Homebrew Suggestion C64 on the Switch

[Z-bake]

Hi there,

the Switch scene is pretty much on fire the last few months and with the ports of RetroArch and ScummVM, almost all retro-gaming I am interesting is covered very well.
However, usually one of the first emulator ported for handhelds/consoles is for the Commodore 64.
I am quite surprised, even the much harder to emulate Amiga got a very polished port. But what about the C64?

I am not a developer myself and I never requested anything. But now I am wondering if the greatest home computer of all time got completely forgotten.
I alwas liked the PSP-port of vice (http://perso.numericable.fr/~ckckck/C64_PSPVice.html)
Anyways, the official Vice project Site also has the original source code for arm-based systems: http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/android.html

If some skilled dev has time and motivation, I would really appreciate a port. Hopefully I am not alone

 

[a7mag3ddon]

Its already on switch

 

[sj33]

There is a Vice C64 core in Retroarch, but there is no on-screen keyboard yet.

 

[ElConsolero]

There is on-screen keyboard for Vice on Retroarch but kinda hidden to activate.

I used this method:

"I got it to work by going into control settings, then toggling joypad from retropad to joy (I think, then back to retropad. Then when going back to the running program, the Y button worked for the keyboard. Same issue with the raspberry PI build of vice. Had to toggle to get the virtual keyboard to work"

https://gbatemp.net/threads/retroarch-switch.492920/page-85#post-8316978

 

[a7mag3ddon]

Works really well too so long as your not playing text adventures.

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[sj33]

There is on-screen keyboard for Vice on Retroarch but kinda hidden to activate.

I used this method:

"I got it to work by going into control settings, then toggling joypad from retropad to joy (I think, then back to retropad. Then when going back to the running program, the Y button worked for the keyboard. Same issue with the raspberry PI build of vice. Had to toggle to get the virtual keyboard to work"

https://gbatemp.net/threads/retroarch-switch.492920/page-85#post-8316978

Thanks for this, I had no idea!

 

[Z-bake]

Wow, I had no Idea either.
I once tried the RetroArch Core, but ended up in almost indefinitely long loading times.

Plus: If I remember correctly, there is also no savestate support. So, I guess for home computers (like the Amiga as well) a standalone port would be really handy.

 

[hippy dave]

Plus: If I remember correctly, there is also no savestate support. So, I guess for home computers (like the Amiga as well) a standalone port would be really handy.

We've got a fantastic amiga emulator (with savestate support): https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-amiga-emulator-uae4all2-for-switch.522539/