Mednafen

General Documentation

Last updated November 6, 2010
Valid as of Mednafen 0.9.14-WIP

Table of Contents:


Introduction

This main document covers general Mednafen usage, regardless of which system is being emulated. Documentation covering key assignments, settings, and related information for each system emulation module is linked to in the table of contents under "Emulation Module Documentation".

In several places references are made to the "base directory". If you are running a port on a UN*X-like system(Linux/*BSD/Mac OSX/SunOS/etc.), the base directory is "~/.mednafen", or in other words, "your home directory plus .mednafen". For all other ports(including DOS and MS Windows), the base directory is the directory that the executable is in.

Mednafen includes parts of or links with the following software packages and programs, so give the developers lots of thanks sometime(NOTE they do not provide user support for Mednafen, so don't ask them questions about Mednafen)!


Core Features


Automatic IPS Patching

Place the IPS file in the same directory as the file to load, and name it filename.ips.

        Examples:       Boat.nes - Boat.nes.ips
                        Boat.zip - Boat.zip.ips
                        Boat.nes.gz - Boat.nes.gz.ips
                        Boat     - Boat.ips
        

Some operating systems and environments will hide file extensions. Keep this in mind if you are having trouble.

Patching is supported for all supported formats, but it will probably only be useful for fixed-position file formats.

CD-ROM Emulation

With PC Engine CD and PC-FX emulation, Mednafen can load CD-ROM games from a physical CD-ROM, or a ripped/dumped copy of the disc, such as CUE+BIN. Using a ripped copy of the disc is recommended, due to speed issues and to the fact that physical CDs will be missing pregaps from the point of view of the emulated system.

For ripped disc images, Mednafen supports "CUE" sheets and cdrdao "TOC" files. Mednafen supports raw, simple storage formats supported by libsndfile(MS WAV, AIFF/AIFC, AU/SND, etc.), Ogg Vorbis, and MusePack audio files referenced by CUE sheets. MP3 is not supported, and will not be supported.

The cdrdao "TOC" support in Mednafen includes support for "RW_RAW" subchannel data, needed for CD+G. Note that Mednafen assumes that the Q subchannel is also included in the RW_RAW data area in the ripped image(even though the name "RW_RAW" would suggest it isn't present, cdrdao seems to included it). If the Q subchannel data is missing from the RW_RAW data area in the ripped image, Mednafen's CD emulation will not work properly.

Since 0.8.4, Mednafen will perform simple data correction on ripped CDROM images that contain EDC and L-EC data(2352-byte-per-sector "raw" rips"). It calculates the real EDC, and if it doesn't match the EDC recorded for that sector, it will evaluate the L-EC data to repair the data. If the data is unrepairable, an error message will be displayed.
This may cause problems with naive patches that don't update the error-correction data(at least the 32-bit EDC, if that's correct, the L-EC data will be ignored)! If you wish to use such an invalid patch, set the setting "cdrom.lec_eval" to 0.



Using Mednafen

Key Assignments

Key(s):Action:Configuration String:
F1Toggle in-game quick help screen.toggle_help
F5Save state.save_state
F7Load state.load_state
0-9Select save state slot."0" through "9"
-Decrement selected save state slot.state_slot_dec
=Increment selected save state slot.state_slot_inc
Shift + F5Record movie.save_movie
Shift + F7Play movie.load_movie
Shift + 0-9Select movie slot."m0" through "m9"
ALT + CToggle cheat console.togglecheatview
ALT + TToggle cheats active.togglecheatactive
TEnable network play console input.togglenetview
ALT + DToggle debugger.toggle_debugger
ALT + AEnter frame advance mode, if not already in it, and advance the frame.advance_frame
ALT + RExit frame advance mode.run_normal
SHIFT + F1Toggle frames-per-second display(from top to bottom, the display format is: virtual, rendered, blitted).toggle_fps_view
ALT + SToggle 600-frame(~10 seconds on NES) save-state rewinding functionality, disabled by default.state_rewind_toggle
BackspaceRewind emulation, if save-state rewinding functionality is enabled, up to 600 frames.state_rewind
F9Save screen snapshot.take_snapshot
Alt + EnterToggle fullscreen mode.toggle_fs
Ctrl + 1
through
Ctrl + 9
Toggle layer."tl1" through "tl9"
~Fast-forward.fast_forward
CTRL + SHIFT + iSelect input device on input port i(1-5).
Note:Many games do not expect input devices to change while the game is running, and thus may require a hard reset.
device_selecti
F2Activate in-game input configuration process for a command key.input_configc
Scroll LockToggle input grabbing(use this to use the PC Engine mouse properly in windowed mode).toggle_grab_input
Shift + Scroll LockToggle input grabbing AND command disabling(used for giving almost unhindered button access to an emulated device; most useful when emulating the Famicom's Family Keyboard).toggle_cdisable
F10Reset.reset
F11Hard reset(toggle power switch).power
Escape/F12Exit(the emulator, or netplay chat mode).exit


