Mednafen

Mednafen
Mednafen emulating the GBA game luminesweeper
Developer(s) Mednafen Team
Stable release
1.21.3[1] / April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29)
Preview release
1.21.0 / February 20, 2018 (2018-02-20)
Repository
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Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, PlayStation 3, RISC OS, Wii
Platform IA-32, x86-64
Size 7.49 MB: Windows, x64
5.57 MB: Windows, x86
3.05 MB: Source code
Type Video game console emulator
License GNU GPLv2
Website mednafen.github.io

My Emulator Doesn't Need A Frickin' Excellent Name (Mednafen), formerly known as Nintencer, is an OpenGL and SDL multi-system free software wrapper that bundles various original and third-party emulation cores into a single package, and is driven by command-line input.[2][3] It is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2.[4] Certain emulation cores of Mednafen have been ported to RetroArch/Libretro.[5]

Host systems

The emulator runs under Microsoft Windows,[6] Linux,[6] OpenBSD,[7] PlayStation 3,[8][9] RISC OS,[10] and Wii.[11]

Supported systems

SystemBased on code from
Atari Lynx[12]Handy
Game Boy / Color[13]VisualBoyAdvance
Game Boy Advance[6][13]VisualBoyAdvance
Game GearSMS Plus by Charles MacDonald
Master System[6]SMS Plus by Charles MacDonald
Neo Geo Pocket / ColorNeoPop
Nintendo Entertainment System[6][13]FCE Ultra
PC Engine SuperGrafxUnknown
PC-FXOriginal. NEC V810 CPU core based on Reality Boy
PlayStationOriginal
Sega GenesisGenesis Plus by Charles MacDonald
Sega Saturn[14]Original
Super Nintendo Entertainment Systembsnes
TurboGrafx-16 / TurboGrafx-CD[12][13]Original. CD-ROM interface based on PC2e
Virtual BoyOriginal. NEC V810 CPU core based on Reality Boy
WonderSwan[12]Cygne

Front-ends

Mednaffe v0.8.4 on Debian GNU/Linux
MedLaunch v0.5.7.0 running on Windows 7

There are a number of open-source graphical front-ends for Mednafen actively being developed.

GUI Operating System Description Repository
Mednaffe GNU/Linux and Windows Mednaffe is written in C (programming language) and uses GTK, it allows all of Mednafen's options to be configured, and provides simple game-management features.[15][16]
MedLaunch Windows MedLaunch is written in C# WPF using .NET 4.5.2. It allows all Mednafen options and controllers to be configured and includes a dynamic games library with DAT file lookup and online scraping.[17][18]
MedGui Reborn Windows MedGui Reborn is written in VB .NET using .NET Framework 2.0, It supports all Mednafen options, includes a lot of game utility and an easy way to perform Net Play session.[19][20] [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://mednafen.github.io/documentation/ChangeLog.txt
  2. ↑ "Mednafen — Ubuntu Apps Directory". Ubuntu.com. Canonical Ltd. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Package mednafen-0.8.13-1003". Fink. March 27, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Introduction to Mednafen". Mednafen. SourceForge. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ https://github.com/libretro?query=beetle
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Pot, Justin (September 29, 2010). "Mednafen – A Simple Cross-Platform Emulator To Play Your Old Games". MakeUseOf. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Mednafen". OpenPorts.se. February 21, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  8. ↑ Addicted_to_Mod (September 30, 2011). "Mednafen-PS3 emulator released -- built on 9/30/11". Jailbreak Scene. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  9. ↑ "mednafen-ps3". Google Code. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  10. ↑ Gransden, Chris (April 12, 2012). "Mednafen - multi-system emulator released". riscos.info. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  11. ↑ "wii-mednafen".
  12. 1 2 3 Riley, Jeremy. "Arcade Machine Build Documentation" (PDF). Arcade Machine Reloaded. flashingblade.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Garnett, Alex (September 6, 2011). "Mednafen review". PC Advisor. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  14. ↑ "Mednafen Emulator Includes Experimental Saturn Emulation in Its Latest Release". Segalization. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  15. ↑ "Debian -- Details of package mednaffe in stretch". Debian. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
  16. ↑ "GitHub - AmatCoder/mednaffe: A front-end (GUI) for mednafen emulator". Retrieved 2017-05-16.
  17. ↑ "GitHub - Asnivor/MedLaunch: A Windows (.NET) Front-End for the Mednafen Emulator".
  18. ↑ "MedLaunch = A Windows Front-End for Mednafen".
  19. ↑ "SourceForge - MedGui Reborn & MetroMed".
  20. ↑ "Mednafen Forums - MedGui Reborn & MetroMed".
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