A Java-based multi-system emulator mainly focused on Sega 16-bit systems.
Initially created as a Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator and then evolved to emulate the following systems:
- Sega Megadrive/32X
- Sega Master System/Game Gear
- Sega Sg-1000
- Colecovision
- MSX v1
- NES
Sega 32x: The target is a modern mobile cpu capable of boosting ~4Ghz
(ie. AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U),
this should allow perf close to 60fps for most titles, YMMV.
Requires java 17+ installed.
Get the most recent zip file from the download section,
for example helios-19.1108.zip and extract to a folder.
Double click on launcher.bat
Open a terminal and run:
chmod +x launcher.sh
./lanucher.sh
SG-1000 Super Uwol
MSX Caos Begins
SMS Astro Force
NES Böbl
Initially based on the Genefusto emulator by DarkMoe.
Tony Headford, m68k core: m68k
J. Sanchez, Z80 core: Z80
Alexey Khokholov, Ym2612 core: Nuked-OPN2
Chris White, JavaGear project and in particular:
Tjitze Rienstra, TMSX project and in particular:
notaz, SVP core: Picodrive svp
Digital Sound Antiques, Ym2413 core: emu2413
Andrew Hoffman, NES emulator: halfnes
Hitachi SH2 cpu emulator adapted from esoteric_emu's SH4 implementation
Tomek Rekawek, GameBoy emulator: coffee-gb
C-BIOS Association for their open source MSX bios
Hitachi SH2 cpu emulator adapted from esoteric_emu's SH4 implementation
Released under GPL v3.0