Command-line

Mednafen supports arguments passed on the command line. Arguments are taken in the form of "-parameter value". Some arguments are valueless.

In addition to the arguments listed in the table below, any setting listed in the "Settings" section of this document and any system emulation module sub-document can be set by prefixing it with a hyphen(-), followed by the parameter, such as: -nes.slstart 8

Argument:Parameter Type:Description:
-loadcd xstringLoad and boot a CD for system "x"(only "pce" is valid). This argument modifies the usage of the filename component of the command-line. For example, "mednafen -loadcd pce /somewhere/over/the/rainbow/game.cue" will load the CUE sheet as the emulated CDROM. "mednafen -loadcd pce" will load from the default physical CDROM device.
-connectTrigger to connect to remote host after the game is loaded.

Settings

Caution: Any settings that change emulation behavior as seen from the emulated game are shown with bold text in the table. One should be conscious of these settings if one has changed them from the default values when using network play or movies, as they can cause desychronizations if not set the same among hosts(or between the recording emulator and the playing emulator).

Settings listed in this table that contain <system> should have that string replaced with an emulation module name("nes", "pce", "pcfx", etc.).
Example: <system>.xscale becomes nes.xscale.


Bilinear interpolation, and alpha blending of some OSD layers are not available with the "SDL framebuffer" driver.
Setting:Value Type:Default value:Description:
autosave xboolean0Automatically save the game state when a game is closed and reload the state when the game is loaded again.
srwcompressor xstringminilzoCompressor to use with state rewinding: "minilzo", "quicklz", or "blz".
srwframes xinteger600Number of frames to keep states for when state rewinding is enabled.
dfmd5 xboolean1Include the MD5 hash of the loaded game in the filenames of the data file(save states, SRAM backups) Mednafen creates.
snapname xboolean0If value is true, use an alternate naming scheme(file base and numeric) for screen snapshots.
path_snap xstringPath override for screen snapshots. Set to an empty string or 0 to disable.
path_sav xstringPath override for save games and nonvolatile memory. Set to an empty string or 0 to disable.

WARNING: If you use Famicom Disk System emulation, and you set this setting to the same directory FDS disk images are in, and set the setting "dfmd5" to 0, you run the risk of corrupting your disk images.
path_state xstringPath override for save states. Set to an empty string or 0 to disable.
path_movie xstringPath override for movies. Set to an empty string or 0 to disable.
path_cheat xstringPath override for cheats. Set to an empty string or 0 to disable.
path_palette xstringPath override for custom palettes. Set to an empty string or 0 to disable.
filesys.snap_samedir xboolean0Write screen snapshots to the same directory the ROM/disk/disc image is in. Takes precedence over the "path_snap" setting.
filesys.sav_samedir xboolean0Write/Read save games and nonvolatile memory to/from the same directory the ROM/disk/disc image is in. Takes precedence over the "path_sav" setting.

