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Mega Drive

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Overview

Introduced in 1988 by Sega, the Mega Drive was a console system. It is grouped with megadrive titles in EmulationStation. Its platform tag is genesis, megadrive for proper filtering.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: Motorola 68000 main CPU at 7.67 MHz with a Zilog Z80 co-processor at 3.58 MHz handling audio/backwards compatibility.
  • Memory: 64 KB main RAM, 64 KB video RAM, and 8 KB dedicated audio RAM for the YM2612/FM sound chip.
  • Display: 320×224 resolution (up to 61 colors on-screen from a 512-color palette) with up to 80 sprites per frame.
  • Sound: Yamaha YM2612 six-channel FM synthesizer plus Texas Instruments SN76489 PSG for square/noise channels.

Supported ROM extensions

bin, gen, md, sg, smd, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • blastem (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_BLASTEM
  • genesisplusgx (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_GENESISPLUSGX
  • picodrive (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_PICODRIVE

Notes

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