Sega PICO Romset v1.0 (232 Games) (No-Intro) (No Duplicates) (No Hacked ROMS) (Extras)

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PICO?... More like PICA!

Well dayum.. If I saw this when I was little, I would probably shit my pants from joy. A kids toy from Sega, that you can connect on TV, interact and even use a magic stylus that moves on TV too? What kind of witchcraft that is? Seriously, Sega took a Mega Drive (Genesis) and turned it into a kids toy?! My mind is blown.

Anyway, this will be yet another weird Romset, and it will be weird because most "Games" are in Japanese. Obviously these are games for ... kids?.. but then again a lot of parents end up playing with the kid's toys and a magical one like this, definitely would attract the parents.

I made this because I needed closure for Sega too. I mean for Nintendo I even did Pokemon Mini, so Sega PICO had the right to be cleaned and uploaded.

This Romset is meant to be one that does not have any duplicate games in it and it is NOT for collectors, but for people that want to just get the roms and play, without having 5-6 different versions of the same game. My target is to keep a single game out of all the different releases, meaning that there should be only a single rom for each game.

I have gotten these roms from Emuparadise and thus decided to share them packed all together, rather than each one separate. If you want to play only some games and not download them all, then visit Emuparadise and get them from there.

This Romset is made from the latest No-Intro (no hacked games) pack from Emuparadise.

I have tried my best to not have duplicate games, but even so, there might be a couple left that I did not detect. If you find any duplicate game, please do report it in comments.

Always though first test the game to see if it is a duplicate, rather than just considering it a duplicate because of the name! There are quite a few roms that have the same exact name, but they are different games! Always test them first!

Main ROMSet
There are only 20 American/European roms and 159 Japanese roms, in the main pack. The priority of the roms I chose is USA, then Europe, then Japan and finally other regions. This time I made sure to update all the roms and remove any possible duplicate rom, even if the roms had different names.

Even if all roms are meant to be clean working roms, there are some rare exceptions. Games marked with (b) are meant to be bad dumps, but the reason they are in there, it is because there are no good dumps of them. That does not mean they do not work of course, but that they just differ somehow from the legit copy.

Games marked with Proto are meant to be what you would call Alpha release. Some actually work normally, but others barely can be called games.

Games marked with Beta are meant to be glitchy, but should work mostly fine.

Extra
This time the Extra folder has only a handful of Korean roms, which were meant for Samsung PICO. It was a variation of Sega PICO that was only distributed in Korea it seems.

Games List
I have compiled a list of the Main Romset games in different formats, from normal text, to rtf and two different type of excel formats. The txt and rtf obviously can be read by the default Windows document readers, Notepad and Wordpad. The txt is simple where the rtf looks like a nice list in boxes, looking like an excel.

The Excel ones, ods and xml, are for either OpenOffice or Microsoft Office and they have filters to filter out versions and regions. If you download more than one of my romsets, you can always combine the Excel pages, by copying them all in a single Excel file. Just suggesting that for people that do not want to have a lot of different excel files.

I am only suggesting the Emulator and Frontend. I do not include them in the pack!

Emulator
I am using Kega Fusion for all the Sega Emulation and it seems to be working perfectly fine. I am sure it must be more tricky with controls for PICO, since it is an odd system, but it worked normally with a couple of roms I tried.

Frontend
Finally I want to suggest LaunchBox. Launchbox is a frontend for multiple emulators and if anything it is the best I have found out there. It is easy to import games in it's interface, it suggests the best emulator to get when for each console, when you try to add an emulator and it has the best interface I have found. Weirdly, I like the free UI it offers (LaunchBox) and not the paid one that people that buy it can get (BigBox). The LaunchBox UI shows every game in a list with a picture of the cover or a screenshot from in game and that is really nice for me. The paid UI it offers just shows a list and only when you choose the name you can see any pictures of it. It can automatically look into picture databases and download pictures for a lot of the games. You can check the screenshot to see what I mean.

You can follow this tutorial, which will help you combine the ultimate emulator, with the ultimate frontend :D This Video might be for RetroArch, but it has a quick tutorial about Launchbox in it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeozvnb_-eI

Retroarch is more or less a multiplatform frontend, that can internally use emulators from all systems out there. It is a bit intimidating, but if you combine that with Launchbox, you will have a single Emulator (with made different internal ones) and a really nice free frontend for it :)

Personally I use separate emulators and Retroarch only when it is about using emulation for older systems, like atari for example.