Mednafen (My Emulator Doesn't Need A Frickin' Excellent Name), formerly known as Nintencer, is an OpenGL and SDL multi-system

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wrapper that bundles various original and third-party emulation cores into a single package, and is driven by

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input. It is distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license. Certain emulation cores of Mednafen have been ported to

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/Libretro. RetroArch's fork Beetle-PSX supports additional features, including hardware rendering (

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and OpenGL), higher internal resolution,

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, texture replacement, post-processing shaders, GTE subpixel precision and perspective-correct texture mapping. The emulator runs under Microsoft Windows,

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, OpenBSD,

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, and Wii.

Supported systems

Front-ends

There are a number of open-source graphical front-ends for Mednafen actively being developed.

References

External links

* Free video game console emulators Free software programmed in C++ Free software that uses SDL Game Boy Advance emulators Game Boy emulators Linux emulation software MacOS emulation software Multi-emulators Nintendo Entertainment System emulators Software that uses GTK Software using the GPL license TurboGrafx-16 emulators {{videogame-software-stub

Supported systems

Front-ends

See also

References

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