THE Spectrum - Playing Your Own Games From USB - Tips, Multiload, Multi Tape, Control Mapping etc..
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- In this video we look at playing your own added games via the USB.
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You got Gauntlet and Outrun working, brilliant! Thanks for covering that.
Chuckie Egg here I come...
Thanks for the tips mate!
Exactly what I was needing!
Thank you 🙏
Great video as always. When I played Gauntlet it was with two tape images so pretty much the same process but I needed to add the 1st & 2nd tape images before loading and switch between them when prompted. Yes, save states are your friend in this instance :-) Keep up the awesome work!
New subscriber here - great video - most helpful indeed. Many thanks 👍🏻🕹️👾
Great video, very helpful. Mine’s on order, coming in January
@@chrishill7797 Ah.. you order from Amazon?
Are you outside of the UK?
@ nope. I was a bit surprised by the delivery date myself
@@chrishill7797 I ordered from Argos on 3/12 collecting on 8/12.
Appreciate all the informative videos!
It’s nice to be able to add your own games but I wish there was a safe,trusted and legal retro store where the big developers and whoever owns the rights to games now allowed people to purchase and download the ROMs.
At the moment I rely on companies like evercade, RGL, Nintendo and Xbox etc to provide a safe way to play the older games but never sure how long their services and availability will be.
It's ok for people that want to play a quick game on the Speccy. I tried it for a couple of hours, many games didn't work, so I went back to my NGo and my original Spectrums. I hope it improves over time, and maybe they consider releasing a +3.
If you haven't already, it might be worth trying to have the custom ROMs loaded. The Sinclair/Amstrad ROMs are available online (obviously for those who already own an original Speccie.... 😉) and these can ensure certain games will run.
Absolutely love your channel ,could you try all the ultimate play the game games ,from jet pac ,sabre wulf and all the rest ,cheers mate
@@patrickbooth3168 Thank you, will do.
@@CrazyBurgerfollowed you forever ,bought all the minis ,evercade ,evercade games ,would be lost without your channel ,brilliant work,be proud of yourself
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@@patrickbooth3168 thank you. This is the reason I do it. Lol I feel like I'm to blame for all the stuff you bought!
I hope they enable pokes. Then I might be able to finish some of the Ultimate games!
Yup I bought about 3000 ROMs about 25 years ago, they transferred no prob to the usb in the a-z and # folders. 👍
Awesome video. Extremely informative. I’m an English born American and LOVE the ZX Spectrum. I’m visiting British family this Christmas from Chicago and my wife arranged for the Spectrum to be delivered for my big Christmas present 💝
I have a couple questions I wonder if you or your viewers may know the answers to. I’ve tried googling but am getting conflicting (or no) answers.
1) What would you recommend for a USB joystick for playing speccy games on this console?
2) I really want to play it now at my Dad’s but I saw that you choose the display Hz during setup. If I choose 50Hz for my dad’s English TV will I have issue later when hooking it up to my TV in America when I go home?
3) Do I have to “flash” my USB stick? I’m not sure what that means. I know how to format the stick to FAT32 - is that good enough?
Any help from you or the community would be super appreciated.
Merry Christmas, folks!
Great video. Any chance you can take a look at the multi loading in Rockstar Ate My Hamster?
@@RealTamago Thanks. I'll have a look.
Sitting here is sunny Scotland and can't find The Spectrum for love nor money.
getting mine tomorrow. at last. week after launching.
@@alanreader4815 Wow..who you order from?
@@CrazyBurger From Game website.
Hi can I also ask do you think Blaze will put out a zx spectrum cart ??
@@neilwalker8800 100% yes.
So I may not buy the zx and wait for Blaze
Thank you, any chance you can demonstrate how to load and save football director 2? The game automatically saves at the end of the season not sure how to get around it to continue on for the following seasons? Thank you...
256 files in each folder.
Hi Crazy Burger, thanks again for the video! I was curious, when mapping the controller, does it remember the keyboard binds each game individually, or do you have to manually adjust the settings each time you go from one game to the next? Thanks!
