Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The State of Pico Emulation (as of 2012)

Now that the Pico has a large amount of ROMs available for it, it's much easier to gauge the compatibility and accuracy of emulation of the Pico on emulators.

Unfortunately, it seems many Pico games have problems even besides the inability to use particular inputs.

Let's take a look at some ROMs being emulated here.



The "Professor Pico" games in particular tend to have glitched sound and be crash-prone. The "Mickey no Yukai na Bouken" game also has glitched voices.
And speaking of crash-prone, in Kega Fusion "Futari wa Pretty Cure" crashes right on the title screen. And while you can get past this in Picodrive, the game has noticable speed glitches, rapidly slowing or speeding up.
Many games also don't display all of their pages correctly - for example, I can't seem to access page 5 (out of 6) in "Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever" on Kega Fusion for... some reason.

There's probably an assortment of other issues I haven't noticed as well. Either way, I hope these all get fixed someday.

No comments:

Post a Comment