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PicoDriveDS 0.1.7

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PicoDriveDS 0.1.7 is up! Changes:

  • Updated for DKA r20 and latest libnds.
  • Switched to libfat with DLDI support.
  • Fixed bug where select key must be released quickly in order to go back to file selection menu.
  • Appended ROM check now only happens if FAT is unable to init.
  • Added untested Opera RAM expansion support, and RAM support for SCCF.

Grab it here.

Written by ryanfb

February 4th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

Posted in Coding, Homebrew, NDS

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  1. Haha~~~I’m waiting so~~~~~~~~~long. good job 0.1.7.

    liang #17

    4 Feb 07 at 11:00 pm

  2. Awesome. I’ve been really looking forward to this. Does the opera ram support provide a speed increase? If it does, I might have to buy the web browser (=

    Havoc_012

    5 Feb 07 at 12:24 am

  3. Hi,

    Will you add M3 lite ram support ?

    the emu is running quite good and keep up the good work. :)

    VMAN

    5 Feb 07 at 3:56 am

  4. Nice to see some new releases :)
    Havoc_012 : It will not increase speed, it will allow you to load some big roms that can’t be loaded elseway (because internal DS’ RAM is not big enough).
    I own the opera expention card, but i’m using a SLOT2 flashcard so I can’t test it with this release :(

    Sylver

    5 Feb 07 at 5:13 am

  5. does this have sound yet ?

    bobbin the bob

    5 Feb 07 at 6:43 am

  6. Thanks for the new release!

    Cory Roberts

    5 Feb 07 at 7:29 am

  7. Yeeeepieeeee :) .
    Goin’ to test it right here, right now!

    DEF

    5 Feb 07 at 3:09 pm

  8. I use M3 SD.

    Seems speed is better. New menu selection works, but i can’t load another game when one is loaded.

    Save states works fine for stable games.

    Compatibility seems the same.

    Most strange graphical bugs: assault suit leynos / target earth.

    Most roxor megadriver: ryanfb ;) thanks dude.

    DEF

    5 Feb 07 at 3:34 pm

  9. YOU ROCK… this emu is very good, and I hope you keep up the work and improve it. I use the M3 DSsimply, no problems. thanks

    Aaron Robinson

    5 Feb 07 at 4:10 pm

  10. I can barely put into words how freaking cool it is playing streets of rage, golden axe and micro machines on my ds. Awesome work, seriously.
    About the only suggestion I could add would be adding support for expanded ram with the m3 slot2 cards (similar to the opera support).
    If you ever want some help with menus/logos or other graphics get in touch too :)

    soully

    5 Feb 07 at 4:39 pm

  11. thanks for your hard work!!!

    Edge

    5 Feb 07 at 6:15 pm

  12. First of all thanks for this emulator. Playing Sonic on my DS with save states is great! I wanted to ask you if you had ever talked to the guys who have been working on a Dreamcast Genesis emulator for a good while. It’s taken years but they finally have good speed and sound and may have some tips to help you improve this even more. Here’s a link to a long thread about it: http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=89951

    GameGeezer

    5 Feb 07 at 11:14 pm

  13. I may be missing something but there is no where on the front page or in this post that says what Picodrive actually does… Is there a readme or documentation somewhere?

    M

    6 Feb 07 at 1:42 am

  14. Decided to give this a try as I fancied playing Goldenaxe – downloaded the file and put it on my supercard SD (renamed the .gba.nds file to .nds otherwise I just get a white screen) along with a goldenaxe2.smd file (in the same directory) but I just get a black screen with the following messages:

    Trying to init FAT…
    FAT init failed.
    Appended ROM check…ROM NOT FOUND!

    No way to load ROMs found.

    I see that the guy who made this uses a Supercard SD, so I figure I’m doing something horribly wrong. Might try another rom.

    thebawp

    6 Feb 07 at 4:34 am

  15. Tried goldenaxe.smd and am still getting the same error. Any advice would be appreciated.

    thebawp

    6 Feb 07 at 4:38 am

  16. Hi ! It doesn’t work on my DS Lite with SC Lite with transflash :( I’ve tried to patch it with DLDI but still it doesn’t work. Two white screens and nothing else. Any ideas ? Golden Axe would by great on DS, but don’t know what to do. Everyting else works great: Spectrum emulator, SCUMM, even SNES.

    Caesar

    6 Feb 07 at 6:58 am

  17. Ok, i’ve read previous comments and renamed .gba to .nds. Works, but doesn’t see ROMs. I will not surrender :D I have to run it ;)

    Caesar

    6 Feb 07 at 7:33 am

  18. Huh, sorry for so many posts :) It works ! Renaming and MERGING ROMS WITH PICODRIVE (copy /b picodrivedszgba.nds+romname.ext picodriveds-withrom.ext) worked ! Thanks for great emu. Now, i have to play !

