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Abdessamad Derraz fcd6753b9e fix: one id per machine for the games fallback
muOS names its GBA folder gameboyadvance first, which resolved to ares's
game-boy-advance. mgba lists nintendo-gba, so the fallback set was empty
and an unrecognised GBA game got no file. ares, dgen, picodrive, fbneo,
fbalpha2019 and emux_sms now use the ids the other profiles use, with
their old spellings kept as SYSTEM_ALIASES (bios.sms and fbneo's
Spectrum sets had fallen to the other bucket of the RetroArch list).

A folder whose name spells a machine its core does not run now also
holds the core's machines: a PC Engine CD folder run by mednafen_pce_fast
got no System Card. Install lists and install/games regenerated.
2026-11-09 06:13:24 +01:00

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emulator: DGen/SDL
type: standalone
core_classification: other
source: "https://sourceforge.net/p/dgen/dgen"
profiled_date: "2026-10-20"
source_commit: "1c196e63d3e35704a97a2cef60def9df3c9fd1ce"
core_version: "1.33"
version_basis:
kind: unverified
why: host_unsupported
display_name: "Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis (DGen/SDL)"
mode: standalone
cores:
- dgen
systems:
- sega-megadrive
notes: |
Mega Drive emulator for SDL by Joe Groff and Phil K. Hornung, carried on by
zamaz. Release 1.33 is the v1.33 tag of the project's git tree. It emulates
the 68000, the Z80, the VDP, the YM2612 and the SN76489 and nothing more: the
tree holds no SH-2, no Sega CD hardware and no TMSS boot ROM.
A cartridge is opened as given, then under the roms subdirectory of the DGen
home ($HOME/.dgen), or under str_rom_path when the configuration sets one. It
is unpacked through libarchive when compressed, de-interleaved when it is an
SMD dump, and refused unless "SEGA" stands at offset 0x100.
ref: romload.c:14-19,47-124, system.c:293-340, system.h:23-24, rc.cpp:554-560
The only other files read are dgenrc, save states, battery RAM and demos,
all written by the emulator itself under the DGen home.
ref: main.cpp:132-196,352-366, system.h:45-47
exclusion_note: >
Nothing to obtain. No BIOS or firmware is opened. The RetroPie scriptmodule
help asks for bios_CD_U.bin, bios_CD_E.bin and bios_CD_J.bin, but no code
path of this release names them, and a Sega CD image is refused by the
"SEGA" header test.
ref: romload.c:83-115
files: []