Genecyst was a popular Sega Genesis/Sega Megadrive emulator for DOS, by Bloodlust Software (the same team that made NESticle). Until the release of Gens, it was widely regarded to be the best Genesis/Megadrive emulator with the nearest competitor being KGen. The Mega Drive/Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world as the Mega Drive. ... Sega MegaDrive 2 European version with joypad, game cart + box Sega Mega Drive (Japanese: メガドライブ Mega Doraibu) was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega. ... A console emulator is a program for a computer, or other computing device, that can emulate a video game console or handheld, so a computer can be used to play games that were created for that console or to develop games for that console. ... The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... Bloodlust Software is a developer of humorous PC computer games. ... NESticle was a popular NES emulator for DOS, created by Bloodlust Software (the team that also created Genecyst). ... Gens is an emulator for the Sega Genesis also named the Sega Megadrive . ...

Although Genecyst does not have Gens' wide range of features, the older emulator typically runs faster, making it more usable on older CPUs.

Genecyst is no longer updated.

Genecyst was, again, a DOS based emulator made for Windows 95, 98 and other older processors and machines. A Intel Pentium is needed for full speed emulation, and since all computers evolved since the Pentium, you can run it on most computers. When you start Genecyst, you will be greeted with a small tool bar on the top that looks like it's dripping blood, because its made by Bloodlust Software. Click on file and click on open and choose your ROM. A ROM is a file that contains a dumped (meaning that it was copied from a cartridge) game from almost any system. Once open, just start playing. Another emulator Kega Fusion is just as good, if not better, especially with its release of version 3.5. Kega Fusion (also known simply as Fusion) is an emulator for the Sega Genesis (also known as the Sega Megadrive) and the Sega Master System. ...