    Caesar

    6 Feb 07 at 7:44 am

  19. Works on M3 Lite. Very nice. Be assured that there are people who appreciate what you are doing very much.

    phanboy_iv

    6 Feb 07 at 11:34 am

  20. I tested Chaos Engine and speed seems good (played to second level)! Great work man however some README with instructions and features would be nice ;)

    bitskull

    6 Feb 07 at 1:06 pm

  21. Could someone explain exactly how you merge the roms with picodrive? I’m rubbish at this type of thing, thanks!

    thebawp

    6 Feb 07 at 3:10 pm

  22. Ok, something I haven’t been able to figure out is why the coder hasn’t tried fixing the scaling problem. The dimensions of the DS’s screen are 256×192, no larger. Every other coder has figured this out already. I know this will not get posted because only the ‘praise you’ comments get posted, but at least it may get read by a mod or someone before it gets deleted.

    synonymous

    6 Feb 07 at 3:59 pm

  23. synonymous: If I implemented bilinear scaling, people like you would no doubt complain because it will impact the speed. Right now it’s using the built-in scaling from the DS video hardware, meaning it doesn’t cost CPU cycles.

    As for the other issue, I didn’t approve your previous comment because it had nothing to do with the GBA mode switcher post. It was just the same useless trolling, whining, and “PicoDriveDS is dead” speculation I’ve seen every month since I first released it.

    ryanfb

    6 Feb 07 at 4:53 pm

  24. I’m getting the same problem as thebawp

    Trying to init FAT…
    FAT init failed.
    Appended ROM check…ROM NOT FOUND!

    No way to load ROMs found.

    I have a Supercard DS One with 1g MicroSD,
    any help would be appreciated.

    c.hyjinx

    6 Feb 07 at 7:20 pm

  25. If FAT init fails for your cart, you probably need to download the DLDI driver for your cart and patch the .nds executable using dlditool. Instructions are available on the DLDI page.

    ryanfb

    6 Feb 07 at 8:32 pm

  26. To thebawp and c.hyjinx
    1. Patch file if needed
    2. to merge files with emu just write copy /b picodriveds.nds+romname.ext picodriveds-withrom.ext

    Works great for me ! Last night was Gods night :D

    Caesar

    7 Feb 07 at 1:53 am

  27. Tried patching – am told the patch process is successful, but I’m still getting the same result. Caesar, where do I ‘write’ this command – I’ve tried in the command prompt but I just get told it’s incorrect. Is there any documentation available for Picodrive, because I’d gladly look at it, but aside from RyanB’s instructions in his original blog post (which I followed with no success) I can’t find anything.

    Thanks.

    thebawp

    7 Feb 07 at 4:28 am

  28. Sorry for the double post. I downloaded 0.1.6 and it’s working fine with no need to append roms to the file, so I guess I must be doing something wrong when I’m patching with the DLDI tool. No idea what though, I downloaded scsd.dldi, used the dldi tool – pointed it to the scsd.dldi then at picodrive. It reports that the patch is successful, and yet I still get the FAT init failure on my supercard. I’ve tried wiping my SD card and reformatting and still get the same, so I’m not sure where I’m going wrong.

    Anyway, brilliant work on this Ryanfb – I’ve never had much experience with the earlier Sega consoles…I find it somewhat ironic that I’ll be rectifying that on a Nintendo console. X)

    thebawp

    7 Feb 07 at 6:23 am

  29. I appended the rom just like it says to with the copy command. When I run the file it says it cant find any appended roms. I’m using a crappy little Datel Games n’ Music Slot-1 card. I plan on getting something better so its not that big a deal, it’s just odd that it doesn’t work.

    Knifethrower

    8 Feb 07 at 4:02 pm

  30. This doesn’t work on the Supercard SD. I’ve tried patching it with the DLDI patcher and the Supercard SD DLDI patch, still says no ROMs found.

    Matt

    8 Feb 07 at 7:09 pm

  31. I’m having problems getting PicoDriveDS working on my M3 Simply – perhaps someone could help?

    I’ve copied the .nds file and a .bin rom over to my DS, but when I run picodrive, all I get on the bottom screen is:

              Load File

    ->

    And then I don’t seem to be able to do anything at all.

