Install and Set up Commodore 64 In Retropie 4.0.2 Raspberry Pi 1 2 3 Zero

**Setting up the Commodore 64 Emulator**

The process of setting up the Commodore 64 emulator on the Raspberry Pi is a crucial step to enjoy retro gaming on this platform. To start, we need to transfer the ROMs from our collection to the Raspberry Pi. We have a few games over here, including Boulder Dash, Ghosts and Goblins, Great Giana Sisters, Pac-Man, Turrican, and Turrican 2. These are zipped files that work perfectly with the emulator. If we want to unzip them, we can do so by unzipping them.

Now that we have our ROMs set up, it's time to reboot one time to ensure everything is working correctly. We'll restart EmulationStation and press Start to boot up the Commodore 64 logo on our front page. Here we are - Commodore 64! If you want to view the game art and information, I have another video in the description that will show us how to scrape all of it.

We're now going to start Turrican, which has an automatic launch feature built-in. This means we don't need to put any command in to run the game. We'll wait for a few minutes as the game loads completely to a playable state. Some games can take up to three or four minutes to load, so be patient. While we're waiting, you can use your keyboard or controller to navigate through the loading screens.

**Navigating the Game Menu**

Once the game has loaded, we'll reach the Weisse main menu. Here, we can scroll down using our d-pad or analog stick on our controller or arrow keys on our keyboard. We'll press Start again to enter the machine settings. From here, we can set up how we're going to control this game. We have two options - either use the number pad on a keyboard (fire = 0, left = 4, right = 6, up = 8, down = 2) or go to joystick settings and select the joystick device number two.

If we choose to use a joystick, we can set it up by selecting the correct controller. I'll be using the Xbox One controller for this setup. We can then press Start again one more time to enter the game menu. It's worth noting that the original Commodore 64 took forever to load, so if you're patient, you may want to make a cup of coffee or take a break while waiting for the game to load.

**Playing Turrican**

We're now at the main menu of Turrican! The sound works great, and I'll turn it up a bit for better listening. If anyone knows a quicker way to make this load faster, please let me know in the comments below. One of my viewers recommended Turrican for the Amiga, but I've never played it before - and now that I have, I can see why it's awesome! The gameplay is addictive, and the graphics are amazing.

To play the game, we'll use our d-pad or analog stick to move around, and our fire button (A) will allow us to jump and shoot. The emulator runs amazingly well as long as you're willing to wait for those long load times. If there's a quicker way to make this load faster, I'd love to know.

**Exiting the Emulator**

To exit this emulator, we'll press Start on our controller one more time and go down to the bottom of the menu. Here, we can select Exit Emulator, which will bring us back to the EmulationStation front end. That's it for now! I appreciate you watching, and if this helps you set up your own Commodore 64 emulator, please hit that like button and subscribe for more retro gaming content.

**Tips and Resources**

For those interested in learning more about the Commodore 64 and its emulation, I recommend checking out the Commodore 64 RetroPie Wiki page. You can make the screen a little bigger by following these steps. This tutorial took me a long time to create, so please bear with me if it was slow going.

