Play Sega Genesis Games on Windows 10
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Sega Genesis (Sega Mega Drive outside North America), the successor to the Sega Master System, is a 16-bit video game console that was released in 1989. For those of us old enough to have owned a Genesis console, or if you're a vintage game enthusiast who managed to pick one up, you'll know just how much fun the system is. Sega was one of the leaders in arcade game scene in the 90s, and the Genesis console was based on the very same hardware (Sega System 16 Board).
If you never owned or didn't hang on to your Genesis console, all is not lost. Users can enjoy the system in all its glory by using a video game console emulator, directly on a Windows 10 PC. A gaming console emulator can emulate a console's hardware on a computing device (desktop, laptop, phone, tablet, etc.). Video game emulators run on what is known as ROM files, which are files that contain the data from game cartridges. ROM images are the digital versions of games and are necessary for game play with an emulator.
In the following VisiHow guide, we're going to show how to play Sega Genesis games on a Windows 10 computer. For this article, we used a Clevo laptop and two Sega emulators; Fusion and Gens. Feel free to check out our tutorial on Playing NES Game on Android if you prefer to use your mobile device.
Connect Microsoft One S Wireless Controller to Windows 10
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Play Sega Genesis using the Fusion Emulator
- 1Open a web browser and visit the following link. When the page loads, click "Kega Fusion 3.64 Windows" under Downloads.
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Play Sega Genesis using the Gens Emulator
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Questions and Answers
How to start a game in Gen for sega game. How to locate start button on my keyboard?
I have gen to play sega games. The program held once I try to set up the keys. If I try to play without going to controller option, the game says "press start button" and I don't know where this button is on my keyboard... . I have windows xp on my laptop. The article is silent on how to start a game after having all the software ready and games loaded...... I have tried: Tried configuring the controls but the Gen held... I think it was caused by: No idea... Tried pressing almost all the keyboard buttons but unable to start the games...
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