    Any ideas?

    frosty

    9 Feb 07 at 4:32 am

  32. Awesome! keep up the good work my friend :D genesis emulator for DS is just what we need :D

    Alexi

    9 Feb 07 at 6:12 am

  33. Been using 1.6 for a while, and it’s pretty nice to be able to play classics on the go, so props to this emulator, its great. I just uped to 1.7, put some new roms, and Contra Hardcore, has many graphical glitches, but I guess it’s one of those few that don’t work well. Another problem I have is playing Sonic 3 + Sonic and Knuckles, it loads, says something about Opera Ram extension, but I can’t get back to the menu using select, and I can’t save. Other than it running kinda slow, works well. Also, I was wondering if sound will be implemented in some future release. Thanks again for the great emu.

    TheBlueStylus

    9 Feb 07 at 6:45 pm

  34. I’ve got this it work great on my DS Simply + M3 Lite, I think DLDI has to be the greatest thing created for the homebrew scene. I have never got PicrodriveDS to run until this release. One more thing tho, I don’t have sound. I’m wondering if it just isn’t supported, or if I had a bad ROMs.

    ejx982

    9 Feb 07 at 9:33 pm

  35. Hi everyone,
    First of all THX for this great emu, it works pretty fast, i use a sclite, no problem with it, except that it still doesn’t support the sound, hopefully this will do with the next release^^. Good job and thx again.

    hakas

    10 Feb 07 at 1:37 pm

  36. hey ryanfb,
    wonderful work on picodriveds 0.1.7 runs smooth with all the games i have tested it with…. i have found that most of them appear to run faster then 60 fps.. i think that when you have the sound working picodriveds will be able to run at full speed with relative ease i have a few sugestions for you i would like to see in a future release of this program and that is some config items down in the touch screen area and the ability to save my games as well as sound of course and if you want maybe some 2 player action over the ds wifi … :) any time you need some one to alpha/beta test a release let me know i just might be able to help w/ some debuging as well :) here is my ds set up passcard3/supercard lite

    sithlord48

    12 Feb 07 at 12:09 am

  37. SCSD users who are having problems with this, try using SaTa’s SCSD DLDI driver which I have mirrored here: scsd_moon.dldi

    ryanfb

    12 Feb 07 at 6:39 pm

  38. That scsd_moon.dldi solved problem on SuperCard SD. No need to merge now. Thx for it.

    bitskull

    13 Feb 07 at 10:27 am

  39. One thing I am not sure about – I cant move crossway e.g. up-left. Only plain moves like up or left are recognized…

    bitskull

    13 Feb 07 at 10:42 am

  40. The latest version runs fine patched with the scsd_moon.dldi – thank you so much!

    thebawp

    13 Feb 07 at 4:02 pm

  41. Hi

    I have a supercard DS one, and a problème…
    When i start the program, i have a error message :

    “Appended ROM check… ROM NOT FOUND !
    Trying to init fat…”

    But i have games in the same repertory, the game are in .gen and .bin.

    Please help me.

    Catbert

    14 Feb 07 at 11:21 am

  42. Here’s a video of a demo of picodrive – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qpKtJ5KvY – hope you don’t mind Ryan FB, but I wanted to show it to some pals ^^

    thebawp

    15 Feb 07 at 4:05 am

  43. I can’t wait until PicoDrive has sound and saving :D ~

    Alexi

    15 Feb 07 at 8:01 am

  44. Thx for this great app! Runing perfect and fast. :)

    Ragezort

    18 Feb 07 at 2:44 am

  45. =D needing sound =P its a great port congratulations, but need to add sound to it =P

    SyaoranLi

    18 Feb 07 at 12:30 pm

  46. just a question: is the saving that is not implemented save-state saving? Or actual battery saving (ie. in Shining Force, you can save your progress to the cartridge battery). Because save-state saving isn’t too great of a loss compared to battery saves!

    Alexi

    18 Feb 07 at 9:58 pm

  47. Hi!
    I’m trying to install the PicoDriveDS in my NDS but all my trials have failed. I have the G6 Flash cartridge ans every time I try to install tge emulator as it were a game (with the application of the cartridge) both screens turn white.
    Any idea of what I can do?
    Thank you

    Deci

    18 Feb 07 at 10:02 pm

  48. Me again :D , with an answer to my own question! I tested out Shining Force and it remembered my battery save (ie. I could “continue my adventure”). Great work my friend, very very very great! Shining Force, wherever I go!

    Alexi

    19 Feb 07 at 12:05 am

  49. Deci, you need use DLDI Patcher. You can download it in http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/ . I don’t have any tutorial in english because I’m spanish. :p But I’m sure of you can found it in Google.

