{"id":7936,"date":"2015-05-24T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2015-05-24T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T21:37:14","slug":"sg-1000-master-system-and-game-gear-emulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=7936","title":{"rendered":"SG-1000, Master System, and Game Gear emulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Sega turned into the pathetic quarter-profits-chasing caricature of its former self that it is now, they were amassing quite a collection of games for their own video game systems.\u00a0 This was back in the 80s and 90s, of course, decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve been using a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smspower.org\/meka\/\" target=\"_blank\">MEKA<\/a> to emulate the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SG-1000\" target=\"_blank\">SG-1000<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_System\" target=\"_blank\">Master System<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sega_Game_Gear\" target=\"_blank\">Game Gear<\/a>.\u00a0 I was quite fond of MEKA.\u00a0 It has my favourite interface of all the emulators I&#8217;ve ever used, in fact.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had a problem with the way it emulates what I throw at it, except that it doesn&#8217;t really do fullscreen.\u00a0 It only ever fills about 90% of the screen.\u00a0 But I spent hours playing my collection of games for those three systems, and for the ColecoVision too because MEKA can emulate that console too.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started checking out the library of Game Gear games, I tried them out on the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carpeludum.com\/kega-fusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kega Fusion<\/a> emulator.\u00a0 Kega Fusion is what I use for Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and 32X games, and it handles those beautifully.\u00a0 But I noticed that it didn&#8217;t handle Game Gear games so well.\u00a0 I saw more than a few errors on many games &#8211; errors I didn&#8217;t see when I played those games in MEKA.<\/p>\n<p>So I just stuck with MEKA.\u00a0 Except I couldn&#8217;t get those games to run in full screen.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s actually a problem with many Game Gear games.\u00a0 A lot of those titles have so much action crammed into that small area that they really need to be expanded to fully enjoy them.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why I went looking for another emulator.\u00a0 I found one recently called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zophar.net\/sms-gg\/twombit.html\" target=\"_blank\">TwoMbit<\/a>.\u00a0 Not only does it expand Game Gear games to fullscreen, but the emulation is supposedly cycle-accurate.\u00a0 And it can also emulate Master System and SG-1000 games too.\u00a0 And (most importantly for me) it can run on my old emulation PCs, which are getting near to a decade old now.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those Game Gear games were unique to that system, and I can finally enjoy them in all their full-screen glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Sega turned into the pathetic quarter-profits-chasing caricature of its former self that it is now, they were amassing quite a collection of games for their own video game systems.\u00a0 This was back in the 80s and 90s, of course, decades ago. For years I&#8217;ve been using a program called MEKA to emulate the SG-1000, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,474,38],"tags":[475,550,489,483,522],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-video-game-consoles","category-video-games","tag-emulation","tag-game-gear","tag-master-system","tag-sega","tag-sg-1000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7938,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}