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Introduction Downloading Dega Installing Dega Installing Games Setting Up Dega Playing A Game

Introduction

Dega is written by one of the most influential emulator authors Dave. If you haven't heard of Dave before he is the author of Final Burn and DGen. Dega is a Sega Master System and Game Gear emulator. Apparently it has a 97% compatability rate and from what I've seen it is damned fast too. I never had either of these consoles so I dont really have an opinion on the content of the games however they came from an era dominated by Nintendo and their NES back in the mid to late eighties. I guess to all you retrogamers there will be alot of reminiscing going on and I hope you all enjoy yourselves. Top

Downloading Dega

You can find the latest version of Dega here. Top

Installing Dega

To install Dega you will need a copy of Winzip. All you have to do is to open the zipfile, press the extract button and type C:\Dega into to the path area of the window that opens. There are two directories that need to be set up, one for roms and one for saved states. To do this open My Computer, then your C: drive and then the Dega directory. Right click somewhere in an empty space in the folder and select New, then folder from the menu. A new folder icon will appear and will be highlighted. Simply type Roms and press OK when your finished. For the saved states simply repeat the process but type State for the name of the new icon. Your Dega folder should look something like this... Top

Installing Games

Because Dega is a console emulator there aren't many sites around holding roms for it. You could try a search engine like Google with the keywords Sega Master System Roms or GameGear Roms. All you need to do to install roms is to put the zipped rom into the C:\Dega\Roms directory. Top

Setting Up Dega

This is the screen that you will see when you first load Dega... Although Dega is fairly new to the emulation scene there are alot of settings you can change. Here is a summary... File Menu Load All you have to do is to highlight the game you want and press Open. Reset Resets the current game in memory Free Rom Removes the current game from memory Exit Exit from Dega Options Menu PAL Emulates a US / European Master System Japan Emulates the Japanese Sega Mark III variant FM Chip Lets you select a Pal 50Hz System, A Japanese 60hz System and emulation of the FM sound chip. Overlay Lets you choose whether you want to smooth out the onscreen graphics using blending techniques. Fullscreen Switches between a fullscreen display or a windowed one. Red / Blue 3D Simulates the 3D flickering effect used by some games and changes it to a red / blue effect for use with red / blue 3D glasses. Pause Emu Pauses Dega One Frame Advances the game by one frame. Fullscreen Switches between a fullscreen display or a windowed one. Input Menu Keyboard Uses the keyboard for control Joystick Uses your joystick for control State Menu Load State Load a saved game state. Save State Saves the position of the current game. Auto load/save Automatically saves or loads your game position when you start / exit a game. Import Meka Imports saved states from the Meka emulator. Export Meka Exports Saved States in Meka format Sound Menu Enhance PSG Replaces synthesized sound with instruments Quality Lets you choose the sound quality that Dega produces VGM Log Logs the sound produced in games for playback using a VGM player.   Finally below you can see the information stored in the Dega.ini file. To open this file you need to open the C:\Dega directory and find a file called Dega with an icon that looks like a textpad with a yellow stamp on it. Double click on it and it will open. // Dega v1.09 Config File // File RomFolder C:\Dega (Change this if you add a separate roms directory) // Setup SetupPal 0 MastEx 0 TryOverlay 0 // Sound DSoundSamRate 44100 MastPsgEnhance 1 // Input UseJoystick 0 // State StateFolder . AutoLoadSave 0   Top

Playing A Game

To play a game all you need to do is open the file menu and select load. Select the game you have downloaded and press the open button. The screen will go black and then the game will load. Keyboard Settings Cursor Keys Up, Down, Left, Right Z Fire 1 X Fire 2 Enter Pause / Start F8 Fast Forward Alt+Enter Fullscreen / Window Mode Escape / Right Mouse Button Hide / Show Menu If you want to use a joypad then use the windows control panel configure it and select joystick from the menu. Here is Dega playing a few games... Top

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