Top 9 sega-mega-drive Open-Source Projects

EmulatorJS

15 1,243 9.2 JavaScript

The official home of the EmulatorJS project

Project mention: SillyTavern can now run Doom!* | /r/SillyTavernAI | 2023-10-30

Thanks to the amazing people at EmulatorJS and Libretro for making this all possible.

cave-story-md

13 546 5.9 C

A fan port of Cave Story for the Sega Mega Drive
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240pTestSuite

11 201 7.6 C

A homebrew software suite for video game consoles developed to help in the evaluation of upscalers, upscan converters, line doublers and of course TV processing of 240p video. The Wii and Dreamcast versions have modes for 480i and 480p evaluation as well.

Project mention: What CRT should I buy for the n64? | /r/n64 | 2023-12-09

If I might add: using 240pTestSuite or something similar (there are specific hardwares to output a grid signal and the likes) is a good way to check for convergence issues or bad picture quality overall.

MegaDrivePlusPlus

2 114 0.0 C++

Universal Region mod, 50/60 Hz switch and In-Game-Reset (IGR) for Sega Mega Drive (AKA Genesis)

Project mention: GitHub and all it’s glory! | /r/consolemodding | 2023-06-04

chrgfx

1 57 2.0 C++

Converts to and from tile based graphics from retro video game hardware
Genesis-FeRAM-Cart

2 52 1.8

A open Sega Genesis cartridge PCB
moa

5 49 8.1 Rust

An emulator for various m68k and z80 based computers, written in Rust. Currently it has support for the Sega Genesis, TRS-80, and Computie (my own project), with Macintosh support in the works (by transistorfet)
SaaSHub

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OpenC64MegaDrivePadAdapter

4 43 0.0

Safely connect your Sega Mega Drive/Genesis controllers to your Commodore 64 or Amiga
adventure-rpg

1 6 5.1 C

Game in development for the Sega Genesis utilizing SGDK. Project started as a text based adventure RPG and has now evolved into a sprite based game. More details to come.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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1 project | /r/RetroArch | 10 Jun 2023
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Sega Genesis 4 MB Save Cartridge Pinout

1 project | /r/consolerepair | 15 Feb 2023
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1 project | /r/crtgaming | 9 Jan 2023
UnleashX skins to calibrate CRT's colors and geometry

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Index

What are some of the best open-source sega-mega-drive projects? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	EmulatorJS	1,243
2	cave-story-md	546
3	240pTestSuite	201
4	MegaDrivePlusPlus	114
5	chrgfx	57
6	Genesis-FeRAM-Cart	52
7	moa	49
8	OpenC64MegaDrivePadAdapter	43
9	adventure-rpg	6