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Blastem

A Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System emulator.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Blastem is a console and retro computer emulator, available on Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “BlastEm - Genesis and Megadrive Emulator” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Blastem is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

BlastEm is an open source, highly accurate emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive that runs on modest hardware. It also supports playing back Sega Master System games, Sega Game Gear games and has experimental support for Sega CD games. BlastEm has support for savestates, Mega/Sega Mouse, XBAND and Saturn keyboard emulation.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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