    Ragezort

    21 Feb 07 at 3:22 am

  50. Working great here on a Supercard Lite (micro sd). Keep up the fantastic work on this emulator! Ive just been playing through Golden Axe.. man, really brings back memories.. I used to pump serious cash into the arcade version of that back in the day.
    For anyone having trouble with the 0.1.7 on the Supercard Lite, do this:
    1.download the picodrive.ds.gba file
    2.rename the file to picodrive.ds.nds
    3.patch the file with brissou    s “SuperCardLite (SD Card)” patch using the dlditool patcher from…
    http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/
    This emu is really amazing so far.. so smooth.. I`m really looing forward to seeing a version with sound.

    dadio

    21 Feb 07 at 8:09 pm

  51. ok, so the emu is great! I was playing zombies ate my neighbors though and couldn’t change weapons. Could someone post what keys are what? Thanks!

    Donald

    26 Feb 07 at 8:51 pm

  52. Hi
    Does picodriveds support sound emulation?
    I can’t hear sound from my game.
    Is this feature not support yet?

    psboy

    28 Feb 07 at 12:30 am

  53. After Looking this thread,I think i got the answer.
    Thanks for develop this emulator.
    State save is great!! :)

    psboy

    28 Feb 07 at 12:49 am

  54. Hi,

    After months of reading forums and searching someone found a way to
    run this emulator on SUPERCARD LITE RUMBLE series. For some reason
    each time a tried to run picodrive 0.1.7 I got white screens (even after
    patching with dldi sclt.dldi file).

    So to run it on the SCLR card you need to install DSOrganize 2.5 and
    via this program run the emulator.

    I tried “street of rage 2″ and “sonic and knuckles”, it works SLOW.
    I would like to understand if it is because the DSOrganize or the emulator
    works that way.

    Thanks in advance,
    Sallaboy

    sallaboy

    1 Mar 07 at 4:13 am

  55. Thanks for this! This emulator is shaping up pretty nicely :D
    we just need a bit more speed and this’ll be perfect :) really. i love this. can’t wait till i can play all my genesis games at full speed on my DS :D

    PS.: to make it work on my SuperCard SD (miniSD), i had to download the “picodriveds.ds.gba” file and patch it with the MoonLight driver for SuperCard SD

    Menge

    5 Mar 07 at 9:04 am

  56. This is working on my M3 Simply, but I can’t get any ROMs to show up? Anyone?

    666

    7 Mar 07 at 9:39 pm

  57. I’m using the Supercard Lite (microSD). The picodrive.nds file just gives me a white screen, but after reading some of the posts here I tried renaming the picodrive.ds.gba file to picodrive.nds and it works great. Loading ROM files works, and I didn’t even need to patch picodrive with dlditool.

    For people with Supercards who are having problems, it might be worth making sure you have the latest firmware. (You can get it from http://eng.supercard.cn/download.htm. Just run the .bin file the same way you would a .nds)

    Jonah

    10 Mar 07 at 9:07 pm

  58. To get this to work with an M3 Lite, use the GBA version, without DLDI patching it

    Hoodlum

    12 Mar 07 at 5:31 pm

  59. Does anyone knows how to make it works on G6 Lite?

    milh0use

    13 Mar 07 at 3:55 pm

  60. Hi,

    Thanks for this release. Took me a while to get it to work, but I finally did. However, it’s really slow – unplayably slow for me. That’s not a complaint, if its just because its a work in progress then fine, but if there’s a way of speeding it up, let me know. Do I need to be merging thingies with wotsits?

    Damian

    Damian

    17 Mar 07 at 12:53 pm

  61. Oh yeah, and how do you save gamestate? I can’t see any menu anywhere.

    Damian

    17 Mar 07 at 12:55 pm

  62. I managed to get PicoDrive 1.7 to work with zip files. Nothing fancy, only one file can be in a zip, but you can stored at least twice as many roms in the same space. Source code is included.
    I also have a simple program to extract a zip file to your flash card. Not very fast because flash is slow, but it has a sample code to show progress and will unzip all files with a zip to the root.
    http://s22.quicksharing.com/v/1101070/NDSUnZip10.zip.html
    Hope to see more homebrew and loaders use zip.
    I used the zip source code from here.
    http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/zip_utils.html
    You need to patch the roms with the correct DLDI driver for you card.

    BitJunky

    21 Mar 07 at 9:47 pm

  63. Sorry, I did not know the link would be hidden under my name.
    http://s12.quicksharing.com/v/8001200/picodriveds_0.1.7z.zip.html

    BitJunky

    21 Mar 07 at 9:50 pm

  64. Emulator runs great, very nice work! However, it appears to freeze when I try to save? Im on an EZ Flash IV mini sd, does anyone know why this is happening?
    Many Thanks!

    Yo-Yo Ninja Boy

    23 Mar 07 at 10:25 am

  65. [...] Emulators/Engines which will run Scumm games (PC classics such as Monkey Island or Sam and Max), Amstrad CPC games or Megadrive games on your DS. [...]

