Hm, I tried with R-type (the .tzx file) and it took almost 3 minutes to load (after changing the option for Fuse), with the cassette buzzing and all. I think it depends on the tape file. I tried Fred and I think it has also it's own loading routine.

@dudleydes that worked, thank you so much!

@MarkHighPeak Can you add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?

Vice loads in real-time, same as real hardware. I tested this with Bruce Lee game, on both Pi and real C64 + Pi1541

@chubsta If you are having problems, why not try finding those games on on other platforms? I also wanted to play Chuckie Egg, but I grew up playing it on a BBC Micro, and as yet Retropie doesn't support those, however there is an Atari ST version, which presumably would have better graphics than the Speccy one. Reading your post triggered that thought, and I found it today, and am hopefully going to find out how it works sometime this week.

I notice that ZEsarUX source is now on Github (https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux) so the scriptmodule may get updated to take this into account. Yes, I moved to github because of the continuous failures with the Sourceforge service. Some of these failures put the web on offline mode so I couldn't push code during one week, for example ... :( ZEsarUX 6.1 stable will be released soon, you may test one of the last beta builds, or compile from sources. The last changelog for 6.1 is: Version 6.1. 26 March 2018 - Xeno edition Added BetaDisk and TR-DOS emulation Added Spectrum +3 emulation Added Spectrum keyboard ghosting error feature Added ZX Spectrum Recreated keyboard support Added setting to exit emulator after a number of seconds (--exit-after) Added setting to show changelog when updating emulator version Added actions to file utilities menu: Copy, Move, Rename Added setting to write protect IDE, MMC, ZX-Uno Flash Added setting to disable persistent writes on IDE and MMC Added second Easter Egg ;) Added improved Spectrum 16/48/+ colour palette Added setting to add a watermark on the display Added setting to reduce display to a factor of 0.75. Used on RunZX event Added a fast spectrum core (with some features disabled) just for slow devices, like Raspberry Pi 1/Zero. Now ZEsarUX is playable on RPi1/Zero again! Added a setting to dump ram contents to file when exiting ZEsarUX, ideal to run automatic tests Added cpu-step-over function on debug menu (was already available from ZRCP) Improved frameskip: now realvideo buffer is not updated when frameskip Improved ZRCP: run command is stopped by default when pressing a key (or sending data to the socket) Improved joystick support: added joystick test menu buttons to events and buttons to joystick configuration are saved on configuration file Improved OSD keyboard: now you can press up to all 40 keys (on Spectrum/ZX80/ZX81) at the same time now it can be opened from any place (needs multitask on) Improved QL emulation: experimental support of LOAD, LRUN command can now open qlay mdv microdrive image files Improved file viewer from file utilities: *specific file viewers for these kind of files: .tap, .zx, .zsf, .sp, .z80, .sna, .spg, .p, .o, .mmc/.ide (fat browser, plus3dos browser), .dsk, .trd, .tzx, .cdt, .flash (zxuno flash, z88 flash, superupgrade flash), .epr, .eprom *default hexadecimal file viewer for unknown files Improved TSConf emulation: Added TSConf DMA, line interrupt, sprites layers TSConf rendering: now tiles and sprites are drawn per scanline. Border drawing. Handling of scroll registers TSConf debugging: debug for DMA, Video registers, Video layers, Sprites, Tiles Improved text mode drivers (aalib, stdout, simpletext, curses): text settings are in different submenu, setting to set stdout/simpletext fps Improved messages windows. You can now have an internal clipboard, press key c to copy to it. Press P on file utils to paste contents to a file Improved menu interface: A new "tabbed" menus to improve usability and interaction with mouse, joystick and stdout driver: waveform, visualmem, ay player Character width can be reduced to 7,6 or 5 pixels width Added a setting to limit menu event: enabling it you should press the menu key 4 times in a second Added a setting to hide directories from file selector menus, useful when you don't want the user to be able to navigate the filesystem Smartload: now the cursor remembers last file loaded Added two more GUI styles: Clean and CleanInverse Improved sprite viewer: now can see sprites with speccy screen format you can view sprites up to 512x192 you can see tsconf sprites Improved sound: Silence detector does not activate on pthreads versions Improved default configuration: when the configuration file doesn't exist, the new one has the autosave configuration setting enabled Improved configuration parsing: if unknown setting found on configuration file, ZEsarUX will open but warns about the error, and the autosave feature is not enabled Improved TBBlue emulation: Added clip window registers Improved rendering on text mode drivers: now realvideo mode can render directly to black&white text. Try TSConf with --vo stdout --realvideo --autoredrawstdout Improved Linux library dependencies: libssl is not enabled by default on compilation Fixed TBBlue MMU when using segment 0000-3FFFH Fixed ZX-Uno emulation: 128kb timings are the same as a Spectrum 128k. When port 1ffd enabled, port FF return FF Fixed window footer when running Pentagon Fixed panic screen: now it is shown on all machines. New design. I hope you never see it ;) Fixed some crashes with speech enabled and opening some menus: AY Registers, AY Player, etc... Fixed annoying sound on Dandanator rom menu Fixed bug on Z80 cpu core, iff2 was not being reset to 0 when firing an interrupt, so reading it by using LD A,R and LD A,I affected many demos

