FrodoDS Update 2006-03-28

***wraggster*** · March 29th, 2006, 17:25

GPF has released a new version of his Commodore 64 emulator for the Nintendo DS, heres whats new:

This new version now only list the .d64/.D64 files in the /rd directory(limit them to less then 15 or they will scroll of the screen)

1541 drive emulation is turned off for a lot speedier load times.

As you can see in the above image the screen colors are finally correct

Sound is now recognisable for most things.

Left shoulder button will now load a snapshot image created with the pc version of Frodo 4.1b, name the snapshot jjr.fss and put it in the /rd folder on the root of the cf/sd card.

Enjoy and Thanks for all the support.
Troy(GPF)
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk

He also added this:

This new version uses the romfs appended to the end of the .nds or .ds.gba file so should work for most everything but the gbamp, with a little more work to generate the romdisk and append it. This version is only need for those that the FAT lib version doesnt work.

You need a copy of genromfs.exe , you can download from here
http://www.feetoffury.com/files/genromfs-cygwin.zip rename it to genromfs.exe or update the included createromdisk.bat file.

Also might need the cygwin1.dll file from here http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/pop.php?cygwin1

Download the gbfs distrubution from http://www.pineight.com/gba/ and take the padbin.exe and put that in the folder as well.

put the files into the same folder, then copy all of your .d64 files (also jjr.fss snapshot if you create one) into the rd directory and run the included createromdisk.bat

it should generate an FrodoDS_fs.nds and FrodoDS_fs.ds.gba .

This has all the fixes as the FAT lib version 0.3, but is not needed unless the FAT version from above message is not working

Downloads and Screenshot via Comments

**xcom** · July 15th, 2006, 03:51

Good to see a C64 emulator for the DS.

Works quite well, allthough it is a little slow. It's not possible to play any games really because of the laggy display and choppy sound. It can freeze sometimes which forces the user to do a manual reboot of the DS.

But this is an early release so I imagine the performance will improve with future releases.

Hanging out to play Wizball on the DS

Keep up the good work.

What about an Amiga UAE port?

**jaws365** · July 23rd, 2006, 01:34

Oh man, now I really consider buying a DS. A C64 emulator with full keyboard is revoltion to handhelds. If the sound is good I can use C64 music trackers anywhere!

An Amiga emulator comes with same keyboard abilty... wow, i don´t even dare dreaming about it.

How do one get homebrew on DS? I use a flash cartridge on my GBA.

Greetings from AMIGA/C64/GBA/PSP-user

**asdfasdf9** · August 18th, 2006, 02:01

Originally Posted by jaws365

Oh man, now I really consider buying a DS. A C64 emulator with full keyboard is revoltion to handhelds. If the sound is good I can use C64 music trackers anywhere!

An Amiga emulator comes with same keyboard abilty... wow, i don´t even dare dreaming about it.

How do one get homebrew on DS? I use a flash cartridge on my GBA.

Greetings from AMIGA/C64/GBA/PSP-user

Here's FrodoDS v0.3 running on the DS:

Here's Frodo2x v0.9.9 running on the GP2X:

**pmigneous** · September 11th, 2006, 02:49

I'm huge in the c64 demoscene.. How does this emu do with c64 chipbeats and SID songs? I'd really love to be able to walk around school with my headphones listening to SID songs. Do you think they'd be at 100%?

**Sektor** · September 11th, 2006, 08:40

Sound is far from perfect. GPF also ported SIDPlayer to DS but the sound crackles a little.

**xcom** · September 15th, 2006, 12:53

Geez, it has been a while between releases. Is this being developed any more? Not even a Beta and its now September.

Could be the author has no time or lost interest.

Anyone care to take up the challenge?

I would if i knew how to code!