PicoDrive for PSP released - Genesis/Sega CD Emulator for PSP

**notaz** · November 18th, 2007, 02:18

There seemed to be some demand for Sega CD/Mega CD emulator for PSP, so after doing the Gizmondo port I decided to port PicoDrive, my Genesis/MegaDrive/Sega CD/Mega CD emulator, to PSP.

Well I don't really like how it performs (it still needs a bit more work), but I've decided to move to another project, so I thought I better release it as is, then keep it around untouched for months.

There is nothing fancy about this emulator (no dynarecs/asm cores), but it's still able to run many Genesis games fullspeed with no frameskip (including some CD ones), and others with some skipping. However there are some CD games which won't run too well (although situation can be improved by tweaking some options). This emulator uses hardware MP3 decoding via audiocodec library in PSP.

Note that this emu may need some option tweaking to get certain games working. Be sure to check the readme for details.

Finally, I feel I need to give credits several people whose code I used for this release:

* Chui for FAME/C (which is based on C68K by Stéphane Dallongeville, Gens fame)
* NJ for CZ80 (which was also based on Stef's code).
* MAME team for YM2612/SN76489 cores.
* fDave for the original PicoDrive, and Stef again for releasing Gens source, something to base my work on.
* ps2dev.org people for all sample code (cooleyes for libaudiocodec one).

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**PSmonkey** · November 18th, 2007, 03:00

Omg, You Rock!!

**ICE** · November 18th, 2007, 03:02

Wow, nice job

**Buddy4point0** · November 18th, 2007, 03:19

AMAZING!
thank you.

i hope your other project turns out great and that afterwords you come back to this and work on CD preformance

**pibs** · November 18th, 2007, 03:21

omg I love you! haha thanks notaz

Btw you will need bios don't request for them here!

**SpacemanSpiff** · November 18th, 2007, 03:39

Thanks a lot! Well there goes any possibility of me getting any homework done this weekend.

**DarthPaul** · November 18th, 2007, 03:42

Notaz,

I just added you to my list of my PSP Scene heroes! lol, Thanks man.

**psp_sfdm** · November 18th, 2007, 03:50

Thanks notaz for this release.

Oh, btw, the link to your source code is not correct. This should be the link to the source code.

**wolfpack** · November 18th, 2007, 03:57

y...a....y!!!!!
FINAL FCUKING EEEEE

We need a compatibility Thread started...

**JLsoft** · November 18th, 2007, 03:58

notaz, thank you...finally a Genesis emulator (for a console I have) that supports some non-standard things like ROM size limit, so that "Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy" (UMK3 hack) works...and with 6-button support working too, which seems to give a lot of emulators problems (as far as Genesis UMK3 goes)