Play your Sega Genesis games in widescreen with the new experimental Genesis Plus GX Wide emulator

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After working on bringing the decompiled versions of the classic Sonic mobile ports, to the Nintendo Switch @heyheyitsjoeway has a new project that's just released. It's a fork of the Genesis Plus GX emulator, with a rather cool experimental function: widescreen. The emulator takes Genesis/Mega Drive games and outputs them at a 16:9 ratio. The emulator is currently available on RetroArch and is on a handful of platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, Android, Windows, 3DS, and the PlayStation Vita among others. Certain games such as Gunstar Heroes and Ristar work nicely, but others will require custom patching in order to display correctly. Heyjoeway has an autopatcher that works with Sonic 1, with support for Sonic 2 on the way soon.

First, make sure you update the Core info files. To do this, go to Online Updater, and select ‘Update Core Info Files’.

There are two ways to install and/or update the Genesis Plus GX Wide core: a – If you have already installed the core before, you can go to Online Updater and select ‘Update Installed Cores’. b – If you haven’t installed the core yet, go to Online Updater, ‘Core Updater’, and select ‘Sega – MS/GG/MD/CD (Genesis Plus GX)’ from the list. It will then download and install this core.

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THOUSANDS!! lol

Still playing nes, snes, psp, psx, n64 here

Amazing how many secrets you learn even now. Also shows my kids what real games are lol.

of course, but i usually let the games "rest" for a couple years before replaying them. And after nearly two decades, some of them i already know like the back of my hand so i pretty much play on autopilot. Some people go beyond that and create all these hacks and patches and decrypt the game files and stuff.. i never went that far
 

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of course, but i usually let the games "rest" for a couple years before replaying them. And after nearly two decades, some of them i already know like the back of my hand so i pretty much play on autopilot. Some people go beyond that and create all these hacks and patches and decrypt the game files and stuff.. i never went that far

Game hacks can be fun, everybody's taste is different, I personally know a lot of the games I play like the back of my hand also. There is just something about playing those games again and again lol... Zelda ocarina of time, super mario world, Alex the kid, mortal kombat, Street fighter etc. Still to this day they are tricky and fun lol. Just my opinion m8
 

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Atleast this is a proper "widescreen" support unlike the "SNES" fake widescreen"..... sure, the image is not stretched out (SNES emus) but the object dont have a motion on the far left or right sides which is sad.

Also, while I do like old games getting next gen improvements and support (mods, remakes, widescreen patches etc.), still, some games are just designed so that we cant see whats on the far left or far right side (with only 4:3 aspect ratio in mind for example) until we cross specific coordinates......
 
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(yay, my first comment on gbatemp)
I updated the core info files and installed cores, but it doesn't show the "extra columns" option for me!
Hi and welcome. it's not the same Genesis GX core, it's a new core called Genesis GX Wide..
Use that new core and game will automatically be wide screen.
 

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Any Mega Drive emulator that uses static memory addresses? I want to try and patch some games but so far the emulators I've tried change memory locations on every boot and it is madness...
 

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