Picodrive 1.10

[Playdough]

Hehe. Long live th 2X! Nice work Notaz!

 

[Amon_Re]

OMFG! This is the best news i heard in weeks! Popfull Mail, Lunar, Vay.... *dreams off*

 

[DTH]

Would this be a reason the pick the GP2x above the PSP?

 

[PokeParadox]

I'm having difficulties getting the GMV files to play it can't seem to find the roms even when I place them in the same place as the GMV files...

Sonic CD works great, though my MP3 files are playing back too fast...


EDIT: I missed the ".zip" in the naming of the gmv files .... *sigh*

 

[rokdcasbah]

yup!

Wing Commander on Wikipedia

Although since it says sega-CD and not mega-CD then that'll be a US only release.....

y'know as commercial consoles/handhelds go I HATE it when they do that!

WHY do they do region specific titles? its soooo annoying!

This is one of the reasons why a NDS is more attractive than a PSP (I'm not saying that I hate the 2X so please no board jacking about why a 2X is crap - I was just ranting about the problems with commercial console/handheld systems!).

i don't think the mismatched naming has happened recently, although someone may prove me wrong on that. and i think the reason it happened with megadrive was because the name was already taken in the us. no excuse for pc-engine, though. turbografx-16 is such a horrible brand name. they even looked worse here.

 

[shiffy]

Done a fair bit of testing with this today. I have tested several games that don't work (I'll list those so others don't waste their time testing). But I have found another 2 that I would consider to be playable.

They are:

Shining Force CD (Pal) - First requires the Mega CD internal ram to be formatted (do it the same way as Sonic). Press the START button as soon as you see the "Sonic Software Planning" screen. If you don't do this the intro movie will play but then the game locks. Picodrives's save states do not work with this game. However, I presume that Shining Force's own "save game" feature works. Although I haven't got far enough into the game to test that yet .... (batteries died during my second battle once you get onto land!)


Earthworm Jim (Pal) - Some graphical corruption, but from what I have seen, this should still be playable.


Other games I have tested but do not work are :- Adventures Of willy Beamish, Bari-Arm, BC Racers,Batman Returns, BattleCorps, Ecco The Dolphin, Ecco Tides Of Time, Final Fight CD, Flashback, Heart OF The Alien, Jaguar XJ220, Keio Flying Squadron, Mickey Mania, Pitfall, Popful Mail, Terminator, Third World War, Wonderdog

 

[notaz]

I'm having difficulties getting the GMV files to play it can't seem to find the roms even when I place them in the same place as the GMV files...

Most likely the case doesn't match. Try renaming both ROM and gmv to something simple, like:
ROM: a.zip
GMV: a.zip.gmv
and then load a.zip.gmv

Sonic CD works great, though my MP3 files are playing back too fast...

Right now mp3s must be 44100Hz stereo, your's probably are 22kHz if they play too fast..

Picodrives's save states do not work with this game.

Whoops, forgot to mention that savestates are completely unimplemented yet.

Other games I have tested but do not work are :- Adventures Of willy Beamish, Bari-Arm, BC Racers,Batman Returns, BattleCorps, Ecco The Dolphin, Ecco Tides Of Time, Final Fight CD, Flashback, Heart OF The Alien, Jaguar XJ220, Keio Flying Squadron, Mickey Mania, Pitfall, Popful Mail, Terminator, Third World War, Wonderdog

Wow, slow down a bit, it is not ready for that kind of testing yet..

 

[CABBAGES]

id love to play road avenger !!!

 

[LordFu]

MK2 on SegaCD is practically arcade quality. That would be the sweetness.

MK2 DOES NOT exist for sega cd. I wonder what you smoked?

Maybe he means either MK or MK Trilogy as I'm sure I saw MK Trilogy on ebay.....

I must have been remembering it on 32x. Anyways, rock on!

 

[shinneri]

So what's the second 68000 being emulated on? 920 or 940?

 

[PokeParadox]

I'm having difficulties getting the GMV files to play it can't seem to find the roms even when I place them in the same place as the GMV files...

Most likely the case doesn't match. Try renaming both ROM and gmv to something simple, like:
ROM: a.zip
GMV: a.zip.gmv
and then load a.zip.gmv

Sonic CD works great, though my MP3 files are playing back too fast...

Right now mp3s must be 44100Hz stereo, your's probably are 22kHz if they play too fast..

RE: GMVs: Thanks actually I missed the part where it says the FULL name of the ROM i.e. including the .zip extension.

RE: MP3s: It might be a VBR problem... I'll try re-encoding them... blubb


I watch a couple of the TAS videos... that's some crazy shit going on there. It's great some of the glitches I didn't even know about.

 

[notaz]

Rather Off Topic: Does anyone know why 1/4th of the actual gameplay screen is cut of Landstalker? It displays that 1/4th with 8 bit fast renderer, but very glitchy... Same happened with drmd. :/

Looks like it was meant to be like this by it's developers..

I watch a couple of the TAS videos... that's some crazy shit going on there. It's great some of the glitches I didn't even know about.

Yeah I was also impressed by that stuff. I didn't have a clue that such things were possible when I used to play those games over and over >10 years ago. Although I remember that sonic3-walking-through-walls thing accidently happening on the real hardware.

So what's the second 68000 being emulated on? 920 or 940?

920. It would be hell a lot of work to emulate it in 940, because second 68k talks to CD controller and fetches data from CD, and I'm sure accessing SD from 940 would not work very well (if would work at all using some magic tricks maybe?). 940 already has plenty of work to decode mp3s and generate ym2612 samples.

RE: MP3s: It might be a VBR problem... I'll try re-encoding them... blubb

I use CBR 128kbps 44.1kHz stereo mp3s (don't use high bitrates to get better performance).

 

[QuasaR]

This reminds me of having DrMD on GP32... Nobody would ever thought of having such a great emu for such a "small" system... Great to see this finally happen!! Keep your GREAT work up, Notaz!!

 

[J201605]

/me wants MegaRace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaRace. Graphics look insane for segacd game.

 

[dairugger]

i keep getting error: 940 crashed..

is there a specific file structure that it needs? i also ripped my sonic cd in the specified manner... and renamed the bios file.. any thoughts?

 

[0-bake]

I sadly don't have my GP2X with me right now, but i would so love to play 3rd World War

Thanks

 

[DaveC]

/me wants MegaRace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaRace. Graphics look insane for segacd game.

That is just pre-rendered video in the background with Megadrive sprites over the top. I had that on the 3DO it wasn't that good.

 

[clarky2o2o]

Anyone tried simple ported games like flink/pugsy or sol feace?

Sol Feace does not boot (hangs at the Sega-logo).

I read somewhere all wolf team games do this on all emulators (something to do with perfect synchronization). anyway cant wait to have Terminator (and its awsome sound track) running again.


Mortal Kombat 1 Arcade game was on the mega cd and it was pretty cool (i preferred eternal champions).

 

[shinneri]

/me wants MegaRace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaRace. Graphics look insane for segacd game.

That is just pre-rendered video in the background with Megadrive sprites over the top. I had that on the 3DO it wasn't that good.

No way. I'd love to play megarace on the GP2X. B) It relies heavily on video though...

 

[krosfyah]

I love Megarace too. I remember playing the demo on my 486 when I got my first ever cdrom drive (2x).