C64 games don´t work

mediamogul

Something else that might be worth trying is adding "-cartcrt" with a space afterward to the beginning filename of the rom. If it worked, it wouldn't be overwritten in an update and you could change the appearance of the name back to something pretty using Emulation Station's metadata.

mediamogul

I just tried loading a few .crt files and I didn't have any trouble using the stock RetroPie setup. I also tried the two suggestions that I made above and the files also launched each time, so they are at least functional options to try. Other than that, I would try obtaining the cart files from another source and see if that helps.

edmaul69

@mediamogul i am unable to play the crt games directly either. Plays when loaded from inside the emulator. If i pick the game in es it displays the game name half garbled in c64 boot screen and it says ready but stays indefinitely on a blinking cursor underneath ready inside of c64.

edmaul69

@ambaratur @camurso @mediamogul ok so i found out the issue with crt games. Go into retropie menu, choose retropie setup. Then in there update retropie-setup. Then when that finishes go into manage packages, optional packages and choose vice and install from binary. Dont uninstall first. No need to lose your settings. The latest version of vice loads .crt files great and instant. It also fixes issues that were created while using scanlines. Disks load pretty fast now too.

mediamogul

@edmaul69 said in C64 games don´t work:

The latest version of vice loads .crt files great and instant.

Ah, OK. I already have the latest version, so I guess that's why I wasn't having any issues.

camurso

@edmaul69 : I'm not 100% sure, but I think I made an update some days ago, but I will do that later when I get back from work. It's 09:38AM, so my day is just beginning :)

camurso

How about that!
It seems somebody was reading this because it only took my thread here in order to fix the problem!!!!