Homebrew New Megadrive/genesis emulator for the DS

[Spikey]

Doesn't work on my M3 Mini. I didn't use the GM (never used it for homebrew) and tried both files with the same result: Bottom screen says game was loaded and upper screen stays blackÂ

I wished it would come with a build tool so we wouldn't have these compatibility issues...

It's odd, but it didn't work for me either. Then I patched it using the GM with normal mode and no trim and ran it and now it works.

 

[SpaceJump]

Doesn't work on my M3 Mini. I didn't use the GM (never used it for homebrew) and tried both files with the same result: Bottom screen says game was loaded and upper screen stays black 

I wished it would come with a build tool so we wouldn't have these compatibility issues...


It's odd, but it didn't work for me either. Then I patched it using the GM with normal mode and no trim and ran it and now it works.

Tried that and it still doesn't work. Top screen stays black when loading a rom :'(

 

[tshu]

Oh man this is great! Very promising. Now I can play Two Crude Dudes on my DS

!

Fantastic Dizzy runs great too

. I'm in heaven!

 

[CakkuZ]

There's new version out! the black screen after loading have been fixed in it !

 

[SpaceJump]

It works now with that new version

A very promosing emulator with great potential.

 

[pduin]

ps. what's the speed of the nds's arm?

ARM9 67mhz, ARM7 33mhz, but that says nothing about the performance

 

[CakkuZ]

GBA has 33Mhz arm7 and can almost emulate snes so DS Should be able to emulate snes/genesis with sound

and if i understood correctly this emulator is port so there's sure much code to optimize(=much work also)

 

[SpaceJump]

Wow, Castlevania, Rocket Knight Adventure and Mega Turrican run really good. Very playable!

Congrats to the author

 

[Mangofett]

GBA has 33Mhz arm7 and can almost emulate snes so DS Should be able to emulate snes/genesis with sound

and if i understood correctly this emulator is port so there's sure much code to optimize(=much work also)

Actually GBA has 16Mhz ARM7

 

[Jojjy Ugnick]

Can it emulate regular Sega Master system games too?

 

[ssj4android]

It can't emulate SMS games. You'll have to use an emulator for the GBA

 

[The_Cylon_Surfer]

Here are the results of some Genesis ROM's i have tried:

ROM's that are working:-

After Burner II
Aladdin
Another World (smaller screen)

Bart_vs_Mutants
Barts Nightmare (Smaller screen)
Beavis and Butt-Head (Smaller screen)

California Games
Cannon Fodder
Clay Fighter

ECCO
ECCO - The Tides of Time

Fatal Fury (smaller screen)
Flashback - The Quest for Identity

Ghostbusters
Golden Axe
Golden Axe II
Gunstar Heroes
James Pond (U)
James Pond 2 - Codename RoboCod
Jungle Strike

Mega Bomberman
Mega SWIV (E)(smaller screen)
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Mickey Mouse - Castle of Illusion
Mickey Mouse - Fantasia
Mickey Mouse - World of Illusion
Mortal Kombat (White shadows on sprites but runs fine)
Mortal Kombat II
New Zealand Story (smaller screen)

OutRun

Pac-Man 2 - The New Adventures (smaller screen)
Prince of Persia

Quack Shot Starring Donald Duck

Ren and Stimpy's Invention
Revenge of Shinobi
Robocop vs The Terminator

Samurai Shodown (SMALL SQUASHED SCREEN)
Shinobi 3 - Return of the Ninja Master
Space Harrier 2
Spider-Man and Venom - Maximum Carnage (Small screen)
Spider-Man and X-Men - Arcade's Revenge (Small screen)
Splatterhouse 2
Splatterhouse 3
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 3
Super Hang-On (Grabled GFX in game)
Super Mario World - no idea what it is

Taz-Mania
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Hyperstone Heist (Small screen)
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - Tournament Fighters
Toejam & Earl
Toejam & Earl in Panic on Funcotron
Two Crude Dudes

