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Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores
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Commodore 64 snap / VSF file extension #2035

Open MarcinSkoczylasSH opened 7 years ago

MarcinSkoczylasSH commented 7 years ago

The RetroPie does not recognise .vsf (Vice Snapshot File) or .snap files. Considering that games on C64 sometimes take ages to load due to Vice autoload system trying to be as compatible as possible, it would be much better to just start snapshots with already "loaded" games, in a way that ROM files for C64 be snapshots with already loaded games to C64 memory - for example frozen in last stage of data decrunching. Such snapshots can be easily created using my C64 Debugger tool that allows code pausing and stepping, thus one can easily find exact place in code when game is really started.

Anyway, to have this working we need to RetroPie/Emulation station recognise .vsf / .snap files by default and forward them to Vice with -autostart snapshot.vsf

joolswills commented 7 years ago

I would prefer to have feature requests started on the forum first as detailed when opening an issue

For ideas and enhancements, please also post to the forum first, to see if it is something we would consider and to see if other users would find it useful.

Will leave this here though for now.