Better Sega Pico support.

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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).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vaguerant on 15 Dec 2010 at 3:13

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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.

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 4:08

• Changed title: Better Sega Pico support.
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-Low, CoreEmulation

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My bad, the last version of Kega is off course supporting Sega Pico as well. No 
way too display book pages though.

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 4:11

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Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2012 at 9:42

• Added labels: Priority-Medium
• Removed labels: Priority-Low

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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...

Original comment by superballena on 3 Jul 2012 at 9:52

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Or, since going to the last page would be kind of useless, perhaps "2" could 
show/hide the page "overlay" if present.

Original comment by superballena on 3 Jul 2012 at 11:11

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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!

Original comment by kl...@hotsummer.at on 12 Aug 2012 at 5:38