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Commander Genius

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Overview

Introduced in 1990 by The Commander Genius Team, the Commander Genius was a port system. Its platform tag is pc for proper filtering.

Technical specifications

  • Manufacturer: The Commander Genius Team
  • Release year: 1990
  • Hardware type: port
  • Platform tag: pc

Supported ROM extensions

cgenius

Emulators

  • cgenius (cgenius) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_CGENIUS

Notes

Commander Genius is a software piece that interprets the Commander Keen and Cosmos the Cosmic Adventure series.

Requirements:

You need the original DOS game files in a directory under /userdata/roms/cgenius in order to play on Commander Genius games. Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars and Secret of the Oracle are shareware. They can also be downloaded from Commander Genius. Commander Keen: The Earth Explodes and Commander Keen: Keen Must Die! are registered versions which can be purchased from 3D Realms or Apogee. Keen 5 and 6 also need to be purchased.

Games need to be extracted into the /userdata/roms/cgenius/games directory in their own directory per game. i.e. /userdata/roms/cgenius/games/Keen1/

You then need to create a .cgenius filename extension in that folder. i.e. /userdata/roms/cgenius/games/Keen1/Commander Keen 1 - Marooned on Mars.cgenius This will be the file that helps launch the game directly but also should be named to make it easier to scrape.

Note: Some 'mods' can also be downloaded via Commander Genius also.

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml