Bolo w/ joystick on RetroPie Apple II emulator?

[bsabiston]

Has anyone managed to get Bolo on the Apple II emulator to play with a joystick? It supposedly supports one but I can't get it to work. All the other Apple II games I've tried seem to work OK with my XBox controller.

I remember playing Bolo a lot as a kid with a joystick and I wanted to play it again - but it's not as much fun on keyboard...

Thanks!

[roslof]

@bsabiston said in Bolo w/ joystick on RetroPie Apple II emulator?:

Has anyone managed to get Bolo on the Apple II emulator to play with a joystick? It supposedly supports one but I can't get it to work. All the other Apple II games I've tried seem to work OK with my XBox controller.

I remember playing Bolo a lot as a kid with a joystick and I wanted to play it again - but it's not as much fun on keyboard...

Thanks!

Such a good game, right? Assuming your joystick is properly configured, just follow these steps:

1. Enter new "Level" and "Density" as required
2. After "Generating Maze" you'll be in gameplay
3. With a keyboard press Ctrl-J"

Joystick control should now be working. You'll need to do this with each session of the game.

It always made me a little sad that so many games require a keyboard press or chord of presses to enable the joystick. :)

Have fun!

[bsabiston]

@roslof Thank you for the reply. I finally got a chance to try this today, but it did not work. Are you sure it works for you? What kind of controller are you using? Any other ideas of what I might try?

Now I am wondering if I am misremembering and I always had to play this with a keyboard. I kind of remember it being a little frustrating...

[roslof]

@bsabiston said in Bolo w/ joystick on RetroPie Apple II emulator?:

@roslof Thank you for the reply. I finally got a chance to try this today, but it did not work. Are you sure it works for you? What kind of controller are you using? Any other ideas of what I might try?

Now I am wondering if I am misremembering and I always had to play this with a keyboard. I kind of remember it being a little frustrating...

This does work for me. I'm using a DualShock 4, but that shouldn't really matter much, since the Apple ][ just needs analog + 2 buttons.

Which emulator are you using? linapple? Can you post your joystick configuration for the emulator?

Here is my linapple configuration:

# Default values are 2 for Joystick 0, and 0 for Joystick 1

	Joystick 0	=	1
	Joystick 1	=	1

# For Joysticks you can define which Joystick index number, axis number, and buttons.
# 
# Default for Joystick 1 is index 0, axis 0 and 1, buttons 0 and 1.
# Default for Joystick 2 is index 1, axis 0 and 1, button 0.

	Joy0Index	=	0
	Joy0Axis0	=	0
	Joy0Axis1	=	1
	Joy0Button1	=	3  #Cross Button on P1 DualShock 4
	Joy0Button2	=	0  #Square Button on P1 DualShock 4

	Joy1Index	=	1
	Joy1Axis0	=	0
	Joy1Axis1	=	1
	Joy1Button1	=	3  #Cross Button on P2 DualShock 4
	Joy1Button2	=	0  #Square Button on P2 DualShock 4

Also, to ensure we're comparing apples to apples (no pun intended) I'm using "Bolo (4am crack)". 4am creates perfect clean cracks and this version works perfectly. Can't speak re: other images.

[bsabiston]

@roslof Ah OK, that was it! My version was just called "Bolo" and the crack was by Trystan II. Seemed to work fine except for the the joystick. When I tried the 4AM crack, it worked!

Thanks!