BizHawk
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores. (by TASEmulators)
Genesis-Plus-GX
An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator (by ekeeke)
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| BizHawk | Genesis-Plus-GX | |
|---|---|---|
| 37 | 11 | |
| 2,002 | 646 | |
| 2.3% | - | |
| 9.7 | 8.2 | |
| 3 days ago | 18 days ago | |
| C# | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
BizHawk
Posts with mentions or reviews of BizHawk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
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RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
BizHawk is a premier emulator for generating Tool Assisted Speedruns and written in C#.
https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk
- Pia Carrot (English) - Full Installation Guide With Links
- Pia Carrot (English) - Full Installation Guide
- NLua.Exceptions.LuaScriptException: .\socket.lua:13: module 'socket.core' not found
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BizHawk v2.9 is now released
Not yet, follow https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/issues/1482
- BizHawk 2.9 Released!
- BizHawk 2.9 released
- BizHawk 2.9 Releases!
Genesis-Plus-GX
Posts with mentions or reviews of Genesis-Plus-GX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.
- Genesis-Plus-GX Enchancement - per-tile vertical scroll
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Is there a up-to-date Sega Genesis Standalone Emulator?
The Original Genesis Plus GX is Cube, Wii and Libretro only, link to the builds.
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Performance troubleshooting - Sega CD emulation on Gamecube with Genesis Plus GX
Using latest pre-compiled version of Genesis Plus GX found here: https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/tree/master/builds
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Sonic CD on RetroArch Genesis Plus GX after the end of 3rd Zone
I know there's probably not a way to fix this, but I thought I'd post this since it doesn't seem to be reported elsewhere except by this person, who seems to have only had this problem intermittently: https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/209
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Demons of astelborg isn't working
Demons of Astelborg isn't supported by all emulators, Genesis GX plus added support for games that requires over 8MB SRAM: https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/commit/e6ab7563e7cfb4e18c29e557d36e59cc51e83815
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The talk about the NSO stuff has me thinking: What are the best N64/Genesis emulators on PC anyway?
The Titan Overdrive 2 demo runs in BlastEm, but not in GPGX. And BlastEm is still the only software emulator to show CRAM dots.
- How to load Amiga CD32 chd files in PUAE core?
- Discussion of cores made initially for RA/Libretro
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Can someone explain why people hate RetroArch now?
He tried to bully developers into adding clauses that make the licenses more restrictive (https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/111) and at the same actively moved from a no donations , no money involved whatsoever stance to a let's milk every dime we can in behalf of the so called team, when it's actually getting to his pockets, his livelyhood (which wouldn't be bad if he didn't pretend it wasn't)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing BizHawk and Genesis-Plus-GX you can also consider the following projects:
mgba - mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator
ares - ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation.
mame - MAME
reicast-emulator - Reicast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator [Moved to: https://github.com/skmp/reicast-emulator]
pcsx2-rr - PCSX2-rr - The Playstation 2 Emulator with TAS Tools (Now Merged into PCSX2 Core!)
blastem - Upstream tracking repo of BlastEm, the fast and accurate Genesis emulator, with libretro specific changes
snes9x - Snes9x - Portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM) emulator
RMG - Rosalie's Mupen GUI
Mesen-X - Mesen X is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#. This fork is meant to gather development efforts from different forks. Deprecated; see https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2/
mupen64plus-ui-python - A frontend for Mupen64Plus