FrodoDS(c64) page added

[turnerl]

Thanks for your hard work. It runs on CycloDS Evolution with some very little glitches but it is fine anyway.

I try your emulator last year on a G6 and i just finish reading this thread now. I tested so far the Hobbit and Bagitman - two of my old favs ever - and I have to check more ... keep up the GOOD work and a BIG Thanks

Yes The Hobbit very good game but works best with some sort of saving (hint! hint! GPF).

[snowii]

For those people who are trying to patch this emu for your R4, dont! you DON'T need to patch this emu for it to work on an R4
I made a folder called games on my Kingston 1gb microSD card then all I did was copied FrodoDS.nds into the games folder I just made.
The rd folder goes the same place as where I just created my games folder. Thats it that all you have to do and it does work on R4, I have a little question though if anyone can help. It's an excellent emulator, I was enjoying a Bombjack session earlier, but is there anyway to speed the gameplay up as its a tad on the slow side.
Thanks for a great upcoming c64 ds emu

[crookedmouth]

I have a little question though if anyone can help. It's an excellent emulator, I was enjoying a Bombjack session earlier, but is there anyway to speed the gameplay up as its a tad on the slow side.
Thanks for a great upcoming c64 ds emu

In Frodo.fpr frame skip is set to 2. You could try raising it a bit. I use 3 and don't really know what setting it above 4 would do, but you could try.
Some games just run slower, like Repton by Synapse.

open Frodo.fpr with a text editor
and change the following setting.
SkipFrames = 2

[snowii]

I just checked that and it was already on skipframes 2 so do I change it to skip frames 4 maybe?

[snowii]

I just tried that it was a bit fast and choppy lol so I set it to 3 and now thats an acceptable speed without the framerates being too noticable.
Hopefully as the emulator reaches later stages it should become smoother

[turnerl]

if you dont use the fpr file the default is frameskip 3 which troy explained earlier. This seems to be the best all round setting you could also try turning off 1541 emulation.

If "Enable 1541 processor emulation" is turned on, the four emulated 1541s are disabled and replaced by a single 1541 emulation (drive 8) that only operates on .d64/x64 files, but emulates the 1541 processor and is compatible with about 50% of all fast loaders. However, it slows down the emulation considerably. If you have a .d64 with a program that doesn't load with the normal emulation (see above), you may have better luck with the 1541 processor emulation instead. The path name of the disk image file to be used must be entered into the path entry field of drive 8.

[robman84]

Returned to this to try again. The lure of some classic gaming I think!

Anyway, I've tried many ways to get it to work on my M3 SD (see previous messages). Tried it (030507) out of the box, DLDI patched with M3 SD, DLDI patched with "M3 SD ALT" all to no avail. Either I get the coding compo screen at the top and a white screen at the bottom, or I get an enlarged C64 boot screen. Wither way I can't do much else.

Now an update. If I launch the DLDI M3 SD patched version from within DSOrganise it boots and allows me to navigate through my files, including the RD folder with the C64 roms in. Result! However once in there it shows a screenshot of a strange platform game on the top screen (not one of my roms!) and nothing else works. There are no options screens or anything.

Some people mentioned using the left trigger to open a rom "twice" but for me the left trigger just navigates its way up the file structure, and the right trigger navigated down the file structure. Is that a DSOrganise thing?

So I'm sort of getting something, but not a working C64 emulator just yet! Any ideas? (and what is that platform game screen thing all about?)

[crookedmouth]

That is Jumpman Junior , it is the included snapshot that comes with FrodoDS I believe. By pressing the "X" button you load a snapshot. It can be any snapshot if you rename it jjr.fss.
DSOrganize is not the culprit here, I just tried it.

edit: I attached the second newest build and it is prepatched with the regular M3 Adapter SD dldi(not the alt), this helped one guy who was having no luck getting FrodoDS working, but he was using the M3 Simply. Worth a try.

[robman84]

Cheers. I'll give it a go. Also thanks for the jumpman explanation!

[robman84]

Sadly no difference. Under the default M3 loader I get just the compo screen top and white screen bottom. Launched from DSOrganize I get the file menu, but as soon as I choose any rom by pressing the A button I get a frozen jumpman screen.

I wonder if this is an indication of a problem with my M3 SD? Some DLDI patched stuff works fine (SNESDS, NESDS, DSOrganize) but FrodoDS and Lameboy are just refusing to even start unless I go via DSOrganize (in DSO it says it launches with Chism's loader)