PicoDrive (Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Emulator)
PicoDrive is a great open source Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator. With PicoDrive you can play your favorite Sega games like Sonic, Alterted Beast and Splatterhouse! The graphics are very nice and the game play is pretty smooth. Some ROMs may not work 100% with PicoDrive, but there’s only one way to find out.
I suggest turning off the Sound because on some games to prevent buggy behavior.
The CAB file installs a PocketSNES shortcut in Start > Games.
You can download Sega ROMs from RomNation, RomWorld, or just Google the term “Sega Roms”. I suggest making a special folder on your Storage Card or in /My Documents/ that contains all your Sega ROM files.
Note: You will not be able to download ROMs directly to your smartphone using PocketIE (Mobile Internet Explorer). PocketIE supports very few mime-types/file extensions for download and ROM files aren’t included. I suggest using Opera Mobile to download the ROM files directly to you Smartphone, or download them to your computer and copy them over to your Smartphone using ActiveSync/Bluetooth/etc.
Disclaimer: Please verify the legality of any ROM file you download - some ROMs may be legal to download, others may not be.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
i need some help!!!!
i have picodrive intalled but when i go to choose a game it says another application must be used or something like that and thats what i thought picodrive was for
so am i just picking the non-compatible games or am i doing something wrong??
please help
June 6th, 2008 at 3:18 am
GREAT find, will try and help the best I can JSMOOTH92
June 6th, 2008 at 4:37 am
I am sorry for all the confusion as well as misinformation. I can only get the roms to work if they are not in a folder on the storage card. COMPLETELY and utterly disregard my last two posts. I will have david delete ASAP!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Judge - all set. ive deleted the two posts you specified.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
thanks… anyone have a solution to using the roms in a new folder? I can’t get it to work…
June 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
i was able to launch splatter house 3 from /storage card/roms/sega/ …… what games are you trying to launch that are giving you problems?
June 7th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
it’s all of them. I create new folders and what not, yet when I go to open it from the emulator it tries opening the folder. I don’t really care, but it’s just somewhat confusing.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Judge,
Are your ROMs on a Storage Card or on the Device?
You are saying when you open PicoDrive, select “File > Load Rom”, and then try to open the folder containing the ROMs using the D-Pad Select button, PicoDrive actually tries to open the folder as if it were a ROM?
Can you give me the full path to the ROMs that is giving you trouble?
Also - do you have PocketNES installed? Is it giving you the same problems? (They both use the TGetFile.DLL which provides that file system browsing interface)
June 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Ok I downloaded it but how do I open it now? I can find it in program files but don’t know how to open it.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Also when I went to download a rom it told me the file could not be viewed on the device so im not sure if it even downloaded
June 11th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
John77,
You will not be able to download ROMs directly to your smrtphone using PocketIE (Mobile Internet Explorer). PocketIE supports very few mime-types/file extensions for download and ROM files aren’t included. I suggest using Opera Mobile to download the ROM files directly to you Smartphone, or download them to your computer and copy them over to your Smartphone using ActiveSync/Bluetooth/etc.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I tried using opera to download it directly to my phone but when I go to download it says it must open ie to download the file then when it does it tells me the file cannot be viewed on the device.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
John77,
I suggest downloading the ROMs to your computer and copying them over to your Smartphone… thats what I did.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Ok I know why Opera wouldn’t let me.It’s because I am using opera mini, the free version. I don’t have the paid Opera Mobile.
Thanks david!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Well I got the roms downloaded and they work I just cant figure out how to play the games. I don’t know what the keys are for them on my phone! So they’re basically not doin any good.
Any suggestions?
June 13th, 2008 at 8:32 am
John77,
Define your own key bindings in PicoDrive .. (Open PicoDrive > Options > Keys…)
July 19th, 2008 at 12:03 am
i’ve downloaded a few roms for the emulator and none of them are working. i got the nes emulator to work, but this one won’t. i’ve tried everything i can think of.. the roms come in a zip file, i don’t know if that is any help..
July 19th, 2008 at 10:24 am
kazazz,
I’ve been able to get several ROMs to work - can you e-mail me at david@myblackjack2.com w/ the file names of the ROMs you are trying to get to work?