Frodo Compatiblity List

[Flack]

I just got the "Arcade" C64 collection. It's 57 virtual d64 disks with most of the classic C64 arcade games. I tested the first 10 disks tonight, and hope to have all of the disks tested by this weekend. Here's what I've found so far.

1 - Loaded, didn't run or locked up.
2 - Loaded, ran, unplayable.
3 - Loaded, ran, playable but with issues.
4 - Loaded, ran, playable, minor glitches.
5 - Loaded, ran, 100% sound/graphics.

1985 (Disk 110) - Platform - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Action Biker (Disk 108) - Racing - Score: 3/5 (Note: Sprite Collision not quite right.)
Amidar (Disk 108) - Maze - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect. Pac-Man meets Qix.)
Ballblaster (Disk 106) - Arkanoid Clone - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Bigtop Barney (Disk 105) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect for as long as I could stand it.)
Billiards (Disk 101) - Pool - Score: 1/5 (Note: Loaded, didn't run)
Blue Print (Disk 110) - Platform - Score: 5/5 (Note: Seemed Perfect, didn't understand it.)
Boulder Dash (Disk 102) - Platform - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Buck Rogers (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Burgertime (Disk 101) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Centipede (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Choplifter (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Chuckie Egg (Disk 105) - Platform - Score: 2/5 (Note: Ran, locked up.)
Cliff Hanger (Disk 108) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect.)
Commando (Disk 108) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Needs space bar for grenades, still perfectly playable.)
Crystal Castles (Disk 109) - Arcade - Score: 3/5 (Note: Runs too fast, sound garbled.)
Defender (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Designer's Pencil (Disk 105) - Application - Score: 5/5 (Note: Weird, but perfect.)
Dig Dug (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 4.5/5 (Note: Perfect, minor sound pops.)
Donald Duck's Playground (Disk 106) - Platform - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Donkey Kong (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Donkey Kong '86 (Disk 105) - Arcade - Score: 4/5 (Note: Played perfect, minor sound crackles.)
Eagle Empire (Disk 108) - Arcade - Score: 2/5 (Note: Looked and sounded great, couldn't get ship to control.)
Frogger (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 1/5 (Note: Locked up on title screen)
Frogger 2 (Disk 101) - Arcade - Score: 3/5 (Note: Loaded, ran, sprite collision somewhat off, playable.)
Galaxian (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Green Beret (Disk 107) - Platform - Score: 1/5 (Note: Loaded, reset GP32.)
Jumpman Jr. (Disk 101) - Platform - Score: 3/5 (Note: Slow, but otherwise perfect.)
Jungle Hunt (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Kickman (Disk 102) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect - ran almost too fast!)
Kong Strikes Back (Disk 109) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Light Cycles (Disk 101) - Arcade - Score: 4/5 (Note: Game runs fine, somewhat difficult with an 8 way joystick.)
Lode Runner (Disk 102) - Platform - Score: 4.5/5 (Note: Near perfect, minor sound glitches)
Lunar Leeper (Disk 102) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Mad Nurse (Disk 107) - Platform - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Mario Brothers (Disk 102) - Platform - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Miner 2049'er (Disk 101) - Platform - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Missile Command (Disk 102) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Montezuma's Revenge (Disk 109) - Arcade - Score: 1/5 (Note: Black screen.)
Moon Patrol (Disk 102) - Platform - Score: 3/5 (Note: Loaded, ran, sprite collision somewhat off, playable.)
Mr. Do's Castle (Disk 109) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Ms. Pac Man (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Pac-Man (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Pengo (Disk 109) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Pitfall (Disk 101) - Arcade - Score: 4.5/5 (Note: Bottom half of swinging vine not visible, but still "there". Other than that, perfect.)
Pitfall 2 (Disk 109) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Pogo Joe (Disk 110) - Q-Bert Clone - Score: 5/5 (Note: )
Pole Position (Disk 102) - Racing - Score: 4.5/5 (Note: Perfect, minor sound pops.)
Pooyan (Disk 105) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Quick (Disk 101) - Qix Clone - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Radar Ratrace (Disk 109) - Arcade - Score: 2/5 (Note: Uses Keyboard Controls)
Revenge Of Defender (Disk 106) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
River Raid (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 1/5 (Note: Ship explodes at the beginning of every turn.)
Robotron 2084 (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Rotations (Disk 107) - Tetris Clone - Score: 2/5 (Note: Uses keyboard to play, pretty impossible.)
Sammy Lightfoot (Disk 101) - Platform - Score: 2/5 (Note: Rope sprite messed up. Cannot complete first level.)
Save New York (Disk 103) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect - ran almost too fast!)
Shoot Out (Disk 110) - Shooter - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Soccer (Commodore) - (Disk 106) - Sports - Score: 4/5 (Note: Played perfect, sound issues.)
Space Invaders (Disk 102) - Arcade - Score: 3/5 (Note: Speed/Sound great, sprite collision with shields didn't work.)
Space Pilot (Disk 110) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Star Trek (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Looks Perfect to Me)
Star Wars (Atari) - (Disk 101) - Arcade - Score: 1/5 (Note: Game loaded, nothing appears but the - Score.)
Tetrix (Disk 102) - Puzzle - Score: 3/5 (Note: Graphically perfect, but SLOW.)
Threshold (Disk 101) - Space Invaders Clone - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Up'n Down (Disk 104) - Arcade - Score: 5/5 (Note: Perfect)
Uridium (Disk 107) - Shooting - Score: 3/5 (Note: Playable but ship to ship sprite collision doesn't work.

