blastem(6)

blastem6

Is a highly precise multi-system emulator that emulates the sega genesis/mega drive, master system and game gear.

Usage

blastem [OPTION] ROMFILE [WIDTH] [HEIGHT]

Examples

To run the BlastEm GUI:

$ blastem

To run the game from the command line (extract the tarball/zip to a directory previously):

$ blastem ROMFILE

To list all command line options:

$ blastem -h

Keyboard

Control Genesis/Mega Drive:
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KEY ACTION

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UP up arrow

DOWN down arrow

LEFT left arrow

RIGHT right arrow

Button A press letter A

Button B press letter S

Button C press letter D

Button X press letter Q

Button Y press letter W

Button Z press letter E

SCREENSHOT press letter P

RESET press TAB

START press ENTER

Control Game Gear/Master System:
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KEY ACTION

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UP up arrow

DOWN down arrow

LEFT left arrow

RIGHT right arrow

Button A(1) press letter S

Button B(2) press letter D

PAUSE/SELECT press letter Z

SCREENSHOT press letter P

RESET press TAB

START(1) press letter S

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10–12
  2. 13

Author

BlastEm is developed by Michael Pavone (https://www.retrodev.com/blastem).

This manual page was written by Carlos Donizete Froes [a.k.a coringao], for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From blastem 0.6.3.4-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.