Sega Master System Emulators for Windows

An excellent multiplatform emulator for Windows from KGen author Steve Snake. Emulation support:

• Sega Genesis
• Sega 32x
• Sega CD / CD+32x
• Sega Game Gear
• Sega Master System
• Sega Mega Drive

Genesis emulation is not inferior to Gens, and Sega CD and 32x emulation is simply unparalleled. It has all the standard settings, there is support for video filters (using Render Plugins, put the Plugins folder in the folder with the emulator).

3DO emulator for Windows from Altmer'a, fundamentally different from other emulators: can work with bios of console models on Anvil chips, mouse connection is possible, support for compressed images (archiver is built into the emulator) and much more.
In new versions of the emulator added support for Coleco Colecovision, Sega Master System and Atari Jaguar consoles.

Regen is an accuracy-oriented emulator that can emulate Sega Mega Drive / Genesis / Game Gear / Master System with a very high degree of accuracy. To get the sound as close to the original as possible, use the option: Sound->SuperHQ.

ares is an open-source multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has a native graphical interface on each system. It has a native GUI on each system. It is a descendant of higan, byuu and bsnes and is focused on emulation accuracy. It emulates the following systems:

• Arcade
• Atari 2600 (Experimental)
• WonderSwan (Color)
• Pocket Challenge V2
• ColecoVision
• MSX / MSX2 (Experimental)
• PC-Engine / TurboGrafx / SuperGrafx
• PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
• My Vision
• NES / Famicom
• Famicom Disk System
• Game Boy (Color)
• SNES / Super Famicom
• Satellaview
• Nintendo 64 / 64DD
• SuFami Turbo
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Gear / Master System / Mark III / SG-1000
• Mega Drive / Genesis / Sega CD / Mega CD / 32X
• ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
• Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental)
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
• PlayStation (Experimental)

Note: cue+mp3 format is not supported for Sega CD, You can convert to cue+wav using the CueMp3ToWave.

Multi-system emulator for Sega Master System, SG-1000, ColecoVision and Atari 2600 consoles.

BizHawk is an open-source multi-system emulator. It uses emulator cores from the Libretro project (RetroArch). It supports emulation of NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, PlayStation, and many other systems (around 30 systems). Developed with support from the TASVideos community, BizHawk is designed for creating Tool-Assisted Speedruns (TAS) — speedrunning game completions — as well as for casual gaming.

Supported platforms

• Arcade machines
• Apple II
• Atari 2600
• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• ColecoVision
• Commodore 64
• Commodore Amiga
• Fairchild Channel F
• Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Mattel Intellivision
• NEC PC Engine (AKA TurboGrafx-16), including SuperGrafx and PCE CD
• Neo Geo Pocket
• Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo DS/DSi
• Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, Famicom Disk System
• Odyssey 2
• Sega Genesis, Sega-CD, 32x
• Sega Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000
• Sega Saturn
• Sony PlayStation
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom
• PCFX
• TI-83 graphing calculator
• Uzebox
• Vectrex
• Virtual Boy
• Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color
• ZX Spectrum

An excellent high-fidelity, multi-system emulator. Emulation support:

• Sega Mega Drive
• Sega Master System

Excellent emulator for SG-1000, ColecoVision, SVI318/328, MSX, MSX2, MSX2+ and Turbo-R systems.

• Plugin structure currently adding features like Debugger & Trainer
• Advanced debugger for assisting MSX developer.
• Multi language support and specified keyboard layout.
• File support for DSK/ROM/CAS and ZIP
• MSX-MIDI,MSX-MUSIC,MSX-AUDIO, SCC+ and Moonsound with oversampling control and DAC.
• Keyboard configurator & powerful theme structure.
• The recent file lists and quick save for faster access. Savestates are rewritten for higher backward compatibilty.
• Screen capture in various sizes and audio capture
• Customizable Hotkey

Emulator byuu is a project from the developer of bsnes and higan emulators, which combines the friendly interface of the former and the multi-system (with emphasis on accuracy) of the latter. List of emulated platforms: NES, SNES, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, WonderSwan (Color), Pocket Challenge V2, Neo Geo Pocket (Color). Was merged back with higan evolving into the ares project.

