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Hello again everyone. I have a laptop, with 64-bit Arch. I've been trying to find a way to play Genesis emulation but have been unable to find an emulator that actually works with 64-bit. It seems that all the Genesis emulators are abandoned, and I've heard about Mednafen having Genesis support in their WIP releases, but I tried that, and it didn't work either. The only game I want to play with a Genesis emulator is Sonic 3, because that game has save batteries in the physical cartridge that have ran out, and I want to be able to play it without losing saves.
Has anyone been able to get Genesis emulation running on 64-bit Arch?
Last edited by jlacroix (2011-11-17 00:34:48)
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Gens-gs in the AUR seems to work fine on 64-bit. It builds a 32-bit binary though.
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Gens-gs in the AUR seems to work fine on 64-bit. It builds a 32-bit binary though.
Did you get the sound working on that?
Gives me a message about missing alsa modules
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Installing lib32-libpulse and lib32-alsa-plugins on x64 gets sound working - as per AUR comments
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dgen works (with sound) from a terminal
Last edited by satanselbow (2011-11-17 09:07:39)
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Kega Fusion - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30534
Regen - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29044
DGen - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37555
and Gens-GS
all work on a 64-bit system.
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Thank you guys! For whatever reason, the last time I tried it, NONE of those worked. But that was a long time ago, and they all work now. Maybe I had a graphics configuration problem that I inadvertently fixed. But they do all work.
Which emulator do you guys prefer? So far I have to say that Kega seems to be best. Here is my experiences so far:
Kega Fusion:
+ Runs games fairly well
+ Able to run games from the command line
- No option to make it automatically go to full screen on ROM load (unless I missed it?)
Regen
- Crashes on full screen when OpenGL is enabled
- Won't load games via commandline
- Laggy as all hell
Gens
- Laggy
I am marking this solved since it DOES work now. Kega Fusion seems to be the best. Do you guys agree? It could be that I'm having terrible experiences with the other two due to a configuration issue but I don't know.
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I use Kega for its netplay and SMS/GG emulation. and the TV noise effect. :-]
edit: start it with '-fullscreen', or append '%U -fullscreen' to the 'Exec' line in its desktop.file. games'll start fullscreen now.
Last edited by thr (2011-11-17 03:23:09)
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