The Beena was Sega's console for small children, sold in Japan from 2005 to 2011. It was a book you drew on with a pen, with a cartridge in the back and Anpanman, Doraemon and Pretty Cure on the pages. MAME runs it.
We have 55 Advanced Pico Beena games on My Abandonware, a large part of what the console ever had. They are small cartridges, 3 to 7 MB.
Emulator
MAME is the only choice, and it knows the machine as beena. The wiki calls the Beena partly emulated, which is fair: games start and play, and the picture and the timing are not right yet.
mame beena -cart game.bin, or pick Advanced Pico BEENA from MAME's machine list and load the cartridge through the file manager. Our page about multi-platform emulators covers installing MAME.
The driver is marked for imperfect graphics, imperfect timing and imperfect sound. None of that stops a game, and all of it shows. Use a current MAME rather than an old one: this driver is young and still moving.
The pen and the pages
You did not hold a controller. The Beena had a flat panel you put a paper book on, and a pen you touched the page with, so the game followed what the child was pointing at.
In MAME the pen becomes your mouse, and the paper pages are gone — they were printed, and they shipped in the box with the cartridge. A game that asks you to touch a picture in the book is asking for something no emulator has.
Most of our games work anyway, because the screen carries its own buttons as well. Expect to be lost now and then in a game built around a book you do not have.
Japanese only
The Beena never left Japan, and nothing was translated. Every game on this page is in Japanese, and most are teaching a Japanese child to read.
That is the honest position: Doraemon teaching hiragana is hard to enjoy without hiragana. The drawing and painting games, and the ones built around a cartoon, carry across better than the reading ones.
I need help!
We do not provide support for running abandonware games. The Beena has almost no following outside Japan, and its emulation is recent work by a handful of people.
The Emulation General Wiki tracks the state of the driver, and Sega Retro documents the hardware and the full list of cartridges.
Checked in October 2026 against each emulator's own documentation and, where it exists, its source code. Game counts and file sizes come from our own catalogue. These guides were drafted with the help of an AI assistant and checked by hand before publishing. If something here is out of date, tell us.