[ReBirFh]

The first link is the collector and items I talked about, the price is sligthly lower (only R$15) if I deal directly with him but you can try through Mercado Livre too.

[Black Squirrel]

Look, a Pico game page

Ecco Jr. and the Great Ocean Treasure Hunt!


But I'm confused about cartridge colours. I found a red one
http://segaretro.org..._Cart_Page1.jpg
but there's apparently also a blue one
http://media.giantbo..._bomb_sub_2.jpg
both are from the US.

Europe seems to be easy because all the cartridges are yellow, Brazil has Tec Toy branding and Japan/Korea have noticable translations, but there seems to be 34783924324 different colours of cartridge for the US and I'm not sure why


games like A Year at Pooh Corner seem to be worse - I've spotted blue, purple, green and cyan cartridges, all claiming to be from the US

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

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four new games:

Gakken no o-Benkyou Soft Kazu-Suuji (Japan):



Gakken Pico de Kagaku 1 Hakken Mushi no Himitsu (Japan):



Soreike! Anpanman Eigo to Nakayoshi 2 Tanoshii Carnival (Japan):



Ultraman vs. Kaijuu Gundan (Japan):



Download (Roms, Manuals, Booklets, Boxarts) (60mb):
http://www.axifile.com/en/1516D7305B



I have four more games, which will get dumped during the next two/three days! After that the project is most-likely over. No donations came in...so the interest = 0!

I'd rather not have the stream of Pico games stop here. Is -anyone- willing to help out for the cause?

This post has been edited by Kiddo Cabbusses: 03 June 2012 - 07:36 PM

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

Updates going fast;

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3 new games:

Doraemon Eigo de Asobou ABC (Japan):


Pooh-san no Hajimete no Eigo (Japan):


Tottoko Hamtarou Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu Tottoko Nakayoshi! Ham-chans! (Japan):


Download (Roms, Booklets, Manuals, Boxart) (45mb):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/foxgw0

see you tomorrow with more releases! ;-)

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as I told you yesterday, I have present for you all today!

Thanks to the donations the last days I could buy a package of US - Games ;-) (very cheap)


A Year At Pooh Corner (USA):



Ecco Jr. And The Great Ocean Treasure Hunt! (USA):



Mickey's Blast into the Past (USA): (I know this is already available, but I had to verify the dump)



Pepe's Puzzles (USA):



Scholastic's - The Magic School Bus (USA):



The Berenstain Bears - A School Day (USA):



Download: (Roms, Booklets) (66mb):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/rllwfv

I asked about the USA-region games with different-color cartridge shells but so far it doesn't appear that it's worth the effort to dump them all.

Team-Europe is still accepting donations to help get Pico material.
and I've still been using Youtube.

[Black Squirrel]

Majesco re-released the Pico in North America (in late 1999) along with seven games:

- Disney's 101 Dalmations
- Disney's The Lion King: Adventures at Pride Rock
- Magic Crayons
- Mickey's Blast into the Past
- A Year at Pooh Corner
- Richard Scarry's Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever
- Sesame Street

which might explain one of the Pooh colours... but it doesn't solve the Ecco mystery

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

Does anyone have any pictures of multiple USA-region Ecco carts of different colors, by the way?

If it's not Majesco, and it's not actual game revisions, then we'd simply have to guess Sega of America didn't particularly care what colors the books were, or used leftover parts from Japanese game production.

[Black Squirrel]

I've only found two Ecco carts and I posted them above

but

there's at least three for A Year in Pooh Corner

even though according to Sega's packaging, they should all be red:


there's yellow carts too, though these were most likely made for Europe. But I can't guarantee there's no yellow US carts because it's not a situation where you would only find yellow carts in Europe:

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

I have a "Busiest Day Ever" USA Region cart that is most certainly yellow.

[Black Squirrel]

Two questions

a) By 1996 Sega of America were calling Pico carts "Deluxe Storyware". What does deluxe mean in this instance - more content? bigger ROMs? or is it just a meaningless marketing gimmick

b) dun dun dun...



I think this might be an Asian model Pico. A truly frightening concept. It's hard enough trying to find out where Mega Drives were sold. Any thoughts?

This post has been edited by Black Squirrel: 12 June 2012 - 01:40 PM

[Overlord]

Lot of English. Hong Kong?

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

Oh God, if there's a CHINA Pico, I'm just gonna die faint.

[Black Squirrel]

All "Asian" boxes tend to look the same, which is really tedious because to Sega, "Asia" can spread from the middle east, to China and Taiwan, to places like Indonesia and Singapore - a massive area of the world. And of course not every country got every console, and out of those, not every country got theirs at the same time.

The only concrete way to identify which country an Asian console is from is to look for stickers which either identify what sort of television signal the console uses (if it's PAL-I, you can assume Hong Kong, PAL-D, China etc.), or the name of the distributor. This is the most under-documented Sega console of all, so the chances of finding anything like that in the near future is slim.



Now, with Asian Mega Drives, the manuals are often printed in languages such as Malay and Thai. It will be extremely fun if we find that the pages on the cartridges were translated too, I.e. there is an entire set of "Asian" games. Unlike Mega Drive games you wouldn't necessarily need to mess around with code to do that.


EDIT: Apparently that one is a PAL system

This post has been edited by Black Squirrel: 13 June 2012 - 04:58 AM

[Black Squirrel]

Spot the difference:


Apparently the Advanced Pico Beena was "redesigned" at some point, becoming just the "Beena" (or "BeenaLite" as it was known for a bit).

Basically the redesign means "take off the handle". I don't know if there were any other changes (bar differences in colour scheme and a slightly new logo).

Fun fact for the day: There are four Pokémon games for the Beena, three for the Pico. Also apparently the Beena works without a TV set - pre-dates the Wii U!

This post has been edited by Black Squirrel: 14 June 2012 - 06:57 AM

[Black Squirrel]

anybody got some clear photos of Beena game cases? I know that they're plastic, and I know they're bulkier than Pico cases (even though the cartridges are thinner?), but there's no clear shots of... anything Beena related really. Just press shots.

this is about as good as a game box scan gets right now

but as you can see, this doesn't appear to have a spine. So I don't know if it's been hacked together or something. This is one of the least documented consoles on the planet right now so I don't have a lot to work with

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

Unfortunately until some hackers get around to looking at it, I don't think we're ever gonna get really detailed Beena info.