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    Space Taxi (c64) Controls

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      Drdave79
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      I've been struggling getting Space Taxi for the C64 (vice-x64 emulator) to operate on my Retropie arcade cabinet. I can't get anything to recognize the FIRE command to start the game. I've gone into the emulator settings and tried both joystick and keyboard. I've mapped fire to control. Nothing seems to recognize.

      Has anyone successfully set-up this game? Thank you.

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        jamrom2 @Drdave79
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        @drdave79 question first... Are you familiar with the menu and all that you can do with mapping controls in Vice-64?

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          Drdave79 @jamrom2
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          @jamrom2 Sure am. I've gone into machine settings and tried both joystick and keypad options. I've even set fire to control and it still doesn't recognize.

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            jamrom2 @Drdave79
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            @drdave79 ok, good. So you covered all the basics. You tried joystick swapping and all that? Did you try another rom copy?

            I had Space Taxi running on vice-64, but it would only loop the demo. I could never get it to play the game.

            Here's what I did.. I installed lr-vice and never looked back. I don't know why, but Space Taxi works great in lr-Vice (as so all the games I tested). You don't have to use it for all your games if you don't prefer that, but It's really simple to use and has disk swapping support, just like vice-64.

            Try that and tell me if it works.

            Great game BTW.

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              Drdave79 @jamrom2
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              @jamrom2 Yes Space Taxi was definitely the biggest jump to nostalgia for me with the C64. I installed lr-vice from source. It's a bit clunky but ultimately I got it to work. Thank you for your suggestion. Load time was about 2 minutes. Had to hit select/coin to bring up the virtual keyboard just to get past the cheat menu. Then I was finally able to use the joystick.

              Thanks again for your help!

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