Mednafen
Mednafen, formerly known as Nintencer, is an OpenGL and SDL multi-system free software wrapper that bundles various original and third-party emulation cores into a single package, and is driven by command-line input. It is distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license. Certain emulation cores of Mednafen have been ported to RetroArch/Libretro.
RetroArch's fork Beetle-PSX supports additional features, including hardware rendering, higher internal resolution, anti-aliasing, texture filtering, texture replacement, post-processing shaders, GTE subpixel precision and perspective-correct texture mapping.PSX – PGXP arrives! – Libretro">Standalone port/fork of Mednafen PSX to the Libretro API.">
The emulator runs under Microsoft Windows, Linux, AmigaOS, OpenBSD, PlayStation 3, RISC OS, and Wii.
Supported systems
Front-ends
There are a number of open-source graphical front-ends for Mednafen actively being developed.| GUI | Operating System | Description | Repository |
| Mednaffe | Linux and Windows | Mednaffe is written in C and uses GTK, it allows all of Mednafen's options to be configured, and provides simple game-management features. | |
| MedLaunch | Windows | MedLaunch is written in C# WPF using.NET 4.5.2. It allows all Mednafen options and controllers to be configured and includes a dynamic games library with DAT file lookup and online scraping. | |
| MedGui Reborn | Windows | MedGui Reborn is written in VB.NET using.NET Framework 2.0, It supports all Mednafen options, includes a lot of game utility and an easy way to perform Net Play session. | |
| MedSat | Windows | MedSat only supports Sega Saturn emulation. |