Understanding SEGA arcade game emulators & Timeline

[njhilliard]

Just wanted to share this to the newbies like myself out there about which emulators run which type of games (this is referring to real Arcade stand up games which may have not been ported to a console):

1.  Old arcade games are emulated with MAME and FinalBurn Alpha

2.  SEGA Model 2 games are emulated with Model 2 emulator (over MAME):  See http://nebula.emulatronia.com/descargas.php and the wiki https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Model_2_Emulator which explains which game types are emulated and which arcade circuit boards are compatible; circa 1994-98 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_arcade_system_boards)

3.  SEGA Model 3 games are emulated with Supermodel3 emulator and is available through EMU-cr (http://www.emucr.com/).  These games were circa 1996-98

3.  SEGA NAOMI and NAOMI2 games are emulated using Demul (http://demul.emulation64.com/) and flycast core of Retroarch (these require different game types from Demul) using the *.lst file subtype.  Most NAOMI2 games do not run in emulation yet.  These games were circa 1999-2001

4.  SEGA Triforce - runs using old fork of Dolphin called Dolphin Triforce circa 2003

5.  SEGA Chihiro, Lindbergh, Europa R, RingEdge / RingWide / RingEdge 2, etc arcade boards are emulated using Teknoparrot (https://teknoparrot.com/); these games were circa 2003-13.

[Headrush69]

Only thing I would add is *.lst isn't suggested format any longer, MAME *.zip format type is.

Also Demul plays Naomi 2 and Naomi 2 GD games.

In addition to Teknoparrot, Jconfig/Rconfig plays many of those Sega games as well. (Loads faster for me too)

Edited April 15, 2021 by Headrush69