ludo VS blastem

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

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.

Have a look at https://ludo.libretro.com/ if you can't work out RA.

Ludo is better than both.

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

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!

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/

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.

You just want Ludo. Go use it.

[You might like Ludo](https://ludo.libretro.com/

The libretro core seems to be outdated according to the GitHub page.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.

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.

You want to use a modern and accurate emulator like BlastEm

Blastem is still under development.

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.

Dude, Kega has almost 10 years dead, use BlastEm for Roms games and Genesis Plus GX for SegaCD games.

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