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PicoDrive for Series 60 Released!

366 replies · 296,384 views · Started 17 May 2004

Asso wrote:And i can't still edit my post. How can i do it?

You have to be registered to do that.

Using the current version of Picodrive , keymap is directional pad for up,down,left, right........... B = 5 C = 7 A = 3..Start = 1

Good luck with that

P.S. I'm using the original Ngage

Thanks Raiydeck! I'll try it now! Hope it will work!

And for you, the so called "Asso" that wrote down that silly thing under my name, go get some real fun instead of bothering someone on a forum.

any improvment on the way?
we dont have any news from u fdave for month
hope everything going well cu buddy

Dune II doesnt work 😞
Its like a bug. Everytime i start a game, i can see the battlefield for about 3 seconds and then im loosing the round.
Please fix it, I NEED DUNE!!!! 😉

Managed to get Pirates! Gold to work...
Finally found a version that starts without problems. That "starts", then in battles there isn't the sea, in duels the sky is half black and half coloured and the shadows are light blue, like in Battletech. Anyone has any ideas?

I'm starting to think that even Dune 2 could be playable. Maybe we have bad dumps of the games, i've tried 4-5 versions of Pirates before getting that one that works. So, search and search and search. Many roms don't work just because the domestic/overseas name (it's a value stored in the file which represents the original and the "post-export" name of the game) is incorrect (especially those of EA). Take some tools like GenRomSuite and look at these values. For example Marble Madness has these names like this: "Marble Madness". If you change it, like: "MARBLE MADNESS" or in any other way you can imagine, the rom simply doesn't work. It's all about CRCs if i'm not mistaken. So, get all your different copies and try them, maybe changing the names.

ok....do you know how to fix a game that locks up or resets itself while playing,has messed up dialog(not in dialog boxes but somewhere in between) or resets the emu once the game is abt to start?

has anyone got shining force on their 7610?

i tried and the app closes, really hope it can work on my phone.

anyway, can some1 pls list the working rpg games currently? :frown:

0.16 doesn't work well at all on my 3650. It hangs the phone so that I have to remove the battery. The problem started with 0.14 but it's gotten much worse. Is this 3650-related or has anyone else had this problem?

I think Picodrive is a great emulator, but I will probably have to go back to an earlier version.

picodrive is great.

at last i've got a game worth playing on my 7610.

currently playing phantasy star 4, but will still wait for shining force to be supported 😉

i know that pirate (illegal) stuff is not allowed on this forums but if someone could email me a link to somewhere i can get these roms i would very much apriciate it.

[e-mail removed]

thanks in advance

azleehensem wrote:ok....do you know how to fix a game that locks up or resets itself while playing,has messed up dialog(not in dialog boxes but somewhere in between) or resets the emu once the game is abt to start?

Unfortunately i'm not that good... Anyway, try to get different dumps of the games and try them all. It's not guaranteed to work, though. In that case we must wait for a newer version of PD to be released.

:icon14: great work picodrive is runing better en better to bad for most ppl the latest 0.16 wont work il bet he got that on the "got to do list :icon1: ) lub the picodrive keep up the good work :icon14: 😃 but its really a pain in the buttttt when ppl are saying there is an gba emu or snes emu or where they can get one man if they COULD read some posts first or search for it shezzzzzzzzzzzz shezzzzzzzzzzzz if i type gba emu or snes emu on google the search find is 99% allaboutsymbian.com 😮 i cant beleve this haha

ps sorry for my spelling im dutch :tongue:

nearly 3 months has passed since the last upgrade,has the project been stopped or is there a problem in the development?pls update us,your fans,cos most of us open this page 1st when they log on the net just to see the developments....

:I..what is happening...wheres that Anotherguest ;D...i wanna know something ;P 😃....i ...love this emu ;d...

Please Let Us Know Something! Great Work By The Way...

I first got the .04 version... lol -- no menu and stuff, but SONIC allready rocked.

now with the .16 version ... great ! landscape rotation in either direction and keyconfig. that really does make thinks easier.

only missing sound (for SONIC..) hope it will still come.

