Seemed accurate enough to my untrained eye. Easy to use interface and included unified support for Mega Drive, Mega CD and 32X. Basically an all in one Mega Drive-era Sega solution.
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Pierre2k 1,466 posts
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Registered 9 years agoSo, don't know why I've just resurrected a 14 year old thread, but randomly this appeared on the front page of the forums for me? Didn't even realise it wasn't recent until after I posted...random. -
uiruki 5,975 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIt'll have been a spammer, whose post got deleted. -
warlockuk 19,519 posts
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OllyJ 4,866 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI'm still after one tbf! -
OllyJ wrote:
Not sure if serious but if you are, the Genesis Plus GX core in retroarch is by far the best current option on PC. Although my current favourite option is using the same core in retropie on a raspberry Pi using the 8bitdo M30(bluetooth version) controller.
I'm still after one tbf!
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OllyJ 4,866 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@Spectral yeah I am pretty serious, but I have a Mac now, I used to run a great emu on the PSP! -
For Mac just go with OpenEmu. It's a multi-system emulator that uses several popular cores, Megadrive duties are handled by Genesis Plus which should suffice unless you're super picky about nuances of audio output.
The other emulation cores are great too, the PSP and PS1 cores have really come along and have great compatibility now.
Edited by Cappy at 19:10:43 29-05-2019
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