PicoDrive

Video game console emulator

PicoDrive
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Pico, Mega-CD, 32X
OS: Pocket PC, Symbian OS, Windows, UIQ, GP2X, Gizmondo, Pandora, PlayStation Portable, RISC OS
Developer: Dave, notaz; Neil Davis (Symbian OS); Adrian Lees, Jeffrey Lee (RISC OS)
Programmed in: Assembly (ARM); C (Windows, PlayStation Portable)
Last release date: 2013-10-12 (11 years ago)
Last version: 1.91 (Pandora); 1.56 (GP2X); 1.45a (Windows)

PicoDrive is a Sega Mega Drive and Pico emulator programmed by Dave (author of DGen), and later notaz. It originally started as a Mega Drive emulator for ARM-based Pocket PC devices, and used the Cyclone 68000 CPU core which was written in ARM assembly. After version 0.030 the project was taken over by notaz and ported to UIQ smartphones, GP2X, Gizmondo and Pandora. The source code was also rewritten in C, allowing for ports to Windows and PlayStation Portable.

In February 2008, the ROMs for several Sega Pico prototypes were made available, enabling development on a Pico emulator to begin. On 21 May 2008, the Windows version of PicoDrive became the first emulator to be able to run Pico games. The pen board is on a separate window but by selecting a certain option the game screen itself can be used as the pen board. Players can turn pages also. Mega-CD and 32X games were later supported, using code from Gens. PicoDrive is also the first emulator to properly run Virtua Racing with its SVP chip.

Third parties have also ported the emulator to Symbian OS, Nintendo DS (as PicoDriveDS), iPhone (as genesis4iphone) and RISC OS.

Downloads

Old versions

• Pandora: Versions 1.90.0.0, 1.85.0.2, 1.85.0.0, 1.80.0.900, 1.80.0.899, 1.80 beta 2, 1.80 beta 1. ^(info) (3.57 MB)
• GP2X: Versions 0.94, 0.95, 0.06, 0.964, 1.10, 1.14, 1.20, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.40, 1.40c, 1.50, 1.51, 1.55, plus source code for 0.964, 1.33, 1.35. ^(info) (4.8 MB)
• UIQ2/UIQ3: Versions 0.301, 0.70, 0.93, 0.964, 1.51, plus source code for 0.70. ^(info) (1.03 MB)
• Gizmondo: Versions 1.34, 1.51b ^(info) (439 kB)
• PlayStation Portable: Versions 1.35, 1.35 kxploit, 1.35b, 1.35b kxploit, 1.40b, 1.40b kxploit, 1.51a, 1.51a kxploit, 1.51b, 1.51b kxploit. ^(info) (1.95 MB)
• Pocket PC: Versions 0.025, 0.030, plus source code for 0.030. ^(info) (327 kB)
  • Versions 0.024 and earlier are missing.
• Symbian Series 80 and Series 90: Versions 0.5, 0.43, 0.41, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2. ^(info) (324 kB)
• RISC OS: Versions 0.10, 0.11, plus source code for 0.10, 0.11. ^(info) ()

External links

• Original website (archive)
  • How to compile source (version 0.30) (archive)
• Official website
• 
  Release Thread on Sonic Retro.
• PicoDrive on OpenPandora
• PicoDrive for Symbian Series 80 and Series 90 website (archive)
• PicoDrive for RISC OS website