blastem (deprecated)

Disable date: 2026-09-28

Install command:
brew install blastem

Fast and accurate Genesis emulator

https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/blastem.json

Formula code: blastem.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Intel
sonoma
ventura
Linux x86_64

Current versions:

stable 0.6.2
head ⚡️ HEAD

Revision: 2

Depends on:

glew 2.2.0 OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
sdl2 2.32.10 Low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics

Depends on when building from source:

imagemagick 7.1.2-8 Tools and libraries to manipulate images in many formats
pillow 12.0.0 Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library)
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.14 3.14.0 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Requires: x86_64 architecture

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
blastem 3
blastem --HEAD 2
Installs on Request (30 days)
blastem 3
blastem --HEAD 2
Build Errors (30 days)
blastem 0
Installs (90 days)
blastem 20
blastem --HEAD 5
Installs on Request (90 days)
blastem 20
blastem --HEAD 5
Installs (365 days)
blastem 80
blastem --HEAD 12
Installs on Request (365 days)
blastem 80
blastem --HEAD 12