WARNING: If you use Famicom Disk System emulation, and you set this to 1, and set the setting "dfmd5" to 0, you run the risk of corrupting your disk images.
filesys.state_samedir xboolean0Write/Read save states to/from the same directory the ROM/disk/disc image is in. Takes precedence over the "path_state" setting.
filesys.movie_samedir xboolean0Write/Read movies to/from the same directory the ROM/disk/disc image is in. Takes precedence over the "path_movie" setting.
filesys.disablesavegz xboolean0Disable gzip compression when saving save states and backup memory.
ffspeed xreal2Specifies the speed multiplier to be used in fast-forward mode.
fftoggle xboolean0Treat the fast-forward button as a toggle.
ffnosoundboolean0Silence sound output when fast-forwarding.
sfspeed xreal0.25Specifies the speed multiplier to be used in SLOW-forward mode.
sftoggle xboolean0Treat the SLOW-forward button as a toggle.
nothrottle xboolean0If value is true, disable the speed throttling that is used when sound emulation is disabled.
sound xboolean1If value is true, enable sound emulation and output.
soundrate xinteger48000Specifies the sound playback rate, in frames per second("Hz"). Rates higher than 48000, and lower than 8192, are not supported.
soundvol xinteger100Sound volume, in percent, from 0 to 100.
soundbufsize xinteger32(52 for Win32)Specifies the desired size of the sound buffer, in milliseconds.
sound.period_time xinteger0If non-zero, specifies the desired period size in microseconds. Currently only affects OSS and ALSA output. A value of 0 defers to the default in the driver code in SexyAL.
sounddriver xstringdefaultSelect sound driver. The following choices are possible, sorted by preference when "default" driver is used, but dependent on being compiled in:
  • alsa
    ALSA
    A recommended driver, and the default for Linux(if available).

  • oss
    Open Sound System
    A recommended driver, and the default for non-Linux UN*X/POSIX/BSD systems, or anywhere ALSA is unavailable. If the ALSA driver gives you problems, you can try using this one instead.

    If you are using OSSv4 or newer, you should edit "/usr/lib/oss/conf/osscore.conf", uncomment the max_intrate= line, and change the value from 100(default) to 1000(or higher if you know what you're doing), and restart OSS. Otherwise, performance will be poor, and the sound buffer size in Mednafen will be orders of magnitude larger than specified.

    If the sound buffer size is still excessively larger than what is specified via the "soundbufsize" setting, you can try setting "sound.period_time" to 2666, and as a last resort, 5333, to work around a design flaw/limitation/choice in the OSS API and OSS implementation.


  • dsound
    DirectSound(of DirectX)
    A recommended driver, and the default for Microsoft Windows.

  • sdl
    Simple Directmedia Layer
    This driver is not recommended, but it serves as a backup driver if the others aren't available. Its performance is generally sub-par, requiring higher latency or faster CPUs/SMP for glitch-free playback, except where the OS provides a sound callback API itself, such as with Mac OS X and BeOS.

  • jack
    Somewhat experimental driver, unusably buggy until Mednafen 0.8.C. The "soundbufsize" setting controls the size of the local sound buffer, not the server's sound buffer, and the latency reported during startup is for the local sound buffer only. Please note that video card drivers(in the kernel or X), and hardware-accelerated OpenGL, may interfere with jackd's ability to effectively run with realtime response.
sounddevice xstringdefaultSelect sound output device.

ALSA NOTE: When using the alsa driver, the "default" translates to "hw", not "default", before being sent to the ALSA API. This is necessary because ALSA's "default" audio device has very poor buffering control capabilities. If you really want to use ALSA's "default" device, use "sexyal-literal-default".
<system(pce, gba, gb, ngp only)>.forcemono xboolean0Force monophonic(instead of stereo) sound output.
autofirefreq xinteger3Set auto fire frequency to ~60Hz / (x + 1). Replace "60" with "50" for PAL games. A value of "0" disables the configured autofire buttons.
analogthreshold xinteger75Threshold for detecting a "button" press on analog axis, in percent.
ckdelay xinteger0The length of time, in milliseconds, that a button/key corresponding to a "dangerous" command like power, reset, exit, load state, etc. must be pressed before the command is executed.
nethost xstringSet server's hostname to connect to during netplay.
netport xinteger4046Set port number to connect to on remote host.
netpassword xstringThe optional password used to connect to a netplay server.
netlocalplayers xinteger1Set the number of local players on your system during netplay.
netnick xstringSet nickname used during chat when using netplay.
vdriver xstringopenglSelect which video output "driver" to use.
  • opengl = OpenGL + SDL

    This output method is preferred, as all features are available with it.


