This is an enhanced port of Genesis Plus, an open-source & portable Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulator, originally developed by Charles MacDonald, now running on the Gamecube and Wii through libogc & devkitpro.

This project was initially based on Genesis Plus 1.3 source code but, with respect to original code design, the core has been heavily modified in order to improve emulator overall accuracy / compatibility, and add support for many peripherals or yet unemulated cartridge hardware.

The result is that Genesis Plus GX is now extremely faithful to the “real thing”, can run the entire Genesis / Mega Drive game library (including all unlicensed & pirate available dumps) and the majority of Master System games (through Power Base Converter backwards compatibility). As a bonus, it now also provides very accurate emulation of SG-1000, Game Gear & Master System consoles hardware for 100% compatibility with the respective software libraries and available ROM dumps. Last but not least, it comes with plenty of exciting features that have nothing to envy to your most favorite PC emulators.

Starting from r610, the sourcecode is now FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY and multi-platform code is still maintained through SVN so that other Genesis Plus ports can take advantage of it, as I sincerely hope this emulator can become a reference for open-source and accurate Genesis emulation. If you ported this emulator to other platforms or need help porting it, feel free to contact me.

For more informations, please read the Wiki or the included User Manual.

If you like this project and would like to support it, you may donate via Paypal. You can also contribute to further development by donating equipments such as additional controllers & debugging tools to improve port development, as well as console hardware (Model 1 Master System, Game Gear, Model 1 Genesis, Mega CD, CDX, 32x, etc) & development tools to run test on real hardware and improve emulation accuracy.

Not liking how Classic Controller feels ? Looking for a wireless retro-adapter to use your old control pad with retro emulators ? Give this open-source project a look: http://www.brunofreitas.com/?q=node/35