Emulator:Gens

About

Gens/GS is a version of Gens maintained by GerbilSoft. The main goal of Gens/GS is to clean up the source code and combine features from various forks of Gens.

Configuration

Platform	Version	Device	Exec	Type	commandline_format
Linux	r7	ROM	/usr/bin/gens	D	--fs --quickexit "[rompath]/[name].[romext]"

Reassigning Inputs and Hotkeys

If you're using Gens/GS with Wah!Cade in an arcade cabinet, you will probably want to map player 1's C or Z button to the spacebar. When defining inputs in the GUI, however, mapping an input to the spacebar does not stick. To work around this, open ~/.gens/gens.cfg and scroll down to the "Input" section for player 1, and set the hex key code for the desired input to "0x0020".

gens.cfg:

 [Input]
 P1.A=0x0130
 P1.B=0x007A
 P1.C=0x0078
 P1.Down=0x0112
 P1.Left=0x0114
 P1.Mode=0x0035
 P1.Right=0x0113
 P1.Start=0x0031
 P1.Type=0x01
 P1.Up=0x0111
 P1.X=0x0132
 P1.Y=0x0134
 P1.Z=0x0020  <-- Player 1's Z button is mapped to the spacebar here.

When the --quickexit command line parameter is used (as shown above), the ESC key closes the emulator.

External Links

• Sega Retro - Gens/GS homepage