Excellent SMS/GG/MK3 emulator. Few settings, good compatibility. Emulator can import/export Meka saves, open zip archives and take screenshots. Supports joysticks. The latest version at the moment.

Open source multi-system emulator for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Notable for being developed in Pascal (Delphi/Lazarus). It supports emulation of ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, NES, GameBoy (Color), ColecoVision, Chip 8, Sega Master System and various arcade machines (see readme.txt).

Emulator with all standard settings and, as written in eSMS.txt - "cool debugger and some video filters". It asks for DirectX7+ and CPU 200Mhz+. Gives amazing possibilities to customize the interface!

Multisystem Emulator:

• Sega Master System(SMS)
• Nintendo(NES)
• GameGear(GG)
• SG1000(SG)
• ColecoVision(COL)

It has a user-friendly interface. Supports joysticks, saves, various video filters, screenshots. The most interesting thing is the ability to connect special databases with information about the game, secrets, codes, etc. Download them from the official site emulator. System requirements: Pentium class CPU, 8 Mb RAM, 1MB DirectX Video Card.

Gens Plus! is a Sega Genesis / 32X / SegaCD / Master System / Game Gear emulator based on the Gens emulator with additional features.
Discontinued. Need for looking through old walkthroughs.

A good Master System and Game Gear emulator for Windows.

Mednafen is a great multiplatform emulator that emulates the following platforms:

• Atari Lynx [lynx]
• GameBoy (Color) [gb]
• GameBoy Advance [gba]
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color) [ngp]
• Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom [nes]
• PC Engine (CD)/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)/SuperGrafx [pce]
• PC-FX [pcfx]
• Sega Game Gear [gg]
• Sega Genesis/MegaDrive [md]
• Sega Master System [sms]
• Sony PlayStation [psx]
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom [snes]
• Virtual Boy [vb]
• WonderSwan [wswan]

The quality of emulation is very good.
There is support for graphic filters.
Attention: emulator runs only from command line. But you can use shell: Mednaffe or MedGui Reborn.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about the F1 key.

Multi-system emulator. Supports emulation of the following systems:

• Sega Game 1000 (SG-1000)
• Sega Computer 3000 (SC-3000)
• Sega Super Control Station (SF-7000)
• Sega Mark III (+ FM Unit)
• Sega Master System (SMS)
• Sega Game Gear (GG)
• ColecoVision (COLECO)
• Othello Multivision (OMV)

Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator for Windows. Run from the command line.

• SMS emulation: Good compatibility. At this stage, the emulator can run* 96% of commercial games and public demos, except games that relies on codemaster mapper, which work but does not have proper video mode emulated.
• Game Gear emulation : Good compatibility. At this stage, the emulator can run 98.0% of game gear ROMS.
• SN76489 Sound is supported, but still needs work.
• support. for .ZIP .SMS and .GG format.
• Video filters: monochrom, scanline, scale2x, bilinear, nearest neighbour, scale2xscanline (fullscreen option always available).
• Pad(keyboard or joystick mapped), Sport Paddle (mouse mapped) emulation.
• PAL/NTSC Timing.
• Japanese/Export console.
• In game Screenshots, GFX rip, sound shot.
• Accurate auto-frameskip.
• Configurable keyboard configuration.
• Joystick support.

Java-based multi-system emulator. Emulates:

• ColecoVision
• Game Boy
• Game Gear
• Master System
• Mega Drive
• NES
• PC Engine

Multisystem emulator for Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega System E arcade machine. It has an original 3D interface, in the form of a game room with arcade machines, TVs. Also has a built-in database of games and covers.

Emulator of 8-bit consoles from Sega: Master System, Game Gear and SG-1000 for Windows.