Master System / Game Gear


Wow, now this is what I would have called sofisticated emulation not so long ago. Nowdays it's not all that crash hot. It is very new though. All the emulators on this page are quite new releases and as such are likely to be very buggy. I've tested them all and they all work on my machine. All require an 020+ and AGA, so ECS users, tough :) "Bout time you lot upgraded anyway.
Please Email the authors of these fine programs and encourage them to keep writing them. This way we can have emulation that is equal to the PC's, whose Sega emulators are very very good....
Sega game roms are available on the 'Net, please do not email me asking for them as I will not provide them. They are copyrighted games and in this country it's quite illegal to give them out ! So if you want them then look for them or better still buy the bloody things.

AmiMasterGear V0.2� Preview
This SMS/GG emulator is written by Juan Antonio Gomez, as you might have guessed from Spain. Written in assembler this emulator is quite fast, a little buggy though, but it is to be expected considering the early stage it's at. It currently has a lot of problems with Game Gear roms, where by a lot do not work at all and even the ones that do most have some sort of Graphics corruption, including the colour palletes being all over tha place. On the plus side, most SMS roms I tested worked and the emulator has almost full sound ! Look out for more to come from this guy, but be patient as he's working on 3 emulators at once ! This is a must for those people wanting a nostalgic look at their SMS/GG's.
Compatible: 68020-68060, AGA+ 1meg+ (Fast)

AmiMasterGear USA
AmiMasterGear AUS

MasterGear V1.0d Freeware ?
Would you believe yet another Marat Fayzullin emulator ! Is this guy an emulating genius or what ?! Although originally written for the Unix/X11 systems it was kindly ported to the Amiga by Mark van Hal. Still very much in it's early stages it does not support sound on the Amiga release (well not as far as I could tell), but claims to run 95% of SMS/GG roms tested by Marat Fayzullin. It ran most of those I threw at it, including the Game Gear roms. The emulation is VERY slow although I managed to get a semi reasonable frame rate. AMG runs a lot faster but the emulation is not as good yet. Get this if you have a lot of patience or an 68060 like I do, and even then some patience !
I just managed to get a newer version of Aminet, we're now upto V1.0d, improvements include 2.2 times faster (although I noticed some speed improvements I can't say whether it's 2.2 times... I might test the "old" version against the new just to tell), compatibility with OCS/ECS machines with atleast an 020 and a GUI for those CLI wimps. Colours now display properly in GG mode using a 512 colour pallete.
There is still no sound or joystick support, but given time I'm sure it will come....
Compatible: 68020-68060, OCS+, 1meg+ (Currently crashes under OCS/ECS)

MasterGear USA
MasterGear AUS


These are the only two Sega emulators that I know of. If there are others out there then please Email me about A: Where I can get a hold of them or B: Some information on the new emulators up & coming so I can add that to the page.