Using an N-GAGE classic. just dont know what to say, but this is absolutly the best and fastest emu i tried for the s60 os.

even all s60 GB emus are are not half as fast as picodrive!!!

greetz. BAcid

There must be some new news by now! plz let us know something! picodrive is the best!

we need some sound improvement !!!
picodrive is the best !!!!

Does anyone know whats going on? or is this the end of picodrive?

How The Hell Do You Get Picodrive To Play Roms???? Send Them Via Blue Tooth And Ppico Drive Cant Even See Them U Cant Install Them Because There Not .sis Files Put Em On The Mmc And Picodrive Still Doesnt See Them!!!!!!!!!!! Wot The Fuck Do You Do For Fuck Sake Its Stressin

Wargeta wrote:How The Hell Do You Get Picodrive To Play Roms???? Send Them Via Blue Tooth And Ppico Drive Cant Even See Them U Cant Install Them Because There Not .sis Files Put Em On The Mmc And Picodrive Still Doesn�t See Them!!!!!!!!!!! Wot The Fuck Do You Do For Fuck Sake Its Stressin

If your phone has USB then send any roms to your phone that way and store them on your mmc or phone mem (Root folder were pico drive should find them), if not then you will either have to BT them or user your phones IR adapter (if it has one), once the romes have sent you will need another program called fexplorer http://users.skynet.be/domi/fexplorer.htm this is a ".sis" which you can install to your phone to view directories etc. The rom will be saved in a path on your phone (asuming that when you BT/IR them to your phone it comes up as a message) in "c:\system\mail" (if your phone saves to the mmc then the drive letter may be "e:"?) in this directory you will see folders called things like "00001001_s" and with in these there will be folders called "1" "2" to "10 and then "A" to "F" look in all the folders until you see the rom, then using fexplorer copy/cut the rom from the current directory and paste the rom to the root of your mmc/phone mem were picodrive should find it!
There may be a quicker way to do this? But this is the way I did it and it worked for me
Hope this works...

Maybe someone here can tell me why picodrive 152 doesn't work onmy phone.

I have a nokia 6630. The only version that will work is 103!

Is this problem related to my phone?

It loads up but the only option I get is Close.

Can anybody help?

i cant get the sound 2 work....i have deleted previous versions. where are INI. files kept that i shud delete...i have uninstalled older versions and downloaded the latest versionf rom here, but i still cant hear no sound

lstar337 wrote:Maybe someone here can tell me why picodrive 152 doesn't work onmy phone.

I have a nokia 6630. The only version that will work is 103!

Is this problem related to my phone?

It loads up but the only option I get is Close.

Can anybody help?

This is only a guess but it think it may be to do with the 6630 running Symbian OS 8.0 not the Symbian 6 OS which picodrive was designed for

On another note does any one know why there have been no updates of picodrive?

hi-tech wrote:if not then you will either have to BT them or user your phones IR adapter (if it has one), once the romes have sent you will need another program called fexplorer ....
There may be a quicker way to do this? But this is the way I did it and it worked for me
Hope this works...

You can use this util called "forward" to copy files from received messages. Find it in:
http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~ashley/

I must say picodrive is really is most impressive emulator I have seen, but it's shame that Shining Force I or II don't work :frown:

What games do you think work best when playing with picodrive? Although I'd like to play "action games" like Sonic and Dynamite Duke, they really don't work at all when playing with phone. I have Nokia 6600, so it's worse than with N-Gage. Also RPG games that would otherwise work good, usually have too small text to read from the screen. So far I have found most playable: Mega Bomberman, Phantasy Star End Of Millenium and Pac-Mania.
Other games in Phantasy Star seem to work good too, but "End Of Millenium" seems to have the most readable text.
But what games would you guys recommend?

lstar337 wrote:Maybe someone here can tell me why picodrive 152 doesn't work onmy phone.

I have a nokia 6630. The only version that will work is 103!

Is this problem related to my phone?

It loads up but the only option I get is Close.

Can anybody help?

got bored waiting for a 6630 compatible version of picodrive, so I made my own complete with limited sound support, you can get it by clicking the link provided ed2k://|file|Picodrive 6630 TMOG.rar|95925|de9bde826ba05618f03fc7cb72079246| if the link doesn't work copy and paste it into your address bar, you need to have emule installed though, instructions on how to install it are provided in the rar file enjoy. TMOG