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

WildkatCT · 23 Aug 2018, 00:17

I have been adding CD32 games with some good success, but all my images are bin/cue with wav...is there any way I can convert the audio to MP3/OGG/FLAC to save space?

Rujar · 30 Aug 2018, 08:10

Hi guys/girls,

Got my Amiberry (2.18)+ WHDLoad up and running. What a great asset! Love it.
Played some games (Moonstone what a great game) and also tried to play my all time favorite SWOS 96/97. But ….when I want to play a career and select my team, the game just crashes. Black screen but I can hear music. (I use A1200 kickstarter 3.1) What could it be?

Other ‘problem’is my gamepad. It doesn’t select it as a default controller. So when I start a game I must hit F12 and then manual select the gamepad.

But I really need some help with my SOWS game. Thanks!

dudleydes · 30 Aug 2018, 08:32

@rujar SWOS 96/97 in career mode using the fileSensibleWorldOfSoccer9697_v1.7_0842.lha works fine for me.

Amiberry does produce debug reports that you can find in /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Debugs/. Hopefully that should give some info why the game is crashing.

Regards configuring your controller, could you try the following commands:

cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh amiberry configure

If this does not resolve this issue, then installing from source should work.

Rujar · 30 Aug 2018, 08:41

@dudleydes

Yes I'm using the same file. Will look in to the debug report.

Thanks for the tips. Saves me a lot of time. It took me already hours to get my amiberry properly running.

Rujar · 31 Aug 2018, 10:27

@dudleydes

There is a debug file but is is empty 0kb.
Weird. All works fine (friendly season etc) accept career mode.

dudleydes · 31 Aug 2018, 11:32

@rujar I should have mentioned that I was testing on my main RetroPie 4.3.x image which is based on Jessie. In SWOS 96/97 career mode, I can select a team and start a season without a problem.

I have just tested SWOS 96/97 in Amiberry 2.18.2 using the RetroPie 4.4 Stretch image and I managed to replicate your issue where after selecting my team in career mode, the screen turns black while the music continues to play.

The first thing I would try is to update Amiberry from source which will install version 2.21. This should also fix your issue regarding your controller not being selected as default.

If this is unsuccessful, then, if you have a spare SD card, I would write the RetroPie 4.3 image to it and then try SWOS in Amiberry.

If SWOS career mode works fine here, then it may be worthwhile to open an issue at the Amiberry github page: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues

Rujar · 31 Aug 2018, 11:54

@dudleydes

Got it!

Career mode works if you start emu(s) Immediate blitter in Settings and set Z2 fast at 8MB.

But many thanks for your help anyway.

adriansos666 · 31 Aug 2018, 17:56

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

Other ‘problem’is my gamepad. It doesn’t select it as a default controller. So when I start a game I must hit F12 and then manual select the gamepad.

I had same issue with gamepad a while ago. Ended up removing Amiberry and the installing from the sources.

dudleydes · 1 Sept 2018, 11:29

@rujar Glad to hear you managed to get career mode working.

You shouldn't need to mess around with the settings as SWOS 96/97 should launch with the blitter setting to IMMEDIATE by default, as it does for me.

Amiberry uses the whdload_db.xml file to launch games with individual settings such as the blitter. I would check your copy, that you can find in /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/game-data/, to check it has this setting for SWOS.

Other games with the IMMEDIATE blitter setting include ItCameFromTheDesert_v2.0_0014.lha and SuperStardust_v1.1_AGA_0175.lha. It may be worth checking if you have any issues with these games. You can find other games that use this setting in whdload_db.xml.

The Z2 Fast RAM is set to 4MB on my system and there is no mention of it in whdload_db.xml so I would double-check whether it's needed.

polpettedorso · 3 Sept 2018, 15:33

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

Hi,
thanks to the developers of this great emulator!
After re-installing retropie it's all almost perfect and i'm enjoing again the games I used to play when I was an adolescente.

However, some of these games (e.g. Banshee, Hollywood Poker Pro, ...) don't display correctely: please take a look at the attached picture.

I'm almost certain there's a configuration issue somewhere, but even playing around I couldn't find a solution.

Does somebody how to fix it?
Thank you

Hell again. Am I the only one with the issue highlighted some time ago?

Thanks

dudleydes · 3 Sept 2018, 15:54

@polpettedorso I saw a similar effect in a loading screen in Alien Breed II (AGA version), the one appears straight after the title screen. It was just that loading screen. It was fine once the game had started.