    A How to Guide for Nintendo DS Homebrew « My Life with Nintendo

    27 Mar 07 at 7:03 am

  66. It runs slow on SUPERCARD LITE RUMBLE when I boot it from
    DSOrganize2.5. Does anybody have an idea when will be the next version
    or when the speed of the emulator will be fixed ?

    sallaboy

    29 Mar 07 at 6:48 am

  67. Hi, just tried your emulator on my DS, i have only had it a week, so after a lot of umming and arring, I went out and bought max media player. No regrets so far! Just have to say the emulator ROCKS! It loaded up Gods by the Bitmap Brothers just fine. I just hope you keep up the great work! Thanks!

    IDOL

    29 Mar 07 at 12:47 pm

  68. i hope you can fix sounds, and get the roms working better in general soon :D !

    i jut got today and words are kinda F*ed which is lame

    id help if i knew how to.

    seangilmore

    7 Apr 07 at 7:41 pm

  69. happy easter!

    alex

    9 Apr 07 at 1:14 am

  70. I waitting for PicoDriveDS 0.1.8.
    Long long time~~~~~~~

    kuibobo

    9 Apr 07 at 10:15 am

  71. kuibobo, this is an emulator, not a pie cooking in the oven

    obviously it’s going to take a while for the next version.

    alex

    10 Apr 07 at 5:11 am

  72. Works great with my R4 after patching for DLDI.

    Thanks!

    Rob

    11 Apr 07 at 4:56 am

  73. This is the greatest thing ever! I just want to let you know how much what I’m sure is hard work and time is appreciated. Its so great to be able to take these old favorites around in your pocket.
    I recommend “General Chaos” for anyone who’s looking for a great game they might have missed the first time around.
    Brings back so many great memories :)

    CMR

    11 Apr 07 at 9:29 pm

  74. Wow, great work, every game I tried works well and near to full speed, it only needs sound to be perfect.
    for the next version,¿ could you add 6 button pad compatibility?, that would be great for one of my favourite games, etrernal champion.

    Godofhellfire

    16 Apr 07 at 3:08 pm

  75. Amazing speed improvements! Sonic 1 runs like gold on my MMD! Great work!

    Lostgame

    24 Apr 07 at 9:27 pm

  76. If anyone owns a Supercard DS ONE card and has gotten PicodriveDS to work could you please offer up a solution. I’ve tried everyway possible and im sure im making this more difficult than it should. Thanks Alot.

    freakydean

    25 Apr 07 at 7:40 pm

  77. How do I get this to work with my R4? I have the .nds file and roms in the same folder but it cannot find the roms.

    J

    26 Apr 07 at 10:49 am

  78. Wow, very good work! This rocks! There is only needed a little bit more speed and sound and it would be perfect. Thanks for this.

    Robin

    1 May 07 at 7:41 am

  79. great job on this emulator almost every file i have tried has worked except a few “Wonderboy in Monsterland or Wonderboy 5 MW3″ “the Adventures of Batman and Robin” “Arch Rivals” to name a few. Is there anyone that has gotten any of these file to run?? i really would like to run wonderboy 5. Let me know. Thanks

    freakydean

    1 May 07 at 11:54 am

  80. OK i got “Batman and Robin” to run but still no luck with “Wonderboy in Monsterland” anyone have any suggestions? I’ve tried about 7 different files. Also the only other file not running that i tried was “Mega Man the Wily Wars” Once again RYANFB fantastic work. Kudos to your skills! I can only imagine the results for future releases. You are really close to perfection.

    freakydean

    2 May 07 at 11:26 am

  81. I am using Supercard SD and can’t get this to work, with or without patching the files with scsd.dldi.

    All I get is a double white screen with the .ds file, whereas with the .gba file my Supercard seems to load more than the filesize itself, then freezes!

    Could someone please provide a completely n00b-friendly step-by-step guide, in layman’s terms, explaining what to do? Many thanks in advance!

    James

    8 May 07 at 3:21 pm

  82. OK WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME FROM STEP 1 HOW TO GET THIS MOFO WORKING? I’m not completely computer illiterate but I am a stoner. will someone please explain?

    IvoryFountain

    14 May 07 at 11:47 pm

  83. Yeh great job on the emu!

    I cant get it to work with my M3 compact flash setup. I get the error about loading and FAT. I have tried patching with the DLDI and renaming files etc, basically everything i can think of. Still im getting a M3 simply tomorrow so will try it all out on that!
    Im dying to play Streets of Rage 2 and castle of illusion again!
    Just to confirm this version has no audio enabled.. is that correct?

    addyb

    17 May 07 at 12:25 am

  84. yes it has no sound…. yet :D

    hersuri

    18 May 07 at 3:24 pm

  85. Hi, I understand how filtering the image takes CPU cycles – but what about the GBA processor? Is there any way you can coax it into processing the image? That’s all it would have to do. Or have it do some other work.

