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Hello Geir. I'm a Commodore MAX owner and recently I asked C64lover.com to make a cartridge with Wave Hero, so I could play this lovely game on my real machine. He produced a cartridge with version 1.4 of the game, which suppose to be the working one. Unfortunatelly it turned out that the game still doesn't work on MAX. I recorded a video, so you can see how it looks like. The game launches, but it doesn't react to fire button. I even did a test in BASIC to proove that the port and the joystick itself work, then I plug the cartridge in. As you can see - no reaction to fire. What can be also observerd - after ca. one minute the game freezes and after another half minute - some artifacts are popping up on the screen. Sometimes it happens that the background becomes orange/red after another minute, but I couldn't reproduce it while recording. 

The cartridge itself is fine, because I tested in on C64 and the game works great on it.

Here is the link to the video I made:

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Thanks for creating the video! The screen corruption/artifacts seen here might be the same problem as described in this discussion thread in the Lemon64 forum. The pin-outs for a MAX Machine cartridge differ slightly from a standard C64 cartridge (a loopback between two pins is required).

I assume that you have tried connecting the joystick to both ports? This game expects the joystick to be in port two, but I'm actually not sure if that is the left or the right port on the MAX.

Hi Geir. I own you an update. So it turned out that pins 9 and 10 need to be soldered together to make game work. I did it and now it works fine and other problems are gone as well. 

Here is a short video:

Thanks for this simple, but very nice and addictive game :)

That's great news! And thank you for the new video - it's very cool to see the game being played on an actual MAX Machine!