Which handheld runs Genesis?

Sega Genesis / Mega Drive (Sega, 1988) tested on 11 devices, cheapest first.

Cheapest device in this data that handles Genesis

Nearly flawless across everything from 8-bit through PS1.

Every tested device

Anbernic RG35XX H

Allwinner H700 (quad-core Cortex-A53) · ~$65
Full speed

Everything through PS1 runs without effort on the H700.

Tested by:Retro Dodo

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Devices are ordered by price, not by score, because the useful question is usually the cheapest thing that clears the bar rather than the best thing available. “Playable” is where most people should stop reading upward: past that you are paying for headroom and upscaling, not for the game running.

Devices absent from this list have no published Genesis testing found. That is a gap in the data, not a verdict on the hardware.

Other systems