I did some playing around with the C64 core tonight, specifically the disk code. A good number of fastloaders and copy protections work. Some do not. - Unformatted track checks seem to work fine. Shamus is one such game. - Fat tracks (one form of Electronic Arts protection) work fine. Adventure Construction Set is one such game. - Vorpal is hit or miss. The games that work consistently work, the games that do not, do not. For those of you unfamiliar with the system... Disk games easy start guide: - At the READY prompt, type LOAD"*",8,1. The " is mapped to shift-2 and the * is mapped to ] to stay relative to the physical layout of a C64. - If READY shows up again with a blinking cursor, the game is not an auto-loader, so you have to type RUN and press enter. It will commence loading. Tape games easy start guide: - At the READY prompt, type LOAD and press Enter. We force Play to be pressed, so it should immediately begin to load the program on the tape. Things to remember: - The C64 has two joystick ports. Some games require port 1. Some games require port 2. If your input doesn't seem to be working, switch ports. - Games that are published on magnetic media have very slow access times. Be patient with them. - Cartridges require no intervention; they will load immediately. It also occurred to me we lack a soft and hard reset. That's priority one. Followed by getting better disk and tape support. We still have quite a few games that aren't loading yet.
^ I think what you want is Config -> Controllers -> Player 2. Just assign some hotkey's for player 2 to use.
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Config -> Controllers -> Player 2 You should see this:
Drag Race Eliminator, d64
HawkFile bound E:\EMU\Commodore 64\Commodore C64 [TOSEC v2012-04-23]\Games\Commodore C64 - Games - [D64] (TOSEC-v2012-04-14_CM)\Drag Race Eliminator (1987)(Family Software)\Drag Race Eliminator (1987)(Family Software).d64
ROM was not a multiple of 1024 bytes, and not a recognized header size: 768. Assume it's purely ROM data.
Game was not in DB. CRC: CB8422C0 MD5: 37EA36C8D79AF91D27665C37325330E4
Cauldron, g64
HawkFile bound E:\EMU\Commodore 64\Commodore C64 [TOSEC v2012-04-23]\Games\Commodore C64 - Games - [G64] (TOSEC-v2011-09-07_CM)\Cauldron (1985)(Palace Software)\Cauldron (1985)(Palace Software).g64
ROM was not a multiple of 1024 bytes, and not a recognized header size: 944. Assume it's purely ROM data.
Game was not in DB. CRC: 87301F6D MD5: 4BC9A9637A06375B4B25D4EF8EC78585
Cosmic-Journey, PRG
HawkFile bound E:\EMU\Commodore 64\Commodore C64 [TOSEC v2012-04-23]\Games\Commodore C64 - Games - [PRG] (TOSEC-v2012-04-14_CM)\Cosmic-Journey (19xx)(-).zip|Cosmic-Journey (19xx)(-).prg
ROM was not a multiple of 1024 bytes, and not a recognized header size: 171. Assume it's purely ROM data.
Game was not in DB. CRC: 8DA6219F MD5: DF670A2D3BCA11851924E7448E870F3F
Thanks Alyosha, I will test the latest release in the next days! EDIT: I've test some games (more or less the list I made in my previous post), it seems to be ok. (not related with C64 stuff, but will Tower Topler on A7800 be fixed one day or another? I saw that you have implemented a NTSC and Pal filter for Tower Topler and Jinks) Thanks for all your work Alyosha!
Would anyone have any advice on "the best" configuration in "sync settings"?
VIC-type: "Pal", "Ntsc", "NtscOld", "Drean"?
SID: "OldR2", "OldR3", "OldR4AR", "NewR5"?
Tape Drive: "None", Commodore1530"?
Disk Drive Type: "None", "Commodore1541", "Commodore1541II"?
I personaly use Ntsc or Pal, OldR2, Commodore1530, Commodore1541II. but it's not the "best configuration" I think.
Moon Patrol (Moon Patrol (1983)(Atari).crt SHA1: B5F5F296D4E50BF514096508A8ECF5ADF4DFFCEB) directions and jump work well, but the P1 and P2 buttons do nothing.
Fixed moon patrol.
Thanks for the answer Alyosha I also noticed that having the keys for player 1 and player 2 on the same buttons (I did it for simplicity, in case a game requires playing with the second player, for example) could cause some problems in some game (freeze, pause, etc). Moon Patrol (Moon Patrol (1983)(Atari).crt SHA1: B5F5F296D4E50BF514096508A8ECF5ADF4DFFCEB) directions and jump work well, but the P1 and P2 buttons do nothing.
Probably a silly question, again, but how to use fastloaders?
I had suggested it might be implementable as an optional part of the firmware setup (assuming this is possible from a coding perspective).
Something that came up on IRC today, the TAStudio state sizes for C64 games seem unusually large for a machine which has 64kB RAM. I tested a few roms, they seem to use either 0.26MB, 1.04MB or 4.26MB: From the cartridge ROMs I tested, one didn't seem to work, it just booted into normal C64 startup. Tested on fresh Vice, worked fine: "Leaderboard Golf (1986)(Access Software).crt"
Is it normal that in this version of Midnight Resistance 2-3 levels are missing? Besides, the end is wrong.
Midnight Resistance (1990)(Ocean Software)[cr Crazy].d64 MD5: FE427C34ABCA8CCC387CECC78C1F48D0
Link to video
In the same way as the Donkey Kong remake, Ghouls'n Ghosts (Ghouls 'n Ghosts (1989)(U.S. Gold)[cr 451][t +3 451].d64 MD5: 330CF1425EF831AF7F2208B4044F754C) also has graphic artifacts, but only under the weapon icon:
Golden Axe: I tested several versions of the game including:
Golden Axe (1990)(Virgin Games)[cr Dina-DNS].d64 MD5: 0CBF9F34CF23454C79F99A92F4BD567D
Golden Axe (1990)(Virgin Games)[t 11M X-Ray].d64 MD5: 9406C2B77273B698959D83D5AA9FDD3A
Golden Axe (Europe).zip (TAP) MD5: 6612ABA3DBCA1FB8423AF41A6A190541
Golden Axe (1990)(Virgin Games)(Side A).tap MD5: CBA859BC5CA7C29C6F0FC6B88CF9117A and Golden Axe (1990)(Virgin Games)(Side B).tap MD5: B43469CDD221747111787F727188B438
And I still have the same problem: the player's sprite is not displayed correctly, only the top appears.
