On Sendo X handset doesn't work Picodrive v0.13 and 0.14, on launch says "Appl. closed Main" and Picodrive on close 😞
How can we ask to fix this to author? Thanks...
PicoDrive for Series 60 Released!
Shining Force 1 & 2 still dont work 😞
Oh well, keep up the good work, maybe next time.
the sound is pretty bad, but you will make it the next time.
Ive downloaded the new picodrive version and there is no sound playing.
If i knew what you mean by deleting INI files i would do it but i dont so i think thats my problem. Can someone please help me out
Thanks
Picodrive is great but read this post that I posted in another forum:
"The thing I enjoyed most in the new v. 0.14 is the improved compability. Games like Wolfchild and Gauntlet 4 that didn't work b4 works now! Dune works too but I get an incredibly strange bug. I am defeated almost instantly after the game starts and the Harkonnen mentat scolds me after the game, even though I played as House Atreides.
The worst bug that I get with this new version is far more serious. The emulator hangs the phone completely. I have to remove the battery. This happens mostly when I play a game but also when I choose ROM."
PS. My phone is a 3650 and I didn't get that error with any of the versions up to 0.11
Antzzzzzzzz wrote:Ive downloaded the new picodrive version and there is no sound playing.
If i knew what you mean by deleting INI files i would do it but i dont so i think thats my problem. Can someone please help me outThanks
Uninstall and reinstall PicoDrive.
fdave wrote:SNES emulator would be totally fine in my books if someone wanted to do one - there are lots of games which haven't been re-released on GBA which people want to play again. I'm not planning to do one at this point though, I'm going up the 68000 route.
Do I smell Amiga?? Yay for 68k😃😃😃 You are a legend in my books!
Just thought I'd add that with the latest version 0.14 I can't seem to get sound working on my SX1. This is the first version I've tried so not sure if it was working on other versions.
Keep up the amazing work!
[QUOTE=evobit]Do I smell Amiga?? Yay for 68k😃😃😃 You are a legend in my books!QUOTE]
Forget it. It will never be possible to emulate the Amiga on S60 phones. Even P900 is not powerful enough.
[QUOTE="S_E"][QUOTE="evobit"]Do I smell Amiga?? Yay for 68k😃😃😃 You are a legend in my books![/QUOTE]
Forget it. It will never be possible to emulate the Amiga on S60 phones. Even P900 is not powerful enough. [/QUOTE]
You're the type of person who once though nobody would ever need more than 100kb of ram right? Or that the worldwide demand for computers would never exceed 10?
The amiga had trouble playing even doom, yet my s60 can do it with no jerkiness or anything. While it may not have the grunt to emulate all the amiga's custom chips at once, I'd give my front teeth to see the good old Amiga OS1.3 Loading screen on my celly.
The p900 is not powerfull enough because it has very little free RAM after bootup(fixed in the p910 - 21MB free after bootup).The N-Gage and newer Series 60 devices have as twice as more RAM then the p900.
evobit wrote:You're the type of person who once though nobody would ever need more than 100kb of ram right? Or that the worldwide demand for computers would never exceed 10?The amiga had trouble playing even doom, yet my s60 can do it with no jerkiness or anything. While it may not have the grunt to emulate all the amiga's custom chips at once, I'd give my front teeth to see the good old Amiga OS1.3 Loading screen on my celly.
U misunderstand me. I would love to see an Amiga emulator on my 3650. I just don't think its possible. :|
GhostDog, u are the expert. Do u think it's possible to emulate the Amiga on a S60 phone?
S_E wrote:U misunderstand me. I would love to see an Amiga emulator on my 3650. I just don't think its possible. :|
It depends which Amiga one wishes to emulate. The Genesis is what, a 3.x MHz 68000, along with a TMS99xx-series-based VPU, and a Z80 and some Yamaha IC for sound, with very limited RAM.
A decent-spec A1200, for example, is a 14.3 MHz 68EC020 (more advanced than the plain-old 68000) with 2 MB chip RAM + up to 8 MB Fast RAM, and then let's not forget the plethora of custom chips that made the Amiga what it is. It seems to be a far more complicated beast than the Genesis.
