[Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread

[DarishZone]

Sorry, added the title later
RiseOfTheDragon_v1.1_1793

for now, but i guess others will follow...

[DarishZone]

It also relevant Amiberry logo before hdload autoboot is green... and often red?

[dudleydes]

@darishzone You are most likely missing the Kickstart 1.3 rom.

If you take a look at the Debug script for Rise of the Dragon which you can find in the /opt/retropie/configs/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Debugs folder, you should find the following (repeated many times):

DOS-Error #205
(object not found)
on reading "devs:kickstarts/kick34005.a500".

kick34005.a500 refers to the Kickstart 1.3 rom. Please refer to this page in Amiberry wiki for further info.

You need to have this file in the BIOS folder. The file I have in the BIOS folder is Kickstart v1.3 rev 34.5 (1987)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV).rom. This Kickstart rom is also needed for other games, e.g. Another World, North and South.

The different coloured logo splashscreen is a bit of fun. See this post.

The setpatch not found can indeed be ignored - see this post from the dev.

[DarishZone]

@dudleydes said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

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Very good, thanks, i can confirm error on debug folder.
I have "kick13.rom" on bios folder, not sure if it is the right one.
I also reinstalled Amiberry and deleted configs, so it all returned to default paths, which is opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/kickstarts/
Seems to me this path correlate to bios folder.

[dudleydes]

@darishzone It may be worth checking which kickstart roms you have on your system and making sure that symlinks are being created accordingly.

Could you run the following commands?

Contents in BIOS Folder

cd RetroPie/BIOS
ls | grep -i kick

This is my output:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/BIOS $ ls | grep -i kick
Kickstart v1.3 rev 34.5 (1987)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV).rom
Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.68 (1993)(Commodore)(A1200).rom

Symlinks in Amiberry WHDBoot configs

cd /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Kickstarts
ls -lah

This is my output:

pi@retropie:/opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Kickstarts $ ls -lah
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4.0K Jun  1 07:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 pi pi 4.0K Apr 19 15:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi    1 Apr 19 15:07 foo.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi  112 Jun  1 07:34 kick34005.A500 -> /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/kickstarts/Kickstart v1.3 rev 34.5 (1987)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV).rom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi   97 Apr 19 15:08 kick40068.A1200 -> /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/kickstarts/Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.68 (1993)(Commodore)(A1200).rom

[DarishZone]

I'm confused now, however i got this

[dudleydes]

@darishzone In the Kickstarts folder, is the entry for kick34005.A500 in red? If so, this means that the symlink is broken.

I can't see all of the kickstart roms in the BIOS folder. You only need the two kickstart roms in my previous post so could you remove all kickstarts from the BIOS folder except these two and confirm that there are present by running the ls | grep -i kick command in the BIOS folder?

[DarishZone]

[dudleydes]

@darishzone I renamed my 1.3 Kickstart rom to Kickstart 1.3.rom to match yours and it broke the symlink.

We may be able to fix this by renaming the kickstarts but before we do, we should check that they are valid. Drag your kickstart file into an online CRC32 checker such as this one and check that the values given match those given on this page.

If they do, then try changing the file names as given on the Amiberry Wiki page linked above.

If they don't, then you will need to find valid 1.3 and 3.1 kickstart roms, appropriately named.

[DarishZone]

Ok, i've done it, it reports following codes

Kickstart 1.3: f6290043
Kickstart 3.1: fc24ae0d

I don't know what i'm doing, lol, but i suspect those files are corrupted?

[dudleydes]

@darishzone OK, your kickstart roms are not valid and will not work with Amiberry.

Your 3.1 kickstart rom may be fine as the symlink is there and you say some games work. Does Cannon Fodder work?

You will need to find 1.3 kickstart rom. Look for the TOSEC archive.

[DarishZone]

It seems every game that dsnt use kickstart 1.3 works, otherwise i get black screen.

[HoraceAndSpider]

My suggestion:

Delete all symlink files
Add all kickstarts to bios/ folder
Load Amiberry straight to the menu with Amiberry.sh
Select the paths panel
Reset the kickstarts path to the bios/ folder
Press “scan paths”
Enter emulation.
Go back to the menu
Quit Amiberry

Relaunch a game with WHDLoad (.lha file)
Symlinks should be fixed

[DarishZone]

Tested Cannon Fodder, it works.

[HoraceAndSpider]

Symlinking for th WHDLoad booter doesn’t care what file names you have.

It hadn’t occurred to me to add a check for “broken” symlinks, but I will look into that

[DarishZone]

How can i delete symlinks?

[DarishZone]

What you mean about Bios/folder? I have an Amiga folder on Bios, roms are there, is that right?

[HoraceAndSpider]

@darishzone

Command line

cd /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Kickstarts/
rm *.rom

Should do it tbh.

[HoraceAndSpider]

You can either put the kickstarts in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS

OR

/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/Amiga

But whichever you use, you will need to select the same folder in the Amiberry menu (paths panel) and press “scan”

[DarishZone]

ALL WORKING NOW
Thank you so much both of you guys for your help :)