Genesis The MD Engine, a modern game engine for retro hardware

[Ezri_Muldoon]

You read that title, a honest to God visual game engine with a similar interface to RPG Maker, Unity & the Hammer editor.

With support for Rom compilations & Steam releases built in
Meaning you can play your games on REAL hardware (With a SD flashcart or reproduction card) alongside publishing it on Steam for easy public accessibility.

Remember pier solar and the great architects?
The multiplatform indie RPG for the MegaCD, Megadrive, Dreamcast & modern PC's? (Plus PS4/Xbox) With MD Engine this could be the standard release model.

Here are a few examples of games made using the engine:

This is the coolest thing I have seen in years.

 

[Advil Lavs]

This is literally GBStudio for Mega Drive games. It looks awesome and I hope it really is as good as GBStudio in terms of making a game easilly and utilizing the quirks of the console.

 

[jesterodoll]

this is so fucking exciting i cannot WAIT to explore this at some point and see what kind of things can be made

 

[JPchicre]

These examples look so cool. Even clean and modern. I love these types of things, like the similar engine for GameBoy. There is a bunch of HomeBrew stuff hosted in CDromance made with that.

 

[Natsuyasumi]

You read that title, a honest to God visual game engine with a similar interface to RPG Maker, Unity & the Hammer editor.

With support for Rom compilations & Steam releases built in
Meaning you can play your games on REAL hardware (With a SD flashcart or reproduction card) alongside publishing it on Steam for easy public accessibility.

Remember pier solar and the great architects?
The multiplatform indie RPG for the MegaCD, Megadrive, Dreamcast & modern PC's? (Plus PS4/Xbox) With MD Engine this could be the standard release model.

Here are a few examples of games made using the engine:

This is the coolest thing I have seen in years.

Very very very cool. Wish they had something like this for SNES.

 

[Graw]

Here's the link to the engine itself and the Steam page Seeing as it wasn't in the op.

With documentation available here:

Home | MD Engine

MD Engine is a visual engine to create games compatible with the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis consoles.

mdengine.dev

As well as a tutorial series:

Two Black Cats

😺 Creators of MD Engine 😺 Converting modern games to retro consoles. 日本語OK

youtube.com

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Looks really cool!

I love to see engines on old consoles so people can develop new games for these old beasts.

 

[thumbsdown]

Very very very cool. Wish they had something like this for SNES.

For the good, for the bad... at least we got PVSnesLib and the-like https://github.com/alekmaul/pvsneslib

Post automatically merged: Dec 6, 2025

When it comes to SNES development, music is the hardest shit to deal with

 

[Moreno909]

Megadrive chads win again

 

[killk28]

I wish there is a mac version

 

[BiriCross]

It looks cool.

 

[MrYesterday]

Is this open source?

 

[Zobbster]

This is a brilliant find. Hopefully it'll encourage some new devs to try their hand at game making.

 

[PhaseJump]

20 bucks huh?

SGDK and stimulant abuse sounds better to me.