Posted: 12/14/2021 6:27 PM
Post subject: How to make Project Firestart (C64) see the disks?
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Svimmer
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I d/l'd Project Firestart. BizHawk can see it and get it started. I get to the point where you see the blue EA screen as in this video at this timestamp. In the video, it soon turns black but for me it never does. Instead these blue disconnected bars keep running down the sides ad infinitum. I believe that means it can't see the right disk. Trouble is I have no idea how to aid this. The "C64" tab has "disks" grayed out. So are the ROMs and disks not the same thing? It says something about disks 1 through 4 in one of the screens shown before, and also disk sides 1 and 2. See this for some screenshots. There's some info about the disks that I don't really understand. What do I need to do to get it to a state where it plays well, preferably without having to swap disks at all if possible? I have in the Sync Settings selected 1541II for the disk drive type but I first tried 1541. Forum admin note: Please do not link to commercial ROM images, as it violates the site rules. ~ fsvgm777
Posted: 12/14/2021 6:39 PM
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Forum Rules wrote:
Users are strictly prohibited from posting references to copyrighted material (such as ROM or BIOS images) or asking for such.
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Posted: 12/14/2021 6:42 PM
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I'm guessing each disk image you have is a separate file. You may be able to use BizHawk's multi-disc bundler tool to allow disk swapping during emulation. Tools > Multi-Disk Bundler I've not had much experience with this tool though, so I don't know that I can help much beyond that suggestion. Another thing to consider trying is swapping PAL vs NTSC sync settings. Some games will only work in one region or the other. (Though you'll still likely need to use the multi-disk tool.)
Posted: 12/16/2021 7:06 PM
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Samsara wrote:
Forum Rules wrote:
Users are strictly prohibited from posting references to copyrighted material (such as ROM or BIOS images) or asking for such.
I'm tired of people failing at basic online etiquette.
Sorry you had to censor it! It's the least unethical kind of piracy at least. Easy to forget such rules may exist.
DrD2k9 wrote:
I'm guessing each disk image you have is a separate file. You may be able to use BizHawk's multi-disc bundler tool to allow disk swapping during emulation. Tools > Multi-Disk Bundler I've not had much experience with this tool though, so I don't know that I can help much beyond that suggestion. Another thing to consider trying is swapping PAL vs NTSC sync settings. Some games will only work in one region or the other. (Though you'll still likely need to use the multi-disk tool.)
Here's the result after using the Multi-Disk Bundler as you suggested: it seems to like Disk 1 when I swap to it, however, it loads the wrong data and freezes. That's on the PAL setting. On the NTSC the same but it just freezes. Anyone got other suggestions? Or should I try a C64-themed forum instead?