I'll post a complete list of the Arcade Disk Set by this weekend.

 

[brutaLIzer]

is there any chance we can get css on the gp? at least on the pc it's much better imho.
or this amiga c64 emu...what was it called...magic64? maybe one day when there's uae running we can use magic64 :lol:

 

[LedZepUK]

Frodo is great, even though I do use VICE on the PC, the main games I can not get working are Disk multiloads, ie games like Winter Games, it there a method to getting these to work???

Rock On

 

[centrlink]

Nice to see a Frodo thread

I love it - shame it was discontinued. Slightly better compatability and save states would make it perfect

 

[bringoutthegimp]

woah, all this talk about the c64 got me thinking about ghostbusters. now THAT, my friend, was a good game

 

[LeeT]

Hi all - I am new here as I just bought a GP32 today and set it up....

Its great that there is a working C64 emu such as FRODO for the GP32 - I have already tried 'Willow Pattern' (my fave game) and it works fine. Has anyone tried 'Wizard of Wor' yet?

Anyway just wanted to introduce myself. Expect to see me around quite a bit! B)

 

[Flack]

woah, all this talk about the c64 got me thinking about ghostbusters. now THAT, my friend, was a good game

Ghostbusters runs at 100% ... plays perfectly, except for the digitized voice.

I am a huge C64 fan, and bought my GP32 because of the Frodo screenshots. Maybe once I get all these games tested I'll throw them into a database and toss them online somewhere.

I'm *pretty sure* Wizard of Wor played okay. It was never a huge favorite of mine ... I remember tossing it in but I don't remember playing it much. I'll make sure it goes into my list.

On the PC, I use Vice too. On the GP32 though, you gotta take what's out there or code your own.

To get those multidisk games to work, try turning on 1541 emulation mode on Frodo. It'll slow all the disk access down to molasses (hey, just like a REAL 1541!) but many of them will work in that mode. I'll try Winter Games and let you know for sure.

 

[Dozer]

Blimey, gud job flack.

 

[papapopalung]

Ghostbusters - wasn't the digitised voice that bad in the original version...?

it's the most played game on frodo for me... anyone got any other suggestions? shame ancipital doesn't work...

 

[Magic Knight]

which versions of these games are working ?

is anyone testing using the gamebase64 images ?

 

[Flack]

which versions of these games are working ?

is anyone testing using the gamebase64 images ?

I will probably test the GameBase images eventually.

As far as "which versions of these games are working", you'll have to be a little more specific than that.

 

[Magic Knight]

As far as "which versions of these games are working", you'll have to be a little more specific than that

if someone says ghostbusters works - can they say which one works ? the t64 ? the d64 ? packed/trained etc ? which site is it from !?

that's why i mentioned using the gamebase collection, it's a good starting point at least

p.s Flack, am also a huge 64 fan, i bought the GP32 because of the frodo screenshots as well. hee hee - it arrived today and dickhead me didnt order an SMC card - i mean shit i figured they'd include at least a 1MB card... so i've sent the missus out to get one... should be linking up in 3 hours... very keen to know which c64 stuff is fine, already found the sid players

 

[LeeT]

As far as "which versions of these games are working", you'll have to be a little more specific than that

if someone says ghostbusters works - can they say which one works ? the t64 ? the d64 ? packed/trained etc ? which site is it from !?

that's why i mentioned using the gamebase collection, it's a good starting point at least

p.s Flack, am also a huge 64 fan, i bought the GP32 because of the frodo screenshots as well. hee hee - it arrived today and dickhead me didnt order an SMC card - i mean shit i figured they'd include at least a 1MB card... so i've sent the missus out to get one... should be linking up in 3 hours... very keen to know which c64 stuff is fine, already found the sid players

Hi Magic Knight - Good to see another LEMONer around here!
Glad to see you have a GP32 now..Sadly after mine arrived the other day, my Girlfriend made me put it away for another two months - Its my birthday present off her!!