There are two main limiting factors: memory (probably fine on the N-Gage, but not on the 3650 with its limited RAM), and speed (it would most likely be too slow on all S60 devices).
beskippy wrote:It depends which Amiga one wishes to emulate. The Genesis is what, a 3.x MHz 68000, along with a TMS99xx-series-based VPU, and a Z80 and some Yamaha IC for sound, with very limited RAM.A decent-spec A1200, for example, is a 14.3 MHz 68EC020 (more advanced than the plain-old 68000) with 2 MB chip RAM + up to 8 MB Fast RAM, and then let's not forget the plethora of custom chips that made the Amiga what it is. It seems to be a far more complicated beast than the Genesis.
There are two main limiting factors: memory (probably fine on the N-Gage, but not on the 3650 with its limited RAM), and speed (it would most likely be too slow on all S60 devices).
Yep, and we first got Amiga emulators on the PC when PC's hade about 400 mhz CPUs. And the emulation was a bit too slow then. I think that even an Amiga 500 emulator will run very slowly on S60 devices.
Wouldn't GBA be easier to emulate than the Amiga?
Morku wrote:uhm, not really, I'm Morku. www.picodrive.tk is my website, www.finalburn.com is lars...simple as that!
Nope, www.finalburn.com is my site. (Dave)
Lars doesn't have a web-site as far as I know. If he did I would have a link to it 😉
Vapour wrote:Just a quick question for fDave, is Picodrive honestly still being worked on? It seemed to come so far in such a short time and then hit the wall.Just asking because Shining Force on my nGage would be pure gaming bliss. A simple yes or no answer would be great.
Yes.
But PicoDrive hasn't come so far in a short time period, it's come that far in a long time period - I started on it back in mid-2003. If you count the various versions of DGen as research, it stretches back even earlier to 1998 or 99.
It just that it only actually got released a few months ago.
From what I can tell (fdave, correct me if I'm wrong), the major things remaining are the little fiddly compatibility issues: various sketchy VDP timing/scrolling issues, and sound (probably a combination of YM2413 and Z80 bits that need to be fully implemented still).
The VDP is probably the hardest to work with, because that's where all the game developers had to squeeze out every last bit of power out of the unit. That can be a nightmare for emulator writers; unless you track all the timing at sub-cycle levels of accuracy (which makes an emulator very slow), you're bound to have some games that just don't end up working.
And let us not forget that emulator development (as difficult as it is), is even harder when you write most of it in assembler.
I'm pretty amazed that picoDrive works as well as it does. Admittedly there are still some games that don't work / partly work / sort of work / crash my phone, there are some out there that work almost perfectly. Sonic 2 is a good example - the only trouble I've had there is the occasional sprite boundary problem where Sonic manages to break through a solid wall while spinning and gets stuck somewhere impossible to get out of. But all you have to do then is just restart your save state which you made at the beginning of the level, and try again.
Go fdave go!
beskippy wrote:It depends which Amiga one wishes to emulate. The Genesis is what, a 3.x MHz 68000, along with a TMS99xx-series-based VPU, and a Z80 and some Yamaha IC for sound, with very limited RAM.A decent-spec A1200, for example, is a 14.3 MHz 68EC020 (more advanced than the plain-old 68000) with 2 MB chip RAM + up to 8 MB Fast RAM, and then let's not forget the plethora of custom chips that made the Amiga what it is. It seems to be a far more complicated beast than the Genesis.
There are two main limiting factors: memory (probably fine on the N-Gage, but not on the 3650 with its limited RAM), and speed (it would most likely be too slow on all S60 devices).
Amiga 500, for which just about all amiga games were designed for, had [email protected]. So, that's about the double as for genesis, but still, within limits of emulation with arm@104.
i am using a nokia 6600, and i wonder if n e 1 could tell me how i store the sega roms on C: or E: on my phone as wen i click open it says "messaging unknown format file" some please help me
djw_123_uk wrote:i am using a nokia 6600, and i wonder if n e 1 could tell me how i store the sega roms on C: or E: on my phone as wen i click open it says "messaging unknown format file" some please help me
I recommend creating a folder on e. (e.g. Megadrive or roms) and putting all roms there. If you use BT file push, you need to download forward.sis (use google) to be able to save a file from the inbox to a folder on your s60 (at least in n-gage the mail program doesn't allow saving of files to arbitary location).
