NeoGenesis Sega Genesis/Megadrive/32X/SegaCD/MegaCD Emulator for XBox v16

http://xport.xbox-scene.com

what's new:

- New (and very excellent) skin by J-RED

- New game configuration option : Overclock M68000 CPU feature
- Prevents slowdown on games like Sonic when lots of sprites are on-screen

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INSTALLATION
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If you are a first-time NeoGenesis user, simply upload all the files to a directory
on your XBox and run the default.xbe file.

If you are a previous user of NeoGenesis, you need to first delete the
E:\\SAVES\\NEOGENESIS\\SKIN_SETTINGS.INI file. Then you need to completely
remove your existing EMUSKINS directory and replace it with the new one in
this package.

If you don't follow those instructions, you will get a very weird looking
display. If that happens, go to "Configuration" -> "Video/Skin Configuration" ->
"Select Skin" and select the default_neogenesis skin. Things should then
be back to normal.


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OVERCLOCKING CPU
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Now there's yet another reason why NeoGenesis is even better than a real
Genesis/Megadrive machine!

Ever notice in lots of games like Sonic and Strider that sometimes things will
slow down when lots of sprites are on the screen? This happens on the real
hardware, too. Now there's a way to correct that problem.

Go to the game selection menu, highlight a game, and press X to bring up the
game configuration menu. There is a new option called "Overclock M68000".
If you turn it on, you should notice that there is no more slowdown.

You can also turn on/off this overclocking from within the game. While the
game is playing, press the right thumb stick to bring up the in-game menu.
Select "Configuration", "Configure Controllers", "Controller 1",
"Change Emulator Definitions" and assign one of the emu buttons to be
"Toggle CPU Speed". Now go to "Change Joypad Mappings", "Change Game Mappings"
and change the button mapping for "Toggle CPU Speed". Now you can use that
button mapping to turn the CPU Overclocking on/off in the game so you can
better see the effects.

Most games don't suffer from any slowdown, so the overclocking option is
off by default.

It also doesn't work well with 32x or SegaCD games. SegaCD games cannot even start
if the overclocking option is on at startup. You'll need to toggle it on/off from
within the game.

WARNING : It is possible to put the emulator into an undefined state when using
the CPU Overclocking on 32x and/or SegaCD games. The symptoms of this are
stuttering music and halted gameplay. If this happens, you'll need to restart
NeoGenesis. If you just use the overclocking on regular non-32x, non-segacd games,
everything should stay fine.



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Enjoy!

Awesome work, can't wait to try it. Thanks once again.

=)


thanks again!!!!!!


i have all your emus!!!!!!!!

big fan here!!

any chance you could add lightgun supoprt?

would love to play maddog mcree 2 and 1 aswell as all the other lightgun games on the megadrive/megacd

Xport, you simply kick ass!

I had just read about the guy that did a real overclock to his Genesis, and then about 15 minutes later you spring this on me.

I LOVE that new skin too. JRED that is one awesome job.

Thanks again, Xport. I appreciate the hard work.

oh, and xport fella.

you do indeed kick ass. All of your emulators are the bollocks.


Thanks alot.

Wonderful!

I wonder if Xport was inspired by this article on slashdot?

I really wish you'd make a SNES emulator Xport Top Stuff!!!

for me, the skin is broken.. what am i doing wrong (ive deleted my savegame)?

Nice job XPORT! This is your best emulator.

I dream with a similar "major" upgrade with fMSX XBOX, using the state-of-art BlueMSX emulator ...

Congrats!

Thanks for everything Xport, all your emulators are simply amazing.

ive already done that...
nevermind, tomorrow ill find a way to get it working and if i have to rename the new jpgs..

xport, can you father my children?

thank god for /.

props xport

Cool, hopefuly this will help Gunstar Heros

Excellent new look

I haven't tried this out yet, but is there a down side to using the overclock feature on any normal Megadrive games?

i had to convert the .jpg's to .png's and edit the skin ini file before the skin was shown correctly.

if anyone else has this problem, and does not see the new sonic skin (there is no ecco in the new default skin.. ), just replace the folder in the skins directory with the following one and select the skin in the configuration menue again to get it initialized.

fixed skin folder

amazing, this is just amazing

and yeah i dont think theres a need for another snes emu

myself i use all xport emus, exept for xsnes9x, wich is awesome and better than a real snes, and surreal64

the ONLY thing i think would need improvement is the compatibility of the xport playstation 1 emu, everything else i think is PERFECT

Xport, thanks alot for all the emulators, especially NeoGenesis. I still have the older version, and probably won't upgrade since all I really play on it are SegaCD games. I use it often, so again, thanks.

