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    Really weird Amiberry/UAE config file behaviour

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      SpudsMcToole Banned @grant2258
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      @grant2258 Yes, I know some Amiga games supported multiple floppies and some didn't, but what we've got here is the SAME game both supporting and not supporting extra drives depending on whether there's a line about keymaps or display size in the config file, and that's not right.

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        grant2258 Banned
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        Well looking at your listed config you have the same adf name for both floppies

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          SpudsMcToole Banned @grant2258
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          @grant2258 It makes no difference at all what floppy names are in the config. They can even all be the disks for a totally different game. I suspect that's at the root of the problem.

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            grant2258 Banned
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            ok not sure what you are doing here where exactly are you putting the config file ? and are how you making amiberry run it. The confs are stored in

            /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/conf

            the default launch script is in
            /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/emulators.cfg

            which runs the emulator with
            /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/amiberry.sh

            in there this code

            if [[ -z "$config" || "$config" == "auto" ]]; then
            # check for .uae file with the same base name as the adf/zip
            if [[ -f "$rom_bn.uae" ]]; then
            config="$rom_bn.uae"
            checks to see uf you have a file named gamenamecasesensative.uae it will then use that config.

            copy one of the configs above a500 or 1200 add your lines and name the file the same as the adf or zip file. dont add any floppies information to it

            gamenamecasesensative.uae
            config_description=RetroPie A500, 68000, OCS, 512KB Chip + 512KB Slow Fast
            chipmem_size=1
            bogomem_size=2
            chipset=ocs
            cachesize=0
            kickstart_rom_file=$(FILE_PATH)/kick13.rom
            #add your commands after this remove this line this is the a500 conf dont add any floppy info the script takes care of that

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              SpudsMcToole Banned @grant2258
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              @grant2258 Running config files from /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/conf doesn't work. That was where I had them initially. They have to be in the ROMS folder or they get ignored. Ones that are in the ROMS folder work. And yes, I always call them the exact case-sensitive name of the first disk.

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                grant2258 Banned
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                yes i know the config goes in the games dir just put this in the .uae config in the games dir

                config_description=RetroPie A500, 68000, OCS, 512KB Chip + 512KB Slow Fast
                chipmem_size=1
                bogomem_size=2
                chipset=ocs
                cachesize=0
                kickstart_rom_file=$(FILE_PATH)/kick13.rom

                put that in as your config if it doesnt work let me knwo we will take it from there

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                  grant2258 Banned
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                  well it worked fine for me with that config I posted above. I had to compile the lastest amiberry because I only have ipf files now got rid of my adf ones. The ipf support works well and is easy enough to add.

                  roms/amiga/
                  ├── Pinball Dreams (Europe).uae
                  ├── Pinball Dreams (Europe).zip
                  └── +Start Amiberry.sh

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                    grant2258 Banned
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                    on more thing you will notice your gane listed twice when you add this config if you want rid of it type this

                    sudo pico /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

                    look for
                    <system>
                    <name>amiga</name>
                    <fullname>Commodore Amiga</fullname>
                    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga</path>
                    <extension>.adf .adz .dms .ipf .uae .zip .sh .ADF .ADZ .DMS .IPF .UAE .ZIP .SH</extension>
                    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS amiga %ROM%</command>
                    <platform>amiga</platform>
                    <theme>amiga</theme>
                    </system>

                    and remove .UAE and .uae from the list I have no idea why this is there maybe it for the emulator to be used on a different way or another reason I dont know about but for me it has to go if im using it.

                    hope thats enough info for you it does work as it should just that double list isint good but is a personal preference i guess

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                      SpudsMcToole Banned @grant2258
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                      @grant2258 TBH I'm completely lost now. But I'm going to see if putting the disk files in a single zip helps.

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                        SpudsMcToole Banned @SpudsMcToole
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                        @spudsmctoole It did :)

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