Last Updated on: 24th December 2023, 12:45 pm
Web site: mednafen.github.io
Category: Emulators
Platform: BSD, Linux, OS X, RISC OS, PlayStation, Windows
License: GNU GPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia: Mednafen
First release: 2005
Mednafen (My Emulator Doesn’t Need A Frickin’ Excellent Name) – a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator. Mednafen has the ability to remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, a joystick, or both simultaneously. Save states are supported, as is real-time game rewinding. Screen snapshots may be taken, in the PNG file format, at the press of a button. Mednafen can record audiovisual movies in the QuickTime file format, with several different lossless codecs supported.
Core Features:
– Physical joystick/gamepad support.
– Versatile input configuration system; assign multiple physical buttons to a virtual button or action.
– Multiple graphics filters and scaling modes.
– Save states.
– Real-time game rewinding.
– Screen snapshots, saved in PNG format.
– QuickTime movie recording.
– MS WAV-format sound logging.
– Loading games from several compressed formats.
– Network play(utilizing an external dedicated server program)
The following systems are supported:
– Apple II/II+
– Atari Lynx
– Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
– WonderSwan
– GameBoy (Color)
– GameBoy Advance
– Nintendo Entertainment System
– Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom
– Virtual Boy
– PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)
– SuperGrafx
– PC-FX
– Sega Game Gear
– Sega Genesis/Megadrive
– Sega Master System
– Sega Saturn (64-bit only)
– Sony PlayStation
