PicoDriveDS v1.5 - Genesis Emulator Port

[Trigger_Happy00]

Thank god Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Gunstar Heroes, and Sonic the Hedgy works on this. Those are the three main games I play without shutting down halfway through. They're nicely under 2MB. But wait, can you have more than one ROM, let alone more than three in at once? Or do you need one at a time?

[SmaMan]

I'm kinda new at this but how do you do this rom append thing with copy /b picodrive.nds and all that stuff?

[sailoranna]

How is anyone else getting this to work? I copy /b the rom to the end of the picodriveds.nds and it starts and says load rom but the list is black, if I hit a button it just appears to freeze. is there any other steps?

[Arimasen]

The setup instructions for this emulator on the first post are not newbie friendly... How do you use this program?

Edit: I found it out, here is a simpler guide:
1) Put the nicodriveds files and the Sega ROM in the same folder.
2) Browse to that folder in the Command Prompt (type cmd in Run)
3) Lets say your game is Sonic1.bin. You type "copy /b nicodriveds.nds+sonic1.bin sonic1.nds". What that does is combines both the emulator and the game into one file named Sonic1.nds.
4) Put that game onto your Memory stick and load it however you load NDS games.

I tested Sonic 1 on my M3 MiniSD and it runs. Framerate is pretty slow and no sound, but it runs, just very choppyly (eh is that a word).

[grimorum]

The setup instructions for this emulator on the first post are not newbie friendly... How do you use this program?

Edit: I found it out, here is a simpler guide:
1) Put the nicodriveds files and the Sega ROM in the same folder.
2) Browse to that folder in the Command Prompt (type cmd in Run)
3) Lets say your game is Sonic1.bin. You type "copy /b nicodriveds.nds+sonic1.bin sonic1.nds". What that does is combines both the emulator and the game into one file named Sonic1.nds.
4) Put that game onto your Memory stick and load it however you load NDS games.

I tested Sonic 1 on my M3 MiniSD and it runs. Framerate is pretty slow and no sound, but it runs, just very choppyly (eh is that a word).

I tried what you said but when the game never loads for me. All I see is Game Loading... on the screen and just freezes like that.

Can anyone help?

I use a nDS lite, passcard, and a m3-perfect-lite

[KeenCommander]

Try putting the rom through the M3 game manager software. I was having the same problem of it not loading on my M3 SD and this seemed to fix it.

Some compatibility:

Good:
Columns - Runs with playable speed
Columns 3 - Runs with playable speed
Streets of Rage - Runs with playable speed
Vectorman: Runs, a bit slow but still fully playable

Okay:
Sonic 1: Runs, slow but not unplayable
Sonic 2: Runs, slow but not unplayable
Alladin: Runs, slow but not unplayable
Gunstar Heroes: Runs, quite slow and minor glitches

Bad:
Sonic 3: Runs fine very, very slow
Sonic & Knuckles: Runs but very, very slow
Shinobi 3: Runs but extremely slow


All of the above tested on M3 SD. Most of these were not tested for a long time so there may be problems later in the games that I don't know about. Whether or not a game is labeled as playable is based primarily on it's speed and is only my opinion. Your milage may vary.

[Tennisgy]

DOH! i spent all tis time trying to do the command prompt thing when i realized all you have to do is open the bin in the picodrive menu

[funy56]

Hey guys

I'm new to this homebrew stuff, which directory/ folder should I put the emulator? Must I convert the smd file to nds? I have M3 adaptor. Thnks

[toymin80r]

I might be the only one to help you out because when i was new, nobody answered me. Im not sure if this works with the m3 because i own the 4GB HDD, but if it does, then just follow along.

[toymin80r]

Once you download pictodrive, make sure that you unzip it and create a folder in you m3 drive and name it sega or something. Then in that folder, create another folder thats called roms or games. Now thats where your gonna put the .bin or whatever type of file of the sega game into, so the roms go in the roms folder which is in the sega folder. So put pictodrive in the sega folder next to the rom folder. Now just launch pictodrive and it should tell you to pick a directory in which the roms are, which is in the roms folder thats inside the sega folder. Now just select the rom and it should load up. Im pretty sure that you noticed that i said the same things twice, but that was just to make sure that you put the emulator and the roms in the right place. If i didnt confuse you, then you should have pictodrive running in no time.