A Sega Master System and Game Gear Emulator running on the Nintendo 64. Use it on real hardware with a flashcart. Tested with the EverDrive-64 X7 and SummerCart64 on both an NTSC and PAL Nintendo 64.
Note
This project is more of a fun thing for me to try if it works. Help for improvement is always welcome. Master System games don't reach 60fps, Game Gear games mostly do. Try it yourself to find out.
Built with Libdragon
The emulator code is a port of smsPlus.
Download smsPlus64.z64 from the releases page and copy it to your flashcart.
You can launch ROMs directly from the Everdrive menu by saving smsPlus64.z64 as:
ED64/emu/gg.v64ED64/emu/sms.v64
Note
Everdrive OS v3.09 or higher is required.
Downloads: https://krikzz.com/pub/support/everdrive-64/x-series/OS/
Games can be started directly from the N64FlashCartMenu when using a SummerCart64.
To set this up:
- Copy smsPlus64.z64 to the
menu/emulatorsfolder on your SD card. - Launch the menu; the emulator will appear automatically.
More details can be found in the N64FlashcartMenu Getting Started Guide.
To run the emulator as a standalone ROM:
- Download smsPlus64.z64 from the releases page.
- Copy it to your flashcart.
- Launch smsPlus64.z64 from the Everdrive or SummerCart menu.
The emulator will display its built-in game browser. - On the root of your SD card, create a folder named
smsPlus64. - Place your
.smsand.ggROMs in this folder.
Subfolders are supported; the menu will scan them automatically.
- D-pad Up or Down: Next previous game
- D-pad left or right: previous or next page.
- B: Go to previous folder
- A: Open folder or start selected game
- D-Pad: movement
- Start: Pause game
- B: Button 1
- A: Button 2
- Z + Start: Go back to menu
- Z + A: Toggle framerate
- Z + B: Toggle sound (improves framerate somewhat)
Note
Holding Z after starting the emulator will force to load the built-in menu.
- Install the Libdragon SDK. For more info and instructions, see https://github.com/DragonMinded/libdragon
- Make sure the environment var N64_INST points to the installed SDK
- Get the sources and build
git clone https://github.com/fhoedemakers/smsplus64.git
cd smsplus64
chmod +x build*.sh
./build.shThen copy smsPlus64.z64 to your flash drive.
You can also use an Emulator. Libdragon suggests Ares. This however requires building from source. Since an Everdrive is not used, copy your .gg or .sms files to the filesystem folder of this repoistory, then run build.sh. The roms will be baked into smsPlus64.z64
The files run64.sh, cp64.sh are used to run or copy smsPlus64.z64 to the Everdrive, using an USB cable. (using usb64.exe). Since usb64.exe runs on Windows, you need to build the project using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in order to use these scripts. If you are using Linux, you have to copy the file manually to the Everdrive.
