Hello I'm Calm Cal & welcome to the channel and this is one of the best
games on the spectrum "Target Renegade" and there are loads of these types of
games - well good games and you know what most
them are free to download and use now, so in this video I'm gonna show you where
to download these games from how to install the spectrum core "fuse" on Retro
Arch get it up and running and go through some of the issues I had on
trying to run and play these spectrum games. The spectrum is an old home
computer and setting this up can be tricky you may have already tried to
emulate this spectrum core before and gave up? The spectrum is a strange beast to
tame it can be puzzling if you don't know a little bit more about the
spectrums background and for this reason I can fully understand why people
struggle with getting this core set up my second computer was a spectrum 48k
with the promise of great improvements by sinclair the 128k was my third
computer so I do have a little bit of experience with its beauty, I do say
beauty now and not beasts as although the graphics are a little bit weak the
playability is good, there is certainly beauty within this
computer and as stated before all of this can be done for free, yeah free
software, the fuse emulator running in retroarch as I said, this is
great front end which collates a load of different emulators together and also
one of your ways to get a lot of systems up and running all in one place. you will need to
set up the basics of RetroArch first, if you're not familiar with retroarch no
problem, I have made a couple of videos already on my channel to help you, I
suggest you watch them both but at the very least, at the very least! Watch my
first video where I'll go through the install, updating cores, basic navigation
the gamepad setup, these two videos were aimed towards the ps1 emulation which is
another great machine but they do go through all the basics of what you will
need to know to get this spectrum core up and running so please do watch these
if you're not familiar with RetroArch itself, I don't want to keep going
through the basics of RetroArch because otherwise we're just can get longer longer
videos so without further let's get stuck iee.... can't pinch that now can I
now he's back, Ermmm let's try..... Let's get guwin mmmnn needs a little work
how about let's continue? So let's talk about ROM's shall we? Normally a taboo
subject but we can do this now with the spectrum, the games are free to
download from the world of spectrum.org and this is normally the first place
that everybody goes to, it's got everything in the archive there that
they can legally share, it's also got emulators and various utilities and
everything else so it's definitely worth a look there, also we've got the TZX
vault and this one individual listed here by letters there's also different
platforms here for different home computers too
we've got Moby games this is another source where you can download games from
we've got spectrum computing, it looks like a nice modern site it's where you
will download for games and more information there which is all listed
and we've got fellow youtuber here and I don't know if you've heard of simply Austin but
he's a little bit bit of a break and he's now returned, very glad of his
return and he did a video about four years ago where he's got an attachment
there of the full set of roms which you can download, I suspect its still
active? If it's not then contact him on his site and if you're not
already subscribed to him he's definitely worth a subscription he's a
really nice bloke as well, so we've also got the tipshop too if you're struggling
with any games give it a look and it'll give you some hints and tips and things
all the links for these sites will be listed in the video description so just
check that out and use them and it will direct you to all of these
different sites, all right? Save's you having to search for them and clicking
on the wrong thing. So we'd better have a look at RetroArch and setting that up
"So let's get Guwin!" No it's terrible isn't it that!? Erm... Let's
proceed? So we're just booting to RetroArch, then what I like to do is go into on
Online updater select that, let it update, then
what we're looking for is... it will probably be at the bottom ZX
something or other ah "S" Sinclair so Sinclair's ZX Spectrum Fuse, I'll
just select that and It'll download it, mine's already installed as I've been
playing with it for a little bit and what you need to do is go to we will go
to desktop menu go to the desktop menu click ok on here and what we want to do
is like go into this area here and then select new playlist and if we go to yeah still got
it opened yeah, the libretro we got Sinclair ZX Spectrum here, so I'll
just copy that and then going back in to RetroArch
click and paste and then select ok, so you got a little spectrum there
so its highlighted so if we go inside here here add an entry select
the path mines on G so I got some spectrum games, so I got Renegade 2 Target Renegade
select that one and I just going to type in Target renegade so the core we
want is fuse, database there and we want to select the ZX spectrum but you want
the 128 for this game because that version is a lot better
than the 48k one, it's no extension so I just press ok I'm gonna do now is just
add the folder I'll select the whole folder
multiple multiple core I'll set them all for the fuse and select ZX spectrum & if you
go on to these and then you select download thumbnail, it don't find anything
but because I've actually found some box art - let me just find those
just be a second, so I've got some here so I'll highlight bounty bob
is it highlighted? Yeah drag it into there, target renegades go in there too and drop that
Also for Spy Hunter we've just drop that in for Spy Hunter
here we go then, it's all set up we can run it from here, or we can go back to the main
