Megadrive - Genesis

Sega

Game Console - Lifespan: 1988 - 1997

Sega GenesisWikipedia

Information

Emulators	libretro: genesis_plus_gx libretro: genesis_plus_gx_wide libretro: picodrive libretro: fbneo mednafen ares kega-fusion bizhawk: Genplus-gx jgenesis
Games Location	📁 roms \ 📂 megadrive
File extensions	.68k .sgd .smd .bin .gen .md .sg .wad .zip .7z

System Features

Retroachievements	Netplay	Controller autoconfig
lr-genesis_plus_gx: YES lr-picodrive: YES lr-fbneo: YES Mednafen: NO Ares: NO Kega-Fusion: NO BizHawk: YES Jgenesis: NO	lr-genesis_plus_gx: YES lr-picodrive: YES lr-fbneo: YES Mednafen: NO Ares: NO Kega-Fusion: NO BizHawk: NO Jgenesis: NO	lr-genesis_plus_gx: YES lr-picodrive: YES lr-fbneo: YES Mednafen: YES Ares: YES Kega-Fusion: YES BizHawk: YES Jgenesis: YES

BIOS

There is no BIOS files needed to run games.

Controls

Standard layout:

3-button pad layout:

3-button pad can be switched ON with the following option:

Alternative layouts:

Alternative layouts are available with this option:

Option / emulator	Control layout
L/R as Z/C
L/R as Y/Z

Using a Megadrive-like controller

RetroBat can be used to automatically configure the following type of "Megadrive-like" controllers:

• 8Bitdo M30

To do so, use the following option:

Megadrive-like controller configuration is managed within the "mdControllers.json" file located in the \system\resources\inputmapping folder of the RetroBat installation, it is possible to extend this file to configure automatically additional controllers.

Specific System Information

There is no specific System information documented here yet.