FrodoDS(c64) page added

**crookedmouth** · November 2nd, 2007, 03:38

Originally Posted by ENAY

Hi crookedmouth.

I just followed your instructions word for word for my R4 and I still get device not present errors.

I can't understand why this emulator is so difficult to get to work when other emulators seem fine and don't need patching.

Any more tips?

I did forget to mention that the 1541 ROM, BASIC ROM,KERNAL ROM,CHAR ROM and Frodo.fpr need to be in the rd folder

In case that isn't it, I've attached a version that other R4 users have got working. I forget which version it is and weather you can alter Frodo.fpr(frameskip and whatnot but I included it anyway),but it worked for them.
It is all set(prepatched), just download and extract directly to the root of your card.Boot it up, Press left shoulder button, choose test.d64 with the A button. Press Right Shoulder to auto load first program. It should be a menu. Press "1" and return. This is a program I know works on my DS. It may require you to change joystick ports, by using the Select button.
Hope this works for you guys.

**ENAY** · November 2nd, 2007, 15:03

Woohoo!

It worked when I copied 1541 ROM, BASIC ROM,KERNAL ROM,CHAR ROM into the rd folder. They were on root directory. Thanks a lot crookedmouth.

Does this emulator support saving snapshots? Can't seem to save any but when ever I hit "X" that jumpman game snap shot comes up, as if that was the snapshot still in memory from a previous user. Also the number of times I keep hitting "Start" to START playing and then it resetting. I've lost count, very annoying indeed.

But the main thing, it works!

**hazeythelazy** · November 2nd, 2007, 17:03

I thought old commodore 64 games would be awesome... THOUGHT. They are really boring, I will not go below ATARI 2600.

-BUT you did an execelent job Creating this emulator and it works great!

-Look up "ATARI Jaguar Emulator" In my posts Im offering a decent sum of money to who can creat a SUCESSFUL one on NDS, or a Sucessful one on The PC that can Play ALL GAMEs not just like 3!

-Hazey

**crookedmouth** · November 3rd, 2007, 05:37

Originally Posted by ENAY

Woohoo!

It worked when I copied 1541 ROM, BASIC ROM,KERNAL ROM,CHAR ROM into the rd folder. They were on root directory. Thanks a lot crookedmouth.

Does this emulator support saving snapshots? Can't seem to save any but when ever I hit "X" that jumpman game snap shot comes up, as if that was the snapshot still in memory from a previous user. Also the number of times I keep hitting "Start" to START playing and then it resetting. I've lost count, very annoying indeed.

But the main thing, it works!

Sorry I left out the part about the ROMS. The file in the rd folder named jjr.fss is a snapshot of JumpmanJR that GPF included in an older version. He added a bunch more that you can just rename to jjr.fss and use the X button to load it. You can make your own snapshots using Frodo on the PC and saving them to your card as jjr.fss, but frodods doesn't do snapshots nor saving. Like you said the most important thing is you got it working.

Originally Posted by hazeythelazy

I thought old commodore 64 games would be awesome... THOUGHT. They are really boring, I will not go below ATARI 2600.

Out of the 12000 games made for the C64, every single one is really boring? Nostalgia does play a big role in the fun factor of the c64 but thats a broad statement hazey.Won't go below the Atari2600? As much as I love the 2600, that's pretty insulting to one of the best selling computers of all time. Atari2600=1977, C64=1982, they are both 8bit machines but thats about all they share in common.

Originally Posted by hazeythelazy

-Look up "ATARI Jaguar Emulator" In my posts Im offering a decent sum of money to who can creat a SUCESSFUL one on NDS, or a Sucessful one on The PC that can Play ALL GAMEs not just like 3!
-Hazey

Even with my woefully limited knowledge of emulation, I can safely say, "You will never see a Jaguar emulator on the DS ever", this statement is nothing like when someone said "you will never see an snes emulator on the GBA." because my statement is true.I just saw this from a readme about Jag emulation "A faster processor is seriously recommended !
For sound emulation, you probably need a 2+ GHz processor." Honestly you must know this already the DS has trouble doing Genesis even without sound. Heck the Atari2600 emulator isn't full speed.

Virtual Jaguar- seems to run more then 3 games.http://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/

Download
http://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/tar...-win32-bin.zip

Why not buy a real one?

Darn I let myself get of topic. Oh well, bottom line, to a lot of us the C64 will remain the best gaming machine we had(although I loved my Amiga)

**ENAY** · November 3rd, 2007, 10:26

Yeah shame about the saving thing, I wanted to save my progress on Bloodwych, one of my favourite games but I can't! :'(
I also have the CPC464 Emulator and Speccy one.
Brings back good memories of when I was a kid and on those you can save and load snapshot on the emulators. Comes in very handy, was certainly hoping the Frodo one did the same. If not for save games but just so you can snapshot at the title screen without having to load all the cracking screens everytime.

As for the Atari 2600. My mate had one, if I'm not mistaken the games on it were worse than C64. There certainly wasn't as many games to play on it and had slighter poorer graphics if I recall.
Even Spectrum I thought was better than Atari 2600.

**crookedmouth** · November 3rd, 2007, 18:06

Remember you can save snapshots on the PC frodo then move them over to your DS, but only one.

**creepy_smell** · November 4th, 2007, 03:55

You can also use DSorganizer to switch between different snapshots by editing the name to "jjr.fss" for the one you want to use while renaming the old jjr to something else (Back to game name so you remember what it was).

**anthonyharris** · November 25th, 2007, 09:30

I see there haven't been any updates in a while. Is there any news at all on the state of this fantastic emulator.

**chrisino** · November 25th, 2007, 14:19

Hi,

I have tried to get the emulator to work on my m3 but no luck with any disk images. I get the error message
searching for *
?file not found error
Ready.
Run

Will it only work with specific images. The test file works but no other images will. Do the D64 files have to be a certain lenght.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

**mragonias** · December 5th, 2007, 15:40

I had the device not found problem too, and after a hundreds of test, my conclusion is:
the device (or file) not found problem is because a bad rom!!!

I have a R4, and i tested with and without patch, changing the folder rd, changing pfr file (config)......with no result, always the same result:
?device not....

i downloaded a frodo emulator for my mac, and i tested all games that doesn't run i frodods, and i saw that in frodo in mac doesn't run too.
I search for others roms, and i found one or two that run in frodo for mac, and i tested in frodods and voilá, also runs!!!!
I want to thanks crookedmouth, because in the last post he puts a frodods, with a rom to test. If you want to know if your problem is frodods(config, patches....) or a bad rom, test it with that rom. If it runs in your frodods, you will know that your problem is the version of your rom (game).

(sorry for my english)