@mitu I just tried and caps lock key seems not to work

@quicksilver That's good advice. I have two cards that I alternate between when it's time to upgrade. It's intended as insurance to protect my time, but I've never actually had to go back to a previous card. As far as the difficulty of upgrading is concerned, I run 33 systems in RetroPie that are highly customized, as well as dual boot into an equally customized OSMC and it only ever takes about 30-40 minutes to upgrade and restore my settings back to where they were. Granted, even that amount of time can be hard to come by during a hectic week, but that's why God invented Sundays... well, you know, that and all the praising, but I doubt he's ever smited anyone for catching up on a little computer maintenance all the same.

@j-e-f-f I've never used the libretro one but for the standard vice I had to change the keyboard from symbolic to positional, not sure if that will help in your case as I don't recall having your issue but my other issues were solved with this change.

@thelostsoul The game is still available on the original release forum topic.

Tried Combian64?

@dudleydes That's great information too. Thanks.

vice-64 works great for me on the RPI, played many games with it. I change the keyboard to positional instead of the default symbolic but I don't do any "remapping". I just use a bluetooth keyboard.

Unless it explicitly says otherwise C64 roms (and Amiga, Spectrum, CPC ... all the classic 'mostly' European home computer systems) are PAL and run at the correct speed and music pitch on an emulated PAL C64. The problem then becomes running a 50hz system against a fixed 60hz refresh rate LCD, causing jerky scrolling, which you solved by switching TV mode. 'Mostly' NTSC systems with NTSC romsets like SNES and Genesis need to run at 60hz though (otherwise it's jerky scrolling and wrong speed again, this time too slow), so there should be a way to dynamically switch refresh rate for each system. I'm working on it, but my bash scripting skills are low to non-existent :) And yes, once you cross into 3D systems it's another ballgame completely.

Solved: The reason was because somehow "Warp Mode" under Speed settings got activated. After disabling it, the sound came back.

Just signed up and already glad I did! I'll be checking this out 100%. Absolutely love people keeping these platforms alive with homebrew.

no luck as of yet

I think I have zeroed-in on the issue (but not solved it yet). The missing puzzle piece was SDL. Emulationstation is built on top of SDL, which has its own keyboard library. Something is not accounting for modifier keys: either the SDL the way emulationstation is written. I think there is still hope as the debug log (see end) can see that both Arrow key and Shift and it even shows that my keys are mapped to both down and up in es_input.cfg. Just need to find a way to access that second option in some way. Anyone has an idea how I can access the second value of my key, or knows their way around emulationstation source so I can add the function myself? Edit: I found where F4 is hardcoded for emulation station, which makes me think I can hardcode arrows + shifted arrows in a similar manner. It is not a great solution, but it is something... The only problem I have is that I don't know how to build my own version of emulation station with the changes if I made a copy to my own github. Also, I don't know SDL well enough to code it myself. Anyone able to translate my pseudocode into actual SDL and cpp? IF keydown(shift) AND keydown(down) THEN return up END Also, happy to hear any other solutions!

@dudleydes Thanks, I'll probably just have Omega Race and Oil Tycoon in there, but they will at least be shown in their true glory. :P

ok thanks, fool me i already known that video but i overlooked the save states parts!!

I'm still experimenting, we never know, seems to good to be true :p

@dudleydes said in mapping differentcontrollers for C64 emulator VICE: @niculinux Is your EasySMX controller being detected by your Pi? Can you configure it in ES? Yes, it is detected, but i have trouble setting the right trigger; once i got in the "configure input" menu and try to set it retropie skips it and reports it as "not assigned". But in the vice menu it is almost impossible to use :,(

Well I 100% agree with you. I use my retro pie as a controller only solution for the TV. I think a list of controller only compatible games for these systems is a great idea. There are lots of fantastic games on the 8 bit and 16 bit computers that are never discovered by younger gamers or gamers in countries where the computers were not popular and everyone was on console instead. People avoid trying to emulate the old computers as lots of people play controller only. By trial and error you can find games which don't need a keyboard. It would be great if more people played these games and discovered some of the many, many hidden gems on the 8 bit and 16 bit computers.