  • sdl = SDL surface

    Slower with lower-quality scaling than OpenGL, but if you don't have hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering, it will be faster than software OpenGL rendering. Bilinear interpolation not available. Pixel shaders do not work with this output method, of course.


  • overlay = SDL overlay

    As fast as OpenGL, perhaps faster in some situations, *if* it's hardware-accelerated. Scanline effects are not available. hq2x, hq3x, hq4x are not available. The OSD may be missing or glitchy. Bilinear interpolation can't be turned off. Harsh chroma subsampling bluring in some picture types.If you use this output method, it is strongly recommended to use a special scaler with it, such as nn2x.

<system>.vblur xboolean0Motion blur each frame with the last frame. This blur happens before all other filters and scaling. Additionally, enabling this will disable internal frameskipping.
<system>.vblur.accum xboolean0Accumulate color data rather than discarding it.
<system>.vblur.accum.amount xreal50Blur amount in accumulation mode, specified in percentage of accumulation buffer to mix with the current frame.
<system>.videoip xboolean(variable)Use bilinear interpolation.
<system>.scanlines xinteger0If non-zero, enable scanlines, with opacity specified in percent; 50 = 50% opacity, 100 = 100% opacity(entirely black scanlines).
<system>.special xstringnoneUse a special video scaling filter applied before OpenGL rasterization. The destination rectangle is NOT altered by this setting, so if you have xscale and yscale set to "2", and try to use a 3x scaling filter like hq3x, the image is not going to look that great. The nearest-neighbor scalers are intended for use with bilinear interpolation enabled, at high resolutions(such as 1280x1024; nn2x(or nny2x) + bilinear interpolation + fullscreen stretching at this resolution looks quite nice).
  • none or 0 (disable special scaler)
  • hq2x
  • hq3x
  • hq4x
  • scale2x
  • scale3x
  • scale4x
  • 2xsai
  • super2xsai
  • supereagle
  • nn2x (Nearest-neighbor 2x)
  • nn3x (Nearest-neighbor 3x)
  • nn4x (Nearest-neighbor 4x)
  • nny2x (Nearest-neighbor 2x, y axis only)
  • nny3x (Nearest-neighbor 3x, y axis only)
  • nny4x (Nearest-neighbor 4x, y axis only)
<system>.pixshader xstringnoneEnable specified OpenGL pixel shader. Obviously, this will only work in OpenGL mode(-vdriver 0), and only on cards and OpenGL implementations that support pixel shaders, otherwise you will get a black screen, or Mednafen may display an error message when starting up. Bilinear interpolation is disabled with pixel shaders, and any interpolation, if present, will be noted in the description of each pixel shader.
  • none (disable pixel shader)
  • ipxnoty Linear interpolation on X axis only.
  • ipynotx Linear interpolation on Y axis only.
  • ipsharper Sharper bilinear interpolation.
  • ipxnotysharper Sharper version of "ipxnoty".
  • ipynotxsharper Sharper version of "ipynotx".
  • scale2x Scale2X effect. It can be used with the "scale2x", "scale3x", and "scale4x" special scalers, giving "scale4x", "scale6x", and "scale8x", respectively.
<system>.stretch xstring0Stretch to fill screen when in fullscreen mode.
  • off or 0 (disabled)
  • full or 1 Full-screen stretch, disregarding aspect ratio.
  • aspect or 2 Full-screen stretch as far as the aspect ratio(in this sense, the equivalent xscalefs == yscalefs) can be maintained.
glvsync xboolean1Attempt to synchronize OpenGL page flips to vertical retrace period.

Note: Additionally, if this setting is 1, and the environment variable "__GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK" is not set at all(either 0 or any value), then it will be set to "1". This has the effect of forcing vblank synchronization when running under Linux with NVidia's drivers.