Can't wait till November 30th to get going and doing some serious C64 playing on it! - Though I am gonna have to buy a 128 smc, as it only came with a 32 one, and not enough games fit on it!

 

[Magic Knight]

hey Lee

you aren't going to want to wait...

the thing is a BEAUTY !

it's *fucking fabulous*

we are so spoilt with c64 emulation, frodo does not come close to ccs or vice (but that's cross platform so maybe one day....) - but - frodo on the gp32 is so far the best emulator i've tried for it !! which is great coz that's exactly why i bought it

anyway - frodo on the gp32

first off - FULL SCREEN. nice.
sound - goes from really bad to spot on (or real close)
colours - great, can adjust contrast brightness to your hearts content

very easy to use - there is an option to boot first the prg in a d64 or a great option of having action replay get an a-f etc directory for you to pick from, saves loads of time on the virtual keyboard (which is good and works great too)

t64 option is there but i think that's gonna be a no-no for me, i'm putting all t64 images into d64s, so i dont have to click in 'load blah blah etc'.. 'run' etc..

games pointless in playing - text adventures ! sod asking thorin to leave the room 100 times..

games which worked which i just tried :

ancipital
aztec challenge
batalyx
boulderdash
black knight
bruce lee
california games
entombed
forbidden forest
maniac mansion
rambo
sheep in space
suicide express
trollie wallie
uridium
way of the exploding fist
zak mccracken

games which failed :

archon - locks when i have the first battle
age of adventure - wont load
ghostbusters - wont start
gribblys day out - dodgy graphics detection which means you die too easy
pirates

these versions were all from gamebase 64, maybe 'poorer' versions may work

dear Flack - which Ghostbusters are you using as mine won't work The speech thing also seems to affect way of the exploding fist - but not suicide express. cheers. back to the games

 

[Dozer]

Iv never really got into frodo, i gave it a try but only had a few roms and had trouble with most of them apart from pink panther, which kind of worked, and giana sisters, which was pretty good. can anyone reccoment any good ones that work well on the gp? (ones that dont need much keyboard input etc.) Thanks!

 

[Flack]

The Ghostbusters I'm using is from the Blast disk collection. The ones I'm testing now are from a collection called the Arcade collection.

On Ghostbusters, it does the digitized speech but it's just a little slow.

Oh, and of course Frodo runs fullscreen. The GP32's resolution is 320x240, just like the old Commie!

Dozer, 99% of the games out there don't require you to hit keys (except to start them). Plus, since the C64 used Atari joysticks, buttons on the GP is no problem. If anyone ever picks up Frodo work again, I'd like to see the spacebar mapped to button B, for those few games that use both (Commando).

 

[Magic Knight]

cheers for the Ghostbusters tip, it now works great.. few others i tried today from the gamebase collection which worked well :

action biker
high noon
hunchback II
kik-start
matrix
tales of the arabian knights

failed :
frankie (mucks up when you go into a window)
impossible mission (resets after loader)

all good fun !

 

[Neomorpheus]

If anyone ever picks up Frodo work again, I'd like to see the spacebar mapped to button B

On my version of frodo the spacebar already is mapped to button B!

What I'd like is the option to pick anything you want for the B button like UP for those platformers where UP is jump, I find it easier to press a button instead of pressing UP to jump

 

[Dozer]

If anyone ever picks up Frodo work again, I'd like to see the spacebar mapped to button B

On my version of frodo the spacebar already is mapped to button B!

What I'd like is the option to pick anything you want for the B button like UP for those platformers where UP is jump, I find it easier to press a button instead of pressing UP to jump

yeah, like in giana sisters. i agree.

 

[Flack]

cheers for the Ghostbusters tip, it now works great.. few others i tried today from the gamebase collection which worked well :

action biker
high noon
hunchback II
kik-start
matrix
tales of the arabian knights

failed :
frankie (mucks up when you go into a window)
impossible mission (resets after loader)

all good fun !

There are two versions of Frodo ... one is the normal, faster one. The other is slightly slower, but more compatible. Impossible Mission works in that one.