menu, I suggest you do, close this one and then go back to menu
select quit retroarch and then we restart RetroArch and then it should now include
all of those things in for us, so we got those three games that we just put in, I need to
find some better box art really cuz it's a bit bit blurry isn't it, if you do know
of anywhere for box art for the ZX spectrum please let me know in the
comments below, we can try link some because trying to find it from the core
the automatic downloader doesn't seem to do anything, even if you rename the games
tried rename this to Europe still didn't find anything
change this to target renegade? just put renegade instead, still nothing, so I'm
gonna try renegade 2
so we need to just press Start and select and then what we need to do is go
on to controls, port one controls, make sure this is set up for Kempston
joystick because if it's not set up for Kempston joystick this menu you can
see in the background, the keyboard for the spectrum won't appear, so I make sure
that it's set up for Kempston joystick ok! everything else would already be set up
for you didn't need to do anything else with
with it, just set it up for Kempston joystick and that's really, really,
important that you do that, otherwise you won't be able to play any of the games
really, the background keyboard is essential, if it's not there you can't select anything
ok and make sure you save it and once you have done it, shaders? Don't think there is
anything on there for shaders and things here we go let's just go and resume
now to select the Kempston joystick then we can access the background menu
for the keyboard just by selecting the Select and there we are
press select, the keyboard comes up so what we want to do for this particular game is
set the control options, which is number 3, so we just press select and then go
across to number 3 and press the controller button mine is the B button so we
want to select Kempston so this is the number 3 again so press select and then
selected the Kempston, for player 2 we want select the keyboard? If you have got another
controller probably set that off for Sinclair 2 on the input maps for the
second player, select keyboard, select and then the number one and
now I want to start a one player game, so press select and then 1 - all up and
running
and this is set up for the 128 because the background music is on
say so I'm pressing start & select now
so save core overides there if you want to
then options, if you got to... if it's set up for the wrong one - because it was initially set
up for the 48 K on one of my previous attempts at doing this
so you can actually swap it between all the different platforms that you want to
all right but for target renegade the spectrum 128
is the best one, because 48k it's expecting you to load the second level
once you have completed the first one and you can't do it with this set up
so always select a spectrum 128k for most of the games and it should automatically
load the whole game, there's all different things on here if you want to you can play around
with them but I wouldn't, leave all these joypad ones as they are, I haven't
touched them at all, I've not really done anything at all with this part except for
selecting the model, I'll just press back on here
and then......
save core overides so it saved everything for this particular game okay
so I'm just gonna go into Bounty Bob
so it's loaded in for 128K but this is a 48k game
so it's not gonna work because the 128 came out a lot later than when the 48k
did and this game can't cope with 128k without it being set up correctly, so
press start and select and if we go on to options and then change it from
128 to just 48k don't change anything else on
here and what we're gonna do is go to overrides save core override for this one
and also save game overides for this particular game itself
if we go out of RetroArch altogether and then back into it, when we now go back
onto bounty Bob it
should..... yeah? - Should work, as you can tell it's an older game
It's already set up for Kempston interface or Kempston joystick you
can tell it's an old game just by the actual gameplay itself, it's still an
enjoyable game a bit like pac-man. Yeah so the lines under the
platforms you've got to walk on every one, walk on every single square to get
rid of the lines as you go, and you've got little timer in
the middle of the screen as you're collecting these different objects it's giving you the
option to change those wherever they are? So that you can walk through them
here we are, level complete!
all right Start and select on here.....
and let me go back into
Renegade
We have to select the control options again, so I'm going to press select oh well its
cut off that screen so select Enter on there, so other screen shows - We now what control options which is number
three set number three we want number three again so select number three player 2 set to keyboard so select 1
we're going to select number one for keyboard so that's a 1 and then one
player number one and there we are all moving, and sometimes that happens
sometimes
so there we are all up and running!
so don't forget to Like and subscribe for
more videos going to do some more emulation presumably, I might do an upload of just
target renegade just showing you the moves and things and how awkward the
game can be but I need not be awkward if you've got the knowledge to play the game so
all the links are in description for hints and tips so there will be maps and
things like that if you get stuck on some of the games and things
and there are quite a lot of good decent spectrum games
well worth a look, Should I do my top ten or something like that? Will that interest anybody? Leave a
comment in the comments section, let me know, my name is Cal have a good morning
afternoon or good evening farewell till next time and I will see you later
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