PicoDriveDS 0.1.6
PicoDriveDS 0.1.6 is up! Changes:
- Added Max Media Dock FAT support (thanks chishm/Bonic)
- Added EZ4 FAT support (thanks cory1492/Rudolph)
- Reduced memory usage, 3MB ROMs should work again
- Added EXPERIMENTAL support for using the additional RAM on SuperCard SD carts to load ROMs larger than 3MB. This comes with the standard warning that this feature may cause file corruption on your SD card. The SCSD may also keep the Genesis ROM in GBA ROM space after a reboot, causing PicoDriveDS to see it as an appended ROM and crash on startup – to fix this issue simply power down, take the SCSD out, and wait a few seconds.
Grab it here or in the usual location.
Great, great, and re-great!
DEF
27 Nov 06 at 9:00 am
yop! first to trying it!
Seem’s to have a big speed and display improvement!
Very very good job, as ever!
Thank you Ryan!
toiletking
27 Nov 06 at 2:15 pm
Wow, A new version. Thanks for your hardwork!! Gotta test this as soon as possible. (=
Havoc_012
27 Nov 06 at 3:04 pm
Yes a new update, Yes works with MMD. Thanks for making a new updated.
Badam
27 Nov 06 at 3:27 pm
Thanks for the update!
mmmax
27 Nov 06 at 4:02 pm
Your welcome Badam.
Bonic
27 Nov 06 at 4:21 pm
Thanks very much.
dreamlike
27 Nov 06 at 8:12 pm
Great update! Plays Sonic 2 perfectly! Just needs sound.
FusionHype
27 Nov 06 at 9:05 pm
ok for once i like but theres a slight problem i’m haveing in the media max it loads but never see’z the roms i inserted when it goes to sruch for em and then freezes in what is it inst fat and well idk if i missed something or what.
trigger
28 Nov 06 at 1:03 am
Thanks for your great work.
All french genesis fans want this emulator.
Ryo
28 Nov 06 at 2:26 am
Hi RyanB*Great work even I haven’t try this release. Could you make some speed increase ? I can’t wait to play Thunderforce 4 with “full speed” and sound ! (maybe you can use the picodrive source for GP2X to help you).
Mortys
28 Nov 06 at 5:31 am
Hi
its nice to play Mega drive on DS,but how i got it to start this stuff on Supercard lite (MicroSD)
Help!!!!
crossout
28 Nov 06 at 6:27 am
doesn’t work for me..
i use SUPERKEY2 and SUPERCARD with CF on DS lite
the files load and freeze at 600 on 704 (i use .ds.gba file because the other don’t work for me)
wade
28 Nov 06 at 1:12 pm
just use the .ds.gba and rename it .nds Crossout.
Ryan I’ve just try it and it’s incredible. Thunder Force 4 is near full speed (as I can see). I cna’t wait the next release that, I hope, will have full speed and even maybe sound
Mortys
28 Nov 06 at 1:35 pm
Thank you! I love your emu, and hope it continues to develop!
Cory
28 Nov 06 at 2:11 pm
Hey, think at some point the M3’s Ram can be used to try to play roms larger than 3MB?
Thanks for the work!
The Hombrew Hunter
28 Nov 06 at 2:25 pm
ok that right , i needed to rename GBA to NDS (i forget this detail..)
speed is better than the 1.5 (i test with Street of rage 1.2 and3 and Best of the best) version but no sound yet …hope in the next version
some little trouble to change game with the SELECT button…
this emulator is in the good way!!
wade
28 Nov 06 at 2:31 pm
People, he didn’t really change alot of things, he added more rom support and I ADDED the max media code, say your thanks you to everyone who help people
Bonic
28 Nov 06 at 4:37 pm
Put NHL 94 in for it to use. It seems to run for a couple of seconds, then freeze for 10 or so. Obviously that’s a bit of a handicap:)
Drood
28 Nov 06 at 6:54 pm
What do you expect, Bonic? I think it’s nice that PicoDriveDS supports MMD now, but people who use M3, SC (like me) or any other gadget won’t be able to appreciate your work.
Anyhow: thanks to everyone who contributed to this emulator, and keep up the good work. Happy now?
Funkgod
30 Nov 06 at 7:40 am
Working fine on M3 SD.
Graphic’s fluidity is enhanced with this release.
