MEKA

Infobox_Software
name = MEKA


caption = The interface of the MEKA emulator
developer = Omar Cornut and contributors
latest_release_version = 0.72
latest_release_date = May 17, 2007
operating_system = Windows, Linux, MS-DOS
genre = Emulator
license = Open source
website = [http://www.smspower.org/meka/ homepage]

MEKA is primarily a Sega Master System emulator. It also emulates the SG-1000, SC-3000,
SF-7000, Sega Mark III, Sega Game Gear, ColecoVision, and Othello Multivision. It has support for zipped ROM images, can save screenshots in PNG format, and can create save states for Master System and Game Gear.

MEKA includes a full-featured debugger and various hacking and auditing tools, allowing it to be used as a powerful platform for programming or reverse engineering software on the supported systems.

MEKA takes its name from the dragon Meka (or Mecha) in the Master System game "".

Version 0.70 was released on April 3, 2005 under an open source license. Since then there has been one official release, 0.71 on June 25, 2005 as well as a number of WIP releases which have added features such as 16- and 32-bit colour support.

Developers

* Omar Cornut ("Bock")—Machine emulation, graphical user interface, and other general things. He is the main developer of MEKA.
* Hiromitsu Shioya ("Hiro-shi")—Worked on the original MEKA sound engine years ago. His work shows in the main sound engine structure, YM2413 emulation through OPL and the sound interface to the SEAL audio library.
* Marat Fayzullin ("Rst38h")—Wrote a Z80 CPU core for one of his emulation projects, which is used in MEKA. Bock brought fixes and improvements to the core, but most of the work is from Marat.
* Mitsutaka Okazaki—Wrote a digital YM2413 emulator named Emu2413, which was implemented in MEKA.
* "Maxim"—Contributed work and research on the SN76496 PSG and the original PSG emulator.
* Ulrich Cordes—Wrote an FDC-765 emulator that was used as a base to emulate the floppy disk controller of the SF-7000.

Reception

Retro Gamer stated that Meka was "considered to be the best Master System/Game Gear emulator around". [ cite journal | year = 2005 | title = Retro Coverdisc | journal = Retro Gamer | issue = 15 | pages = 108 | ]

References

External links

* [http://www.smspower.org/meka Official website]
* [http://www.smspower.org/meka/changes.txt MEKA changes]
* [http://www.smspower.org/meka/wip MEKA work-in-progress repository]
* [http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=7 MEKA forum]