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

Development: Pull requests

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

Formula code: blastem.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux x86_64

Current versions:

stable 0.6.2
head ⚡️ HEAD

Revision: 3

Depends on:

glew 2.3.1 OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
sdl2-compat 2.32.70 SDL2 compatibility layer that uses SDL3 behind the scenes

Depends on when building from source:

imagemagick 7.1.2-27 Tools and libraries to manipulate images in select formats
pillow 12.3.0 Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library)
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.14 3.14.6 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Requires: x86_64 architecture

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
blastem --HEAD 15
blastem 7
Installs on Request (30 days)
blastem --HEAD 15
blastem 7
Build Errors (30 days)
blastem 0
Installs (90 days)
blastem --HEAD 54
blastem 22
Installs on Request (90 days)
blastem --HEAD 54
blastem 22
Installs (365 days)
blastem 74
blastem --HEAD 65
Installs on Request (365 days)
blastem 74
blastem --HEAD 65