Frodo C64 emulator ported to Wii

[Gaffer]

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. Everything you need is included in frodo-wii-bin-10.tar.gz, you don't need the source. It is meant to start up with the blue C64 screen even if you don't have any images in the folder. It works on my system but I'm running 3.1E and bootmii. Try unplugging everything (USB devices and gamecube memory cards) to see if there is some conflict.

Tried that (2 wavebirds, 1 wired gc controller, 2 ngc memcards, 1 usb battery charger for wii fit).......all unplugged and still does the same thing

So, back to a clean install of the folder again and as a final solution I edited the frodo rsrc file to remove the drive 8 being ghouls _and_ghosts.t64 and I also changed skipframes to 3.5 to improve speed and reduce flicker like I've done with Frodo DS - all other lines unaltered:

NormalCycles = 63
BadLineCycles = 23
CIACycles = 63
FloppyCycles = 64
SkipFrames = 3.5
LatencyMin = 80
LatencyMax = 120
LatencyAvg = 280
ScalingNumerator = 2
ScalingDenominator = 2
DrivePath8 = 
DrivePath9 = 
DrivePath10 = 
DrivePath11 = 
ViewPort = Default
DisplayMode = Default
SIDType = DIGITAL
REUSize = NONE
DisplayType = WINDOW
Joystick1Port = 0
Joystick2Port = 0
SpritesOn = TRUE
SpriteCollisions = TRUE
JoystickSwap = TRUE
LimitSpeed = TRUE
FastReset = FALSE
CIAIRQHack = FALSE
MapSlash = TRUE
Emul1541Proc = FALSE
SIDFilters = TRUE
DoubleScan = TRUE
HideCursor = FALSE
DirectSound = TRUE
ExclusiveSound = FALSE
AutoPause = FALSE
PrefsAtStartup = FALSE
SystemMemory = FALSE
AlwaysCopy = FALSE
SystemKeys = TRUE
ShowLEDs = TRUE
JoystickKeyBinding0 = 65
JoystickKeyBinding1 = 66
JoystickKeyBinding2 = 68
JoystickKeyBinding3 = 72
JoystickKeyBinding4 = 80
JoystickKeyBinding5 = 28
JoystickKeyBinding6 = 3
JoystickKeyBinding7 = 0
JoystickKeyBinding8 = 3
JoystickKeyBinding9 = 60
JoystickKeyBinding10 = 65
JoystickKeyBinding11 = 66
JoystickKeyBinding12 = 68
JoystickKeyBinding13 = 72
JoystickKeyBinding14 = 80
JoystickKeyBinding15 = 59
JoystickKeyBinding16 = -1
JoystickKeyBinding17 = 80
JoystickKeyBinding18 = -1
JoystickKeyBinding19 = -1
JoystickKeyBinding20 = -1
JoystickKeyBinding21 = -1
DisplayOption = 0
MsPerFrame = 28 

Still no joy .......

Maybe it's the fact that I'm on 3.4E?????

[SimonKagstrom]

@gaffer: Your apps directory should look like this:

apps/
apps/frodo/
apps/frodo/tmp/
apps/frodo/FreeMono.ttf
apps/frodo/C64.ttf
apps/frodo/saves/
apps/frodo/frodorc
apps/frodo/boot.dol
apps/frodo/meta.xml
apps/frodo/images/
apps/frodo/icon.png

Do you have everything from the list above on your SD card? I suppose other homebrew applications run and can make use of the SD card for you?

If it still doesn't work I really have no clue about what could be wrong, sorry :-/

[BBE24]

@BBE24: Try the first one, it's usually the one which will load the game. You'll need to replace the disk somewhere in the game though, just insert it without loading then.

Yep, it seems to boot the game up. It comes to the title screen, but the controls don't work. So basically I am just stuck looking at the title screen, LOL. Maybe an issue with key mapping on this particular game..?

[Gaffer]

@ SimonKagstrom: yep, had those files.

Bizarrely, I think I figured it out. My SD reader light was flickering intermittently so I tried a different card reader and tried the whole process again.

Everything works now .

I'm guessing that the boot.dol file was getting corrupted as the reader had a problem.
New reader = "good" boot.dol transfer ----- everything works.

Thanx for your help .

The only issue now is that many of my .d64 progs have a lame "intro screen" that you can only get out of (to launch the game) by pressing run/stop........


.......need to figure out how to get that to work now (tried via keyboard but it doesn't work).

[BBE24]

@ SimonKagstrom: yep, had those files.

Bizarrely, I think I figured it out. My SD reader light was flickering intermittently so I tried a different card reader and tried the whole process again.

Everything works now .

I'm guessing that the boot.dol file was getting corrupted as the reader had a problem.
New reader = "good" boot.dol transfer ----- everything works.

Thanx for your help .

The only issue now is that many of my .d64 progs have a lame "intro screen" that you can only get out of (to launch the game) by pressing run/stop........


.......need to figure out how to get that to work now (tried via keyboard but it doesn't work).

ahha! That's my problem too. The ROM i'm using has an intro screen that says press run/stop to start the game or whatever, and none of the buttons on my wiimote or classic controller can get past that screen

[SimonKagstrom]

Just bind it to one of the buttons then - you have all of that on the virtual keyboard in the menu. I think escape is run/stop on the USB keyboard.

[anthonyharris]

just wondering how many disk images you can have in the image folder. I had 4500 in one folder, but then it wouldn't get past the load screen.So i put all the files in corresponding sub-directories, A-Z. Only the ones with a few images would load, 'V' for example, Only had about 20 games in there. But when I tried to load 'T', which has over 200 games, it froze.

[SimonKagstrom]

The limit is "All the games you can reasonably play" :-)

I suppose there is some bug there though - there is no hard-coded limit - the file list is reallocated to fit all the directory entries there. I guess there might be some problem at a lower level as well (libfat?).

[anthonyharris]

Thanks for the reply. After some trial and error, about 100 images to a directory is fine. all loads ok.