GideonZ
Weird disk loading issue
U64 Elite FW 3.10/1.37
So I test a TON of releases on a daily basis and generally use my Ultimate 64 Elite to work through my backlog with VICE and other emulators on standby when I run into issues...
Today I was testing Airborne Ranger by CCI.
On the Ultimate 64, upon loading Side 1 of the disk you are eventually greeted with a screen that states "Mission not accomplished...........Press fire to continue" When you press fire it greets you with a "Please insert your roster diskette......Press fire to continue" and loads off the disk for a second and again asks you to insert the roster diskette thereby making this particular image unplayable.
Testing the same .d64 disk image in VICE works as intended. Upon loading Side 1 of the disk you ere eventually greeted with a screen that states "Mission not accomplished...........Press fire to continue" When you press fire it takes you straight to the games main screen where you can start a new mission without even prompting you for the roster diskette which is the expected behavior.
I'm not sure where the problem lies exactly with this one. Images attached....
Airborne Ranger (Microprose)[cci].zip
I was able to get to the menu a few times with this version. Now it's not working anymore. Tried many times in a row with different Drive Speeders and none, pretty strange.
The original game needs the roster file on a separate disk. Formatting a roster disk from within the game produces errors and needs several times to finally get it formatting a working roster disk. I've tried it with this version and a working g64 of Airborne Ranger too. Looks like this might be related to issue: https://github.com/GideonZ/1541ultimate/issues/243
(Anyway this is a useless version of Airborne Ranger - tile is missing and the mission "create a diversion" is broken. If you scratch the "roster" file on the disk or inserting a blank disk, you'll get "file not found". Selecting "cancel" will bring up the main menu.)