<system>.xscale
(<system>.xscalefs)
/
<system>.yscale
(<system>.yscalefs)
real(variable)Specify the scaling factor for each axis.
<system>.xres x
/
<system>.yres y
integervariableSet the desired horizontal/vertical resolution when in fullscreen mode.
fsboolean0Full screen mode.

Firmware/BIOS

Some emulation modules require firmware/BIOS images to function. If a firmware path is non-absolute(doesn't begin with C:\ or / or similar), Mednafen will try to load the file relative to the "firmware" directory under the Mednafen base directory. If it doesn't find it there, it will be loaded relative to the Mednafen base directory itself. Of course, if the "path_firmware" setting is set to a custom value, the firmware files will be searched relative to that path.


Credits

Name:Contribution(s):
\Firebug\High-level mapper information.
Andrea MazzoleniScale2x/Scale3x scalers included in Mednafen.
BeroOriginal FCE source code.
Brad TaylorNES sound information.
Charles MacDonaldPC Engine technical information.
EFXTesting.
Fredrik OlsonNES four-player adapter information.
Gilles VollantPKZIP file loading functions.
gorohVarious documents.
Info-ZIPZLIB
Jeremy ChadwickGeneral NES information.
kevtrisLow-level NES information and sound information.
KiVarious technical information.
Mark KnibbsVarious NES information.
Marat FayzullinGeneral NES information.
Matthew ConteSound information.
Maxim Stepinhq2x and hq3x scalers included in Mednafen.
MitsutakaYM2413 emulator.
noriFDS sound information.
rahgaFamicom four-player adapter information.
TheRedEyeROM images, testing.
XodnizelFCE Ultra.
...and everyone whose name my mind has misplaced.


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 * purchased on magnetic or optical media from Unicode, Inc., the
 * sole remedy for any claim will be exchange of defective media
 * within 90 days of receipt.
 *
 * Limitations on Rights to Redistribute This Code
 *
 * Unicode, Inc. hereby grants the right to freely use the information
 * supplied in this file in the creation of products supporting the
 * Unicode Standard, and to make copies of this file in any form
 * for internal or external distribution as long as this notice
 * remains attached.
MD5 Hashing:
/*
 * RFC 1321 compliant MD5 implementation,
 * by Christophe Devine ;
 * this program is licensed under the GPL.
 */
V810 Emulator:
 * Copyright (C) 2006 David Tucker
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
Unzipping Code:
/* unzip.c -- IO for uncompress .zip files using zlib
   Version 1.01e, February 12th, 2005

   Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Gilles Vollant

   Read unzip.h for more info
*/

/* Decryption code comes from crypt.c by Info-ZIP but has been greatly reduced in terms of
compatibility with older software. The following is from the original crypt.c. Code
woven in by Terry Thorsen 1/2003.
*/
/*
  Copyright (c) 1990-2000 Info-ZIP.  All rights reserved.

  See the accompanying file LICENSE, version 2000-Apr-09 or later
  (the contents of which are also included in zip.h) for terms of use.
  If, for some reason, all these files are missing, the Info-ZIP license
  also may be found at:  ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/license.html
*/
MiniLZO:
   Copyright (C) 2005 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 2004 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 2003 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 2002 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 2001 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 2000 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 1999 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 1998 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 1997 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   Copyright (C) 1996 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
   All Rights Reserved.

   The LZO library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
   the License, or (at your option) any later version.

   The LZO library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with the LZO library; see the file COPYING.
   If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
   59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

   Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
   <markus@oberhumer.com>
   http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
Fuse Z80 emulation code:
   Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Philip Kendall, Witold Filipczyk

   $Id: z80_ops.c,v 1.56 2004/06/09 10:55:09 pak21 Exp $

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

   Author contact information:

   E-mail: pak21-fuse@srcf.ucam.org
   Postal address: 15 Crescent Road, Wokingham, Berks, RG40 2DB, England
NeoPop Neo Geo Pocket (Color) Code:
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// NEOPOP : Emulator as in Dreamland
//
// Copyright (c) 2001-2002 by neopop_uk
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
//      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
//      the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
//      (at your option) any later version. See also the license.txt file for
//      additional informations.
V810 FPU Emulation:
/*============================================================================

This C source file is part of the SoftFloat IEC/IEEE Floating-point Arithmetic
Package, Release 2b.