    I’m pretty confident that it’s possible to get a near full speed MD emu on the DS with some form of filtering. The SNES emus run full speed, and they have to deal with more graphics processing.

    Kittie Rose

    20 May 07 at 2:16 am

  86. stop working on compatibility and start woring on the sound. it makes up a large percentage of megadrive experience

    fiddy cent

    27 May 07 at 3:38 am

  87. hows 0.1.8 coming along? :D

    hersuri

    28 May 07 at 6:42 pm

  88. It’s been little more than four months since 0.1.8, Anynews on 0.1.8 :) ?

    jack-o

    5 Jun 07 at 11:35 pm

  89. I have an R4 with the Micro SD card, basically i’m not very good with computers but i’ve been reading up everywhere and etc etc.

    I’ve got the picodrive file, dldi file. But i’ve seriously no idea what to do with the patching, some even said there is no need to patch.

    Could some one just please help me out and tell me step by step what i must do. which version or whatever is of importance of the dldi thing.

    I’ve tried patching it, using the command thing to patch but i seriously just cant patch it and the picodrive also doesn’t work on my DSlite.

    Please help me out here as i am a real hardcore Genesis and Sega fan and to replay those games again would mean a lot.

    I thank you in advance for your time and trouble.

    AC

    9 Jun 07 at 11:17 pm

  90. I’m using a M3DS Simply with a Micro SD card. I’ve tried everything mentioned above, but I get the following:

    Trying to init FAT…
    FAT init failed.
    Appended ROM check…ROM NOT FOUND!

    No way to load ROMs found.

    I’ve tried merging with a rom, patching with dldi (multiple different dldi types), moving the .nds file to different directories and nothing seems to be working. I’m obviously missing something since others have gotten it working on the same type of card.

    Could someone using a M3 DS Simply be so kind and give step-by-step instructions on how they got it working?

    Oz

    11 Jun 07 at 10:35 pm

  91. OZ I have got the same problems. And I also use the R4 with micro SD card. Is it me or are those different DLDI patching files making things more confusing??

    AC

    12 Jun 07 at 1:34 am

  92. i dont have any problems with the DLDI patching and it works fine on my M3 Simply

    jack-o

    12 Jun 07 at 3:44 am

  93. The DLDI patching isn’t too bad, I’m using the GUI interface program for it, which helps.

    jack-o, could you describe what you did to get it working? Such as where you put the file on the card, what file(s) needs to be on the card, did you patch first then merge, merge then patch, not merge and only patch, etc. Details like that would be extremely helpful.

    Oz

    12 Jun 07 at 8:09 pm

  94. Does this work with .bin and .gen roms?

    Myuusmeow

    12 Jun 07 at 9:52 pm

  95. How about The version 0.1.8 ?

    Silas

    13 Jun 07 at 8:26 am

  96. a little problem here

    Beyond oasis with .17 ver of PicoDriveDS

    when u first see the King and Princess get the Water Shrine key then just suddenly stuck there.

    is that because i don’t have ram?(i use supercard lite rumble).

    thanks & if u need the game and save file just send a email ask me for it.

    pdpdp

    13 Jun 07 at 10:37 am

  97. add a little bit
    both Beyond oasis(English version) and The story of Thor(Jp version) all have problem when the prince meet the king and get the key.

    pdpdp

    13 Jun 07 at 11:04 am

  98. For anyone in a similar situation as me with an M3 Simply that can’t get it working, see: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/516944#3129574

    I followed the steps there and it works perfect now. :) The problem seems to be that I was using the wrong dldi file to patch it. Instead of using the patch for “R4(DS) – Revolution for DS M3 Simply compatible” (which I didn’t even see in that list) I was using the patch for “M3 Adapter (SD Card)” (since I use a Micro SD as the storage device I thought this was correct).

    Direct link for DS M3 Simply dldi file:
    http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/downloads/r4tf.dldi

    Can’t wait for future releases!

    Oz

    13 Jun 07 at 3:16 pm

  99. ARGH! why cant i make the damn COPY command work???

    i have tried the following:}

    “copy /b picodriveds.nds+ultimate mortal kombat 3.bin pico-mk.nds”

    and alls i get is a damn syntax error?!?!

    someone please help me!

    Paul

    16 Jun 07 at 9:18 am

  100. Thats not how it works Paul all you need to do is DLDI patch the PicoDriveDS.nds and stick it and your games in the ROOT directory on your flashcart and the launch PicoDriveDS and select a game.