@@James-cf2mr Each game has individual settings.
@@CrazyBurgerI think what he’s asking is, if you bind the keys to different games does it save them so that you don’t have to bind them again for the same game.
@@The-Scots-man Yes
Nice video! By the way, I'm having some issues with "Psycho Soldier" game when I'm prompted to Start Tape. It happens when I clear Level 1. I've tried the different tape options from the menu but none of them worked...😮😮
Do you still need the code card to play JetSet Willy?
@@simonjohnwright5129 Yes
Depends what version you loading up...I have one where you don't and one that tells you what colour/code to input.
Does the rewind feature work on added games or just preloaded ones?
All games
Hi can you use a Evercade controller on the zx
@@neilwalker8800 I'm not actually sure.. I can't remember if I tried it at the time. I did try an 8 bit do controller and that wasn't recognised. I'll need to check.
It would be good if you could, I’m not getting my xx until March 31
Does it keep the pad info for the different games ?
@@chrisshaw451 No, each game generally set up separately
One question: the saved games in the 4 slots are erased after switching off. Is that supposed to be like that?
@@3057luis No.. they definitely shouldn't be erased.
where did you get the dizzy games from
You can get them from yolkfolk.com/
No one has made a video that I can find of adding the original spectrum machine ROMS and seeing how they work. Not games, the actual ROM “operating system” for the various machines. I’d be interested in that. What functions of TheSpectrum does say a 48k or +2 rom affect.
@@SteveInScotland I'm sure there is a video out there..
Can the machine read games from individual .zip files?
@@paulmurgatroyd6372 can't read zip files at all
To long a video bro 👍
Too short a spelling of the word too, bro.
Isn't the joystick control options the major blunder with The Spectrum? From having viewed other videos it's apparent that regular USB joysticks are largely incompatible, it lacks any Atari joystick port/s for old school joysticks and so needs one of their proprietary joysticks which appear to have plenty of mediocre reviews. Also, they haven't even included one such joystick in the box.
Dont you have alki ollie
I haven’t got a lap top or computer so I will wait for someone to load up a usb for me on eBay I’m thinking of getting
The Spectrum it’s got an excellent write up, 👍🏻
Spends the first 5 minutes of the video repeating 20 times that you shouldn't put more than 256 games in one folder.... I'm out.
Bye!
Don't forget to close the door behind you. We hate draughts here.
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- First, I do wish they would update TheC64 to implement more controller support because NOTHING works properly, not even a simple 8BitDo AND that they would add the GameSettings option to TheC64 as well so you don't have to go to your PC to create custom controls using CJM files.
- I use a *Sandisk usb 3.0 128GB* formatted to ExFat32/MSDOS _(Apparently this can ONLY be done with a Mac)_ and use this for all the mini consoles _(I WILL split them up in the end)_ I also have a couple of 256GB Sandisks but these can not be seen by ANY of the mini devices and my TV will CRASH and turn OFF when I insert them, so 128GB is max, lol.
- Make sure a single folder does not contains over 256 files _(I'm not talking about the files you can see on the C64/A400/A500/Spectrum, I'm talking about what you can see on your computer, because of the .CJM .UAE etc I'd recommend only 128 or 85 GAME images max)_ (Ex)FAT32/MSDOS will become unstable and devices like minis, beamers, TVs have issues showing over 256 files. If you alphabetize your games you should only get the 256+ issue on the Commodore 64, lol.
- Filenames that are too similar or contain strange symbols can cause issues on (Ex)FAT32/MSDOS and will cause various systems to create additional _ files and even break files. These "mysterious" _ files are removed when you move some of the files into different folders or rename a file or 2.
- Yeah, even I keep on pressing the wrong button when I want to change folders, lol.
- I do wish, and maybe it's hidden, that you could add an ICON to each filename. For instance if you add _IPF or _ISM to the filename the Mini console will show a Platform or Smup Icon.