I think the reason why an XPort SNES emu is so appealing is the limitless configurability on offer. XSNES9X still has little niggles like the inability to disable the throttle on individual pads, the fact that you have to resize the screen without any numerical size data to go on, the lack of per-game configs that would, among other things, allow each game to remember which peripheral it should use (Multi-tap, Superscope etc.), lack of network support (even though I don't use it).

Emulators on the Xbox have become so polished that perfection is no longer just about how well they emulate the systems in question. How well they can be tweaked to each personal taste is now a major factor. In this XPort has set the standard and until that standard is met by XSNES9X, you will obviously see requests for an XPort SNES emu.

Everything is indeed perfect, bar an Xport WinUAE port!!! I can but dream..

The main problem with Xport emu's as far as I'm concerned is the point filtering, it seems that you have to manually check on it the first time you boot up the emu, and then you get the nice crystal clear display. I've noticed people taking a preference to Xenesis for this reason, but I never noticed this till a few weeks ago.

Thank You, Xport!!!!!

Exactly what dmb and likkle said.

Xsne9x emulates perfeftly, but the gui itself is not liek that of xports.

even if there where a matching skion for xsnes9x would be better. so they all match.

and xports gui and configurabuility is amazing. i would like for all emu's to be that way.



PS. xport, for ur emus (fce and neo) every time i select a new game it asks for the options i want to play it (the game) with etc.
is there any way to get the same options to apply to all games and not have it ask me every time i select a game?
cya

i too would like to see the xport treatment of snes9x. if nothing else for the excellent cheat system xport has going for him. thos gen/nes games i could never beat mock me no more when i find out which memory address contains the health counter!

awesome job x-port, love the new menu track, kills that ecco the dolphin crap

yeah, the new track is sooo sonic! props to whoever found this!
EDIT. holy fucking shiiT! there's also a piece fro streets of rage!!!

Who made this skin and where can I get more of his work? Awesome skin, and Xport you are amazing. Thank you so much for all these emus.

http://www.genesiscollective.com/

It's just a website that archives screen shots, box scans, ratings, cheat codes and reviews for almost all USA Genesis games. Great site.

They have this thing called GCOffline (Genesis Collective Offline) which you can download, which gives the inforamtion and cheat codes and screen shots of 1000's of Genesis games.

The awesome Xenesis emulator can read these GCoffline files right from the emulator, and if you press the white button on your xbox control over a ROM, it will bring up a rewview, a screen shot, even cheat codes for the game.

Xenesis is a really awesome Genesis emulator, just like what xSnes9x is for SNES. I actually prefer it over xport's cause the GCOffline support and the slightly better (IMO) gui.

dux - what the heck are you talking about? First off, if you don't like the size or appearance of the font, then just replace it with a TTF you like and change the size...and change the position, color, etc, etc. All of those things can be done from the in-emu menus. Also, describe what you mean by clunky scrolling. You can scroll one at a time with dpad up/down or use the R/L triggers to speed-scroll through the list at variable speeds depending on how hard you press them. Furthermore, you can dpad left/right to advance by letter. What is clunky about that? It's highly efficient, functional and easy.

It seems like the only reason some people prefer Xenesis over NeoGenesis is because of the user interface. This is just baffling. What, precisely, is user-unfriendly about it? XPort's UI is a joy to use because just about anything I'd want to do is customizable via the menus.

Even if you are inexplicably deadset in your UI preference, how much time do you actually spend in the UI? Emulators were meant to play games - and guess what? NeoGenesis does a much better job because it offers so much more. There's this most recent overclocking improvement, there are segacd save states, fast forwarding, cheat code searching, *lots* of graphic filters, faster 32x emulation than Xenesis (compare fps between the two before you flame about the hardware being the same so there can't be any difference in speed), netplay, autoloading of the most recent savestate, etc, etc. How much more clear-cut can the decision be?

