Retroachievements not working

mitu

@driagonv How are you checking that is working ? Add cheevos_verbose_enable = true to RetroArch config file and see if you get any messages when starting the game. If not, then enable verbose logging with the Runcommand launch menu and post the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file on pastebin.com to take a look.
Also - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - add the info asked here about your system.

DriagonV

@mitu I play super mario world on gba and ride yoshi which should get me an achievement, also I already have the verbose enabled and no message

mitu

@driagonv The please post your info and also the link to the verbose Runcommand log as I mentioned.

DriagonV

@mitu edited post to include info, and here is the runcommand log https://pastebin.com/8gpc3QtS

mitu

@driagonv Looking over the supported games list, your ROM doesn't appear to be a candidate for RetroAchievements. On the page of GBA ROMs supported (http://retroachievements.org/Game/4969), there's only Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World (E), you have the US (U) version. Maybe that's why it's not working.

DriagonV

@mitu well i will try with another game, how did you know the supported version, I cant see the region on retroachievements

mitu

@driagonv The region is in the name of the ROM, there's a convention when naming the file - https://64bitorless.wordpress.com/rom-suffix-explanations/

DriagonV

@mitu I already know this stuff, I mean for example on http://retroachievements.org/Game/800 it doesn't show what region the game is, so I might have a different region game and I wouldn't know about it, anyway thanks very much for the help, it turned out I can just enable it from the retroarch GUI in-game, so I did that and it works now!

mitu

@driagonv said in Retroachievements not working:

it turned out I can just enable it from the retroarch GUI in-game, so I did that and it works now!

Enable what ?

DriagonV

@mitu enable achievements, for some reason it got my username and password from retroarch.cfg but didnt enable achievements or verbose

mitu

@driagonv How large is the /opt/retropie/configs/gba/retroarch.cfg file ? Should have only 5 lines, but if you enabled save_on_exit (not recommended), then the settings there will overwrite the ones from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg.

DriagonV

@mitu ooooooooooooooooooh, I have save on exit enabled on all my emulators because I like messing with the hotkeys and wouldn't like to change them every time I run my emulator, thanks very much sir for the info

mitu

@driagonv Don't use save_on_exit for playing with re-maps, use the RGUI/RA Menu to Save Core Remap - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#core-input-remapping.