 | Sega Mega Drive
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The Sega Mega Drive, known as Sega Genesis in America, was the first true 16-bit console system and gained widespread popularity. It competed directly against the Super Nintendo. Sega's final incarnation of the Mega Drive was known as the Genesis Nomad, a portable unit which could run on batteries.
 | Genesis Plus 1.2.9 for Mac OS X. Requires Mac OS X 10.4. |
| Genesis Plus 1.2.2 for Classic Mac OS. |
Genesis Plus is a new Genesis emulator for Mac, featuring excellent compatibility. It gives all other Genesis emulators for Mac a run for their money.
| Emulator Enhancer, which adds extra features to the current version of Genesis Plus. |
| Blitter Library 0.8.5, which adds extra features to the Classic Mac OS version of Genesis Plus. |
 | Richard Bannister's Genesis Plus home page. |
| the Genesis Plus home page. |
 | to Richard Bannister, who ported Genesis Plus to Macintosh. |
| Generator 0.4.3 for Mac OS X 10.4. |
| Generator 0.3.6 for Classic Mac OS. |
Generator/MacOS is a solid Genesis emulator for the Macintosh. It features full sound and music, MP acceleration, InputSprocket, and a huge number of different video modes. It also includes a PowerPC Assembly Z80 core and saved states.
| Emulator Enhancer, which adds extra features to the current version of Generator. |
| Blitter Library 0.8.5, which adds extra features to the Classic Mac OS version of Generator. |
| Richard Bannister's Generator home page. |
| the Generator home page. |
| to Richard Bannister, who ported Generator/MacOS to Macintosh. |
| DGen 1.1.7. |
| the source code to DGen. (This is not required to run the emulator.) |
DGen is somewhat faster than Generator/MacOS, but suffers from a problem that causes the music to play too slowly in a lot of games. It does, however, run a number of games that Generator does not. It is also open source, allowing anyone to improve it.
| Navigation Services (required for Mac OS 8.1 and below). |
| GameSprockets (required by DGen). |
| the DGen home page. |
| GenEm PPC beta .20.2. |
GenEm PPC is a port of GenEm to the Macintosh. Sound was not ported, but other than that, GenEm PPC was a very well-designed emulator. Unfortunately, Brian Verre has stopped developing this program.
| the homepage of GenEm PPC. (this link points to an archive of the original page) |
 | of Sonic The Hedgehog. |
| of Altered Beast. |
 | the GenEmPPC Compatibility Page, which lists the games which GenEm can run. (this link points to an archive of the original page) |
| the MESS page. (MESS is a multi-console emulator which includes support for Genesis.) |
| ROM Organizer, which can sort and rename Genesis ROMs. |
| KnuxBine, a utility to "Lock-On" the various Sonic the Hedgehog ROMs onto Sonic & Knuckles. |
