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Additional Games

  stuarty38

   Anyone know the best place to get c64 games that i can add to my c64 mini?

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  Jammet

   There are nearly endless sites that offer downloads of games, but if
   you're looking for something special, there are new games being published,
   too.

   Protovision publishes and even sells them, for example. Some are given
   away for free as well. A few months ago, Planet X-2 by David Murray was
   released, an amazing real time strategy game.

   Part of me wishes some of these had been included with the Mini as well.
   It was such a great opportunity to show the world that the C64 is actually
   getting new games, all the time.

   Look for cool games here:

   [2]https://itch.io/search?q=c64

   [3]http://www.psytronik.net/

   There are plenty more.

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  stuarty38

   thanks for that as i was looking for classics like blue max, ghostbusters
   , up n down etc

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  Jammet

   In that case I can't help you. Many, many of these older games might be
   available here and there, however, but I cannot say for certain which
   downloads are legal, or licensed. It is likely against forum rules, if I
   posted links to those.

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  RetroGamesLtd

   As others have said here, these forums are not to be used for promoting
   sites where illegal downloads can be found. Please observe the Forum Rules
   for clarification on this point.

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  JohnnyG

   [4]RetroGamesLtd Is there any chance future firmware upgrades will add to
   the 64 games built in?
   Or is that it?

   Also, I notice in the faq it says some games have been altered to work
   better on the mini.
   Does that mean all the games on the mini have been rewritten from scratch?
   I assume for the games you included, the original licence/IP holders you
   contacted didn't have an original d64 image just lying around? Or did they
   possess the original assembler code and you've built a linux compiler?
   I'd be really interested in knowing how the original games were ported.

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  scottyhp

   Call me naive, I didn’t realize those sites were illegal (or offering
   illegal downloads). Kind of a tough situation considering most of the
   games we are talking about are more than 30 years old, and there is no
   other way to get them. It’s not like you can bop on over to the software
   store on the corner and buy it on floppy disk, lol.

   But point taken, as there are still licensing issues and copyrights, we
   must assume. It’s too bad these things can’t become public domain after a
   time, especially when their companies have long since gone out of business
   and the formats they were created on/for are obsolete [5];)

   Enough about that, I’ll move on [6]:) When can we order the C64 mini in
   North America??

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  Jammet

   I presume very simple modifications have been made to enable some of the
   games for the joystick buttons. Not all games require it. Let's take
   Boulder Dash for example, where in the menu screen you flip through the
   controls, level choice, and difficulty. You also need to be able to
   restart a cave where you get stuck. A pause key.

   So that's F1 covered, as well as F2, spacebar, Run/Stop, and so forth.
   Some games might need more keys, or the function changes, or the key
   itself is used differently. Things like that might have been straightened
   out.

   Copyright notices might have been revised, also.

   I can't remember there being any "offensive" materials in these games, but
   ... as you mention adding new games in, let me just say that I hope no
   games are going to be removed, for the german version. {Cough} Who Dares
   Wins II is on the german index, still, as far as I know, and removing it
   from there is surely a simple process today, as many older games have been
   removed from it, but requires that a fee is paid, and that the current
   copyright holder takes steps to get it removed.

   While I'm sure Retro Games doesn't get into trouble, it might be safe to
   check on that. Games were censored in the past, like Commando, in Germany,
   and I hope nobody saw the need to censor anything else this time around
   with the games on the system. But we're getting off-topic, a little.

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References

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   2. https://itch.io/search?q=c64
   3. http://www.psytronik.net/
   4. https://community.thec64.com/d/113/6