- changed title to Better Sega Pico support.
- changed status to open
Better Sega Pico support.
Issue #145
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Original [issue 145](https://code.google.com/p/genplus-gx/issues/detail?id=145) created by vaguerant on 2010-12-15T15:13:53.000Z:
Obviously this isn't a priority in the same way that adding things like Mega CD support isn't, but being that the Pico is extremely similar in hardware to the Mega Drive, it might be a simpler goal to shoot for. Obviously, the touchpad interface is ideal for the Wii, and in PC emulators this is sometimes handled by simply overlaying the touch pad over the display, essentially making it behave like a touch screen system (or Wii pointer system, as the case may be).
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Comment # 2 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2010-12-15T16:11:29.000Z:
My bad, the last version of Kega is off course supporting Sega Pico as well. No way too display book pages though.
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Comment # 3 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2012-01-17T21:42:18.000Z:
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Comment # 4 originally posted by superballena on 2012-07-03T21:52:31.000Z:
Team Europe (http://team-europe.blogspot.com.es/) have been dumping and scanning many Pico games as of late, mainly European and Japanese versions. Perhaps that could help implementing this system?
It seems like - and + could be perfect for going to the previous and next pages, with A as the pen press and B as the Red (secondary) button. If there's no more functional buttons, perhaps 1 could go directly to the first page and 2 to the last one, or something...
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Comment # 5 originally posted by superballena on 2012-07-03T23:11:30.000Z:
Or, since going to the last page would be kind of useless, perhaps "2" could show/hide the page "overlay" if present.
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Comment # 6 originally posted by klaus@hotsummer.at on 2012-08-12T17:38:23.000Z:
i also thought about the emulation of the PICO on the Wii some times ago! the wii would be perfect to emulate it!
currently about 100 games are dumped and pcm sound chip is emulated nearly perfectly in Kega Fusion!
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Comment # 1 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2010-12-15T16:08:53.000Z:
As stated in the Features page, Pico is already emulated, it should automatically be enabled when detecting a PICO rom. I don't know about any PC emulators supporting Sega Pico beside Picodrive.
Stylus is being emulated by the Wiimote or analog sticks. Only missing things are a way to "turn" book pages like with a real PICO and the additional PCM sound chip which is not emulated (not much is known about that chip and I don't think Picodrive is emulating it).
The big problem actually (and the reason why this has been put on hold) is that there isn't a lot of available ROM dumps for PICO and you would also need someone able to do physical scan of the book pages. Without them, games are not very much enjoyable, if even playable.