Mednafen
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 Mednafen emulating the GBA game luminesweeper
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| Developer(s) | Mednafen Team |
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| Stable release | 1.29.0
/ January 18, 2022
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| Preview release | 1.31.0-UNSTABLE
/ August 27, 2022
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| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, PlayStation 3, RISC OS, Wii, AmigaOS |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC |
| Size | 7.49 MB: Windows, x64 5.57 MB: Windows, x86 3.05 MB: Source code |
| Type | Video game console emulator |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | mednafen |
Mednafen (My Emulator Doesn't Need A Fucking 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 |
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| 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.
| GUI | Operating System | Description | Repository |
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| Mednaffe | Linux and Windows | Mednaffe 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. | [1] |
| MedLaunch | Windows | MedLaunch 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. | [2] |
| MedGui Reborn | Windows | MedGui 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. | [3] |
| MedSat | Windows | MedSat only supports Sega Saturn emulation. | [4] |