I appreciate your patience and understanding. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys is ETA prime back here again today I'm back with retropie 4.0.2 and I'm going to be walking you through how to install the commodore 64 emulator and run a few games first things first here I have my Raspberry Pi 2 connected to my TV with a HDMI cable I have my Ethernet plugged in you will be able to use Wi-Fi also but you need an internet connection to download and install the emulator I'm also using an Xbox 1s controller connected with a USB cable and I have a keyboard plugged into my Raspberry Pi also first thing we're going to do is go to retropie by the way this is a fresh install of retropie 4.0.2 we had a retropie setup press ok from here when you reach the screen if you've never been here before let's go ahead and update the retro PI setup script if you look at the top of the grey box in the middle we have a version 4.0.2 now that's not the version of retro PI that's the version of the retro PI setup script we're running let's update it press ok again press ok again now we're on version 4.0.3 remember this is not the version of retropie this is the version of your retropie setup script we'll go down to manage packages enter this menu we have manage core packages main packages optional packages driver packages and experimental packages for this tutorial we're going to be focusing on optional packages we'll enter this menu we'll scroll down until we find vice vice is our commodore 64 emulator we're going to be using now it works great on windows and a ton of other operating systems so we might as well use it for retropie we'll interface now you can install from binary this is much faster or you can install from source which will get you the latest updates for this tutorial I'm just going to go from binary this could take a few minutes so sit back and relax just let it finish okay the Vice or Commodore 64 emulator is installed you can update from source which will update to the latest version but the binary should work for this tutorial I do recommend in a few days going and updating from source does take a little while but the improvements may be well worth it we'll go back back back and will exit the retro PI setup script so now what we're going to do is transfer a few roms into our c64 folder that was just created because we now have a Commodore 64 emulator installed I always transfer my roms from the PC so we're going to move over there now transfer a few c64 games we'll come back to the Raspberry Pi and we should see the logo on the screen after we reboot one time so I'm back at the PC and I'm about to transfer some commodore 64 games some people call them roms some people call them tapes some people call them data cassettes data sets I mean there's tons of names for these but we're going to call them games here at the retro PI Commodore 64 wiki page we can see the emulators vice the ROM folder that your games will be going in will be c64 the extensions for the games can consist of CRT D 64 g64 T 64 tap or x64 my main games are all dot tap there is tons of documentation in here so if you get stuck you can go to this page the link is in the description you can check this out they also have a forum on retropie that you can join and ask any question you would like you may have to wait a little while for a response but it usually comes within a few days so I'm about to transfer my c64 games to my raspberry PI's SD card I'm doing this over network you can go to any quick access bar and type in X slash back slash all capital retropie or use the IP address of your Raspberry Pi with a backslash backslash in front of it go to roms we now have a c64 ROM folder I have a few games over here we're just going to transfer really quick Boulder - ghosts and goblins great giana sisters pac-man turrican and turrican - very quick there are very small games these are zipped and they work zipped perfectly if you did want to unzip them you can and that's a good way to find out exactly what the file extension is as you see miner tap ta P now that we have some roms we're going to go back to the raspberry pi reboot one time and I'll show you how to set up the emulator ok so press Start we're going to restart emulation station one time if we're lucky and we did everything correctly we should have a Commodore 64 logo on our front page here and there we have it commodore 64 so if you want images here i have another video i'll link in the description on how to scrape all of your game art and info but for now we're just going to leave them just like this we're going to start turrican starting a commodore 64 game can be a painstaking process some games take up to three to four minutes to load completely to a playable state be patient we're going to do this now by starting Turek into it has an automatic launch feature built-in so we don't have to put any command in to run the game it should start it automatically and you'll get these weird screens on a lot of these games wait for them to load this is the loading process of the Commodore 64 but while we're waiting you can either do this with a keyboard or your controller now I have tested this with a ps3 controller an Xbox 360 controller an Xbox one controller and a keyboard you can press start on your controller or f12 on your keyboard to reach the Weisse main menu we're going to scroll down you can use your d-pad or your analog stick on your controller on your keyboard you'll use your arrow keys we'll go to machine settings press a on your controller or enter on your keyboard joystick settings joystick device number two from here this is going to set up how we're going to control this game you can use the number pad on a keyboard fire will be zero four is left six is right eight is up two is down or we can go to joystick which I'm going to use now this works perfectly with the Xbox one controller that I'm using I'm going to use a joystick for this we'll press Start again one more time and one more time give it a few minutes to load turrican actually loads faster than a lot of the other games that I've tried the giana sisters takes about five minutes to load completely to a playable state I know this looks weird like something Bad's going on trust me it is loading and finally we're here at the main menu of turrican the sound works great I'll turn this up a little bit for you if any of you know a quicker way to make this load let me know now I completely understand that the original Commodore 64 took forever to load you would probably be better off going to get a drink or make coffee while you wait for the game to load but I figured with the emulator it should load a bit quicker which it does but not as fast as I'd like from here most of the games you'll press your fire button to start will go through another loading sequence like on most games and here we are we are now playing turrican one on the commodore 64 emulator now one of my viewers actually recommended turrican for amiga and i've never played the game before but this game is awesome guys on any system you play it on so you'll just use your d-pad or your analog stick to move around and your fire button is a and the emulator runs amazing as long as you can wait for those long load times like I said if you know of a quicker way to make it load let me know in the comments below and I'll see if I can get that to work be much appreciated I've looked all over but this is the fastest I've been able to get it to do it to exit this emulator you'll either press start on your controller and we'll go down to the bottom here exit emulator and it'll bring us back to the emulation station front end so that's it for now guys I really appreciate you watching go to that wiki page the Commodore 64 retropie wiki page you can make the screen a little bigger it's very easy to do that this tutorial actually took me a long time to make sorry for the wait guys I appreciate you watching if this helps you add it all hit that like button and subscribe because I got a lot more coming