Amiberry & Ipac

HoraceAndSpider

@AndersHP sounds like you are missing the extra icon files needed for the gui (causing the crash)

You can fix these like so:

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/data
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HoraceAndTheSpider/amiberry/controller/data/quickstart.ico
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HoraceAndTheSpider/amiberry/controller/data/controller.png
sudo chown -hR pi:pi /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/

AndersHP

Cool. This did indeed work! Will tinker with some games now!

tuki_cat

@horaceandspider

Hi,

Thanks for you help, I have WHDLoad working now and have had some time testing out the new controls.

The only thing I am having issue with is saving "RetroArch Keyboard as Joystick [Default]" as the config for port 1 (joystick). I can get this to save in port 0 (mouse), but if I save the config, or manully update the rp-a1200.uae, port 1 (joystick) defaults back to"Ultimarc Ipac 2 Ultimarc Ipac 2 ".

Is there any way to make "RetroArch Keyboard as Joystick [Deafault]" as the default for port 1 (joystick)?

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat

Surely that is either
Keyboard as Joystick [Default]
Or
RetroArch Keyboard as Joystick [#1]
?

Either way, it should simply be in the system as “joy0” so this should save to the Config as

joyport1=joy0 ... if this doesn’t save , then I will need to look at what the Config save/load routines are doing with this parameter.

Thanks for letting me know!

tuki_cat

@horaceandspider

Thanks - I'll do some testing tonight and let you know how I get on.

AndersHP

Do you guys know how not to have Amiberry show the Amiga emulation in this weird antialiased, shaded, fuzzy look? I prefer it to be running pixel-sharp.

maxbeanz

@andershp said in Amiberry & Ipac:

Do you guys know how not to have Amiberry show the Amiga emulation in this weird antialiased, shaded, fuzzy look? I prefer it to be running pixel-sharp.

That option is only available in the SDL 2 version (Scaling Method - Nearest Neighbour). You will need to build from source from the Amiberry SDL2 branch on Github, but the controller updates have not been merged yet. I'm not sure if Midwan will add the Scaling Methods to the SDL1 version.

tuki_cat

@horaceandspider

Hi, I've done a little more testing and hope this well help.

I tried to overwite the default rp-a1200.uae file using the gui, so i could set the "keyboard as joystick" to Joyport 1, but this didn't work.

So amended the rp-a1200.uae file manually, here is a copy - https://pastebin.com/1ALZGJPP

My rp-a500.uae file is edited in the same way.

I then run the uae.config maker (I assume it picks the settings up from the rp-a500.uae orrp-a1200.uae file) but the config that is created has different control settings. Here is a copy of the controller settings from the config I made using the config maker, you can see that Joyport1 is now set to joy1. - https://pastebin.com/7Qda75TE

I can manually edit the Sensible World Of Soccer 96-97.uae to set the "keyboard as Joystick [Default]", this works and when I run Sensible World Of Soccer 96-97 "Keyboard as Joystick [Default] is set as the default. Here is a copy of my .uae - https://pastebin.com/2MyYVBFM

I'm not sure if that makes sense, but if you have any questions just let me know!

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat

The Config Maker doesn’t use either of those files.

Which joyports are to be used as 1/2/3 etc are going to differ for different users, so I will be adding some function to select “primary” “secondary” devices etc from the hostconfig file. I cannot remember atm if t already picks some up, but even if it does it would use joy1 and joy2 , not joy0 as you would require

tuki_cat

@horaceandspider

Thanks - The other thing that I have been testing is the abilty to swap the A & B buttons, as outlined in you replay below. I can't get this to work. Here is my .uae for Turrican II which section would I need to edit to swap these buttons around?

https://pastebin.com/nQsw61K4

@horaceandspider said in Amiberry & Ipac:

@tuki_cat Yes, it is meant to be that way.

Using the ReroArch layouts which are documented in RetroPie, B is the “bottom” button (Cross for a PS pad) ... which I would call “South”

On the Amiga Cd32 pad, this is always “Red” aka Fire and the East/Circle (Retroarch A) button is always Blue.

It therefore retains this layout position when using the normal Amiga joystick layout.

At the moment, I have “locked” the keyboard control this same way around.

You can read your controller layout in Amiberry from a seperate location, and manually chose to change the two around, if you prefer, and I will probably need to make the same allowance for keyboard mapping :)