I noticed the effect when using version 2.21 but when I installed Amiberry from binary, installing version 2.18.2, the effect disappeared.

Apekop123 · 8 Sept 2018, 16:05

@polpettedorso I get a similar distorted picture starting Blood Money.

Apekop123 · 8 Sept 2018, 16:10

I'm having a bit of trouble with a game called Future Wars. The first time I started it it started and played perfectly but now when I start it from Retropie it starts but I only get a (movable) mouse pointer on a black screen.
So I was wondering if it is possible to 'reset' a game after starting it the first time maybe by deleting some generated files(s) somewhere. Does anyone know what to do?

dudleydes · 9 Aug 2018, 19:19

@apekop123 I have managed to reproduce your issue with Future Wars using FutureWars_v4.3-B_1570.lha.

I found this bugtracker that suggests v4.3 may be corrupt or unsupported(?) so I searched for previous versions, finding version 4.0, FutureWars_v4.0_1570.zip. I believe subsequent versions after this one added support for Spanish and Italian versions so nothing is being missed.

The .zip file did not work so I used an online converter to convert to .lha format, which loads and runs fine, even after relaunch.

I did need to map the mouse to the analog stick by having to bring up the GUI. I fixed this by creating a text file, FutureWars_v4.0_1570.whd in /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/game-data/ and adding the following lines:

PRIMARY_CONTROL=MOUSE
PORT0=MOUSE
PORT1=JOY

Apekop123 · 8 Sept 2018, 22:00

@dudleydes I followed your instructions and that fixed it! I had no idea there were still corrupt whdload files around. I'll see if I can report it to Retroplay.
Thanks for taking the time (again) to help me with a problem!

Apekop123 · 9 Sept 2018, 10:25

Well, on the English Amiga Board they say that the 4.3 file runs ok on their real Amigas and on WinUAE and that it must be an issue with Amiberry. So we probably have to wait for an Amiberry fix. In the mean time the 4.0 file works well.

nemo93 · 21 Sept 2018, 06:37

Hello all. @HoraceAndSpider really the new Amiberry + wiki are awesome. Thank you and @Midwan for all this. That's impressive. I'm still testing some of the new features and I'm getting familiar with the new lha format.

I've edited my first post. Definitely late to the party but at least it should be up-to-date and hopefully addess most of the questions asked here.

EDIT: also I can't figure out how to remap my xbox360 wireless controller button. I try to create a new ".cfg" file and modify buttons mapping straight from Amiberry's menu without any luck. What I'd like to achieve is dead simple: the "fire" button is currently mapped on the x360 red "B" button and I'd like to assign it to the green "A" button instead. Basically swapping A and B (green and red) buttons.

Thank you.

@polpettedorso: I have the same loading screen issue. As this game worked flawlessly on my previous setup I suspect there's a parameter somewhere that triggers this. I'll look in my previous uae and share any findings I may found. UPDATE: I've tried to fiddle a bit inside the whdload.xml database to update filename/sha1 with no luck though :( I have the same issue with Dungeon Master 2 at the home screen.

AndersHP · 24 Sept 2018, 14:29

Hi all

I'm primarily interested in Amiga emulation to play the great Amiga pinball games like Slam Tilt and Pinball Fantasies on my Bartop Arcade with pinball buttons on the side.

Is it at this stage possible to change the default Alt, shift or Amiga keys that would control left / right flipper to my iPac settings, in my case keyboard buttons A and E?

polpettedorso · 24 Sept 2018, 20:48

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

@polpettedorso I saw a similar effect in a loading screen in Alien Breed II (AGA version), the one appears straight after the title screen. It was just that loading screen. It was fine once the game had started.

I noticed the effect when using version 2.21 but when I installed Amiberry from binary, installing version 2.18.2, the effect disappeared.

Thanks for your reply. I tried to reinstall from binary and, in fact, the problem disappear. Unfortunately if I do so, the controller bug (https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/300) appear again, so we have to choose whitch bug have :-)

polpettedorso · 24 Sept 2018, 21:28

@nemo93 said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

@polpettedorso: I have the same loading screen issue. As this game worked flawlessly on my previous setup I suspect there's a parameter somewhere that triggers this. I'll look in my previous uae and share any findings I may found. UPDATE: I've tried to fiddle a bit inside the whdload.xml database to update filename/sha1 with no luck though :( I have the same issue with Dungeon Master 2 at the home screen. Not sure I have to raise a ticket on Amiberry's github for that...

I opened a bug on github: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/353