and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys is ETA prime back here again today I'm back with retropie 4.0.2 and I'm going to be walking you through how to install the commodore 64 emulator and run a few games first things first here I have my Raspberry Pi 2 connected to my TV with a HDMI cable I have my Ethernet plugged in you will be able to use Wi-Fi also but you need an internet connection to download and install the emulator I'm also using an Xbox 1s controller connected with a USB cable and I have a keyboard plugged into my Raspberry Pi also first thing we're going to do is go to retropie by the way this is a fresh install of retropie 4.0.2 we had a retropie setup press ok from here when you reach the screen if you've never been here before let's go ahead and update the retro PI setup script if you look at the top of the grey box in the middle we have a version 4.0.2 now that's not the version of retro PI that's the version of the retro PI setup script we're running let's update it press ok again press ok again now we're on version 4.0.3 remember this is not the version of retropie this is the version of your retropie setup script we'll go down to manage packages enter this menu we have manage core packages main packages optional packages driver packages and experimental packages for this tutorial we're going to be focusing on optional packages we'll enter this menu we'll scroll down until we find vice vice is our commodore 64 emulator we're going to be using now it works great on windows and a ton of other operating systems so we might as well use it for retropie we'll interface now you can install from binary this is much faster or you can install from source which will get you the latest updates for this tutorial I'm just going to go from binary this could take a few minutes so sit back and relax just let it finish okay the Vice or Commodore 64 emulator is installed you can update from source which will update to the latest version but the binary should work for this tutorial I do recommend in a few days going and updating from source does take a little while but the improvements may be well worth it we'll go back back back and will exit the retro PI setup script so now what we're going to do is transfer a few roms into our c64 folder that was just created because we now have a Commodore 64 emulator installed I always transfer my roms from the PC so we're going to move over there now transfer a few c64 games we'll come back to the Raspberry Pi and we should see the logo on the screen after we reboot one time so I'm back at the PC and I'm about to transfer some commodore 64 games some people call them roms some people call them tapes some people call them data cassettes data sets I mean there's tons of names for these but we're going to call them games here at the retro PI Commodore 64 wiki page we can see the emulators vice the ROM folder that your games will be going in will be c64 the extensions for the games can consist of CRT D 64 g64 T 64 tap or x64 my main games are all dot tap there is tons of documentation in here so if you get stuck you can go to this page the link is in the description you can check this out they also have a forum on retropie that you can join and ask any question you would like you may have to wait a little while for a response but it usually comes within a few days so I'm about to transfer my c64 games to my raspberry PI's SD card I'm doing this over network you can go to any quick access bar and type in X slash back slash all capital retropie or use the IP address of your Raspberry Pi with a backslash backslash in front of it go to roms we now have a c64 ROM folder I have a few games over here we're just going to transfer really quick Boulder - ghosts and goblins great giana sisters pac-man turrican and turrican - very quick there are very small games these are zipped and they work zipped perfectly if you did want to unzip them you can and that's a good way to find out exactly what the file extension is as you see miner tap ta P now that we have some roms we're going to go back to the raspberry pi reboot one time and I'll show you how to set up the emulator ok so press Start we're going to restart emulation station one time if we're lucky and we did everything correctly we should have a Commodore 64 logo on our front page here and there we have it commodore 64 so if you want images here i have another video i'll link in the description on how to scrape all of your game art and info but for now we're just going to leave them just like this we're going to start turrican starting a commodore 64 game can be a painstaking process some games take up to three to four minutes to load completely to a playable state be patient we're going to do this now by starting Turek into it has an automatic launch feature built-in so we don't have to put any command in to run the game it should start it automatically and you'll get these weird screens on a lot of these games wait for them to load this is the loading process of the Commodore 64 but while we're waiting you can either do this with a keyboard or your controller now I have tested this with a ps3 controller an Xbox 360 controller an Xbox one controller and a keyboard you can press start on your controller or f12 on your keyboard to reach the Weisse main menu we're going to scroll down you can use your d-pad or your analog stick on your controller on your keyboard you'll use your arrow keys we'll go to machine settings press a on your controller or enter on your keyboard joystick settings joystick device number two from here this is going to set up how we're going to control this game you can use the number pad on a keyboard fire will be zero four is left six is right eight is up two is down or we can go to joystick which I'm going to use now this works perfectly with the Xbox one controller that I'm using I'm going to use a joystick for this we'll press Start again one more time and one more time give it a few minutes to load turrican actually loads faster than a lot of the other games that I've tried the giana sisters takes about five minutes to load completely to a playable state I know this looks weird like something Bad's going on trust me it is loading and finally we're here at the main menu of turrican the sound works great I'll turn this up a little bit for you if any of you know a quicker way to make this load let me know now I completely understand that the original Commodore 64 took forever to load you would probably be better off going to get a drink or make coffee while you wait for the game to load but I figured with the emulator it should load a bit quicker which it does but not as fast as I'd like from here most of the games you'll press your fire button to start will go through another loading sequence like on most games and here we are we are now playing turrican one on the commodore 64 emulator now one of my viewers actually recommended turrican for amiga and i've never played the game before but this game is awesome guys on any system you play it on so you'll just use your d-pad or your analog stick to move around and your fire button is a and the emulator runs amazing as long as you can wait for those long load times like I said if you know of a quicker way to make it load let me know in the comments below and I'll see if I can get that to work be much appreciated I've looked all over but this is the fastest I've been able to get it to do it to exit this emulator you'll either press start on your controller and we'll go down to the bottom here exit emulator and it'll bring us back to the emulation station front end so that's it for now guys I really appreciate you watching go to that wiki page the Commodore 64 retropie wiki page you can make the screen a little bigger it's very easy to do that this tutorial actually took me a long time to make sorry for the wait guys I appreciate you watching if this helps you add it all hit that like button and subscribe because I got a lot more coming and like always thanks for watching\n"