wen downloadin via bluetooth my phone memory is only 6 kb so i cant download n e thing over that to my phone is there a way so it downloads straight to my memory card , making it so i can download things onto my phone up to 256mb
in size,
there is probably an obvious solution n im makin myself sound thick but ive only had my phone for 5 days n i havent got a clue
djw_123_uk wrote:wen downloadin via bluetooth my phone memory is only 6 kb so i cant download n e thing over that to my phone is there a way so it downloads straight to my memory card , making it so i can download things onto my phone up to 256mb
in size,
there is probably an obvious solution n im makin myself sound thick but ive only had my phone for 5 days n i havent got a clue
get a mmc card reader and place the .sis in the root of your mmc folder.put back the mmc in the phone,boot up,go to tools manager and scroll down to the bottom of list and you'll see the .sis name.install accordingly
dudes,
i'm new to this board, so : hello 😊
second: i have the sendo-x, which has -for now- temporary compatibility problems with a lot of symbian 60 applications.
i read this progr wouldn't work on the sendo-x.
what i wanted to tell you was this:
nintendo even encouraged emulating for NES. They agreed that nobody would buy these games for real now, since they aren't even on the market anymore.
the sad thing is i can't remember where i read it. it was on a roms-site. They had direct contact with Nintendo.
basically i think : i bought everything nintendo had to offer. a Nes, a Snes, a gameboy, then the colourgameboy. i bought tons of games for all those consoles. i might add: 100 games per console would be too less.
i think nintendo owes me enough to agree to emulate those games.
technically it is copyright killing yes. but if you are not making any profit with it, it can't be a problem. PLUS: i think nintendo would even benefit from it!
evrybody would be playing nintendo again. The step from that to buying other nintendo stuff is a very small leap.
think about it 😊
i hope the snes gets emulated indeed 😊
i have mario kart laying here and sometimes i still play it 😃
I have installed picodrive to the phone memory and am attempting to open a game that is saved to the memory card. Doesn't work though. Anyone suspect I'm doing something wrong?
strayan wrote:I have installed picodrive to the phone memory and am attempting to open a game that is saved to the memory card. Doesn't work though. Anyone suspect I'm doing something wrong?
nothing wrong there and your picodrive should work.if it doesnt you should consider re-downloading and re installing just in case the file you downloaded is corrupted during download.would it be better to actually create a folder within your mmc root folder entitled genesis roms and dump all your roms in that folder?it would save time in locating the roms and plus your mmc would look much neater
How do I uninstall picodrive? The next time I install it, would it be better to install to device memory or mmc?
strayan wrote:How do I uninstall picodrive? The next time I install it, would it be better to install to device memory or mmc?
go to tools/menu and then search for picodrive.press the clear button on your mobile and it will uninstall
djw_123_uk wrote:wen downloadin via bluetooth my phone memory is only 6 kb so i cant download n e thing over that to my phone is there a way so it downloads straight to my memory card , making it so i can download things onto my phone up to 256mb
in size,
there is probably an obvious solution n im makin myself sound thick but ive only had my phone for 5 days n i havent got a clue
I'm not sure if the features of the Nokia PC Suite vary from phone to phone. With my N-Gage QD, the software allows me to transfer the ROM directly to the MMC.
can n e 1 tell me how to enable sound for picodrive , ive put it up 2 full volume but still no sound
djw_123_uk wrote:can n e 1 tell me how to enable sound for picodrive , ive put it up 2 full volume but still no sound
the emu is still in development stages and only support SOME games with sound and even if fully emulated,there are no guarantees that sound will be emulated on all games.Hell, it may not even run some games after fully emulated!!! Such was the case for Yewnes,Goboy and gamephone advance. But thats just my opinion and the true outcome will depend on the genius/es who has brought us this wonderful emulator. I have been proved wrong by the very same creators when i exclaimed to my peers that a genesis emulator could never be done for the series 60. Now that I have been proven wrong once,I'm hanging to the pipe dream that a snes emulator is in development by some genius out there....
i was wondering fdave,if it's not too much trouble for you, if you could maybe tell us roughly when the next update is going to be. I may sound like a loser but i check this forum everyday each time i turn on my computer and every hourly until i turn it off because i'm a big fan of your work and boy,have you done such wonderful work!! But if you dont know the answer,it's ok.