Genesis Plus EX v2.0.0 is released. A Windows emulator based on Genesis Plus GX, built directly against the emulator core. It sits alongside the existing sdl/ and gx/ ports as a new win32/ port. No SDL. Video goes through GDI or, optionally, Direct3D 9 or Direct3D 11 (Video → Renderer); sound through waveOut, gamepads through XInput. The finished executable depends only on DLLs that ship with Windows. Supports everything the core does: Mega Drive / Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000, Mega CD / Sega CD, and Pico. Genesis Plus by Hazem Abdelghani (2026).

Genesis Plus Changelog:
The project is now Genesis Plus EX (it was "Genesis Plus"). This is a large update over 1.0.0: new look, new audio outputs, a much bigger game library, more recording options, and a lot of polish.
Downloads
64-bit: Genesis-Plus-EX-v2.0.0-x64.zip (recommended)
32-bit: Genesis-Plus-EX-v2.0.0-x86.zip
Major changes
New look
Classic or Modern style (View → Style). Modern draws flat, rounded buttons, check boxes, drop-downs and tabs, softer toolbar buttons, messages on a rounded plate, rounded window corners and a themed title bar (Windows 11), in Segoe UI.
Accent colors (Default, Teal, Green, Purple, Pink, Red, Orange, Gray) for selections, tabs and list headings. Light, dark and system themes remain.
Toolbars with a choice of size, and a Larger UI option.
Sound
New outputs: WASAPI shared (the default), WASAPI exclusive and XAudio2, besides the old waveOut. Sound device choice.
Levels and Latency dialog: master, FM, PSG, CD and Sega CD PCM volume, buffer size and a live level meter.
New tone controls: Stereo Width, Bass Boost, Overdrive, Even Out Loudness, and Console Model presets (Model 1 / Model 2).
Master System FM unit option, Mute FM / PSG shortcuts, Mute When Inactive.
Game library
Grid view with cover art (sizes Tiny to Extra Large, Ctrl+wheel to resize, rounded corners, captions, card frame), cached covers.
Search bar and filters (region:, console:, genre:, type:, fav:), filter bar by console, genre and region.
Several ROM folders with exclusions; subfolders scanned.
Favorites, a Recently Played group, Group by Console, an A-Z strip, more sortable columns, Clean Game Names (also in File → Recent Files), list spacing.
Per-game right-click menu: play with a state, cheats, cover, favorite, desktop shortcut.
Saving
Auto Resume with a "resume next time" box on exit.
Rolling backup states (every 1-10 minutes, three backups; Load State → Load Backup State).
Manage States window with thumbnails, copy to file, delete; load/save any .gpstate file; Undo Load/Save State.
Rewind bar with history size 128-768 MB.
Skip-intro option.
Per-console, per-game data folders for saves, states, covers and cheats.
Recording and capture
Animated GIF (picture only, up to 6 s) and VGM sound logs, besides MP4 video and WAV audio; a separate folder for each kind under recordings/.
Recording now stops in the background (no freeze), with taskbar progress.
Input recording and playback (.gpm) for speedruns and bug reports.
Screenshot output mode: Raw, Corrected (4:3) or Final (after filter); screenshots are written on a worker thread.
Controls window and combos
Rebuilt Input → Controls window with tabs for Player 1, Player 2 and Advanced. Click a button, then press the key or pad button you want: one press works for keyboard and gamepad, with no separate mode. Esc or right-click cancels, and Auto Assign goes through all buttons in turn.
A key or button can be on only one pad button; assigning it takes it from the old one and says so.
Turbo box beside A/B/C/X/Y/Z with a Turbo Rate, a stick Deadzone, and Controller Model / port devices on the Advanced tab.
Combo buttons (Advanced tab, up to 12): one key or pad button presses several game buttons. Set a Trigger, then add game buttons with Hold (0.25-10 s or until you press it) and Pause steps, e.g. a Sonic spin dash on one button. A How It Works guide is in the window.
Profiles (Load / New / Save / Delete) store both players, pad types and combos in the profiles folder.
Gamepad Hotkeys put shortcuts on pad buttons (fast forward, rewind, states, pause, reset, screenshot, fullscreen, mute, recording, game speed, in-game pause menu) with an optional hold button; Enable Background Input.
Tools
Cheat Search to find a value in memory, a Cheat Converter, shared CRC32 cheat lists in cheats/library.
Controller profiles, turbo and combo buttons (12 rows), and gamepad hotkeys.
Netplay improvements: session codes, Find hosts, optional UPnP port opening, mismatch detection that names the setting, drift check every second, reconnect for up to a minute.
More peripherals, including the EA 4-Way Play.
Game Speed and overclock options.
Picture
Bezel image in fullscreen, Flicker Blending, Dither Smoothing, Contrast / Saturation / Gamma / Hue, exclusive fullscreen with its own resolution, Original Console Pixels aspect as the default.
Launchers
Command-line options: --fullscreen, --windowed, --exit-on-close, --state N, --state-file, --mute, --paused, --scale N, --help; Keep Only One Instance. Setup notes for LaunchBox, Pegasus, Playnite, ES-DE / EmulationStation / RetroBat.

Download: Genesis Plus EX v2.0.0 x64
Source: Here