blastem
Upstream tracking repo of BlastEm, the fast and accurate Genesis emulator, with libretro specific changes (by libretro)
ludo
A libretro frontend written in golang (by libretro)
| blastem | ludo | |
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| 12 | 21 | |
| 47 | 573 | |
| - | 0.2% | |
| 0.0 | 6.6 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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blastem
Posts with mentions or reviews of blastem.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.
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Is there a up-to-date Sega Genesis Standalone Emulator?
The libretro core seems to be outdated according to the GitHub page. It says last commit being on Jul 26, 2022. Meanwhile the standalone is Feb 20th, 2023.
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How Long Did It Take You to Build Your Second Emulator?
BlastEm is my first reasonably complete emulator, but I had a couple of other emulation projects that didn't really go anywhere previously so you can kind of consider it the second. It took me about two months before I got things sort of working and about 11 months before my first release. It took considerably longer for things to get into reasonably good shape.
- (PSA) RetroArch’s netplay is getting broken again
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Mega Man The Wily Wars "checksum error" after extracting it from MD Mini
You want to use a modern and accurate emulator like BlastEm
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Is there a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator that's still supported today?
Blastem is still under development.
- Kega Fusion controller inputs not reading permanently fixed
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Emulating the Sega Genesis - Part III
Special thanks to ComradeOj for the demo ROMs, and Mike Pavone and the other contributors for BlastEm (github mirror). Without these, it would have taken a lot more time to get this working.
- Our contribution to the emulation community
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Sonic CD emulation black screen between levels
Dude, Kega has almost 10 years dead, use BlastEm for Roms games and Genesis Plus GX for SegaCD games.
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Genesis Plus GX Wide (new widescreen Genesis/MD core for RetroArch) test results (WIP)
This is the libretro fork, which is out of date with upstream, because of course it is, that's how libretro works: https://github.com/libretro/blastem
ludo
Posts with mentions or reviews of ludo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-08.
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ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console
A similar project is Ludo [1] which is part of the libretro family. More for emulation but really a clean UI (it actually has screenshots)
[1]: https://ludo.libretro.com/#about
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Building a Linux arcade machine
Linux Mint is fine. You'll want to modify it to start using something lighter than Cinnamon (I suggest OpenBox); 4GB of RAM means that KDE and GNOME/Cinnamon are not going to be fun, and as you're using it for arcade games, you don't need much more than a launcher for Steam/RetroArch/EmulationStation/Ludo/Lutris/etc.
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Why RetroArch?
Have a look at https://ludo.libretro.com/ if you can't work out RA.
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Libretro or Retroarch?
Ludo is better than both.
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Gaming Console Recommendations
MULTI EMULATORS (basically one program that handles a bunch of consoles) I would advise you to avoid frontend or multi emulators like mame or retroarch, because they could be intimidating if you start in this area to start with a frontend multi emulator, I recommend this one witch is beginner friendly and have a good documentation ludo emulator
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I'm coding an GameBoy emulator in Godot. I'm not quite sure why, I thought it'd be a fun side project lmao. The CPU is fully implemented, so now it's onto actually displaying stuff. Wish me luck!
There's a spin-off of Retroarch that I think is way better called Ludo. It's basically a less confusing version of Retroarch with a really clean UI!
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How to play retro games under Ubuntu 20 LTS. I used to play games from retrospec but now I don’t know what to do to make them work. It’s quite an easy question I’m sorry.
did you try retroarch? if you want something simpler, give ludo a try. It's from the same team, but made simpler. https://ludo.libretro.com/
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He’s doing it right. What GBA emulator do y’all use?
I highly recommend Ludo, it's like Retroarch but much easier to use and automatically chooses the best emulator for each system. Just put in your roms folder and it'll automatically split them by console, then just choose and play.
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RetroArch 1.9.14 released
You just want Ludo. Go use it.
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RetroArch 1.9.13 released!
[You might like Ludo](https://ludo.libretro.com/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing blastem and ludo you can also consider the following projects:
mame - MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
RetroArch - Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.