    David

    17 Jun 07 at 3:56 am

  101. There’s now a README in the project directory which should help explain things better for newcomers.

    I haven’t had much time to work on PicoDriveDS lately between grad school and work. I’m also starting another job soon, so I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to work on it over the summer either.

    ryanfb

    17 Jun 07 at 12:36 pm

  102. hurry up with v. 1.8 already!!! it better come out within the next week or so lol im anxious… hopefully it will have sound im looking forward to that

    Jack

    17 Jun 07 at 2:54 pm

  103. Paul, try using _ for spaces in the rom name. I.e.: “copy /b picodriveds.nds+ultimate_mortal_kombat_3.bin pico-mk.nds”

    In windows it’ll interpret a space as a break for command input (or something like that). You shouldn’t need to actually rename the rom, just use _ in the command line.

    Ryanfb, awesome! The readme will help a lot! :)

    Oz

    17 Jun 07 at 3:25 pm

  104. thank you very much for this new version of your wonderful emulator. It’s working great on ez4 btw.

    I hate to repeat what many others have requested, but sound would make the experience so much better!

    I hope you decide to work on it, as someone else said sound is more important than improved game compatability.

    OSW

    23 Jun 07 at 12:55 am

  105. Awesome! This emulator made flashing my DS and buying a Supercard worth while.

    JushinLiger

    25 Jun 07 at 5:31 am

  106. Paul, you could also just try typing “Ulti” and hitting Tab, which should autocomplete the entire thing, adding the necessary quotation marks.

    Danny

    25 Jun 07 at 3:31 pm

  107. frosty Says:

    February 9th, 2007 at 4:32 am

    I’m having problems getting PicoDriveDS working on my M3 Simply – perhaps someone could help?

    I’ve copied the .nds file and a .bin rom over to my DS, but when I run picodrive, all I get on the bottom screen is:

          Load File

    ->

    And then I don’t seem to be able to do anything at all.

    Any ideas?

    can someone please answer this? I’m having the same problem.

    Techno

    27 Jun 07 at 11:20 pm

  108. ryanfb, PicodriveDS is an incredible emulator, Sometime there is a possibility to it reach full speed with sound? Ah,May Donations acelerate the project :) ?

    Silas

    28 Jun 07 at 9:23 am

  109. Hi ryanfb, I hope there will be a 1.8, for ME it´s not necessary to improve the speed this time, the only thing wich is needed for the emulator (I think) is sound! Games without sound, it´s like chocolate cake without cocolate! :/ But Anyway, it´s a good emulator, please, keep up the good work, man!

    Greetz,
    Tobibrocki

    (Sry for the bad english, I come from germany, so, simply ignore some grammatical stuff! ^_^)

    Tobibrocki

    30 Jun 07 at 12:04 pm

  110. BitJunky thanks for the link with the zipped rom support! It works great.

    And thanks for this great homebrew emu, ryanfb. I don’t want to sound like these other whiners who making unwarranted demands from you, but if and whenever you get around to working on this great program again, it would be really nice to have zipped rom support as standard. Keep up the good work.

    Shaolin Samurai

    1 Jul 07 at 9:58 am

  111. does anyone know how to get it to work on max media dock? i have roms and the dldi patch along with the win32 GUI patcher and it still doesn’t work! and they are all in the same folder, yet it would still say:

    trying to init FAT…
    FAT init failed.
    Appended ROM check… ROM NOT FOUND!

    no way to load ROMs found.

    please tell me what i can do to get it to work!

    gamelordabd

    5 Jul 07 at 9:40 pm

  112. what files does it load? i have .bin but… o yeah i forgot to DLDI patch for GnM!

    flamadidde

    9 Jul 07 at 8:38 am

  113. i check everyday to see if there has been a new release :)

    jack-o

    9 Jul 07 at 9:55 am

  114. Did yuou quit on hombrew havent saw a release in awhile man ..

    Mike

    10 Jul 07 at 1:35 pm

  115. the jEnesis port for the DS is better IMO, and is actually being worked on, I really don’t think the coder of this one wants to do anything more with it.

    synonymous

    14 Jul 07 at 8:07 pm

  116. Mike: Read my comment above for why there haven’t been any new releases for a while. Between grad school and two jobs, I spend my free time relaxing.

    synonymous: Good, feel free to use it and bug the author endlessly for full speed, sound, weekly updates, and 100% compatibility instead of me.

    ryanfb

    15 Jul 07 at 5:29 pm

  117. Hi! I have the opera browser with the RAM expansion, how do i know if it is using it? or maybe it is automatic? I love the mega drive and this emulator Pwns, keep up the good work!