Whats funny is people ramble on about how its not user friendly, or they dont like this or that.

Why do you think he made it fully customizeable? Learn to skin and make it exactly the way you want it. Giving the end user the option to customize it is by far the superior approach.

I've always liked Kawa-X for its sheer simplicity. Sometimes less is more.

lantus, thanks for snes emu.

It amazes me that you do all this work and people are still not happy.

Its the same with all emu authors or porters. All the work you guys do and you will always have some moaners.

I, myself am absolutly made up with your emulator and also with xports.

Thanks guys.

PS still want to know if xports emu supports lightgun.

dux, there's no reason for you to moan about Xport's UI when it's fully customizable! doh!

Some people are never happy it seems!

Only thing I wish Xport would implement into his emu's like Lantus has done in Xsnes9X is the 10 X 11 aspect ratio , it makes the screen fit just fine on my PAL TV set without having to worry about scaling issues, where as I miss about 1 inch of each side of the screen on Xport emus.

Either way even if it's not addressed, I'm just so happy with what you've given us.

Cheers to you.

dux - that's your entire reply? You don't address anything I mentioned. While I can cede that Xenesis has Genesis Collective support and NeoGenesis does not, that is one small thing compared to all the things NeoGenesis does and Xenesis does not. It is hardly a feature that would make it superior than NeoGenesis.

Likklebaer - You can't find a TTF you like? I imagine there must be something out there that looks like what you want. There is also an option to boot directly to the regular ROM list or the favorites list.

You talk too much nostalgic.

List every thing that NeoGenesis has that Xenesis doesn't, besides a slightly less appealing interface (IMO).

The overclocking is really nice, but aside from that (and netplay i think) it's no different, just slightly less attractive and notably harder and more troublesome to navigate.

If you are imprssed with xSnes9x, check out Xenesis, IMO when it comes to usability it simply blows NeoGensis out of the galaxy.

edit: don't the wrong idea, i love and appreciate xport's talent and contribution, lending his free time to do this for everyone.

dux - I guess you'll have to get used to people "talking too much" since you're on a public forum website...

Regardless, it doesn't sound like you even read my response if you're asking for ways that NeoGenesis is better than Xenesis. I listed several, but in case you missed it the first time...

- overclocking
- segacd save states
- fast forwarding (*extremely* useful - why wait through at least 15 seconds of intro when you can fast forward through it in 2 seconds? Every single game has an intro of some sort that I can breeze through using the FF function in NeoGenesis. Some games, like RPGs, have *extremely* long intros when you start a new game.)
- cheat code searching
- lots more graphic filters
- faster 32x emulation (much better FPS)
- netplay
- autoload most recent savestates so when you select a game to play it automatically starts where you left off
and here are some more
- one-button combos - if you need to pull off a special move which requires a chain of motions/buttons, you can configure the series of commands and assign it so a single button in NeoGenesis
- autofire capabilities
- 480p/720/1080 hires modes
- make movies of your gameplay and play them back

I'm sure there are more that I'm forgetting, too, but no...it's really no different...not at all. How about you give your "features of Xenesis not present in NeoGenesis" list now?
Once again, you offer no specifics or examples as to *why* you feel NeoGenesis is harder to navigate. What exactly were you trying to do when you felt foiled? All I'm hearing from you is "it's just better" with nothing provided to support your position...just a lot of hyperbole about Xenesis blowing NeoGenesis "out of the galaxy."

Not that I want to induce a big flaming fest but....

Nostalgic - have you checked out a recent version of Xenesis?

The reason I ask is because several of the things you just listed as not present are actually in the latest releases. Also the 32X emulation should be improved in the last release.


Dux - nice to have a fan - good work, keep it up!


People, lets not start slapping each other down. Everybody has his/her personal preference for whatever reason - which they are perfectly entitled to.
Like lantus said every developer has different ideas and philosophies about what they do so you're always going to get differences. It's what drives change and progress. If every xbox app looked the same and did the same thing in the same way things would soon get boring. It's good to be able to make a choice in what you use.

Right thats my 2 penny worth.

Carcharius

No one can say either is better than the other really its more preference. Personally I like xport's version more but that is me.

still dont know if any support litgun

There's no code for it in gens (the source from which these emus are translated) so it's pretty doubtful, but I share your yern for it.