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Migration from Windows to Linux
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Gens (Sega Genesis Emulator)

If you ever had a Sega Genesis back in the day, you can now relive the games you used to play! Gens is a Sega Genesis emulator, and will open any Genesis ROM downloaded from popular ROM websites. Just search for your favorite game ROM file on Google, and open it with this emulator.

I used to also use Gens on my old Windows XP machine, and it worked good except for the Microsoft Sidewinder gamepads that I had. They would randomly stop working from time to time. When I installed Gens in Linux, I could not get the Microsoft Sidewinder gamepads to be recognized by Gens, even though the gamepads worked OK in Linux. So I copied the "input" section from my Gens config file from my Windows XP box and they worked perfectly after that. I posted the "input" section of the config file below. I also ended up getting some Logitech Dual Action Gamepads as well, and needed the same "input" config file section below to get them working.

• Install the latest “SDL” and “SDL-devel” packages, and “nasm” package. These are requirements for Gens.
• In my case I have two old Microsoft Sidewinder gamepads daisy chained to the sound card's game port. In order to get them working I had to put the following lines under the [Input] section of the gens.cfg file (located in ~/.gens/; clear out all existing lines in this section first):
  
  

  P1.Type=1 P1.Up=4097 P1.Down=4098 P1.Left=4099 P1.Right=4100 P1.Start=4120 P1.A=4112 P1.B=4113 P1.C=4114 P1.Mode=4120 P1.X=4115 P1.Y=4116 P1.Z=4117 P1B.Type=0 P1B.Up=0 P1B.Down=0 P1B.Left=0 P1B.Right=0 P1B.Start=0 P1B.A=0 P1B.B=0 P1B.C=0 P1B.Mode=0 P1B.X=0 P1B.Y=0 P1B.Z=0 P1C.Type=0 P1C.Up=0 P1C.Down=0 P1C.Left=0 P1C.Right=0 P1C.Start=0 P1C.A=0 P1C.B=0 P1C.C=0

  P1C.Mode=0 P1C.X=0 P1C.Y=0 P1C.Z=0 P1D.Type=0 P1D.Up=0 P1D.Down=0 P1D.Left=0 P1D.Right=0 P1D.Start=0 P1D.A=0 P1D.B=0 P1D.C=0 P1D.Mode=0 P1D.X=0 P1D.Y=0 P1D.Z=0 P2.Type=1 P2.Up=4353 P2.Down=4354 P2.Left=4355 P2.Right=4356 P2.Start=4376 P2.A=4368 P2.B=4369 P2.C=4370 P2.Mode=4376 P2.X=4371 P2.Y=4372 P2.Z=4373 P2B.Type=0 P2B.Up=0 P2B.Down=0 P2B.Left=0 P2B.Right=0

  P2B.Start=0 P2B.A=0 P2B.B=0 P2B.C=0 P2B.Mode=0 P2B.X=0 P2B.Y=0 P2B.Z=0 P2C.Type=0 P2C.Up=0 P2C.Down=0 P2C.Left=0 P2C.Right=0 P2C.Start=0 P2C.A=0 P2C.B=0 P2C.C=0 P2C.Mode=0 P2C.X=0 P2C.Y=0 P2C.Z=0 P2D.Type=0 P2D.Up=0 P2D.Down=0 P2D.Left=0 P2D.Right=0 P2D.Start=0 P2D.A=0 P2D.B=0 P2D.C=0 P2D.Mode=0 P2D.X=0 P2D.Y=0 P2D.Z=0

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