MEKA
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| MEKA | |
 The interface of the MEKA emulator |
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| Developer: | The Meka Team |
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| Latest release: | 0.71 / June 6, 2005 |
| OS: | MS Windows |
| Use: | Emulator |
| License: | Open Source |
| Website: | homepage |
MEKA is primarily a Sega Master System emulator, though it also emulates SG-1000, SC-3000 Sega Super Control Station (SF-7000), Sega Mark III, Sega Game Gear, ColecoVision, and Othello Multivision. It has support for zipped ROM files, can save screenshots in PNG format, and create save states for Master System and Game Gear. This is the only emulator having skins.
MEKA includes a full-featured debugger and various hacking and auditing tools, allowing it to be used as powerful a platform for programming or reverse engineering software on the supported systems.
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.
MEKA is dedicated to Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap, wherein the first dragon is named Meka (or Mecha).
[edit] Meka Team
- Omar Cornut "Bock" - Machine emulation, Graphical User Interface, and other general things. I'm the main developer responsible for MEKA, although other people have contributed with various important work (read below).
- Hiromitsu Shioya "Hiro-shi" has been working on the original MEKA sound engine years ago. His work still shows in the main sound engine structure, YM-2413 emulation through OPL and the sound interface to the SEAL Audio library.
- Marat Fayzullin "Rst38h" wrote a Z80 CPU core for his various emulation project, and that ended being used in MEKA. I've brought fixes and improvements to the core, but the very most of work is definitively from Marat.
- Mitsutaka Okazaki has wrote a digital YM-2413 emulator named Emu2413, which was implemented in MEKA. You can hear this emulator by enabling FM Unit and digital emulation.
- Maxim has contributed work and research on the SN-76496 PSG and the original PSG emulator was eventually replaced by his, which is more accurate on some points.
- Ulrich Cordes finally wrote a FDC-765 emulator that was used as a base to emulate the floppy disk controller of the SF-7000.
