Compatibility List
Note – As of version 0.3, SpeccyDS works with every 48k game I have tried on it, but I’m keeping this page active just in case a rogue one pops it’s head up.
This list shows the compatibility of games that have been tested with SpeccyDS. Please feel free to add a comment for games that do not work along with a description of the problem. Once I have verified their compatibility I will add them to the main list.
Please note, I am only interested in non-working or incorrectly working games! I am hoping to use this list to help me debug the CPU core, and therefore non-working games are the best way to achieve this.
Also, please make sure you try the snapshot file in a different emulator to verify it works as expected.
Thanks for your help! 
| Game | Version | Notes | Thanks to… |
| Arkanoid | 0.3 | Working | |
| Asterix and the Magic Cauldron | 0.3 | Working | Joe |
| Bubble Bobble | 0.3 | Working | |
| Chaos | 0.3 | Working | |
| Critical Mass | 0.3 | Working | Charlie |
| Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins | 0.3 | Working | Joe |
| MegaBucks | 0.3 | Working | |
| Sabre Wulf | 0.3 | Working | |
| Scrabble | 0.3 | Working | Bonehead |
| Starquake | 0.3 | Working | |
| Uridium | 0.3 | Working | Charlie |
| Zynaps | 0.3 | Working | Charlie |
Zynaps – 0.1a – Freezes after loading
Critical Mass – 0.1a – Crashes when game starts
Uridium – 0.1a – Crashes when game starts
Arcadia – 0.1a – Crashes when game starts
Asterix – 0.1a Crashes at intro.
Ghost N’ Goblins – 0.1a Graphic corruption then crashed when game starts
Overscan Demo 0.1a Gives the error message “not compatible with real spectrum” and crashes when you press enter to start the demo
Cobra (Z80) does not load, the same snapshot works fine on other emulators.
When I try to load it, the emulator just reloads the current game instead of Cobra.
Are you wanting to know about games which crash at load-time or just those which load, and then crash at some point in the game?
Have been making use of the excellent touch screen and there are a couple of games that I can’t get to work no matter how many z80′s or sna’s I try:
Football Manager – goes into Break mode near the start of the game when you enter your name etc.
Scrabble (yes, I know it’s sad, I play other games as well honestly). This one is quite bizarre – if you have a 2 player game against the computer then the computer places its own words on top of yours??
One last thought – Jasper seems to run quite slowly (It seems to be quite be quite a CPU intensive game on any system). The preview + game run slowly but after you lose all your lives, the music speeds up a lot. The speed then slows right down again if you start a new game.
In general compatibilty seems really good though and most games work for me.
There’s only one Spectrum game I’m trying to play in my DS.
My favorite Spectrum game of all times: Lords of Midnight!
The problem is that the save doesn’t work and this is a game that can take days to play, so the save is a must.
I’m using a Supercard Lite 1.70
.2a
bionic comando.z80
ikplus.z80
myth.sna
renegade.z80
rockstar ate my hamster.sna
target renegade .z80
all these aren’t working btw.
danisky, before you report a compatibility issue you should check other things first.
Most of the game you mention work flowlessy with SpeccyDS,I’ve been playing with renegade, target renegade, myth,and many others.
Do you even know that when you take a “snapshot” with an emulator it basically captures the state of the machine, included expansion port status, rom models etc…
If a snapshot is not working, it doesn’t mean that SpeccyDS can’t play it, it probably is in a bad format (like it was takes on a 128K spectrum for example) and naturally won’t work.
You better try different snapshot of the same game even in different emulators before you claim it doesn’t work.Or even better make the snapshot yoursalf, you can’t trust anything you get online or off cd-roms.
dynamite dan working
pulsator working
alchemist working
alien 8 working
babaliba working
batman working
bruce lee working
ciclone working
el mago not working
hate working
highway encounter working
jack the nipper working
jack the nipper 2 working
magmax working
maziacs working
pyjarama working
raid over moscow working
spirits working
spy hunter working
survivor Graphic corruption
underwurlde working
Trapdoor working (yay!)
Sweevo’s World working
Laser Squad…..the greatest game ever made….doesn’t work. The ‘spectrum’ resets when I load the .z80 file.
This is on an R4, patched DLDI.
I’ll mail you the files if you need them
is that it? about 12 fucking games? waste of fucking time. what a pile of shit.
Hi Steve. Thanks for your helpful comment.
This list just contains the 12 games that were not working during the early development of SpeccyDS, but are now fixed in version 0.3.
SpeccyDS now works on every 48k Spectrum game I’ve tried on it. I’ve updated the blog to reflect this.
I couldn’t get Spy Hunter to work even though someone else said it does.
But Scuba does work