Homebrew C64-network crashes on launch

newbee · Apr 9, 2020

Hi,

I have been meaning to install the commodore 64 emulator on my Wii for several years and finally got around to it, but it crashes when launched. So I am hoping someone here can help me troubleshoot or point me in the right direction (docs/guides/posts to go read).

Basically, when I launch it, it displays the below text (verbatim, even the mispelling) and then the screen goes blank and returns me back to homebrew.

Code:

SD FAT subsytem initialized
Initializing USB FAT subsytem ...
USB device not found
Impossible to initialize USB FAT subsytem
Getting IP address via DHCP...
Got an address: 192.168.120.200

I have the latest homebrew and c64-network software on the Wii, with all the software installed on an SDCard (32GB, FAT32).

I have WiiFlow working with wbfs files on the same SDCard, and I have CleanRip working, so the card is definitely readable and writable.

In terms of emulators, I have fceugx, genplus-gx, mame, snes9xgx, uae, wii64, and wii7800. All those work fine.

The C64-network emulator version is 2.4.1 and I have the latest homebrew software version.

I have the frodo folder in the root of the sdcard containing the following folders: images, metadata, saves, themes, tmp. The images folder contains two files: 100KPYRA.D64 and DEATHRID.D64. All other folders inside this frodo folder are empty.

The frodo folder inside the "apps" folder had an empty (zero bytes) frodorc file. I tried running it that way and it crashed, then I replaced it with the frodorc found at github site for frodo-wii (sorry, I am not allowed to post links) and it still crashes the same way.

Anyway, I'd appreciate any help/pointers you can provide at solving this!

newbee · Apr 10, 2020

Ok, I figured it out! I noticed that there was some extremely quick gibberish flashing on the lower part of the screen as the screen went blank. So, I used a super slow motion camera to record the sequence and caught the text! :-P

Basically, the emulator is complaining that it can't load the true type font. It looks for it in /frodo/themes/default/font.ttf
So, I downloaded the entire "default" folder from the src tree and that did it. Src tree at github under arne-cl/frodo-wii

I also switched to using a small (1GB) FLASH USB STICK that has a FAT16 partition. Will try later with the FAT32 drive and see if that works.

newbee · Apr 10, 2020

Yay! FAT32 works just fine too.

BTW, during the bootup, the emulator still flashes some text quickly. Apparently, you can replace the BASIC ROM, KERNEL ROM, CHAR ROM and 1541 ROM files by placing them in the apps\frodo folder. But, since I don't have any the message being quickly flashed just says that it will use the built-in ROMs instead.

Tetsuo Shima · Apr 10, 2020

newbee said:
Yay! FAT32 works just fine too.

BTW, during the bootup, the emulator still flashes some text quickly. Apparently, you can replace the BASIC ROM, KERNEL ROM, CHAR ROM and 1541 ROM files by placing them in the apps\frodo folder. But, since I don't have any the message being quickly flashed just says that it will use the built-in ROMs instead.

Strange, I never had to do all of this. But instead of the regular app, I've always used the wiiflow plugin from abz's masterpiece pack (frodo-mod.dol), and it seems there's no way to know on which version it's based on. But I think it could be the latest version, if someone has this info I would like to know. Unfortunately Abz's website is down. I haven't played C64 on Wii in a long time, since now I have a wonderful C64 Maxi. I literally fell in love with it.
On Wiiflow I was using Frodo to launch save states instead of disk images. The same thing that the C64maxi is doing with the "game carousel". But on Wii the emulator is very limited compared to the latest VICE and compatibility and performance is not always good.

tonystark78 · Jan 17, 2021

newbee said:
Ok, I figured it out! I noticed that there was some extremely quick gibberish flashing on the lower part of the screen as the screen went blank. So, I used a super slow motion camera to record the sequence and caught the text! :-P

Basically, the emulator is complaining that it can't load the true type font. It looks for it in /frodo/themes/default/font.ttf
So, I downloaded the entire "default" folder from the src tree and that did it. Src tree at github under arne-cl/frodo-wii

I also switched to using a small (1GB) FLASH USB STICK that has a FAT16 partition. Will try later with the FAT32 drive and see if that works.

tried your suggestion...I did the same but my frodo keeps saying it can't find font.ttf . I'm using the last version downloaded with the Homebrew browser...what else could I try? Thanks

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