Picodrive (standalone and libretro core) Mega Drive emulator

Emulators
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I think that this would be a great improvement to the system, thank you!

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If you have a .so for it, I wouldn’t mind keeping it all within retroarch so I can use the hotkeys.

Send it my way!

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Currently I am configuring the build for GameShell, I hope in the next days I will upload a standalone executable. It seems that it is possible to also build a libretro core so I will also try it and post the results here

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Why Picodrive instead of Genesis Plus GX? I thought the later was the most accurate (it doesn’t have 32x support though).

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Isn’t Genesis Plus GX provided as core through the RetroArch? I think the respective picodrive core crashes immediately. I am trying to provide some pluralism since there are comments about the poor emulation of Mega Drive on GameShell.

Maybe Genesis Plus GX will be the next in line to provide a standalone binary. For now I will focus on PicoDrive.

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For anyone interested in the libretro core of PicoDrive, I have updated the original post of this thread

Quick Instructions:

  1. ssh to GS and issue:
curl -sL https://github.com/pleft/picodrive/releases/download/v1.92-gameshell/picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92.tar.gz | tar -xvz --directory ~/.config/retroarch/cores/
  1. Launch the Retroarch from the menu,
  2. “Load core”: choose “picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92”
  3. “Load content”: browse to your sega roms directory and pick a rom to play
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All I did today was eat Doritos and play Sega.

Thanks, man.

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Let’s put things where they belong…

mv .config/retroarch/cores/picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92.so /home/cpi/apps/emulators/

Then fix the Sega launcher by editing /home/cpi/launcher/Menu/GameShell/20_Retro Games/SEGA/action.config:

ROM=/home/cpi/games/SEGA #ROM_SO=/home/cpi/apps/emulators/picodrive_libretro.so ROM_SO=/home/cpi/apps/emulators/picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92.so EXT=bin,zip LAUNCHER=retroarch -L TITLE=SEGA SO_URL=http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armv7-neon-hf/latest/picodrive_libr$

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Thanks @lasvegas, I was too lazy last night to write instructions about it. Just some corrections

there is a space missing in the mv command (between the .so and the /home/cpi:

mv .config/retroarch/cores/picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92.so/home/cpi/apps/emulators/

should be:

mv .config/retroarch/cores/picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92.so /home/cpi/apps/emulators/

Add some more extensions not just bin, zip in the action.config. The SO_URL is obviously wrong but I guess we don’t mind.

ROM=/home/cpi/games/SEGA 
ROM_SO=/home/cpi/apps/emulators/picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92.so 
EXT=bin,zip,gen,32x,smd,iso 
LAUNCHER=retroarch -L 
TITLE=SEGA 
SO_URL=http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armv7-neon-hf/latest/picodrive_libr$
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Thanks @elefas… Corrected in my post. Cool that more formats are supported!

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Great work!
I have create a menu!
Thanks @lasvegas @elefas

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Updated original post with standalone version coming in two flavors in rendering: software and opengl!

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How could I install this emulator to appear in the “Retro Games” folder? So I would have it with other emulators such as PCSX.
PS: Can you tell me how to change the icons for ones in which the system appears? Any post with those icons, if it’s not too much trouble?
Thank you!

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Hi! The Retro Games folder contains RetroArch emulators (cores). There exist a PicoDrive RetroArch core so you can either create a similar menu for this core following the instructions a few posts above: Picodrive (standalone and libretro core) Mega Drive emulator

If you still want the PicoDrive standalone emulator to appear in the Retro Games menu ssh to GameShell and do:

 curl -sL https://github.com/pleft/picodrive/releases/download/v1.92-gameshell/PicoDrive.tar.gz | tar -xvz --directory ~/launcher/Menu/GameShell/20_Retro\ Games/

And here are icons for most consoles:

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Hi. A question. Does the Core “picodrive_libretro_gameshell_v1.92” also work on OS 0.3 with Lima?

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it should work, but don’t forget that the lima drivers are unstable currently so you may get varying results

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You still can use standalone PicoDrive just like RetroArch. I tried with such action.config

ROM=/home/cpi/games/SEGA
ROM_SO=
EXT=7z,bin,gen,md,smd,zip
LAUNCHER=/home/cpi/launcher/Menu/GameShell/20_Retro\ Games/PicoDrive/PicoDrive
TITLE=SEGA
SO_URL=
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quick question here… where should I put the bios files for 32X?

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The BIOS location is identified in RetroArch’s configuration. You can find it at RetroArch->Settings->Directory->System/BIOS. Mine is set to /home/cpi/games/retroarch/system

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I did Las Vegas and your steps the way you guys said, but every time I boot up a rom it tells me that picodrive_libr$ Download failed. What do I do?