Cannot save settings in Vice

ashmck73

Hello, I am setting up a new Retropie install and have installed VICE to do some C64 emulation. I have transferred roms over - both T64 and D64 (tape and Disk) games and they seem to load ok. My issue is setting up my joystick to work with vice.

I can get into the VICE menu and setup the joystick and buttons but it will not allow me to Save the settings. Whenever I select 'Save current settings' I immediately get the error - Vice Error Cannot save current settings. This happens when I try and select Save Hotkeys and also Save joystick map.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue - a quick google search doesn't really shed any light. I have uninstalled and reinstalled VICE several times but the issue remains.

Could it be a rights issue somehow that prevents the updating of the config files.

tuki_cat

@ashmck73 Which version of vice are you using, lr-vice or vice?

Lr-vice uses retroarch to set controls, where as the standalong verison of vice does not. In order help we need to know which one you are running.

ashmck73

I'm using standalone vice.

I've just purchased one of the Waveshare Game HAT kits ([https://www.waveshare.com/game-hat.htm](link url)) to build a Pi handheld gaming device so won't have a keyboard attached. My main aim is to setup separate buttons to bring up the virtual keyboard and switch joystick ports within Vice.

As most c64 games come with some sort of loader where you need to press a keyboard button to load the game, being able to invoke the virtual keyboard will take care of that. I can set it all up but can't save the settings for some reason - so as soon as I exit the emulator the settings are all gone.

dudleydes

@ashmck73 You can check the ownership of your C64 config files by running the command: ls -l /opt/retropie/configs/c64. The owner of all of the files listed should be pi pi.

If they are not, it's probably worth running the following command to check the owner of the configs folder: ls -ld /opt/retropie/configs.

If the owner is not pi, then you can reset the ownership of the configsfolder by running sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs.

ashmck73

I checked the folder permissions and they seemed OK - Pi had ownership rights to both the configs and c64 folders.

The Retropie image I was using was a fully loaded one from [Removed] - think it was the 64GB [Removed] one. I scrapped that and loaded up a fresh install of Retropie and copied roms on from scratch. I now no longer have the problem with saving c64 settings.

Clearly it was some sort of issue with the preloaded image from [Removed]. It pays to do it yourself from scratch :)

mitu

@ashmck73 said in Cannot save settings in Vice:

The Retropie image I was using was a fully loaded one from [Removed] - think it was the 64GB [Removed] one. I scrapped that and loaded up a fresh install of Retropie and copied roms on from scratch. I now no longer have the problem with saving c64 settings.

This is one of the reasons we don't support 3rd party images.

BuZz

@ashmck73 it also pays to read the forum rules before posting.

praths

@mitu I do face the same issue, i.e. cannot save settings on a fresh install of RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi Desktop. All packages, respectively instructions taken directly from the web-site of Raspberry Pi and RetroPie, i.e. no third party packages.

The issue appears with the vice editor (not lr-vice) and I checked the ownership as mentioned above and it is PI:PI for the configs folder and all the files in it. What I can do though is to save settings under a specific filename using save current settings to. Interestingly, the path points to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/c64 for that.

praths

Here's an addendum to my previous message. Today I got my Raspberry Pi and when using the latest version of RetroPi for the Raspberry then save settings in vice works fine.