Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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After watching thxdeeply's video on Shoddy Genesis Emulators, it inspired me to try out one of the old versions of DGen, particularly Version 1.17, so I decided to try the emulator out for myself! Honestly, as an early Sega Genesis emulator, it's not that bad! Graphics aren't emulated the best, sure, and the sound is somewhat accurate but is slightly low pitched like another old Genesis emulator I also tried out called Megasis. And the sound accurate part? That's with the MJazz option turned off, but when turned on, the sound emulation is very different and not as accurate, but man I love how it sounds turned on. I mean, most of the music sounds pretty nice with the MJazz option turned on, though as for the sound effects, some of them are oddly bass boosted which causes them to be louder than usual, so yeah, headphone users who are watching this, beware.

There's apparently even different Graphics Engine modes, ranging from different graphics that try to be accurate, to ones that are broken and don't display properly. I chose Mac/Joe's Line-Based engine, which while accurate, also causes glitched graphics appearing to the very right of the screen for some reason, which might be due to the screen size being slightly larger? But I'm not sure, though it's the most accurate looking aside from that issue. And no, I couldn't remove the bilinear filtering unfortunately, and it only looks clear when not upscaled.

I'm also aware that there are later versions of DGen which of course, improve the emulator's emulation when it comes to the graphics & sound, but I prefer the old versions due to their interesting features, especially DGen v1.17's MJazz sound feature. I wish more Genesis emulators had interesting features like that honestly, because I think it would be unique if there was an AtGames sound emulation feature or something for some other Genesis emulator out there.