@dudleydes said in lr-fuse Joypad to Keyboard mapping: especially in the case of Gauntlet which requires the cursor joystick to navigate the menus. The numbers 5 to 8 from onscreen keyboard can be used to choose an option and Space (R1) to make the selection. Thanks. But just to note you can select the 'protec' controller and use the cursors on the menu all from the same controller at once. Menus are best navigated using the onscreen keyboard. I see little gain in trying to map navigation to a controller I respectfully disagree, but this is a personal preference. I am trying to create a comfortable 'pick up and play' experience, not just for myself, but also for others who might use the machine, and I still want to avoid any OSK usage where i can. I think maybe a little bit too much focus is being spent on the specfic games i mentioned... these were 'off the top of my head' example. There are so many that require a bit of keyboard input (or something like SkoolDaze that requires a hell of a lot of customisation!) , or a game like say jetpac would benefit just from having the 'select kempston' and 'start' menu controls mapped... or better still the game should start with mapping for the keyboard controls and then just use 'start' to ... well... start the game! Greateful for the feedback, and i will look at what you have suggested for the editing of the retroarch file(s).... just a shame not to have a nice clear and easy GUI approach to this which is easy to navigate to, but as i said before , this could be as a result of my dislike of the RGUI interface. I have yet to try the latest update from pjft 's update though. I have been so focused on Amiga development that i must admit my ZX Spectrum love has been left to neglect somewhat. Just to note, in your examples, although working, I would want some consistency, so for example, if i was mapping the magic for player 1 to 'y' i would want player 2 to be the same... so certainly there is need for a bit ore input in many cases than just the default.

@tuki_cat Hi thanks for the reply. I’m a bit of a newbie to this. But I think it is ir-fuse or something like that and as for the rom it’s a zip file thing. Will I need to un-zip it to see the file format. As for anything else I’ve no idea lol.

@rjmonteiro edited last post for error

@SIMPLY-AUSTIN You sir are an absolute star!! Just bought a "recreated ZX Spectrum" in which i plan to stuff in a Raspberry Pi Zero for my old man for Xmas! Literally posted about this on MadlittlePixels FB page just a few days ago! Would love the full theme please! looking for tutorials to edit this to load in the raspberry pi logo.....watch this space :)

@smartgenes you are missing this Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first And start a new topic.

@elshiftos spectrum scraping works just fine with screenscraper. I've uploaded a ton of box scans but nowhere near a complete set. It is picky with the filenames though so maybe check on the website that you're romnames are correctly named?

Radiohead always have the best surprises.

@GtBFilms I didn't know the ad for my bike made it all the way there! :)

the pi1 b (512mb version) isn't to bad... and can run some PSX games... I was able to play pac man world on it using the .cue/.bin extracted from the disk with no problems as well as a couple others (crash bandicoot and such) though more graphic intensive games like Tony Hawk was unplayable... and N64 on Pi1 was near impossible...