    Adrian

    15 Jul 07 at 10:11 pm

  118. Ryanfb, don´t care about this ones wich don´t respect your work. Building emulators is only for “gods”, and you are one of them! Rise up Boy!

    Silas

    16 Jul 07 at 10:42 am

  119. Yeah, it works on R4. Great job, can we make donations?? :D

    Thanks from Italy.

    Alex Kidd

    18 Jul 07 at 10:36 am

  120. oh ryan sorry thought you quit.anyway your emulator still pwns jenesis

    Mike

    19 Jul 07 at 6:29 pm

  121. Hi, I have a question I tried this emulator on a R4DS card but I have no sound what can I do to solve this problem pleas mail me Simon-vdb@hotmail.com or add me to your msn

    Simon

    27 Jul 07 at 7:26 am

  122. i just tried PicoDriveDS v0.1.7 and it works, but no sounds and some games its slow (lags a bit) maybe i’m doing something wrong if you could help. i’m not even sure if this page if for people to ask for help or just leave a comment. sorry, if its not. i also look at your gba thing. there is a gba emulator for the DS that i use. its not great in fact i cant get it to work right at all. but if some one could make a user friendly gba emulator for the DS that would be great. that was more like a comment.

    littlefatboi

    28 Jul 07 at 1:34 am

  123. I dunno which version of picodrive i have, probably this one coz i got my R4 card about 1 month or so ago and this works perfectly on it.

    only problem is the lack of being able to play sonic 3 and knuckles on it :( i read upwards that someone got a message saying that they needed to use the opera ram expansion pack or something but i never get that message…

    i have a ram expansion pack, so maybe i’ll download this version and stck the ram in then test it and see if it works? anyone got any ideas if it will?

    Mikey

    12 Aug 07 at 3:54 pm

  124. Thanks for this awesome emulator, I’m usually pretty busy myself so I can understand your lack of time to work on it. I look forward to future releases, whenever they may come ;) .

    Richard

    15 Aug 07 at 11:58 am

  125. Ok, took a look at jEnesis. Doesn’t look…well…terrible…but doesn’t hold a candle to your work ryan. If you ever have a chance to update, I’ll be in line to get a new version, but massive Kudos to you for an awesome job so far.

    Jonathan

    13 Sep 07 at 5:39 am

  126. Boy, I´m getting worried about you! 2007 is pasting and you are not giving live signal! Say Something! “The DS community needs your skills!”

    Silas

    21 Oct 07 at 2:42 pm

  127. Though disappointed by the lack of sound, I find this to be an effective emulator, though it does have some slowdown but thats the only major issue I can find.

    Flygon

    23 Oct 07 at 11:00 pm

  128. Does the NDS have sound-specific chips that can be used to handle or aid with the sound emulation? Could these chips be subverted to handling other jobs?

    Also, I think everyone here would agree that it’s better to have a perfect speed emulator without sound than a really slow emulator with sound. Same with scaling.

    Jonathan

    13 Dec 07 at 2:43 pm

  129. Very impressed, am a little disappointed by no sound, but beggars can’t be choosers. M gonna go blow shit up in desert strike :)

    Sam

    28 Jan 08 at 10:40 am

  130. You need to focus on sound soon or else who cares about this even if you can play games. Without sound in the games the experience is totally lost.

    isoptera4

    4 Feb 08 at 9:55 pm

  131. where is PicodriveDS 1.8??? i NEED SOUND!!! XD

    Mikey

    11 Feb 08 at 1:17 pm

  132. Nice emulator!

    I have to wonder though, is it supposed to be “frameskippy” because it seems to be a bit choppy. Maybe it’s just me. Does anybody else experience this?

    Michael

    13 Feb 08 at 5:41 pm

  133. Hi! Great work!
    Thanks to you I just played Forgotten Worlds, Ghouls’N Ghosts and Phantasy Star IV on my DS!
    Keep up the fighting spirit!

    —Imogia from France—

    Imogia

    7 Mar 08 at 1:28 pm

  134. Just played some Shadowrun. Bummer that there’s no sound, but using the left trigger for reading actually works pretty well. Thanks for the nifty program, and good luck with future releases.

    Oh… I just noticed the dates on all the comments and newsposts… looks like this one’s good and dead. Oh well :(

    Joe

    9 Mar 08 at 8:31 pm

  135. nice. iv used this for a while but i am dying for the sound to work on 1.8! don’t work on graphics or frames work on getting sound up and running dammit! XD

    alex

    30 Mar 08 at 3:05 pm

  136. Thx for this good emulator,it’s like a dream to play these games on DS! I will appreciate very much sound in next version instead of compatibility! Good look with your work and thx you again! :D

    lordvorax

    1 Apr 08 at 10:20 am

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