Mednafen (My Emulator Doesn't Need A Frickin' Excellent Name), formerly known as Nintencer, is an OpenGL and SDL multi-system free software wrapper that bundles various original and third-party emulation cores into a single package, and is driven by command-line input. It is distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license. Certain emulation cores of Mednafen have been ported to RetroArch/Libretro.
RetroArch's fork Beetle-PSX supports additional features, including hardware rendering (Vulkan and OpenGL), higher internal resolution, anti-aliasing, texture filtering, texture replacement, post-processing shaders, GTE subpixel precision and perspective-correct texture mapping.
The emulator runs under Microsoft Windows, Linux, AmigaOS, OpenBSD, PlayStation 3, RISC OS, and Wii.
Supported systems System Computer system/video game console emulator Apple II/Apple II Plus Original Atari Lynx Handy Game Boy / Color VisualBoyAdvance Game Boy Advance VisualBoyAdvance Game Gear SMS Plus by Charles MacDonald Master System SMS Plus by Charles MacDonald Neo Geo Pocket / Color NeoPop Nintendo Entertainment System FCE Ultra PC Engine SuperGrafx Unknown PC-FX Original. NEC V810 CPU core based on Reality Boy PlayStation Original Sega Genesis Genesis Plus by Charles MacDonald Sega Saturn Original Super Nintendo Entertainment System bsnes TurboGrafx-16 / TurboGrafx-CD Original. CD-ROM interface based on PC2e Virtual Boy Original. NEC V810 CPU core based on Reality Boy WonderSwan Cygne
Front-ends
There are a number of open-source graphical front-ends for Mednafen actively being developed.
GUIOperating SystemDescriptionRepositoryMednaffeLinux and WindowsMednaffe is written in C (programming language) and uses GTK, it allows all of Mednafen's options to be configured, and provides simple game-management features.MedLaunchWindowsMedLaunch is written in C# WPF using .NET 4.5.2. It allows all Mednafen options and controllers to be configured and includes a dynamic games library with DAT file lookup and online scraping.MedGui RebornWindowsMedGui Reborn is written in VB .NET using .NET Framework 2.0, It supports all Mednafen options, includes a lot of game utility and an easy way to perform Net Play session.MedSatWindowsMedSat only supports Sega Saturn emulation.
See also List of video game console emulators Computer system
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