{ "count": 1, "generated_at": "2026-10-20T02:57:31Z", "items": [ { "id": "supermodel", "profile": { "core_classification": "community_fork", "core_version": { "libretro": "v0.3a-libretro", "standalone": "0.3a-WIP" }, "cores": [ "supermodel" ], "display_name": "Sega - Model 3 (Supermodel)", "emulator": "Supermodel", "exclusion_note": "The Sega Model 3 arcade hardware has no shared system BIOS. Each game board contains its own program ROMs (CROM), video ROMs (VROM), sound program, sound samples, and optional DSB/drive board ROMs, all contained within per-game MAME-format ZIP archives. Supermodel loads all required data from these game ZIPs via CRC32-based identification defined in Games.xml. The files listed above are the emulator's own data, not system ROMs.\n", "files": [ { "bundled": true, "description": "ROM set definitions", "md5": "0c7cfc0cba2f2cd674d94e093936f9f8", "mode": "standalone", "name": "Games.xml", "note": "Parsed at startup into the game database (Src/GameLoader.cpp:549-559, 1014-1017). Every ROM region, file name and CRC32 the loader matches against comes from here, so an unreadable file leaves no set to resolve and the launch returns before the emulator is built. The path is a config key, so -game-xml-file moves it. Nothing about the file is verified beyond parsing. The hash is that of the copy the pinned revision ships.", "required": true, "sha1": "6871a47de90ca67f9ff8e4e280416851a8164563", "size": 151626, "source_ref": "Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:117, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:1500, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:1957, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:2319-2329", "standalone_path": "Config/Games.xml" }, { "bundled": true, "description": "ROM set definitions, libretro copy", "has_builtin": true, "md5": [ "2d16307ceb658636a05d34c7ba935b48", "29fd5bc40cea222e040c1a1cfd60ea2e" ], "mode": "libretro", "name": "Games.xml", "note": "Read through the VFS from {system}/supermodel/Games.xml, or Config/Games.xml under it, and parsed from memory (Src/GameLoader.cpp:1019-1030). When the read yields nothing the bytes compiled in from Config/Games.xml are parsed instead, so the core identifies every set without a file on disk, but a file that is present takes precedence. The second hash is the embedded array, which predates the indentation cleanup of the repository copy by one tab.", "path": "supermodel/Games.xml", "required": false, "sha1": [ "fa334ab5ba6366bd28168860c913e6365b9fec96", "57500ad35b883acb5e7766c04f5b42e65185715c" ], "size": [ 148364, 148362 ], "source_ref": "Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:187-206, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:221-222, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:822, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:834-859, Makefile:651-653" }, { "bundled": true, "description": "Configuration override", "has_builtin": true, "md5": "06533608174992f6ea180ae190011778", "mode": "libretro", "name": "Supermodel.ini", "note": "Read from {system}/supermodel/Supermodel.ini, or Config/Supermodel.ini under it, when present, and a file that fails to parse aborts the load. Core options are applied over it afterwards, so it only reaches keys the options do not set and per-game sections. Extracted from the embedded copy when absent.", "path": "supermodel/Supermodel.ini", "required": false, "sha1": "cbda2b3fa65e37c5c2824a4630f95f145533c360", "size": 9421, "source_ref": "Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:187-206, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:219-220, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:812-817, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:858, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:865-866, Makefile:659-661" }, { "bundled": true, "description": "Player 1 light gun crosshair texture", "md5": "9012018f50f707c1707009346eb5d18b", "mode": "standalone", "name": "p1crosshair.bmp", "note": "Both bitmaps are read on every launch whatever CrosshairStyle holds, since the load runs before the style decides anything, and a null surface aborts startup ahead of the Model 3 object. 32 bit BMP with alpha, sides a multiple of 2. The libretro build opens the same two files from the Assets directory of the standalone layout, outside the frontend directories, but forces the vector style and never draws them, and its repository does not ship them.", "required": true, "sha1": "581cea232c296c7bd76f3101c3ae1bffdf5abf08", "size": 295992, "source_ref": "Src/OSD/SDL/Crosshair.cpp:34-51, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:2372-2378, Assets/DIR.txt, Src/OSD/libretro/libretroCrosshair.cpp:36-60, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:465-471, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroConfigProvider.h:361", "standalone_path": "Assets/p1crosshair.bmp" }, { "bundled": true, "description": "Player 2 light gun crosshair texture", "md5": "866dbf59a0e2d849de2365e1c953cc97", "mode": "standalone", "name": "p2crosshair.bmp", "note": "Read in the same call as the player 1 bitmap and equally fatal when it fails to load.", "required": true, "sha1": "13c5e692c7acf2ec8243ac421d58fdf69c6c2370", "size": 295992, "source_ref": "Src/OSD/SDL/Crosshair.cpp:35, 49-51, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:2372-2378, Src/OSD/libretro/libretroCrosshair.cpp:39, 55-58", "standalone_path": "Assets/p2crosshair.bmp" }, { "bundled": true, "description": "Custom MPEG music track