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Game Gear hardware test ROMs

This project runs a suite of test ROMs on multiple revisions of Game Gear hardware to probe its poorly-understood behavior; the resulting differential testing has exposed numerous bugs in Game Gear emulators.

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Game Gear hardware is poorly understood, as widespread emulator errors indicate.

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  1. Game Gear hardware test ROMs

    This project runs a suite of test ROMs on multiple revisions of Game Gear hardware to probe its poorly-understood behavior; the resulting differential testing has exposed numerous bugs in Game Gear emulators.

    Problem: Game Gear hardware is poorly understood, as widespread emulator errors indicate.

    Posted by @MrMetric · Original comment ↗

    “I've been running a bunch of test ROMs on multiple revisions of hardware, and oh boy is that thing poorly-understood, if emulator errors are anything to go by.”