Using a Pi400 to emulate Spectrum/Atari/C64 etc
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I have a Pi 400 on its way to me and am thinking of all the wonderful things I hope to be able to do with it!
I use retropi a LOT but have always been frustrated by the inconvenience of running old computer games with a joystick - I owned a ZX Spectrum and always played the games using the keyboard, I didn't ever own a joystick for it.
If I load up the ZX Spectrum emulator will I just be able to play the games suing the keys with no work or is there something I haver to do to make retro pie see the keyboard as a spectrum keyboard? The same applies to other old computer emulators course...
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It should be fairly straightforward. For Spectrum, the libretro core (
lr-fuse) has joystick enabled by default and to enable the keyboard you need to set the P3 Pad type to Keyboard. Since you have a keyboard, I thinkfusestandalone would work better and there's even Zesarux - emulating a ton of old retro-computers and some recent modern re-creations (ZX-Uno, ZX Spectrum Next, ZX-Evolution, has some videos in the author's youtube channel). -
@mitu thanks very much, I was struggling with the keyboard in lr-fuse but managed to get it sorted. Having real difficulties with others, particularly Amiga but that can wait until I have finished some Spectrum games.
Will definitely look into Zesarux though...
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@chubsta How did you get it sorted?
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@chris3535 as @mitu said, I needed to go into the retroarch settings for lr-fuse and set the control 3 option to keyboard, works fine now.
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