I am in need of some help, and i need it to be as simple as possible. I bought a C64 recently and i have a 1541 drive and cassette player for it and i was wondering how i can get roms to work on the actual system. (or .TAP/.WAV files) I bought a car cassette adapter and i have an mp3 player, i read on some forums that people were doing that but i am alittle confused, and of course the forum posts were from years ago.

Someone said you need to convert the .tap files to .wav files and load them to an mp3 player and play them through the cassette player.. but when i do it it does not work. I was hoping someone would could explain the process of doing it or knows of any information on it in general.

I know you can buy SD card readers and such to hook into the system, but they are out of my price range.

It's better if you skip the mp3 and play back wav to the the adapter from the computer.

When converting a tap to wav there's usually an alterbative to invert the sound, it depends on how your computer (or mp3 player if you still want to go that route) plays it back. If you get absolutely nothing that could be the problem.

Then there's a matter of adjusting the volume right from the sound source and also to set the head of the datasette to an optimal position.

It's really a bunch of stuff that can go wrong and even if you have done it before it may still require some experimenting.

I also think it's easier to fit a tape adapter if you remove the lid from the datassette.

Skipping to an even easier version would be to get a better interface, like the vimfuego's tape adapter:
http://c8d.cbm8bit.com/cassadapt.php

It works, try with a very short file first and see if you can get it to load, like a TAP made in VICE with just 0 REM in it or perhaps a head adjustment program that will make it easier to load the next one.

There's a type-in version as well that can help load the first file (at least setting the head at the best position).
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=45413

Good luck!

i use mp3s with my supercharger on my atari 2600

make sure mega bass is turned off no other other eq settings either

it may have to do with the head being mono and the tape adaper being stereo also play it at max volume and if it doesnt work turn it down a notch

i think this is a tad crazy since they take a long time to load just use an x cable and put stuff on disk

i remember using the tape deck a few times on my commodore and while it was loading i was kind of holding my breath and being real still sometimes it would load sometimes it wouldn't mine was flaky as hell i guess
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