ZX Spectrum help please

mitu

Take a look at https://github.com/libretro/fuse-libretro#input-devices, since I assume you are using lr-fuse. Particularly, change the device type for your controls from retropad/joystick to Sinclair Keyboard.

vasquez109

Thanks mitu. My Pi has just gone spectacularly wrong. Will try when its working again (just posted about it in another thread).

Thank you.

vasquez109

Will try to configure the Speccy again once I can get the wife off Galaxian haha

vasquez109

Thats great. I can play the keyboard games, but just cant get any joysticks to work. Tried all the options...Kempston, Fuller, Sinclair 1 and 2 etc and nothing is working? Ive followed the instructions but maybe I need to download something else?

Thanks.

tuki_cat

@vasquez109

This old thread may be useful - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4074/fuse-kempston/2

Remote into your pi and find retroarch.cfg for the zxspectrum - opt/retropie/configs/zxspectrum

Find the following line: -input_libretro_device_p1 =

and make sure it says

input_libretro_device_p1 = "513".

This will set your joystick to Kempston by default.

Hope that helps

vasquez109

Thank you. Will try when I get home!

vasquez109

Just tried doing that and found that and my retroarch.cfg file is in RETROPIE/configs/zxspectrum and this is what is in it:

Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/zxspectrum/"
input_libretro_device_p1 = "513"

#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

Still no joy playing one of my favourite games. Just wondering if someone could try loading the game and see if they get the joystick to work. The game is called "Island of Dr. Destructo" or sometimes just "Destructo".

Thanks for your time.
David.

mitu

The game has to be configured to use the Kempston joystick for player 1 or player 2. So if you choose to change the device type of Port 1 to Kempston Joytick, you'll also need to enter the game configuration and choose that using the virtual keyboard.

Easier to do is using the core Options, where you can assign the gamepad to the default keyboard bindings used by the game:

CAPS, Z, D, R - see https://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/d/Destructo.txt
1 to start a 1 player game

Here's how it might look:

After you assign keys to the gamepad actions, choose 'Create game-options file' in from the same Options menu (1st option) and the options will apply only to this game. After saving the game's options, clear out the actions - so other games will not get these set of options.

vasquez109

Thank you. Reliving the good old days finally! One last question, is there a way of resetting the machine and go back to sinclair basic or the boot up screen without it loading the tape image? Reset within retroarch reloads the tape image again. I just want to go and have a mess around with Sinclair BASIC.

Thanks for your help.
David.

mitu

Try creating an empty file (basic.tap) in the ROM folder and load it.