lr-vice: Drive Emulation, Mapping Keyboard Strokes
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@darkuni said in lr-vice: Drive Emulation, Mapping Keyboard Strokes:
@darishzone I got that solved in the video. Check it out. It works.
Now I'm down to trying to figure out how to swap disks in LR-Vice. I've read everything I can find and I'm still confused on how to get it to work.
I gave the stand alone VICE another go. It has definitely improved since I saw it last. Still liking LR-VICE more at this point.
But, if I can't figure out how to deal with multiple disks? I may have to supplement with the stand alone.
Is there a way to save ALL configuration options and "tie" it to the game that loads? It isn't very straight forward in VICE like I feel it is in LR-VICE.
I have successfully changed discs before in the Vice core. I am pretty sure I simply used Quickmenu->Disk Control to do it.
EDIT: As usual, Retroarch uses an extremely obtuse approach.
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@darkuni said in lr-vice: Drive Emulation, Mapping Keyboard Strokes:
I grabbed a Legacy of the Ancients + Legend of Blacksilver "easy flash" CRT image and it popped right into LR-Vice with ZERO issues.
Seems like the way to go! Not a ton of these out there, but a lot of the biggies like Summer Games and such have these CRT images.
Pretty neat. Didn't know this sort of thing existed.
Yeah, it's cool. Very close experience to C64 Mini, but with so much games :)
Crt file are hard to find, you can get some around but the library is the same, just because cartridge format was not so popular. Easy Flash on other hand are fully customizable (they are also called crt however), so you can get way more interesting titles and compilations, good search :) -
@darishzone Thanks! I've been able to find EasyFlash CRT images of almost everything I wanted. With one exception; Ultimate Wizard from Electronic Arts. It is a 2 disc game. Google searches appear to be fruitless.
Do you know if this happens to exist? How hard is it to MAKE these sort of multiple disk compilation CRTs?
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@darkuni said in lr-vice: Drive Emulation, Mapping Keyboard Strokes:
@darishzone Thanks! I've been able to find EasyFlash CRT images of almost everything I wanted. With one exception; Ultimate Wizard from Electronic Arts. It is a 2 disc game. Google searches appear to be fruitless.
Do you know if this happens to exist? How hard is it to MAKE these sort of multiple disk compilation CRTs?
I will take a look, can you indicate me some heavy multidisk titles? I did not know Legacy of the Ancients, very nice catch.
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@darishzone Alter Ego (Male and Female versions are each like 6 disks each) ... Elvira. There are a bunch of flippers like Ultimate Wizard, Transformers (wasn't G.I. Joe a flipper?) ... I'd LOVE to have Psi-5 Trading Co. done into CRT ... Adventure Construction Set would be great.
I'd have to think on it to come up with some more. I think a lot of EA folio games were flippers too.
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Oh, the only GI Joe i remeber is a fantastic tie-in by Epyx. Well... everything Epyx touching became gold so :D
I suggest to get this game on single d81 file, worth the effort. -
@darishzone So I did some digging around and found a handful of .D81 images that fill some more of my requests! :D
I am still hunting for Ultimate Wizard. I wonder if I could make these myself? Tutorial or links to get started you recommend?
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@darishzone Interesting. RetroPie doesn't seem to scan .d81 files. Probably buried in a config somewhere. See what I can dig up.
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@darkuni said in lr-vice: Drive Emulation, Mapping Keyboard Strokes:
@darishzone So I did some digging around and found a handful of .D81 images that fill some more of my requests! :D
I am still hunting for Ultimate Wizard. I wonder if I could make these myself? Tutorial or links to get started you recommend?
Dunno, but dnt think is too complicated make a dump on you own, lots of great community out there, do a search.
You mean the internal scraper? I suggest you to use Skraper .net, which heavy use screenscraper servers and got impressive results with c64 files. -
@darishzone Not the scraper. If that were the case? The items would be there with no metadata. RetroPie acts like it doesn't understand the extension .d81 and certainly not in the context of C64.
More research ...
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@darkuni If you're sure the emulator can run the ROM file, then add the extension to the es_systems.cfg file and restart ES to have the ROMs appear in the list of games.
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@mitu THANK YOU! Saved me a lot of looking around. I will try and report back.
I see using some basic tools, you can create a .d81 image of a lot of "loose files" and possibly handle a "flipper" where standard DOS is being used (aka, you can just copy all files from all disks to the same .d81 and launch the sort of bootstrapper file).
What I'm curious of is how those making CRT images featuring non-DOS disk sets like Legacy of the Ancients. Ultimate Wizard might be straight DOS - but something like Psi-5 has custom stuff.
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Dunno understand the issue however... You mean ES not showing .d81 files? That's very odd.
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.d81files are not currently on the list of extensions that Emulation Station will pick up on by default and must be added manually. I'm guessing yours are seen because they're zipped and.zipis a recognized extension. Thees_systems.cfgfile mentioned above can be found at/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfgand the.d81extension can be added under the 'c64' system entry. -
I'm pretty sure i have unzipped .d81 files on my set, got a check and i do not have es_System file on path that you indicated.
Edit: Ok, got the file on this path: /etc/emulationstation and i have added manually d81, although i'm pretty sure ES already show those files.
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@darishzone said in lr-vice: Drive Emulation, Mapping Keyboard Strokes:
Edit: Ok, got the file on this path: /etc/emulationstation and i have added manually d81
One issue you'll likely run into is that
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfgwill get overwritten with future updates. Creating/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/and copying/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfgthere will allow the newly createdes_systems.cfgto override the original and also persist between updates. -
Great advice, thanks!
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For those following the thread. In addition to adding the extension to the CFG file, you'll also need to set the DRIVE TYPE for each .d81 game to 1581 vice 1541 or you will receive an error when trying to load the game.
Now to see if I can build an Ultimate Wizard .d81 ...
Edit: So I copied all files from both disks to a single .d81 and during the boot process it died and reset the C64. So in THIS case, it wasn't just that easy. Sigh.
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So now I'm looking for an auto menu type tool that will ignore itself, generate a list of all the files on the disk, let you scroll through them with a controller, and launch with a fire button.
I've found a LOT of these, but most require a keyboard (which is what I'm trying to avoid using for this).
Thoughts?
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Final cartridge 3 comes to mind, it can be controlled with a joystick (you move a mouse pointer). Not the easiest but I loved using it as a kid. Made me feel like I had a real computer OS.
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