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  • m5
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Topic: sega genesis emulator

whats the best sega genesis and super nintendo emulator?
I used gens when I was using ubuntu,but couldn't find it here in debian repo.

Last edited by m5 (2012-01-11 16:51:59)

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Re: sega genesis emulator

~$ aptitude show zsnes
Package: zsnes                    
State: not installed
Version: 1.510-2.2+b1
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Maintainer: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Uncompressed Size: 4,182 k
Depends: libao4 (>= 1.0.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx |
         libgl1, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libstdc++6 (>=
         4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.2.3)
Description: Emulator of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM)
 ZSNES allows you to play classic games written for the "SNES" game console on a GNU/Linux
 system. It supports advanced features such as multiplayer gameplay over a TCP/IP network. 
 
 Please note that many separately-available games playable under this emulator are
 non-free. See /usr/share/doc/zsnes/README.Debian for more information.

EDIT:  Don't know about Genesis though.

Last edited by pvsage (2012-01-11 16:56:36)

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Re: sega genesis emulator

check out the gens project http://segaretro.org/Gens/GS
they have sega genesis, dreamcast, saturn and a few more emulators. Though I've never used any so I can't say if they're good or not, but worth a shot right?

You can download the deb or source here.
http://segaretro.org/Gens/GS#Download

Last edited by AP3JAM (2012-01-15 03:39:27)

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Re: sega genesis emulator

gens/gs wont compile on 64bit system. sad

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