DEF
30 Nov 06 at 12:03 pm
Looking good! Works fine on the CF Supercard with the latest Firmware. I’ll keep touching it.
Higurb
30 Nov 06 at 12:22 pm
Thank you Bonic for helping him ! It’s very nice for owner of max media support !
Good job!
Ps : could you help him for sound support? ;o)
toiletking
1 Dec 06 at 4:22 pm
You guys thinks its easy to add sound support, trust me, its VERY hard..
Bonic
1 Dec 06 at 5:14 pm
Hi! This emulator is FANTASTIC! Thanks a lot… great work
I have made a guide (only Italian Language) for Supercard users
http://buothz.altervista.org/buothzds/buothzds.html
Thanks a lot
Buothz
1 Dec 06 at 9:51 pm
I still love it, but..
I think the comment I left for 0.1.5, the 6 Button Config. That would be the best!
And, if it’s possible, figure out how to make http://umk3.hacking-cult.org/ work.
The Hombrew Hunter
2 Dec 06 at 2:09 pm
News!
G6 drivers have been released!
They can be found here:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11…sc&start=30
I test scumvm with this and libfat works on my G6 !!!!!
I will like to see PicodriveDS on my linker G6 now.
Kasimir2007
4 Dec 06 at 9:49 am
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11430&start=30
Kasimir2007
4 Dec 06 at 10:11 am
Guys, the original picodrive, which has been ported, never included sound support. I have no idea what chip it uses but I can guarantee you that emulating it from scratch is no mean feat. Plus, if you don’t like the speed now, how do you think you’ll feel when it’s trying to emulate sound as well? The DS isn’t a very powerful little machine, and even getting it to run faster will take some pretty nifty memory management…..so cut the guy some slack, hey? It’s a great and, more importantly, the ONLY Megadrive emulator for the DS.
Smashed
5 Dec 06 at 8:23 am
Hi Bonic!
Just a little question! do you think that it is possible to macke an Amiga emulator like uae, without windows manager (amiga os) on DS (just launching amiga games) ? I think that because of the similarity of those hardware…
I’m fond of megadrive and amiga, and i’m very happy to find some amiga games on genesis ! (with picodrive)!
toiletking
5 Dec 06 at 3:56 pm
Thank you very much for your work on this. I cant wait to test this out. Thanks
Silent Bob
31 Dec 06 at 3:25 pm
Anyone can help me?
I rename the .ds.gba file to .nds but does not work for me.i’m using supercard lite microsd.
please heelp!
V1KT0R
6 Jan 07 at 6:33 pm
Hey, im having trouble getting this to work on the SC1. It worked fine on my friend’s SC after patching, but on the SC1 it loads and shows ‘Load rom’ but nothing else is displayed. Any thoughts?
Ben
9 Jan 07 at 5:41 am
is it just me or is there no sound
dan
10 Jan 07 at 2:31 pm
(Same as Ben. but with M3 DS Simply)
Mienaikage
10 Jan 07 at 10:44 pm
Also I don’t know if this is relevant because they’re on different platforms, but I have a mobile (symbian series 60) version of PicoDrive that has sound support.
Mienaikage
10 Jan 07 at 10:46 pm
Thanks for your work.Ryan!
Liang #17
15 Jan 07 at 3:53 am
On my SC Micro SD Lite, I can only run picodrive under Moonshell. Works perfectly (more than 300 games tested). Maybe it would solve most of the SC problems described here. Great job, fellows! Thanks a lot, Genesis was so important for me.
Ifuriita
17 Jan 07 at 11:06 am
The emu it self works on the R4DS card but does not find the roms which are also on the microsd card, do you have to put them in a folder or patch them?
New to this.
Any help would be great, thanks
Bazza
tecnobaz
27 Jan 07 at 2:52 pm
Same prob as some other peeps
I have an m3 simply (same as the R4)
Ive patched picodriveds.nds with dlditool and r4tf.dldi and placed .nds and rom files into sd cards root dir, emu loads but show ‘LOAD ROM’ but does not list the roms
Bazza it still dont work when patched but maybe the roms need to be in a specific folder…anyone know???
help would be appreciated
thanks
Herod
3 Feb 07 at 11:16 am
when will there b sound?
Tom
29 May 08 at 3:20 am