Written by John R. Hauser.  This work was made possible in part by the
International Computer Science Institute, located at Suite 600, 1947 Center
Street, Berkeley, California 94704.  Funding was partially provided by the
National Science Foundation under grant MIP-9311980.  The original version
of this code was written as part of a project to build a fixed-point vector
processor in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley,
overseen by Profs. Nelson Morgan and John Wawrzynek.  More information
is available through the Web page `http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jhauser/
arithmetic/SoftFloat.html'.

THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED AS IS, FOR FREE.  Although reasonable effort has
been made to avoid it, THIS SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN FAULTS THAT WILL AT TIMES
RESULT IN INCORRECT BEHAVIOR.  USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS RESTRICTED TO PERSONS
AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO CAN AND WILL TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL LOSSES,
COSTS, OR OTHER PROBLEMS THEY INCUR DUE TO THE SOFTWARE, AND WHO FURTHERMORE
EFFECTIVELY INDEMNIFY JOHN HAUSER AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
INSTITUTE (possibly via similar legal warning) AGAINST ALL LOSSES, COSTS, OR
OTHER PROBLEMS INCURRED BY THEIR CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS DUE TO THE SOFTWARE.

Derivative works are acceptable, even for commercial purposes, so long as
(1) the source code for the derivative work includes prominent notice that
the work is derivative, and (2) the source code includes prominent notice with
these four paragraphs for those parts of this code that are retained.

=============================================================================*/
PC-FX MJPEG Decoding:
/*
 * jrevdct.c
 *
 * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, Thomas G. Lane.
 * This file is part of the Independent JPEG Group's software.
 * For conditions of distribution and use, see the accompanying README file.
 *
 */
(The file is included in the Mednafen source distribution as mednafen/Documentation/README.jpeg4a)
VRC7 Sound Emulation:
/*
YM2413 emulator written by Mitsutaka Okazaki 2001

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications. To alter this software and redistribute it freely,
if the origin of this software is not misrepresented.
*/
NEC V30MZ Emulator:
/* This NEC V30MZ emulator may be used for purposes both commercial and noncommercial if you give the author, Bryan McPhail,
   a small credit somewhere(such as in the documentation for an executable package).
*/
NEC V30MZ disassembler(modified BOCHS x86 disassembler):
Caution: Bochs' code is under the LGPL, but it is unclear if "or (at your option) any later version." applies to the x86 disassembler code.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
Cygne:
Cygne is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL Version 2, 1991.
Copyright 2002 Dox, dox@space.pl.

QuickLZ:
                     QuickLZ 1.20 data compression library
                 Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Lasse Mikkel Reinhold

QuickLZ can be used for free under the GPL-1 or GPL-2 license (where anything
released into public must be open source) or under a commercial license if such
has been acquired (see http://www.quicklz.com/order.html). The commercial license
does not cover derived or ported versions created by third parties under GPL.

Q-Subchannel CRC16 Code:
/*  cdrdao - write audio CD-Rs in disc-at-once mode
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 1998  Andreas Mueller 
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 */
SMS Plus:
    Copyright (C) 1998-2004  Charles MacDonald

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
EMU2413(used in SMS emulation):
  Copyright (C) Mitsutaka Okazaki 2004

  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty.
  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from
  the use of this software.

  Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
  including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
  freely, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
     claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
     in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
     appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
     be misrepresented as being the original software.
  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
blz:
/* Copyright (C) 2007 Shay Green. This module is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License, version 2 or later, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. */
CD-ROM data correction code:
/*  dvdisaster: Additional error correction for optical media.
 *  Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Carsten Gnoerlich.
 *  Project home page: http://www.dvdisaster.com
 *  Email: carsten@dvdisaster.com  -or-  cgnoerlich@fsfe.org
 *
 *  The Reed-Solomon error correction draws a lot of inspiration - and even code -
 *  from Phil Karn's excellent Reed-Solomon library: http://www.ka9q.net/code/fec/
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA,
 *  or direct your browser at http://www.gnu.org.
 */