:: SEGA Emulator for MSDOS ::

KGEN98

Introduction

KGen was Steve Snake's original attempt at a Genesis emulator, written because at the time the only existing emulator, Genem, ran slowly and had poor sound quality. This was the first Mega Drive emulator to feature true digital YM2612 emulation, rather than "bodgy OPL3 rubbish" (as Steve put it) which attempted to approximate Genesis sound and music via the then popular OPL3 chips of Adlib and Sound Blaster compatible cards. Another quality emulator called Genecyst was released around the same time by Bloodlust Software and a friendly rivalry began (although mostly amongst emulation fans themselves). This was a DOS based emulator and ran on high end 486 or faster hardware, but required at least a Pentium for full speed.

Pic1 SEGA/MEGADRIVE game “DESERT STRIKE” -

Run using KGEN98 (MSDOS)

KGen98 (1998)

A new version of KGen rewritten from scratch, with better compatibility, more features and higher quality stereo sound. Still DOS based, its CPU requirements were about the same as its predecessor but slightly higher for the high quality sound mode and 16 bit video with raster effects and shadow/highlight modes enabled. Afterwards, Steve was commissioned by Sega to create a Windows compatible version which could be marketed with some classic games in the "Sega Smash Pack".

KGEN98 can run a lot of SEGA's ROM images (*.SMD file extension).

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