Speed of UAE4ALL on RetroPie

gemixin

Hi there

I have recently purchased a Picade cabinet and have just built it and installed RetroPie 4.3 on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

I have installed the UAE4ALL Amiga emulator and uploaded a Sensible World of Soccer rom (2 disks) to the roms folder. I am able to launch this successfully but it takes forever to load.

Once it shows the ROM creators splash screen and I hit Enter, there is a 20 second black screen. Then it shows the Sensible Soccer splash screen. If I hit a key (A or Start) the music fades and loading begins. The Sensible Soccer splash screen remains for 15 seconds, then I get a black screen for 62 seconds. Finally I am presented with the main menu.

The game itself runs quickly and smoothly once this process is over.

Is this normal? I am using the A1200 preset.

Many thanks
Gemma

tuki_cat

Hi,

From my memory of Amiga games this is probably about right to load Sensible Soccer on the A1200. When I first moved from my ZX Spectrum to my Amiga years ago loading times seemed lightening quick, but actually some games on the Amiga could take at a while to load.

One way to verify the loading time would be to install WinUAE on a PC and then load Sensible Soccer and compare the time.

I know that you can speed up loading by increasing the floppy drive speed in the UAE4ALL menu, but this can cause compatibility issues.

Hope that helps

gemixin

Thank you so much. I increased the drive speed to 8x and it improved a fair bit. I suppose we are just used to instant loading these days!
Thanks again

spruce_m00se

try loading a C64 game from a cassete based rom, that brings back memories!

Rion

@spruce_m00se You meant Nightmares...

spruce_m00se

haha, you would be suprised, as a kid we enjoyed listening to the music and loking at the splash screen while it loaded, I loaded one game up the other day, and the splash screen actually brought back vivid memories that I had fully forgotten up till that point.