map", "md5": "ddb4e23db15dda67539eee24de23de4b", "name": "Music.xml", "note": "Consulted only for a game with a DSB1 or DSB2 board, and skipped when the file is absent. Maps an MPEG ROM offset to an MP3 the user supplies. The shipped file is a commented example. The libretro core resolves it beside Games.xml and has no embedded copy.", "path": "supermodel/Music.xml", "required": false, "sha1": "b44ed959fe2948a03d81b98e67ca32f2b4c37e78", "size": 9224, "source_ref": "Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:118, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:943, Src/Sound/MPEG/MpegAudio.cpp:88-108, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:223, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:494", "standalone_path": "Config/Music.xml" } ], "notes": "Open-source Sega Model 3 arcade emulator by Bart Trzynadlowski (trzy) and\ncontributors, under GPL-3.0. Emulates all three Model 3 steppings (1.0, 1.5,\n2.0/2.1) including Real3D graphics, SCSP sound, DSB1/DSB2 MPEG music boards,\ndrive boards, and net board. Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS).\n\nThe libretro core is Libretro-Supermodel, developed by sgiannop on top of\nthe 2019 libretro attempt and now held under the libretro organisation on\nGitHub, mirrored at the same revision on git.libretro.com where the buildbot\npipeline lives (.gitlab-ci.yml). It carries the whole Supermodel tree with\nits own OSD under Src/OSD/libretro and reports v0.3a-libretro. The older\nlibretro/supermodel repository on GitHub keeps the full trzy history and\nreceived the same feature branch as its PR #2, but has no CI file and is\nnot what the buildbot publishes.\nref: Src/OSD/libretro/libretro.cpp:937-938, Docs/README.md:5-12\n\nUses MAME-compatible ROM sets loaded from ZIP archives. GameLoader identifies\ngames by CRC32 checksums defined in Games.xml. Parent/child ROM set\nrelationships exist between regional variants of the same game, not as shared\nBIOS sets. No standalone BIOS or firmware files are loaded outside of game ZIPs.\nThe core routes the ZIP reads through the libretro VFS.\nref: Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:828-832, Src/OSD/libretro/vfs_ioapi.cpp\n\nStandalone: four data files of its own are read from the install tree, Config/\nand Assets/ relative to the working directory on Windows and macOS. On Linux\nthe same relative directories are used when Config/ exists in the working\ndirectory, otherwise ~/.supermodel/ when present, otherwise the XDG data and\nconfig homes. Supermodel.ini is written from a compiled-in default when it is\nabsent and rewritten after interactive input configuration. NVRAM/.nv\nand Saves/.st are written by the emulator itself.\nref: Src/OSD/Windows/FileSystemPath.cpp:28-49, Src/OSD/OSX/FileSystemPath.cpp:28-48,\n Src/OSD/Unix/FileSystemPath.cpp:51-157, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:1394-1413,\n Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:1445, Src/OSD/SDL/Main.cpp:2233\n\nLibretro: retro_init joins \"supermodel\" to the frontend system directory and\nthe core creates that directory through the VFS. Supermodel.ini, Games.xml and\nMusic.xml are looked up flat in it first, then under a Config/ subdirectory\nkept for the initial port's layout. Games.xml and Supermodel.ini are also\ncompiled into the binary from the repository copies, and when neither layout\nholds the file the embedded bytes are written to the flat path on first run.\nAn external file is read in preference to the embedded one and never updated\nafterwards. Music.xml has no embedded copy.\nref: Src/OSD/libretro/libretro.cpp:855-863, Src/OSD/libretro/libretro.cpp:889-894,\n Src/OSD/libretro/libretro.cpp:1113, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:166-206,\n Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:208-228, Makefile:640-653, Makefile:659-661\n\nLibretro NVRAM is the frontend .srm through the memory API. On the first frame\na .nv written by the standalone build is imported from the save directory\nwhen the .srm is empty. It is never written back. Save states are serialised in\nmemory, and a state file on disk is loaded only when InitStateFile names one,\nwhich the core option layer leaves empty.\nref: Src/OSD/libretro/libretro.cpp:766-781, Src/OSD/libretro/libretro.cpp:1380-1409,\n Src/OSD/libretro/libretro.cpp:1685-1690, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:479,\n Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroWrapper.cpp:544-545, Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroConfigProvider.h:15\n\nThe Legacy3D renderer compiles its shaders from built-in strings and reads a\nfile only when VertexShader or FragmentShader names one, and both default to an\nempty string in either build.\nref: Src/Graphics/Shader.cpp:52-63, Src/Graphics/Shader.cpp:100-108,\n Src/OSD/libretro/LibretroConfigProvider.h:22-23\n\nEmuDeck installs the Flatpak package (com.supermodel3.Supermodel). Config\nstored in ~/.supermodel/Config/. No checkBIOS entry in EmuDeck.\n", "profiled_date": "2026-09-17", "source": { "libretro": "https://git.libretro.com/libretro/Libretro-Supermodel", "standalone": "https://github.com/trzy/Supermodel" }, "source_commit": { "libretro": "84bc106b45b279bf868a53b9232897c8dc10ca17", "standalone": "8b4de239bf3e0fd921f4383edcd3c21c2e62067b" }, "systems": [ "sega-model3" ], "type": "standalone + libretro", "upstream": "https://github.com/trzy/Supermodel", "upstream_commit": "8b4de239bf3e0fd921f4383edcd3c21c2e62067b" } } ], "kind": "emulators", "schema_version": 1 }