V.R Fighter vs Taken2

ROM's that do not work:-

Asterix and the Great Rescue (Crashes at SEGA logo)
Asterix and the Power of The Gods (Top screen is black)

James Pond 3 - Operation Starfish (Boots but crashes on EA intro)

Mickey Mouse - Great Circus Mystery(Black top screen)

Ninja Gaiden (Top screen black)

Primal Rage(No rom info displayed on lower screen top screen black)

Urban Strike (Top screen stays black)

*I dont know if the ROM's that seem to shrink the screen size are meant to do this or if its a problem - they work tho !! Very Happy

And i just wanna say a big thanks to the author of this emu - its great, cant wait for some more updates tho!! Very Happy

 

[CatScam]

Thanks for the list ALYMEr, buy any chance can you try Mega Lo Mania?
I have never got it to work on the Palm & PPC Genesis emulators & was
wondering how this would run it.

Thanks

 

[T!b0]

Anyone got this to work on G6??

I either get the White screen of death (when i use the .nds file)
or
"Load File
-> " (when i use the .nds.gba file)
with nothing to select! (though I did put some megadrive roms on the cart )

Help

 

[SpaceJump]

PicoDriveDS 0.1.3 is released

Changes:

PicoDriveDS 0.1.3 is up! Changes:

Added long filename support

Added support for going up a directory by pressing B

Added support for skipping ahead/back 5 files at a time with R/L

Added automatic save/load SRAM support
Files are the same place as before or you can use the handy new release directories to be sure.

The SRAM feature is not the same thing as savestates. Basically it emulates a Genesis cart's internal Save RAM, and whenever the SRAM is written to it writes out (romname).srm. When you load a game, it looks to see if that SRAM file is there and loads it if so.

 

[tshu]

PicoDriveDS 0.1.3 is releasedÂ

Changes:

PicoDriveDS 0.1.3 is up! Changes:

Added long filename support

Added support for going up a directory by pressing B

Added support for skipping ahead/back 5 files at a time with R/L

Added automatic save/load SRAM support
Files are the same place as before or you can use the handy new release directories to be sure.

The SRAM feature is not the same thing as savestates. Basically it emulates a Genesis cart's internal Save RAM, and whenever the SRAM is written to it writes out (romname).srm. When you load a game, it looks to see if that SRAM file is there and loads it if so.

Sounds good! I'm really looking forward to the future of this emu, it's already pretty good. Can't wait for sound support!

 

[Kagaden]

Picodrive 0.1.4 has been out for nearly a month now.

Edit: Found what's changed.

PicoDriveDS 0.1.4 is up! This is mostly a minor bugfix/enhancement release while I continue work on the new renderer. Changes:
-Fixed bug where R could scroll past end of file list
-Switched to unified builds, now one build should work for all SD/CF carts (thanks WinterMute)
-Added NeoFlash MK2/MK3 support (thanks WinterMute)
-Changed it so that pressing Select again without choosing a file will resume emulation

http://cryptosystem.org/projects/nds/picodriveds-0.1.4/

I think the NDS Emulation community here is hurting for a pulse.

 

[Hunter]

PicoDriveDS 0.1.4
June 22nd, 2006

PicoDriveDS 0.1.4 is up! This is mostly a minor bugfix/enhancement release while I continue work on the new renderer. Changes:

* Fixed bug where R could scroll past end of file list
* Switched to unified builds, now one build should work for all SD/CF carts (thanks WinterMute)
* Added NeoFlash MK2/MK3 support (thanks WinterMute)
* Changed it so that pressing Select again without choosing a file will resume emulation

Get it here.

 

[tolax]

Anybody know whether you can fix the region on these genesis/megadrive emulators?

The game I would most like to play again would be sensible soccer which was only a european release. I seem to remember though it checks to see if it is on the correct region.

Still waiting for my G6 to arrive. If nobody knows I'll report back on the answer 'hopefully' next week when the G6 arrives

tolax

 

[neojei]

I wonder if this will work on any of the new "lite-generation" flash cards. Any who has an SC Lite try this yet?